Brian Holmes on Wed, 31 Jan 2018 02:38:38 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> How do we govern ourselves? (was: Mechanical Turkish) |
My premise is that the question "how do we govern ourselves? ... with which institutions, under which rules, backed by which constraints?" that Brian raises can never be asked from the outsider standpoint of institutional critique but instead can only be asked immanently. This means first and foremost taking on responsibility in the way that Brian's “grey beard” mea culpa wisely and graciously invites.In kindred spirit and in search of specific causes for our failure to effectively the institutional question, I referred him to a recent piece of mine [http://www.abladeofgrass.org/fertile-ground/art-social-deat ] that tries to think through how a broadly defined cultural left has been prevented from asking institutional questions less by the Kochs et al and more by its own relationship to race.h/
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