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derrida has this this quote that goes "nothing seems to me less outdated than the classical emancipatory ideal. we cannot attempt to disqualify it today, whether crudely or with sophistication, at least not without treating it too lightly and forming the worst complicities." and he's wrong
orthodox anarchists and pomo nihilist-defensives both eat this stuff up and it just starts us on the wrong track
i'm not fully going to be able to bridge the gap but i'm thinking about defamiliarization as critical method and the orienting assumptions of fixity and unmaking intelligibility
i'm sympathetic to much of that strategy, but obsessive preoccupation misunderstands our predicament. certainly one among many valuable tools, but in my experience it often tends to encompass pomo-miliue lefties entire theoretical repertoire, even if its unarticulated
to be honest its often just premature, theres more necessary work before you begin unmaking the readable world. you haven't a clue what it's doing yet
if you haven't noticed i'm fascinated by the power of the positive right now
i typed post-pomo-miliue and removed the prefix but i think thats actually more accurate