Power

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au
Wed Dec 4 15:09:33 PST 2002


On 5/12/2002 6:00 AM, "lbo-talk-digest" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> wrote:


>> I think Marx (and C.) have it right
>> here: it's much more useful to study the social relations that
>> produce types of individuals than to tediously catalogue all the
>> individual "subjectivities".
>>
>> Miles
>
>
> Cat and Thiago didn't argue that we should be cataloguing them.
>
>
> Kelley
>
> See right, Mills?

The idea that subjectivities (ie. people) are odiously boring and ripe for cataloguing is just what's on my mind when I worry about the assumptions made within hasty generalisations about social relations. As for limp leaves plonking to the ground, I know some such people, but they are hardly representative.

Thiago

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