Normally I find myself agreeing with Brian’s posts, so its an odd
feeling to be at odds with your recent ones. When Vincent wrote ‘where
is the surplus’ I didn’t take that as meaning where is the kit, plans
(of which there are endless shelves), materials and people, but where is
the power.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:03 PM Florian Cramer wrote:
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> Your wording is interesting, because it connects "emergence" with the
> "state". Since the classical concept of emergence evolved around
> self-organization, it was decentralist. The state is a (more or less)
> centralist concept. The way
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:57 PM Brian Holmes
wrote:
> What we need, first of all, is a vision so carefully articulated that it
can become a strategy and a calculable plan.
> Exactly that is now emergent. The point is to make it actual. That means,
to make it into the really existing state.
Your
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 10:59 PM Brian Holmes
wrote:
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> The fact is, so far at least, every investment of social desire on an
> *outside* results in the immediate incorporation of that outside as an
> object for the mainstream techniques of social control. So why not desire
> an *inside*? Why
