Is this a good argument?
Extracted from something I’m currently writing, this only occurred to me as I was writing it; I hadn’t intended to make it part of the argument. Should I change my mind?
> The difficulty of extracting a political theory from the circulating received opinions of the situation is made
> even more difficult today when the present is construed as itself a site of novelty, a period of change. The
> ‘end of history’ as a series of epochal events (the collapse of the Berlin Wall or the 9/11 attacks) makes the
> future part of the present as we are told we are living in a time in which ‘nothing will ever be the same’.
> Looking to the future to find political possibilities outside of the present thus begins to seem impossible as
> we are faced with the task of going further than Lenin and being even more radical than reality.
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you’d better be planning on sending it… no backing out of this one.
Comment by geo @ 1/28/2005 1:01 am
Yep, should be with you this evening; I had intended to finish it off yesterday, but beer intervened.
Comment by Tim @ 1/28/2005 5:37 pm