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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There was nothing depressing about this
image: The Zombie is a cute metaphor but a bad theory of history,
subjectivity and language. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nowhere did I object to the picture of people
enjoying themselves. What I objected to was your mirror image alternative
to the mechanics of subjectivity inherent to the crisis/imperialism line of
analysis. And I was glad you took it on even if you failed to
get out of its logic. See my response to Bond, perhaps it will help clarify the
matter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I enjoyed having the opportunity to converse with
you about your article.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Travis </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the metaphor, it's Ulrich Beck's not mine. He
meant that people are often prisoners of ideas handed down from the past, and
that these categories are something like the living dead walking the night,
only because they haven't been replaced by other categories.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't see this as depressing as Travis does.
That people should enjoy some well being does not seem so awful. I don't think
there is a need to invent problems when there are real ones in the here and
now to address - such as the war in Iraq, or the assault on civil liberties,
or the promotion of personal insecurity by states.</FONT></DIV>
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