Re: <nettime> 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

On 2017-01-26 10:22, David Garcia wrote:

> Thank you Ian for these cogent thoughts..
> 
> I have one question for you:
> 
> Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word.
> If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by
> carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply
> not cover what it is you are trying to say?
> 
> I am asking this question in the light of a panel you were on in
> Amsterdam last Sunday when Steve Kurtz of Critical Arts Ensemble
> pointed out that in all of the many excellent presentations no one had
> once used the word revolution?
> 
> I suspect that the insurgent Right have no such qualms.. Any thoughts
> on this ?
> 
> David  Garcia

Could it be that people have the subliminal feeling that using the 
R-word will turn out to be the occasion the dark powers that now be are 
eagerly waiting to round up all the usual suspects (and then some)? 
After all, according to some sources(dark, of course), the holding pens 
are already in place.
Just a dark tought ...

Cheers all the same,
p+5D!

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