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(Canadian Research Chair, Cultural Studies, University of Alberta)
entitled "The Cultural Politics of Oil"
"The affirmation of the future to come: this is not a positive thesis. It is nothing other
than the affirmation itself, the "yes," insofar as it is the condition of all promises or
of all hope, of all awaiting, or all performativity, of all opening toward the future,
whatever it may be..."
Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
"When resistance ceases to appear on the central stage of historical development ...
and is relegated on the contrary to a marginal, synchronic, and transversal dimension,
we can no longer perceive an idea of potency (puissance), a position of antagonism
or an instance of liberation. Apparently, the only solution remains the star of
redemption or that of messianic time. As for us, we refuse to return to the fleeting
shadows of that desperate generation."
Antonio Negri, The Porcelain Workshop
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