>On 16/11/2007, Jody Berland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rights are inevitably the outcome of power, > >That's precisely my point. Rights are unenforceable without power.
I like Simone Weils attitude -- forget about human rights -- what about reversing the implied relation from one that expects something from the Other in a social matrix to one where the Self contributes, gives to the Other and to the situation -- and consider one's human obligations? JOhn # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
