Comments on: … is history as act? http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/is-history-as-act/ A working notebook Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:33:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Nate http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/is-history-as-act/#comment-4 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:53:02 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/is-history-as-act/#comment-4 hey Angela, Welcome, sit down, have a drink... I meant the remark as a joke, sorry, it misfired. I think you're right about Austin, "Performative Utterances", wasn't it? At some point I've got plans to go back to that stuff, Austin and Grice and whatnot, to do some writing on linguistic labor and general intellect, try to use some of 'the linguistic turn' against some of the accounts of 'the linguistic turn in the economy'. (Because the stuff Grice is on about, about a logic within the pragmatics of conversation, is true about conversations well before the so-called 'entry of general intellect into production', which connects to two points - some versions of the 'transition to postfordim' thesis leave unrecognized labor unrecognized in their accounts of capitalism prior to postfordism, and that at least some version of what is meant by general intellect must have existed prior to postfordism.) take care, Nate ps- thanks for the help with the blog. hey Angela,
Welcome, sit down, have a drink… I meant the remark as a joke, sorry, it misfired. I think you’re right about Austin, “Performative Utterances”, wasn’t it? At some point I’ve got plans to go back to that stuff, Austin and Grice and whatnot, to do some writing on linguistic labor and general intellect, try to use some of ‘the linguistic turn’ against some of the accounts of ‘the linguistic turn in the economy’. (Because the stuff Grice is on about, about a logic within the pragmatics of conversation, is true about conversations well before the so-called ‘entry of general intellect into production’, which connects to two points - some versions of the ‘transition to postfordim’ thesis leave unrecognized labor unrecognized in their accounts of capitalism prior to postfordism, and that at least some version of what is meant by general intellect must have existed prior to postfordism.)
take care,
Nate

ps- thanks for the help with the blog.

]]> by: s0metim3s http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/is-history-as-act/#comment-2 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:43:51 +0100 http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/is-history-as-act/#comment-2 I wasn't going to accuse you of anything. But, since you're prompting, I'm not averse to the concept of performativity (and Butler, for all her problems, is due a more careful reading than is often the case). Though, 'performativity' comes from Austin, yes? And many have used it and modified its sense since, including Derrida (eg. <i>Spectres of Marx</i>). But I can't see how 'action' can be paralleled to 'abstract labour' - unless you intend for 'action' to imply a commensurability or somesuch. Also, I do like Nancy's account of history as the performance of 'community' - a view which allows me to go on to ask the questions I like to ask about the 'who', the borders, the figures of any given historiography. Btw, I've been trying to muddle some of the interplay between <a href="http://archive.blogsome.com/2005/08/28/emergence-emergency/" rel="nofollow">emergence and emergency</a>, which may or may not be helpful. I wasn’t going to accuse you of anything. But, since you’re prompting, I’m not averse to the concept of performativity (and Butler, for all her problems, is due a more careful reading than is often the case).

Though, ‘performativity’ comes from Austin, yes? And many have used it and modified its sense since, including Derrida (eg. Spectres of Marx).

But I can’t see how ‘action’ can be paralleled to ‘abstract labour’ - unless you intend for ‘action’ to imply a commensurability or somesuch. Also, I do like Nancy’s account of history as the performance of ‘community’ - a view which allows me to go on to ask the questions I like to ask about the ‘who’, the borders, the figures of any given historiography.

Btw, I’ve been trying to muddle some of the interplay between emergence and emergency, which may or may not be helpful.

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