note 2 to Hypertext [part 2 of 5]

[anna balint]

My problem with this part of your - fascinating - text

is apart from easy borrow the overdetermination concept of Althusser,
- the saecular mix of the Marx's and Freud's determination,  - it's reduction to 'political'
and the implantation of  Jameson's scepticism about the reconstruction of the social and historical
context on the web. Marxist hermeneutics...

After all, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron succeeded quite well -unlike plane marxists-,
they grabbed the utopian nature of the Californian Ideology, AND of the utopian marxism at 
the same time.  

Jameson's formalist essentialism, the limitation of praxis by structures implicates a scepticism 
about expression itself, and underestimates individual creativity and gestures. I did not read in 
any autobiography such a complaint "if i could record sound on this canvas, i could make a 
much better picture".  

Form as  expression of class struggle irresistbly reminds me of the terror of the context,
for example of the table at the entrance of the Conservatory in my home town: at the right side 
of the door there were enumerated the progressive compositions of Bela Bartok, and the retrograde 
ones were pined up at the left side. It was like a gate of danger, and if one could understand and pass 
through it, could enter in the hall of knowledge. 

greetings,
anna balint