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i don't know if you can say denial, really.
for example, i don't at all see dc as being "in denial" about much of anything--but his view tends to be shaped by a particular relation, a particular space of activity which i generally find to be interesting. at the same time, the question of how one positions stuff at a more general level continually crops up in my mind as i read his posts--but this seems an ongoing trade-off, not something wherein the position he writes from precludes a wider view. and there is something to be said for operating within the realm of what seems possible....its the old social democratic line, in the left tradition. and it can function to make peoples' lives materially better.
my basic position is that all such positions, in the micro-level and at the macro-level, would be helped alot with sustained, coherent pressure from positions to the left of what currently exists. in that respect, putting stuff up in a space like this is at best a type of practicing---what we really ought to be doing is figuring out how to get information out into the wider world.
but i keep wandering off into ontology and salt marshes lately.
i think there's a linkage (undermine the philosophical suppositions that enable what i take to be the dominant ideology/-ies)...but sometimes i think it'd be better to shift back into the trenches more.
but this artsy stuff is fun.
who can say what's the best way to do anything?
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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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