More on aesthetic quietism here:
http://antigram.blogspot.com/2007/03/kat-brownism-or-political-consciousness.html
I agree strongly with Badiou that there is a significant ideological
conflict in progress here, between the "democratic materialism" of
opinionism (which in spite of apparently according equal merit to every
point of view and position of enjoyment, does so under the aegis of a
violent antagonism towards any and every attempt to go beyond the
pleasure principle - a deeply hostile and resentful will-to-ignorance
that seeks to preserve at all costs the perfumed garden of its
innocence) and the "materialist dialectic" that insists on the interval
between bodies and languages opened up by truths. The symptom of this
struggle is the frenzy with which the opinionists will declare their
indifference to "politics", assert their right to their opinion and
their enjoyment (which are practically synonymous) and pronounce on the
irrelevance of any and every attempt at critique, onto which they
immediately project their own impatience and aggrieved ill-temper. "Why
are you so angry? What's the matter with you? What can't you just sit
back and enjoy, obediently?"
Dominic
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