Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 02:14:00 -0800
Subject: Rights and Wrongs


Eric wrote:

These are all questions I think this group should be discussing before
we judge him irrelevant to the question of justice. 

REPLY:  To my knowledge no one judges Lyotard irrelevant to the 
question of justice.  

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What is being said about time in relation to capital? to the "cosmic"
process of complexification that is occurring? to the new modes of
legitimizing power and truth?

REPLY: Capital in the Marxian sense is a dated term which is
insufficient to describe accelerating corporatization of the globe.
However, the rest of the statement above seems to lead in to that.

Your prior post went beyond Lyotard to make some excellent statements
about politics and present wrongs, seeming to call for some sort of
action.

This is the Lyotard List, and although participants have different 
interests, the orderly discussion you suggest would probably 
benefit all of us.

Hugh

corporate globalization which has accelerated so much