Valences of the Dialectic

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• That process will be one, I want to argue, of neutralization,29 and it will only be by way of a kind of negative work on the negative itself—do we really want to identify this as the famous “negation of the negation”?—that the new forms are to be produced. For Lenin’s diagnosis, I will use the example of the Cuban revolution as a clearer small-scale and perhaps more successful process of neutralization. For in the case of the Cuban revolution, a spatial or geographic “experimental laboratory” will be present which allows us to witness this process at first hand (via the theorization of Debray’s Revolution in the Revolution? 30). Indeed, the revolutionary foco—the isolated mountain camp from which guerrilla warfare is waged and in which a true revolutionary party is forged—will be a space ... (查看原文)

  SinionY 2020-01-06 18:04:19

• It is interesting in this context to add that for Mondrian the vertical— the world, external human life—was essentially tragic and that the vocation of the abstract non-dimensional non-space of the painting was very precisely to destroy the tragic in the name of something else. Yet that destruction now seemed to interiorize the tragic within its own seemingly interminable process. The paradox will indeed pose a properly Utopian question for us in the final section of this discussion. (查看原文)

  SinionY 2020-01-06 18:32:31

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