FS & Praxis

[bob scheetz]

> A few beers, some good music and we're ready to shake all over again.

sure, Matt, i'll by this...

come clear the cup
and in the fire of spring
your winter garment of repentance fling,
the bird of time hath but a little way to flutter...

but again what of the burden of guilt for the poor suckers of the earth who
don't get saved by an oxford professorship?  just how does one be "resigned"
at the victimization of the other?

The reality of story is pretty much always the same (everyman towards
death), no?
The moral of the reality is the disclosiveness of the logos, qua
poet-critic, ...as homer-ari, jesus-paul, nso on.  You and JH and Plato want
to elide poetry, go to bed with positive science, and conceive a head-birth
morality; all because you fear that story is the devil in the machine.
But how much is geist really ever taken in by imposture anyway?
Constantine's conversion, as Emperor Bush's, or Zionism's holocaust story,
are rather stock-peice villains, scurvy demagog politicians, emperors'
clothes.  Interest, real or illusory, not poetry is the devil.  And interest
is cognate with power in nature.  In contrast, the republic of dogs and rats
is without poetry; and the degree of difference with our species is exactly
the marginal effect of metafor/fisic.

so, yes, i think your interpretation of the iraq piece may well be impius.
how much did you give for that there ticket?

bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri@hotmail.com>
To: <frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: FS & Praxis


> Bob,
>
> Ok. So a few bucks got lost on the ticket, but hell we all have taken the
> ride. As an armchair critic I would say that EVERYONE has played their
part
> - in this first half - with great aplomb.
>
> Time for a roll call of rascals? Let's start at the top. Starring God,
> Allah. Too metaphysical. What about Corporal muslim in Kuwait weds private
> Lynch. Their children multiply. Or Benjamin makes it to Spain.
> Ummm I'm not very comfortable with either happy or sad endings I've
decided:
>
> >    pardon the lapse in tone, Matt.
> >...but performative contradiction is rather cardinal for y'all, eh?
> >Resignation to Power may harmonize easily with a cushy oxonian (or for
JH,
> >superstar) idyl, but what insufferable dissonance to say a Victor
Klemperer
> >trapped by anonymity in kafka-esque cockroach-icity?  and that, and
worse,
> >is the essential dispensation of the species, no?
> ----------------
> >And while "Totalitarianism" is one emanation, ...isn't bourgeois liberal
> >"Consumerism" an equally momentous dystopia?  ...isn't marcuse confirmed
as
> >never yet by this latest masterpiece of  "lib western democracy,"
> >fictitious
> >war, on fictitious grounds, for fictitious freedom, by a fictitious prez
> >with a real military power, propaganda apparatus and intelligence system
so
> >vast and irresistable as gives new meaning to the word, totalitarianism.
>
> depends how hyperreal you want to get. If you have a fiction then there's
> gotta be something real. I thought it was all a fiction. My take on JH is
> his take on the fiction. Collective ideals and all that and Durkheim. If
we
> need stories, what stories are we going to tell. Marx made it clear that
the
> dominant stories serve the interests of the dominant. Funny thing that. I
> could shed a single tear for Saddam Hussein. There was - at least in the
> beginning - a valid strain of Arab nationalism shaping his actions. But
> shhhussh, the second act is about to start.
> ---------
> >As for my personal mythology, ...for sure fatalist, but not yet resigned.
>
> You have my admiration :-). Power flows. Does resistance strengthen it or
> dissipates it? Does resignation abide Power or just gets on with doing
> whatever is possible in whatever pathetic form this takes. The dialectic
of
> enlightenment zen lies impotently in the enlightenment of the dialectic:
>
> >Will-to-Power sits at the core of the being of the species like a law of
> >nature; but, not alone.
> --------------
> This is where we might diverge. If all of the below didn't just do Iraq,
> then I want my money back:
>
> >Opposite the hyena there's the giest-structure, the
> >logos, religion/art, the creator and preserver of the meaning of being.
>
> but I may be misunderstanding you here.
> ---------------
> Yes and no. Isn't there a script in which everyone's a winner? Big bummer.
>
> >...very hard to shake these days, eh?
>
> A few beers, some good music and we're ready to shake all over again.
>
> MattP.
>
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