Hi Mark,
That was irony, following the initial comments on Adorno & kitsch. I realised after I had posted the comment that irony never translates well into these types of debates. Sorry for the ambiguity.
Best wishes,
Paul
Dr. Paul Harrison
Department of Geography
Deputy Director Combined Honours
Durham University
On 12 Jul 2013, at 22:35, "Mark Purcell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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