So, to set up our undoubtedly engaging discussion about Derrida and the politics of community, I hereby post another experpt from my paper for Precarity course. It’s not related directly to Derrida’s politics of the impossible friendship, but does go into the enduring non-individuation of the political movement. I argued in my essay that it might be worthwhile to reframe the politico-theoretical discourse on multitude and movement into a more directed ‘point’: namely that the issue of horizontality and openness of Ideology concerning movement is in fact very precarious. I hope you at least find some things to argue with, and Baylee: please feel free to counter my text with the stuff that we are to read for the next session on Derrida and Community! (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘horizontality’
Thoughts on deconstruction and community
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Empire, horizontality, Michael Hardt, Multitude, openness, Spinoza, Toni Negri on March 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »