Saturday, August 23, 2008

Politics, An Evolving Understanding in Context


The news is out. Obama has picked Biden has his second candidate. Biden who has a reputation for, as one CNN reporter commented, for having "a big mouth." Jacques Ranciere in Ten Thesis on Politics theorized that politics occurs in the conflict of two Others, as best as I understand it. There is no politics in consensus. By that measure, Biden would appear to create Politics within the ticket itself. Uh-oh. The mayor of Denver just said that Biden doesn't attack people but builds consensus. Is that Politics?

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