GRGR 31 Shit'n'Shinola (is Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

Terrance Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Sun Jul 30 16:46:42 CDT 2000


Yeah, I'm with that red scarfed young man too. 


"The tensions between these hopes and dangers in Pynchon's
assessment of anarchism are never resolved: the hope that
anarchism may deliver us from a world feeding itself on its
own destruction is tethered to a persistent feeling that the
very vigilance anarchist practice requires may at any moment
capitulate to institutionalized patterns of control and
domination. The drive toward anarchism may lead us to a more
human realm  unfettered  by the burden of history, but to
imagine the possibilities of non-hierarchical configurations
of truly free social relations is also to confront the
possibility of horrific chaos and terrifying vulnerability." 

Graham Benton, "THIS NETWORK OF ALL PLOTS MAY YET CARRY HIM
TO FREEDOM: tHOMAS pYNCHON AND THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF
ANARCHISM, OCULR.V.24.Fall.99.555

"Those who steal the words of others develop a deep doubt in
the abilities of the
others and consider them incompetent. Each time [the
oppressors] say their word
without hearing the word of those whom they have forbidden
to speak, they grow
more accustomed to power and acquire a taste for guiding,
ordering, and
commanding. They can no longer live without having someone
to give orders to.
Under these circumstances, dialogue is impossible" 

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire



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