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[Andy Robinson]

'The claim to be non-ideological, to be a direct expression of experience,
is the ideological gesture *par excellence*' (Slavoj Zizek).

Everyday ideology - the way people relate performatively to the real
conditions of their lives - is always awash with abstractions which appear
as pseudo-concrete.  You can choose to submerge yourself in this ideological
performativity and refuse to question its basic assumptions and perspectival
biases - but by doing so, you lose the ability to engage with difference.
The difficulty is that you continue adopting political positions in a world
where difference exists.  This necessarily impels you into a monological,
coercive politics.  The imposition of ideology then becomes identical with
command - the social order must be run for the benefit of those with the
correct ideology...  a dangerous path.

The challenge is to realise that other perspectives also come from
experiences, immediacies, actual connections in the world...  that
indigenous shamans, autonomous social movement activists, impoverished
unsuccessful artists and people playing music in bars in their 'free' time *all
exist in the real world* and that their experiences *have just as much
concreteness and legitimacy as your own*.

You *do* mean an abstract self, because I very much doubt that you have
actually sat down for five days to 'research and test stuff' and out of it
written a poem for which you have received remuneration.  Not least because
that's not how poems are written, or remunerated.



On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:58 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 20:06:36 PM +0000, Andy Robinson (ldxar1 at gmail.com)
> wrote:
> > "If it takes me, say, five full days to research and test stuff in
> > order to write something that gives one million people emotions
> > (e.g. poetry) or, much more prosaically, teaches them in twenty
> > minutes how to do something they need to do, I may only be able to
> > afford to do it if there is some guarantee that I can make enough of
> > it to at least pay my expenses for those same days."
> >
> > Why do 'analytical' theorists always talk in the first person, when
> > what they mean is an abstract self, an abstract example?
>
> Analytical and abstract my foot. I was ONLY describing MY own, very
> personal, very concrete experience about paying my own very concrete
> bills and mortgage by doing something that's also useful to as many
> people as possible. It's much, much less theoretical and abstract than
> everything else you wrote in the rest of your post. And even if what
> you wrote were out of personal experience, it would only describe half
> of the story.
>                        Marco
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