derrida has this this quote that goes "nothing seems to me less outdated than the classical emancipatory ideal.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