Amnaestic solidarity

[matthew piscioneri]

List,

Has the U.S ever apologized?





>From: matthew piscioneri <mpiscioneri@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Bronner on Dialectic of Enlightenment
>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:41:58 +0000
>
>And Marx's philosophy of history ISN'T about abstract dynamics:
>
>>Marx has been abandoned in favor of Nietzsche.  The book neglects concrete 
>>institutions and qualitative distinctions.  Instead, there is an abstract 
>>dynamic in play by which enlightenment reinstitutes myth (that it 
>>submerged) through instrumental reason.
>
>It probably wasn't composed in the luxurious surrounds of Bronner's 
>state-capitalist provided office suite:
>
>>There are no distinctions or qualifications in this analysis; it overlooks 
>>actual movements as well as the Counter-Enlightenment. What we get is an 
>>anthropological fog: "the metapolitical obliterates the political."  (E.g. 
>>analysis of Odysseus.)  Also simplistic and wrong assertions such as 
>>liberal theory is de facto apologia for the existing order.
>
>>A D/E sequel never materialized.  Why?  Probably because the authors had 
>>nothing "positive" to say.  D/E was based on a metapolitical and 
>>metahistorical approach, viewing social organization as a seamless 
>>administrative totality, reified, without qualification.  Here were the 
>>roots of negative dialectic, aversion to the student movement.  "1968" 
>>could be viewed as the inversion of D/E: anti-consumerist, 
>>anti-instrumental-reason, and too metapolitical itself in its conception 
>>of revolution.
>
>It sounds to me like Bronner belongs to the whingeing historical-status 
>seeking class of '68. You know the sort: in '68 we raised the barricades in 
>Berkeley. Just another attempt to write history from a baby-boomer 
>perspective. Poor babies. Just imagine having to bear the neglect of 
>history...no-one understands what we did, why aren't we in the history 
>books of resistance.
>
>To be fair, earlier today I was thinking that following the slaughter of 
>the working class on the battlefields of France that inspired the 
>revolutionary moment of the 1916-1920s, the 1960s did come closest to 
>making that moment happen again. What happened? Ralph you got wasted and 
>pampered in the 1970s. That's what happened. So maybe Stephen has a point. 
>I hope you gave it to him as good as you gave it to poor old Bruno Latour. 
>Now there's an enemy of the working classes if ever there was one. You 
>should be ashamed of yourself.
>
>>I shall keep this in mind when I can find time for D/E.
>
>You are so frigid Ralph. Read D/E for god's sake :-).
>
>MattP.
>
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