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fistf: what i am arguing is that pan's positions may well take him well outside the space that he has customarily defined as his own--the politial center--and that this movement would also have to be one of information base(s)... if i understand its direction correctly--that is, if i am not expressing a kind of sympathetic projection onto what pan is saying rooted in my own dispositions---among the informational base-changes that would be entailed is a distance from (and situating of) the dominant political discourse, the integration of other registers of information into how you think about political questions, and the working-out of some kind of meta-schema that would enable you to integrate these registers of information. and all this would be of a piece with the process of fashioning a sense of alternate possibilities.
and no, i dont see a whole lot of hope for politicians stepping out of the social context that enables them to be politicians in the first place. the "outsider" persona that worked for jimmy carter and for the present occupant of that office is in many ways a sham, standing in for a particular mode of faction-rotation within the oligarchy (rather than posing any challenge to it).
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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