---prolegomena - against collaboration--

[Alan Sondheim]

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---prolegomena - against collaboration--
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---collaboration: take it or leave it--
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---collaboration: take it or be taken--
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---the violence of collaboration--
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---collaboration as 'grappling'--
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---collaboration with the enemy--
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---because one is a collaborator and one's hair is --
---shaved--
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---because one sleeps with the enemy or is raped --
---by the enemy--
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---because one is employed by the enemy or agrees --
---with the enemy--
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---in the resistance one was being with or in the --
---resistance--
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---jazz performance in a concentration camp--
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---the cutting performance of a jazz performance--
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---collaboration is something forced and something --
---radically forced and something freely given - or --
---collaboration is sometimes forced and sometimes --
---radically forced and sometimes freely given--
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---team player: exchanges and transfers of power, --
---transformations of power into power--
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---labor in capital - roles and role playing--
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---a role is _always_ a collaboration--
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---in the sense of: collaboration with the enemy--
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---beneath the referent of capital --
---is the signifier of the role--
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---within the aegis of the ideality of pure --
---quantity--
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---is the construct of power in exchange--
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---collaborative exchange is void of value--
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---value is the limits of collaboration--
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---the emptiness of collaboration - pure labor--
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---and camaraderie - and for its own sake--
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---a pure and meaningless circulation, --
---guaranteeing nothing whatsoever ---
---no more than the individual - working alone--
---in pure and furious production--
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---collaboration is always better than working--
---alone--
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---when you work alone all your problems appear--
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---when you collaborate everyone helps you with --
---your problems--
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---collaboration sublimates - subsumes - desire--
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---sublate desire--
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---there is nothing inherently positive about --
---collaboration--
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---there is nothing inherently contemporary --
---about collaboration--
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---structured collaboration has its limits--
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---the limits are loci of power or authority, --
---whether established from within or without--
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---of course the writer always collaborates with --
---the reader--
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---indeed, this is collaboration with the enemy--
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---there is no love lost here-
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---collaboration is always already inauthentic --
---love mediated by labor described as the 'labor --
---of love'--
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---collaboration is a violence--
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---one always collaborates with the enemy--
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---one always collaborates--
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