How might we motivate an ethical subject to commit to a conception of the good
Jay Bernstein and me: motivational deficit, secular liberal democratic institutions suck, and demotivate
An ethics that motivate people to acts of political resistance
DEMAND: a demand that I approve, this begins to shape my ethical subjectivity.
fidelity to a demand that cannot be fulfilled.
divides subjectivity: a ‘dividual’ demand to which it responds and inability to be an equal to that demand, excess of demand over approval.
one can never attain the autarchy of self-mastery
comically ridiculous:
What’s the link between conscience and political action?
neo-anarchism: Seattle protests, anti-war, protests against G-8 in Germany, horizontal aggregation of a collective will by disperse groups, forging of a new language of civil disobedience
non-violence: Peace can be warlike without being violent
ne0 leninists:virile heroic figure
politics of powerlessness, refusal of violence, creative non-violence.
thomas paine deep democracy, pneumatic anarchism
Interstitial distance: creation of spaces of distance from state, Marx’s true democracy, inidigenous rights movements. Courtney Young, rise of Indigenous Rights Movement in Mexico
creation of new political actor, “indigenous” at a distance from the state.
Appeal to Universality
Infinite Responsibility: provide the glue to think of ethical subject, infinitely demanding, ethical subject, experience of fidelity, what differentiates contemporary anarchist practices turns on freedom and responsibility: 1960 non-repressive sublimation the joy of sex, this is pseudo-liberatarianism of which contemporary Anarchists are critical – ethical outrage of yawning poverty and disenfranchisement, visceral experience of deep democratization
what ties together the various groups? Not common set of theoretical doctrines, a shared sense of grievance and wrong, war is wrong etc. contemporary anarchism is closer to Levinas than Marcuse, opens me to the other’s infinite demand.
hetero-affectivity: infinite ethical demand