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---------- >From: "Vince Woolums" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "313 List" <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [313] Regarding Business >Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 8:16 AM > > It's important to remember, Cyclone, that you're essentially describing a > social 'norm' for Australia, North America and Europe. Actions and epithets > of racism, oppression, religious purism and isolationism have been/are > present everywhere, and have been/are present at nearly all times in > 'history'. These actions and epithets are not exclusive to white males. > > Vince Woolums > > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [313] Regarding Business > > >> 1> Concepts/words are not neutral, they are contested weapons which > social >> forces use in struggles for power. There is no such thing as an >> "objective"/politically neutral linguistics, and meanings are not static. >> This is especially true of a loaded concept like racism. >> >> 2> From Deleuze and Guattari, A THOUSAND PLATEAUS, CAPITALISM AND >> SCHIZOPHRENIA, PP. 469-470 >> >> "MINORITIES. Ours is becoming the age of minorities. We have seen > several >> times that minorities are not necessarily defined by the smallness of > their >> numbers but rather by becoming a line of fluctuation, in other words, by > the >> gap that seperates them from this or that axiom constituting a redundant >> majority... Nonwhites would recieve no adequate expression by becoming a >> new yellow or black majority, an infinite denumerable set. What is proper >> to the minority is to assert a power of the nondenumerable, even if that >> minority is composed of a single member. That is the formula for >> multiplicities. Minority as a universal figure, or becoming >> everybody/everything. Woman: we all have to become that, whether we are >> male or female. Nonwhite: we all have to become that, whether we are > white, >> yellow, or black." >> >> 3> In other words, the minority is defined by difference from a NORM, and >> that norm in our society exists as the WHITE ADULT MALE. Essential to >> institutionalized racism & sexism is the measuring of a person's > difference >> and Otherness from this norm; it is for that reason impossible for a black >> person to be racist in the same way as a white person, because the force > of >> this norm (and the socio-historical conditions that have given risen to > the >> norm) is not on their side. On the other hand, it is always possible, > even >> for a white adult male, to enter into a process of becoming, and through >> this process to become something other than the norm. What is at stake > here >> is Otherness itself, the power to not have a "fixed identity" but rather > to >> experience life as an infinite journey. And at this point I'd like to say >> something controversial: you don't have to BE black to make techno, but > one >> might say that, musically, you have to become-black in order to make > techno, >> in otherwords, you have to become part of the tradition of music which > comes >> out of black culture and speak/sing in a language that is not the language >> of the majority. (Of course there are other becomings, becomings-woman, >> becomings-animal, becomings-molecular...) a funky African rhythm, > sensuous >> strings, a bird floating through the heavens, little particles of sound > that >> hover in the air... >> >> /cyborg k >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- >From: "Vince Woolums" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "313 List" <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [313] Regarding Business >Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 8:16 AM > > It's important to remember, Cyclone, that you're essentially describing a > social 'norm' for Australia, North America and Europe. Actions and epithets > of racism, oppression, religious purism and isolationism have been/are > present everywhere, and have been/are present at nearly all times in > 'history'. These actions and epithets are not exclusive to white males. > > Vince Woolums > > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [313] Regarding Business > > >> 1> Concepts/words are not neutral, they are contested weapons which > social >> forces use in struggles for power. There is no such thing as an >> "objective"/politically neutral linguistics, and meanings are not static. >> This is especially true of a loaded concept like racism. >> >> 2> From Deleuze and Guattari, A THOUSAND PLATEAUS, CAPITALISM AND >> SCHIZOPHRENIA, PP. 469-470 >> >> "MINORITIES. Ours is becoming the age of minorities. We have seen > several >> times that minorities are not necessarily defined by the smallness of > their >> numbers but rather by becoming a line of fluctuation, in other words, by > the >> gap that seperates them from this or that axiom constituting a redundant >> majority... Nonwhites would recieve no adequate expression by becoming a >> new yellow or black majority, an infinite denumerable set. What is proper >> to the minority is to assert a power of the nondenumerable, even if that >> minority is composed of a single member. That is the formula for >> multiplicities. Minority as a universal figure, or becoming >> everybody/everything. Woman: we all have to become that, whether we are >> male or female. Nonwhite: we all have to become that, whether we are > white, >> yellow, or black." >> >> 3> In other words, the minority is defined by difference from a NORM, and >> that norm in our society exists as the WHITE ADULT MALE. Essential to >> institutionalized racism & sexism is the measuring of a person's > difference >> and Otherness from this norm; it is for that reason impossible for a black >> person to be racist in the same way as a white person, because the force > of >> this norm (and the socio-historical conditions that have given risen to > the >> norm) is not on their side. On the other hand, it is always possible, > even >> for a white adult male, to enter into a process of becoming, and through >> this process to become something other than the norm. What is at stake > here >> is Otherness itself, the power to not have a "fixed identity" but rather > to >> experience life as an infinite journey. And at this point I'd like to say >> something controversial: you don't have to BE black to make techno, but > one >> might say that, musically, you have to become-black in order to make > techno, >> in otherwords, you have to become part of the tradition of music which > comes >> out of black culture and speak/sing in a language that is not the language >> of the majority. (Of course there are other becomings, becomings-woman, >> becomings-animal, becomings-molecular...) a funky African rhythm, > sensuous >> strings, a bird floating through the heavens, little particles of sound > that >> hover in the air... >> >> /cyborg k >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
