I wrote:
>> >Call this a stretch, or call me a fuddy-duddy Frankfurtian, but are
>> >any of you annoyed by the "movement" designating the events in Seattle
>> >"N30" and the to-be-events in Washington D.C. "A16" and the to-be-events
>> >in Los Angeles "D2K" ?
Angela wrote:
>No. Designating movements and actions by dates is also something my parents
>are familiar with; so, it doesn't register to me as anything strange or even
>particularly new, and hardly annoying. What are the other conventions?
>Place? I prefer 'N30' to 'Seattle', for the simple reason that it wasn't
>just Seattle; like J18 wasn't just London. Slogan/Issue? The slogan 'Our
>resistance will be as transnational as capital', which has made a good
>appearance, and which I like a lot -- but there seems to be a reluctance in
>some quarters to the strategic imperative and figuration it asserts. But
>the date tag has an important dimension: it links without prescribing, the
>content of the movement is determined by movement, it stops and gathers and
>pushes on particular dates, countless debates are thrown up and are a part of
>it, it's possessed by no one place or organisation. Can't see much wrong
>with that.
I now write:
Yeah, I guess I was going overboard, locked into hyper-critique mode. There is a solid lineage -- "October 1917," "May '68," and so on. I didn't look before I leapt. Maybe my distaste has to do w/millenial burnout -- "N30" reminds me of "Y2K" ...
John