R: [Generation_online] les objets de nos delires

[Arianna Bove]

yes, send it to the list. it'd be good to discuss the review. I'm not too sure
about Bull's argument but I think it's more interesting than many of the ones
published so far.
Erik, why don't you send yours too?

Arianna

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> From: "M" <swerve@onetel.net.uk>
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:24:56 +0100
> Subject: R: [Generation_online] les objets de nos delires
> To: "Genreation-Online" <generation_online@coyote.kein.org>
> 
> I assume the review you are referring to is the one by malcolm bull. I have
> been working up a response to it that is almost finalised and will forward
> it to the list (or to people individually if people don't want the list used
> for distribution of this kind of thing - let me know) in a couple of days.
> If nothing else it will hopefully provoke some discussion.
> 
> I had planned to try and place it in the LRB, but I feel that I've probably
> left it a little late.
> 
> Anyway, I'm waiting for some responses from some friends then I'll pass it
> on...
> 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: generation_online-admin@kein.org
> [mailto:generation_online-admin@kein.org]Per conto di Soenke Zehle
> Inviato: giovedi 11 ottobre 2001 11.29
> A: empire/autonomism
> Oggetto: [Generation_online] les objets de nos delires
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I, too, like the new approach.
> 
> Let's multiply our objects of desire, if that's at all possible, I quite
> like the idea of thought-as-social-desire, btw. The monstrous
> solidarity-machine that kicked in to gear here in Germany was a definite
> reminder that I have no desire to have my affects articulated exclusively by
> mass-mediatic interventions of the "new humanitarianism" kind.
> 
> So: If you remember the last review I posted, there was some stuff in there
> that observed a strange similarity between Negri's positions and some of the
> early neoliberal stuff.
> 
> At some point I'd like to return to that in part because that is (I think)
> what also happened in/to/with Foucault - remember _The Foucault Effect_,
> which (esp. Colin Gordon) tried to demonstrate that Foucault was really
> quite excited about neoliberal ideas of self-actualization etc., and that
> would probably come up at some point.
> 
> So, if the list editors propose "seminar-like" elements, that would be one
> of the things I'd be happy to prepare in some detail, esp. for people who
> have don't have the respective material.
> 
> I hope, btw, that Foucault's lectures on _naissance de la biopolitique_ will
> be out before too long (I've seen other volumes but no publication
> schedule).
> 
> I'd love to take a look at (that means I'd have to work on my French quite a
> bit, but hey - if that's not a reason then I don't know what would...) that
> in this context.
> 
> >From the emails I've read, there seems to be some interest in a return to
> the all-too-brief "genealogy" of the biopolitical problematic in _Empire_
> and go from there - no slavishly hermeneutic approach but a free-wheeling
> exploration of biopolitical thought.
> 
> This is going to be really good.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Soenke
> 
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