Dear Nettime/rs
I have also been lurking throughout this infuriating conversation that
became increasingly self-indulgent and irrelevant and down the rabbit
hole of leftist jargon, name dropping and other forma of grandstanding.
To put it another way the discussion devolved rapidly and densely into a
white-male pissing contest; whether Bard was the fault line or other
more latent issues is something to ponder over time.
However, class and identity are real and persistent issues not because
they can be debated and discussed on a digital forum but rather because
they are real world political issues intrinsic to organizational
struggles that affect the power struggles swirling through our various
societies; discussions about class and race and identity and sexual
politics that become so divorced from day-to-day struggles and on-going
political processes are more than just self-indulgent - they obstruct
(purposefully or not) and impede meaningful discourse; facilitate forms
of false consciousness that bury us within the name-calling syndrome
common to mass-mediated discourse.
have a good evening
allan
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