| Richard Barbrook on Tue, 25 Nov 1997 02:27:04 +0100 (MET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Richard Barbrook and Luther Blissett |
Hiya, There is no greater honour than being denounced by St. Luther. However, it is rather peculiar complaining to subscribers of nettime about something which is circulating around only a few members of the list, even if some seem to have got hold of bootleg versions. For those who haven't seen it, 'The Philosophy of Holy Fools' is my unfinished critique of the cult of Deleuze and Guattari among Net users. In such a text, being called 'pro-situ' is is a compliment rather than an insult! Comparing the Situationist International with the Deleuzoguattarians, we can see the following antimonies: Hegel v. Nietzsche city v. desert artisans v. nomads comprehensible language v. idiosyncratic jargon historical materialism v. ahistorical structuralism revolutionary slaves v. bohemian masters workers' councils v. slacker rhizomes Lefebvre v. Althusser modernity v. anti-modernity Marx v. Freud ...and so on. Of course, we should criticise the elitist and self-centred nature of the Situationists. I'm not too sure that the blessed Blissett is going to be entirely successful in this aim as they claim descent from Bordiga - the geezer who was expelled from the Third International for being too Leninist by Lenin! Later, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications, Design & Media University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ +44 (0)171-911-5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "...the History of the World is nothing but the development of the Idea of Freedom." - Georg Hegel ------------------------------------------------------------------- --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]