cultural politics/"real" politics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 2 12:56:15 PDT 1998


Jim heartfield wrote:


>Consequently the revolutionising rhetoric of identity theory must stop
>short at the realm of production. To call into question the
>exploitative social relation that lays the basis for cultural identity
>would be to call into question the whole project of identity theory.
>There can be no deconstruction of exploitation. Instead the creation of
>a surplus - and therefore the social relation that gives rise to it -
>must be assumed as a natural given.

Just whom do you have in mind here as the theoreticians of identity?

Doug



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