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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=171572903-14102004>Hi
Andrew, on spreading fear, Howard sure pushes the buttons of the 'E' team
currently running the ABC. I read in the Oz this morning that at MD Russell
Balding has been insisting that journalists and programmers declare their
political allegiance and declare what political party they belong to, if any, in
their annual performance reviews.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
csaa-forum-bounces@darlin.cdu.edu.au
[mailto:csaa-forum-bounces@darlin.cdu.edu.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Andrew
Murphie<BR><B>Sent:</B> 14 October 2004 13:29<BR><B>To:</B>
csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [csaa-forum] Re: wanting to
be effluent<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Hi All,<BR><BR>I must admit I wonder if many of these
“reasons” aren’t, despite their reality as phantoms, phantoms
nevertheless.<BR><BR>Perhaps it is difficult to talk about the current economies
of fear (all concerning “security” - economic, territorial, the family – I would
add “cognitive security”) because this fear stalks the academic world as much as
anywhere and we could no longer point fingers elsewhere in blame, but would have
to challenge ourselves at this level. Fear – and a whole complex machinery
surrounding its production and maintenance - seemed to me to be the clear
election winner, the milieu of the election, and Howard’s singular achievement
in office. I mean he’s made himself the button to push whenever he likes, and
the content is just an afterthought. Fear provides the reasons most things were
said or not said, done or not done – or maybe I’m just a scared-y cat and
everyone else is thinking clearly ...<BR><BR>If it’s not just me, ... the
importance of new, alternative economies of affect that some in the list have
mentioned – Bifo mentioned “love” recently. I must say I was
shocked.<BR><BR>A<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On 14/10/04 12:41 PM, "Brett Neilson"
<b.neilson@uws.edu.au> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=1><FONT face="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9px"><BR>>Yes francis - I see no necessary direct link at
all - things are <BR>>Incidentally my comment re houses was about people in
general be they in<BR>>Liverpool, Balmain, Bankstown or
wherever - after all people are just <BR>>trying to make lives for
themselves, and why shouldn't they? ( and I don't <BR>>believe they are all
'dupes' ( or dopes)).<BR>>Jeannie<BR>>BTW I have the latest Freedom
catalogue if anyone wants a quick rundown<BR><BR>>---- Original Message
-----<BR>>From: "Francis Maravillas"
<Francis.Maravillas@uts.edu.au><BR>>To: "CSAA discussion list"
<csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au><BR>>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
6:54 PM<BR>>Subject: Re: [csaa-forum] RE: wanting to be
effluent<BR>><BR>><BR>>I agree, Jeannie. There seems to be a
perception that people who have nice <BR>>a house can't be critical,
progressive or 'leftish'. Class/cultural <BR>>capital distinctions do not
necessarily correlate with political <BR>>positionalities (or voting
behavior) - and even Bourdieu acknowledges
that.<BR>><BR>>Francis<BR><BR><BR>Hey Jeannie,<BR><BR>I agree with
Francis too and strongly so. But shouldn't this point be <BR>pushed a little
more to say that class cannot be reduced to consumption, <BR>taste, or
cultural capital. Not that anyone on the list has made that <BR>conflation but
the discussion did drift immediately to consumption, an <BR>important topic
but not the only one at stake.<BR><BR>If the category 'aspirational' has any
analytical grip in the wake of the <BR>election (and I'm open to the
suggestion that we have to invent new <BR>concepts) it is in the intersection
between complex processes of social <BR>recomposition (based partly, as
Melissa notes, in the changing relations <BR>between work and non-work) and an
ossified geography of political <BR>representation. Where are the marginal
seats? That is a key question in <BR>analysing the election. And, at that
point, there is a need to reintroduce <BR>an argument about the spatial order
of the city (recognising the passage of <BR>that order beyond simple
centre/periphery distinctions). Not to isolate the <BR>processes of class
recomposition to certain areas but to understand how <BR>they intersect the
zero-sum game of representative democracy.<BR><BR>I am impressed by what
Amanda says about the need for a politics of <BR>empathy/affect within and
between changing class relations/conflicts. For <BR>me the starting point for
this would have to be the distrust of politicians <BR>and the disengagement
with representative democratic processes (watching <BR>Idol instead of the
debate, etc.). Perhaps there is room for opening and <BR>dialogue with those
of us trying to understand how democratic processes <BR>might operate beyond
(or even underneath) representation. But this will <BR>have to involve
multiple engagements, through ethnic communities perhaps or <BR>everyday
practices on particular sites.<BR><BR>Often this may be prepolitical but it
can also involve a different kind of <BR>politics, a politics of relation.
Either way it is important to understand <BR>how the political emerges. And
how it functions in a complex media <BR>environment with a multiplication of
channels and possibilities for <BR>connection. But here I feel we are reaching
the limits of cultural
analysis.<BR><BR>Brett<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________<BR><BR>csaa-forum<BR>discussion
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face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">-- <BR>"I thought
I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast<BR>back again into the open sea"
(Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)<BR><BR>Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior
Lecturer<BR>School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia, 2052<BR>web:<A
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