| McKenzie Wark on Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:57:16 +1000 (EST) |
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| Re: Syndicate: moral responsibility |
Interesting question. But consider: if there is no collective responsibility, there is no collective identity either. If you want to make the statement "I belong to X", surely one has to take some responsibility for X. One is, after all, claiming to be a part of it. Sure, one can renounce any part in responsibility, but then one is no longer a Serb, an Australian, etc. This is the debate that's going on in Australia now: can we accept responsibility for a genocide that started 200 years ago? If not, then who are we? How can we claim the good parts -- this old and venerable democracy, one of the oldest in the world -- without also its crimes? k __________________________________________ "We no longer have roots, we have aerials." http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/~mwark -- McKenzie Wark ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe [email protected]