roachboy

it is not the conception as such, art--it is the way it gets knit into other kinds of thinking. i did not react to jtk's post as i did because he used the category--it was how he used, it--just read the quote--i would hope that it is obvious why i reacted as it did.
the turn to "fundamentalism" is diverse and complex, driven mostly by local sitautions an the possiblities/spaces for dissent they leave open. the best example is iran--the main reason the revolution assumed the character that it did was because savak did not extend its surveillance to the mosques. there is nothing related at any level to a notion of "essence" in it...you could read these movements in parallel ways in each of the places from which they have come, and that is fine--but once you step over the line into imputing essences to whole groups of people (they will never change, balh balh blah) you not only eliminate any analytic use the category might have, but you prevent yourself from understanding anything--so.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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