[lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 20:14:08 PDT 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Charles Turner <vze26m98 at optonline.net>wrote:


> Well, from Mackenzie Wark's new book _Beach Beneath the Street_:
>
> "Two kinds of time meet and mingle in the everyday. One is a linear time,
> the time of credit and investment. The other is a cyclical time, of wages
> paid and bills due. This is how class makes itself felt in everyday life.
> Linear temporality is ruling-class time; cyclical temporality is working
> class time."
>

I don't know this literature, would I be right to see these as M-C-M' time vs C-M-C time


> "The everyday also has a third kind of temporality, the time of adventure,
> which is perhaps a remnant of aristocratic time. A notable characteristic of
> the Letterist International, which persists in the Situationist
> International, is a longing for the time of adventure."
>
> "Adventure is nothing if not the practical refutation of boredom."
>

Similarly, the life of adventure is then the life of the socially self-reflexive production and pursuit of use-values as the means and ends of species being? And boredom is the asocial, commodified and alienated/anomic life of modern capitalism writ large?


>
> "What could the everyday become? 'Could it be some sort of grand game
> without any precise objective?' The colonization of everyday life by the
> commodity form diminishes the role of collective experience, yet groups
> persist."
>
>
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