tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post9137198078351691984..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Last Communist Standing II: This Time it’s Personalunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-57517913106230546632007-05-30T19:10:00.000-04:002007-05-30T19:10:00.000-04:00hey,i've been working on something like this, my h...hey,<BR/><BR/>i've been working on something like this, my hypothesis is that it replays some of the old soviet dialectical constructions, Negri's reading of history as material conditions versus Badiou's cataclysmic approach. i guess it is more complicated than that but it seems to me to replay some old soviet tropes. <BR/><BR/>perhaps i should send something to you once i have more down.readingmaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08898122061437632648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-75656515567240676942007-05-30T13:20:00.000-04:002007-05-30T13:20:00.000-04:00This is a great post. I look forward to the next i...This is a great post. I look forward to the next installment, and to the resulting spin-off TV series and action figures. <BR/><BR/>Your presentation of Balibar is particularly compelling - where does Balibar write about this? I don't know his work at all. <BR/><BR/>The point about mental and manual labor and racism is really interesting. I think that might connect back to Ranciere in two places. The first is the concept of the distribution of the sensible - mental and manual as such a distribution or part of one. The second is with the distribution of who talks and who listens in the Ignorant Schoolmaster and maybe the stuff on Plato in the Poor book - stultification is in part the instilling of a fear to attempt to be more than a bronze-souled 'body man' and is in part the instilling of a fear in the golden-souled bodyless of tomorrow that they may ultimately prove to be bronzed and bodied.<BR/>take care,<BR/>NateNatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918436253681803057noreply@blogger.com