tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post232213173616643058..comments2023-11-05T03:05:16.380-08:00Comments on No Useless Leniency: Make a DifferenceBenjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-68434848511709928122008-08-20T07:40:00.000-07:002008-08-20T07:40:00.000-07:00what's interesting is that Deleuze seems to conced...what's interesting is that Deleuze seems to concede the exact problem and then simply invoke Marx as affirmative and hey presto affirmationism back on track. This, of course, will feature in the new book. The irony is that it is difficult to criticise because this kind of move is so underdetermined. The temptation is just to gape at the legerdemain - 'see, look, no reason to make that move'Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-83695620463888172992008-08-20T05:08:00.000-07:002008-08-20T05:08:00.000-07:00I'm always struck by the nonchalance with which th...I'm always struck by the nonchalance with which the partisans of managed difference (as in Putin's "managed democracy") make the leap from supposed ontological description to (anti-)political prescription. There's no coherent, or theoretically legitimate reason given why a campaign of revolutionary terror has "less" difference than a rail-network, why there's "less" difference in imitating Marx than in imitating Tarde, etc. etc. The lineage is long and goes back to Nietzsche's spurious enlisting of the will-to-power into the refutation of socialism, the Paris Commune and their supposedly "homogenising" or "levelling" practices. Of course, the likes of Latour would like to ignore the rather formidable institutional "creativity" that accompanies and follows most revolutionary activity, preferring the caricature of a kind of political black hole of identity, terror and death...Savonarolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601032824561603860noreply@blogger.com