[Air-l] no politics?

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

are you sure about that?  it would seem to me that to even possess a  
powerful conceptualization of 'politics' that it would require a  
conceptual space that is a-political or without politics.  without  
that, all we have is a totallizing category, which probably could not  
do any analytical or critical work as a concept....  yet, we do use a  
broad spectrum of meanings from apolitical to political to  
demonstrate and discuss certain facts about our states of affairs  
each day.  the concept of politics seems to me to do significant work  
in these demonstrations and discussions.   thus to me, there has to  
be a space outside of politics in order to even have a politics.   
something has to be a-political for anything to be political.   
aristotle recognizes several forms of a-politicality, though most of  
those are disputed today, such as nature, and reason....   
nonetheless, we can conceive of these politicized territories as  
apolitical also, thus allowing us to develop meaningful analysis  
based upon the differences between their political and a-political  
understandings.


On May 26, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Ann De Vaney wrote:

> There is no space outside of politics.
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Jeremy Hunsinger
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