“Some revolution is gonna happen today”: Reflections on Billie and Agamben
I forgot to mention another thing I like about “Because We Want To,” which is the notion, in the line I quoted, of “some revolution.” There are two, possibly related, things to like about the phrase. One is its grammatical structure, implying as it does that revolution is a bulk noun, omnipresent like water or available by the yard like cloth, rather than being compressed into one time or space. The other is the connection to Agamben’s idea of the quodlibet (translated “whatever”), “some revolution” in the sense of revolution with no predetermined content, revolution as inexhaustible potential. On which, see this article on Agamben; I suspect correcting well-meaning misreadings of Agamben will soon become a full-time job, and this article will be a great help in doing that.
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