wenn ich groß bin, werde ich science fiction autor: Handbuch des politischen Kampfes, Kapitel 5

Montag, 13. September 2004

Handbuch des politischen Kampfes, Kapitel 5

04:07h — ‹handbuecher›

Herr Mark Kaplan aus der Charlottenstraße ist ein feiner Kerl. Er zitiert die Postmoderne rauf und runter, seine Adresse ist die des Gregor Samsa aus der Verwandlung, er erwähnt Bruno Schulz und Paul Celan, legt sich mit allen möglichen Leuten an, zitiert in überreichem Umfang Žižek (den ich anfangs - wie so viele andere - nicht gemocht, später aber lieben gelernt habe), kennt Negri (Exhibit H.)- hat aber nicht allzu viel für ihn übrig - und schafft es, aus Lacan Sinn herauszupressen. Nicht zu vergessen, dass er Tarkowskis Verfilmung von Solaris als einen seiner Lieblingsfilme angibt. Da er aber auch ein faustkämpfender Linker ist, zeigt er heute ein Manöver, das man allgemein den "linken Haken des Anderen" nennt.

Im folgenden (Zizek's neck & Other matters) versucht er eine Erklärung für die zahllosen nicht ausschließlich aus den USA stammenden Leute zu finden, die hauptsächlich in Form von blogs (aber auch in den traditionellen Medien) Jagd auf anti-Amerikanismus machen; eine Theorie der ideologisch gleichgeschalteten, sich regelmäßig auch "links" nennenden, freiwilligen Diskursfeuerwehr. Die Räume, in denen sie ihre Ziele finden represent the alien gaze, the point from which Americans appear strange to themselves. Inspecting BBC or French coverage, they catch, as it were, a view of their face in profile. They are seen from a place from which they cannot see themselves, so that a portion of their being escapes them, like the outside of a mirror, producing a kind of symbolic castration.

It is this gaze which they wish to deny/ recuperate/ co-opt, so as to remain inside their own Imaginary space. They would prefer a world where nobody is looking at them from a position (cultural or political) external to them, and the only way to do this, presumably, is the cultural and political domination of the globe.

Und wo wir gerade dabei sind kommt via Brian Leiter (The Warlords of America) folgendes gerade richtig (John Pilger, The Warlords of America):

On 6 May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which, in effect, authorised a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran. The vote was 376-3. Undeterred by the accelerating disaster in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats, wrote one commentator, "once again joined hands to assert the responsibilities of American power."

The joining of hands across America's illusory political divide has a long history. The native Americans were slaughtered, the Philippines laid to waste and Cuba and much of Latin America brought to heel with "bipartisan" backing. Wading through the blood, a new breed of popular historian, the journalist in the pay of rich newspaper owners, spun the heroic myths of a supersect called Americanism, which advertising and public relations in the 20th century formalised as an ideology, embracing both conservatism and liberalism.

In the modern era, most of America's wars have been launched by liberal Democratic presidents – Harry Truman in Korea, John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson in Vietnam, Jimmy Carter in Afghanistan. The fictitious "missile gap" was invented by Kennedy's liberal New Frontiersmen as a rationale for keeping the cold war going. In 1964, a Democrat-dominated Congress gave President Johnson authority to attack Vietnam, a defenceless peasant nation offering no threat to the United States. Like the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the justification was a non-existent "incident" in which, it was said, two North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked an American warship. More than three million deaths and the ruin of a once bountiful land followed.

[...]

It is the continuation of a project that began more than 500 years ago. The privileges of "discovery and conquest" granted to Christopher Columbus in 1492, in a world the pope considered "his property to be disposed according to his will," have been replaced by another piracy transformed into the divine will of Americanism and sustained by technological progress, notably that of the media. "The threat to independence in the late 20th century from the new electronics," wrote Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism, "could be greater than was colonialism itself. We are beginning to learn that decolonisation was not the termination of imperial relationships but merely the extending of a geopolitical web which has been spinning since the Renaissance. The new media have the power to penetrate more deeply into a 'receiving' culture than any previous manifestation of western technology."

[...]

Supremacy is the essence of Americanism; only the veil changes or slips. In 1976, the Democrat Jimmy Carter announced "a foreign policy that respects human rights." In secret, he backed Indonesia's genocide in East Timor and established the mujahedin in Afghanistan as a terrorist organisation designed to overthrow the Soviet Union, and from which came the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It was the liberal Carter, not Reagan, who laid the ground for George W Bush. In the past year, I have interviewed Carter's principal foreign policy overlords – Zbigniew Brzezinski, his national security adviser, and James Schlesinger, his defence secretary. No blueprint for the new imperialism is more respected than Brzezinski's. Invested with biblical authority by the Bush gang, his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives describes American priorities as the economic subjugation of the Soviet Union and the control of central Asia and the Middle East.

His analysis says that "local wars" are merely the beginning of a final conflict leading inexorably to world domination by the US. "To put it in a terminology that harkens back to a more brutal age of ancient empires," he writes, "the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together."

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Das bin nicht ich. Das ist Bruno Kreisky. Ich für meinen Teil bin 28 Jahre alt und ein kurzsichtiger, wenig- und langsamlesender, aufmerksamkeits- und noch vielgestalt andersgestörter, ungeschickter, linkshändiger, unausdauernder, übergewichtiger, un-unaufgeregter und unkonzentrierter stummer Schwätzer ohne Führerschein (sowie ohne Ehrgeiz, Ziel im Leben, eigene Wohnung, geregeltes oder sonstwie geartetes Geschlechtsleben, usw …), dafür mit unregelmäßigem Bartwuchs und Stoffwechsel sowie dem starken Wunsch, Drängen und Verlangen, der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft doch noch ein Ende zu bereiten (warum dennoch der Sonnenkönig dort oben hängt, darf jeder für sich selbst ausknobeln). In Ermangelung eines besseren ist mein Lebensmotto ‹wenn schon, denn schon›, was angesichts meiner Defizite im menschlichen, zwischenmenschlichen und übermenschlichen Bereich niemanden wundert, der mich kennt. Ich weiß nicht, was ich mit diesem Blog eigentlich will, aber ich schreibe es mit kleineren und größeren Unterbrechungen doch schon seit 2715 Tagen, und so lange es mich noch freut, wird weitergeschrieben. Das letzte Mal hat es hier am 11.12.2011 um 23:33 irgendetwas neues gegeben.

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