I also would have been scared as hell to be at the capitol on that day, heels or not. Navalny, I suspect is scared too. I do not wish to pick on AOC, and prefer to believe that she (like many women in my life) just might punch a nazi. The appeal to vulnerability and the will to do rhetorical battle with white supremacists in Congress, via the tools of our time, hang for me in superposition. I assume she is defacto *more able than I* in her chosen discipline, and that her instincts carry with them potency. It follows, for me, that my interpretation of her actions remain open to the possibility that she is doing something effective.
Instead, I attempt to make a point about Arrangement, territorialization in the sense of Deleuze (to continue a certain postmodern trend in my exposition). I am concerned with the relationship that bodies have to the territory, what agency AOC (say) has, and the cultural process by which she came to be selected. To riff off of Marcus' response, the *soft hands* meme (or the "In mother Russia..." snowclone) acts at a cultural level. I wish to understand better these forces and to do so without hurried conclusions. I am interested in the intellectual activity of identifying the limits implied by political actions. If it turns out to be all-for-naught, well then that will be sad, but I have hope that abstract reasoning can be a tool for arriving at relevant (dis)agreement. It seems right to concede that even lions are made of soft fleshy bits[1]. ps. I am very glad that *you*, Glen, have stepped in to take an editorial role. It is very good to get feedback about what another reads from what one has written. [1] Yes, the sloganeering is painful, and I am no less susceptible to it than anyone else. If it were not so effective on me, I probably would not react so strongly to it. Is it necessarily *machismo*? I am not sure. I agree that it is either a reason or at least an unignorable symptom in the differential diagnosis. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
