----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:42 PM Subject: Re: Ashcroft's prayer circle
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> Ian Murray wrote:
> >
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> > Aren't practices and ideas just co-sedimented in historical time?
I'm
> > looking at Butler, Laclau and Z's "Contingency, Hegemony,
Universality
> > [hey it was cheap :-)] and dadgummit they're on to something....
> >
>
> "Historical time" includes at least several hundred thousand
years --
> several hundred thousand years _before_ homo sapiens even appeared.
When
> we first discover ourselves as human we are already deeply engaged
in
> practices that have their root in homo erectus, homo habilis,
> australopithecus erectus . . . .Our thought comes into being,
> historically and biologically, as a precipitant of our practice.
>
> And this continues to be so in the present. The secret of treating
the
> present as history lies in seeing the priority of practice to
theory.
>
> Carrol
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How modernist. Can't we be mutualists practicing-thinking
dendriticallyfractally as a complement to thinking in terms of
priority/oppositionality/subsumption?
Ian