“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Relationism Is Too Normative


...for me. Deterritorialization good, reterritorialization bad. Decoded flows good, molar lumps bad. Flow in general good. Some flows more fluid than others. Normal (fluid) versus pathological (static). Relations are good. More relations are better.

But on top of all of this: it's an aesthetic picture of the world calling itself a deep structure. THAT is the founding normativity. Preserving the distinction between aesthetic and causal. We should move past Derrida, not fall back behind.

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