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politics is poetry
gone horribly awry
like poetry and consciousness
and everything else that is
meaningful in the real
politics is constituted
entirely of language
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therefore we are in need of
a politics of consciousness
that will teach us to deconstruct
the messages of manipulation
this new politics will require
a turn to french theory but
we will choose to call it
freedom theory instead in order
to avoid the obvious objections
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this politics of consciousness will
deconstruct the false binaries
and unexamined assumptions
that have crafted and controlled
our collective cultural conscience
and will enable the public to break down
campaign ads and media sound bites
and unmask hegemonic machinations
this new consciousness will also
finally explode the binary of
the political spectrum
the left on one end and
the right on the other
with one polarizing point
defining the difference
it is this point that makes
freedom nee french theory
inherently political and
inescapably necessary to
the politics of consciousness
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one simple difference dependent
on a metaphysics of presence
a single arbitrary and seemingly
meaningless matter of signification
Posted by Rob on May 5, 2008
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