are you sure about that? it would seem to me that to even possess a powerful conceptualization of 'politics' that it would require a conceptual space that is a-political or without politics. without that, all we have is a totallizing category, which probably could not do any analytical or critical work as a concept.... yet, we do use a broad spectrum of meanings from apolitical to political to demonstrate and discuss certain facts about our states of affairs each day. the concept of politics seems to me to do significant work in these demonstrations and discussions. thus to me, there has to be a space outside of politics in order to even have a politics. something has to be a-political for anything to be political. aristotle recognizes several forms of a-politicality, though most of those are disputed today, such as nature, and reason.... nonetheless, we can conceive of these politicized territories as apolitical also, thus allowing us to develop meaningful analysis based upon the differences between their political and a-political understandings. On May 26, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Ann De Vaney wrote:
There is no space outside of politics.
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