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-The demand for a clear outline for a political project is the demand for critique to conform to the logics of progress and cultural refinement, which manifest themselves in a ressentiment generating politics of reactivity. |
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-Mann, 95 – Professor of English at Pomona (Paul, “Stupid Undergrounds,” May, Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3) |
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-Nihil 8 One might … of the critical. |
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-Instead of playing into the knowledge industry’s discursive economy or criticism’s dialectics, we propose the tactic of imperceptibility. This movement into secrecy constitutes a mode of subversion that escapes from the ressentiment generating reactivity of modernist critique. |
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-Mann, 95 – Professor of English at Pomona (Paul, “Stupid Undergrounds,” May, Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3) |
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-Secret 43 We have … conceived the door. |
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-Our affirmation is one that is radically empty. There is nothing here to be seen, nothing here to be done, and yes our project is already cliché and probably doomed to failure, but that is precisely the radical nature that must be embraced. |
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-Mann, 95 – Professor of English at Pomona (Paul, “Stupid Undergrounds,” May, Postmodern Culture v.5 n.3) |
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-2 Then if one … the death drive. |
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-We have no position, no methodology to sacrifice on the altar of competition. To do so would be to integrate our critique into debate and academia’s playground of marginality and opposition that is always already an effect of what it seeks to oppose. Instead of a specific strategy, our politics of invisibility teaches a tactic, a set of skills to be deployed without attaching them to one method. |
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-Mann, 96 – Professor of English at Pomona (Paul, “The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare,” January, Postmodern Culture v.6 n.2) |
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-21 The position is … its utter triviality. |
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-To be visible allows the state to force you into invisibility through violence. Instead, we should beat the system at its own game, by disappearing on our own terms. |
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-Mann, 96 – Professor of English at Pomona (Paul, “The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare,” January, Postmodern Culture v.6 n.2) |
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-VIII. Chaos: 39 Consider … rest are secret. |