[Dancecult-l] Violence & EDMC

[Natale Colasanti]

Adam,
   
  Should you partake on the wonderous yet gruesome adventure of exploring Derrida further, consult anyone and everyone beforehand.  I am in the midst of finishing a final paper which discusses Derrida (my second semester with this) and find it difficult if you do not have someone to discuss his ideologies with.  I'm narrowing down toward the end of my Master's degree and hope that further readings and discussions will allow me to understand him a little more.  
   
  Anyway, just a piece of advice from one scholar to another.  I'm still considering what contribution, if any, I may have to your original question.
   
  -Natale

Adam Walker <de_proginosko at hotmail.com> wrote:
  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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