Wendy Brown is an indispensable thinker for these times. In addition to Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, her recent short text that explores the progression from neoliberalism to neofascism is a must-read: http://www.publicbooks.org/defending-society/ (and for more depth on this subject, see her latest book "Undoing Demos" from MIT)
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Ivan Knapp <knapp.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not new to anyone here i'm sure, but this thread can't help bringing to > mind Wendy Brown's ever more prescient work on this subject- especially > chapter IV > > http://www.tepotech.com/chiapas2015/Brown_Walled_States.pdf > > On 6 November 2017 at 15:44, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 11/06/2017 05:13 AM, David Garcia wrote: >> >> The success of the slogan ‘Take Back Control” is cruscial to understand >>> it speaks to the profound loss of agency that so many of us feel and how >>> for many the capacity to disrupt politics as usual gave Brexit voters a >>> sense of power. >>> >> >> This is spot on for the United States as well. Alas, in our country the >> wording for a very similar sentiment was very different: "Build That Wall." >> The many degrees of hatred condensed in such a statement have made it >> almost impossible to have any conversations with core Trump voters, who >> definitely want to hang on to their sense of empowerment. However, you can >> have conversations with centrist people who simply never would have spoken >> to strangers about politics before. Not just the Republicans, but also the >> plutocracy, the corrupt Democratic establishment and sometimes even the >> police and the military are critiqued in ways that were formerly taboo. >> Universal health care and climate change mitigation are increasingly seen >> by the Center Left as urgent needs. But it's tough to get to the three key >> questions: How do we restore democratic equality? Who is the 'we'? And is >> 'restore' the right word? >> >> The Right has presented us with the demand for system change. So doing, >> they have responded to a deep and fully justified anxiety which the >> Democrats - and to some extent, even the post-68 Left - could not voice. >> But it's clear that Trump cannot produce the change, only its media-driven, >> hate-drenched simulacrum. The real thing is so much harder to achieve. It >> requires a political, economic, philosophical and even spiritual shift in >> each of the people who would be its agents. You cannot get that from a >> single leader or a single doctrine, much less a slogan. I can only speak >> from my own narrow position in society, among academics, artists and >> activists in a Midwestern city. Before we could successfully argue with >> Republicans on a train, we would have to have much deeper conversations >> among ourselves, while at the same time becoming much more sensitive to >> worlds beyond our enclosing spheres. >> >> Brian >> >> # 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://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >> > > > > -- > > Ivan Knapp > knapp.i...@gmail.com > 07984620700 > > # 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://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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