"Popular" in English & Spanish Re: Deleuze & Guattari...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:42 AM -0800 1/10/03, Thomas Seay wrote:
>Carrol posted an extract from Brennan that attacked "Empire" and 
>went on to say that he agreed with Brennan and that Empire was 
>worthless. Doug then made a saracstic post aimed at Carrol, 
>something like "What Carrol you dont like Empire?" You then replied 
>that he, Doug, should say something about the piece, instead of 
>making such comments.

We've already discussed our objections to _Empire_, here and on 
PEN-l, available in the public archives.

At 9:42 AM -0800 1/10/03, Thomas Seay wrote:
>I then posted a long response stating point by point what I thought 
>was a distortion by Brennan and EXPLAINING what Negri's positions 
>are on the matter.

Ah, yes, "distortion," never political or theoretical disagreement.

At 7:53 PM -0800 1/8/03, Thomas Seay wrote:
>they [Hardt & Negri] propose a desertion or exodus from capital in 
>which capitalism would just collapse.

The way you summarize Hardt & Negri's proposal, you aren't doing any 
service to them.  Your summary makes _Empire_ sound sillier than 
Brennan's criticism of it does.
-- 
Yoshie

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