This is a bit of an aside, and I am not sure I entirely followed Paul's
prose here, but if he is trying to say that Hardt, Negri, and Virno are
"recommending blind popularism, feeling happy and ignoring material
conditions" then, well, that would be pretty far from the truth.
Mark
On 07/12/2013 04:11 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:
> The claim that work on affect is somehow equivalent to the X-factor
> and some recent re-aesethisisation of politics merely demonstrates a
> lack of knowledge of this work - because what people like Thrift,
> Clough, Massumi, Hardt, Negri, Virno, Grosz, (to name just a few), are
> really doing is recommending blind popularism, feeing happy and
> ignoring material conditions…
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Mark Purcell
Department of Urban Design & Planning
University of Washington
Box 355740, Gould 410
Seattle WA 98195
http://pathtothepossible.wordpress.com
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