Negri on globo

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > It seems to me that "the multitude of particles, atoms, and
>>  singularities" is an apt name for the masses of consumers, more
>>  likely status-conscious rather than class-conscious, who experience
>>  hardships, can articulate particular grievances, but have yet to
>>  discover sources of their exploitation and oppressions, much less
>>  uniting in solidarity with other members of the class nationally and
>>  internationally.
>>  --
>  > Yoshie
>=================
>
>Doesn't this just avoid whether it's a valid presupposition that
>exploitation is *not* an essentially contestable concept like class or
>democracy or race and lead us into the thicket of an authoritarian
>stance towards "all those with false consciousness"?
>
>Ian

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd rather be bourgeois than 
proletarian and "live right and talk left," as some of my aesthetic 
heroes -- Oscar Wilde, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, etc. -- 
did.  But I don't, and few do....

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in 
the memory of the commercial classes." -- Oscar Wilde
-- 
Yoshie

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