[Dancecult-l] Violence & EDMC

[Adam Walker]

Wow Neil!  Thanks for jumping onboard the discussion.  It seems I have 
opened one heck of a pandoras box!  I am so busy, I haven't had the chance 
to read Featherstone's article, nor have I read enough of Derrida to truly 
have assimilated this notion 'speed' (I'm still a lowly undergrad!).  Would 
I be accurate in summating its relevence to the discussion as; a 
perpetuation of deconstuctive value, which has implications in the momentum 
of opposition?

Adam


>From: Nibelungentreue at aol.com
>To: dancecult-l at listcultures.org
>Subject: [Dancecult-l] Violence & EDMC
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:52:25 EDT
>
>Just by way of a brief postscript, I guess it might be said in light of
>Derrida's concluding remarks, that the level or appropriation with which he 
>is
>concerned, is that between the economic and the cultural spheres of 
>society. His
>argument is that capital continually disestablishes the category of the 
>human,
>in which case it might need to be clarified whether Tobia's musings about
>becoming "alien" are symptom formations, or counter reactions to the 
>process
>Derrida desribes. In any case, I think it might be helpful to talk about
>democratisation of "speed" in Derrida's sense as an attempt to slow the 
>exchange rate
>[sic] between the economic and cultural spheres. Perhaps unlike Tobias, I 
>think
>this makes questions of ontology secondary, and questions of cultural 
>policy
>primary i.e. a democratisation of cultural policy might help slow the rate 
>of
>imitation/translation between these two spheres. This could mean that the 
>state
>could play a mediating role in the kind of "Gandhi" like alternative Graham
>evokes. Cultural and technological citizenship may help then in qualifying
>violence in the context of EDMC. Indeed, it is imitation of the imperatives 
>of
>citizenship in EDMC that could help play a constitutive, as opposed to a 
>merely,
>after the event role, in such a context.
>
>This suggests that violence is a symptom formation of imitation of the 
>market
>in EDMC (read: selfish, destructive identities). I leave it to others 
>though
>to consider the aptness of social theorist Nico Mouzelis's prescriptions 
>for
>cultural policy in such a context:
>
>"It requires designing and implementing a regulatory framework for 
>reversing
>the growing imbalance seen in late modernity between the economic and 
>cultural
>spheres. It requires mechanisms that will make it difficult, to use
>Bourdieu's terminology, for economic capital to buy more or less cultural 
>capital. It
>requires mechanisms that will shift the control of cultural technologies 
>from
>media moguls, not necessarily to the state, but to those who all actually
>produce culture (artists, writers, intellectuals, philosophers), as well as 
>those
>actually entitled to transmit it to the new generations (teachers). It
>requires, that is to say, mechanisms that will reverse the present drift 
>from market
>economy to market society".
>
>Just a thought,
>
>Neil Huthnance


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