ATD and current events, NO SPOILERS

[pynchonoid]

I doubt I'll find Tariq Ali's name in ATD, but all of
a sudden this kind of rhetoric doesn't seem so totally
foreign, now that it (or something kind of like it) is
part of daily life that includes reading Pynchon's new
novel where I see it (or something kind of like it)
restored to its proper place in the US tradition.

Agree with the poster who suggests Pynchon's texts
need to be examined quite carefully to see what the
texts might actually be affirming and what they might
actually be undercutting, after taking into account
the various authorial distancing devices and
syntactical ambiguities. 

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" isn't
a bad foundational text.


November 30, 2006
Axis of Hope
Venezuela and the Bolivarian Dream

By TARIQ ALI

In the Muslim world religious groups that are
militarily effective, but politically limited dominate
resistance to the American Empire. Asia is infatuated
with capital. Europe lies buried deep in neo-liberal
torpor, and the Left and social movements in the EU
(Italy is the most recent example) are in an advanced
state of decomposition. But in South America an axis
of hope has emerged that challenges imperial
domination on every level. Democracy, hollowed-out and
offering no alternatives in the North, is being used
to revive hope in the South. [...]

http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq11302006.html



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