Forum Post: Rebellion cannot be contained within the sphere of 'the Political'
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 27, 2011, 12:12 p.m. EST by Dionysuslives
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Premise #1: The refusal of 'representation' is not the embrace of apathy but the active reclamation of directly-lived experience.
Premise #2: 'Politics' is not simply the science of social engagement but a finite space that assumes a division between 'Public' and 'Private' life and, thus, a hierarchical division of labour.
Premise #3: The division between Public and Private space is not 'natural,' but socially constructed. As such, it can only be maintained through hierarchical power relations.
Conclusion: The active critique of 'the Political' as such is not the precondition for social disenfranchisement but the starting-point of radical social transformation.
Discuss.
"The mediation of power works a permanent blackmail on the immediate. Of course, the idea that an act can't be carried through in the totality of its implications faithfully reflects the reality of a bankrupt world, a world of non-totality; but at the same time it reinforces the metaphysical character of events, which is their official falsification."
-Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life
Let's hear some real analysis here instead of lifeless ideology and fragmented opinions.
Or maybe I'm just over-intellectualizing. Just cast a ballot and everything will be better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg
I'm not interested in links, I'm interested in ideas.