p.s.
so i finally watched 'incendies,' which r raved about... i understand completely why he said it was like a greek tragedy. i don't even know what to say, i really don't. but certainly levinas' stance towards the palestinians is hardly forgivable and makes you wonder, once again, how such 'little mistakes' creep into one's otherwise grandiose thought.
and really it is simply shameful that artists say so much more on these matters than philosophers usually do.
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it's just hard or in fact impossible to accept that the whole situation is very much fostered by certain hegemonic powers... there's something so very disgusting about it, as much as some philosophical positions were disgusting. but see, violence in the fanonian sense doesn't stand a chance here precisely because of this hegemonic framework, at least it seems to me that way. this is one instance where the problem of ideology is actually painful to think about.