solidarity roundup

In the spirit of Ken's populism roundup, a list of contributions to the ongoing blogversation on solidarity and similar. It's a little more disparate than the discussion on populism, but worth collecting nonetheless.  From "bloodless abstraction" to "real realness" in a few easy steps...

• Mark at Long Sunday: Touched by Bloodless Abstraction
• Craig at Long Sunday: Why Not Vote?
• Scott at The Valve: More Groovy Street Theater?
• Charles at Long Sunday: difference without apologies
• Alain at Long Sunday: Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming
• Jon at Long Sunday: smoking and drinking together
• Ken at Long Sunday: Beating an Undead Horse: Imagining the New Left Imagining
• Matt at The Weblog:  The Politics of 1999
• Jodi at I Cite: Solidarity?  Justice? and the Third (crossposted here)
• Jon at Posthegemony: solidarity
• Adam at Before the Law: Agamben and Derrida on language and the political
• Angela at the archive: Rational-isations #2
• Jodi at I Cite: In Search of Solidarity -- In These Times
• Jon at Posthegemony: mediation
• Ken at Ghost in the Wire: Zizek and Levinas
• Lenin at his Tomb: Free speech, political correctness and solidarity
• Jodi at I Cite: We know, but nevertheless...
• Nate at What in the hell...: ... is solidarity
• Norm at normblog: Rescuers 1
• Old at The Weblog: Cell Politics
• Richard at Commie Curmudgeon: Much-Needed Definitions of "Solidarity"
• Jodi at I Cite: What the hell is wrong with Solidarity? (or, "we are all of the rabble")
• Jon at Posthegemony: campaign
• Carl at Long Sunday: The real realness

And the beat goes on...

• Chris at Attitude Adjustor: Why We Fight History
• Adam at Before the Law: On Solidarity (I)
• Jodi at I Cite: Solidarity and the phenomenology of the picket line
• Scott at the Valve: Do You Believe In Magic? Literary Thinking and the New Left
• Jodi at I Cite: Kill!  Kill!
• James at Left End of the Dial: Solidarity: A Meme Whose Time Has Come (crossposted here and here and here)

And by author...

• Adam at Before the Law: Agamben and Derrida on language and the political; On Solidarity (I)
• Alain at Long Sunday: Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming
• Angela at the archive: Rational-isations #2
• Carl at Long Sunday: The real realness
• Chris at Attitude Adjustor: Why We Fight History
• Charles at Long Sunday: difference without apologies
• Craig at Long Sunday: Why Not Vote?
• James at Left End of the Dial: Solidarity: A Meme Whose Time Has Come (crossposted here and here and here)
• Jodi at I Cite: Solidarity?  Justice? and the Third (crossposted here); In Search of Solidarity -- In These Times; We know, but nevertheless...; What the hell is wrong with Solidarity? (or, "we are all of the rabble"); Solidarity and the phenomenology of the picket line; Kill!  Kill!
• Jon at Posthegemony and Long Sunday: solidarity; mediation; campaign; smoking and drinking together
• Ken at Long Sunday and Ghost in the Wire: Beating an Undead Horse: Imagining the New Left Imagining; Zizek and Levinas
• Lenin at his Tomb: Free speech, political correctness and solidarity
• Mark at Long Sunday: Touched by Bloodless Abstraction
• Matt at The Weblog:  The Politics of 1999; More Groovy Street Theatre
• Nate at What in the hell...: ... is solidarity
• Norm at normblog: Rescuers 1
• Old at The Weblog: Cell Politics
• Richard at Commie Curmudgeon: Much-Needed Definitions of "Solidarity"
• Scott at The Valve: More Groovy Street Theater?; Do You Believe In Magic? Literary Thinking and the New Left

If I'm missing any, please leave the links in comments and I'll elevate them to the main post.

Comments

[Eric]

Commie Curmudgeon has one, Much-Needed Definitions of "Solidarity"

[ricia]

Alright. I've reached a point reading all this, that clearly demonstrates I am utterly lacking an understanding of the "Third". I didn't start out that way. What I didn't think I was confused about, I have become confused over.

Is anyone here willing to offer me insight / links?

[Matt]

Touched by bloodless abstraction; Nation's Snowmen; The Politics of 1999

[luke]

I'm not sure if this is relevant or not.

[Alain]

Ricia, in its simplest formulation the "Third" refers to all of those who are not here before me, all of those I am not engaged with when my attention is focused on the person immediately in front of me - all the "other Others" as Derrida once said. Within the context of the current discussion, it seems that its meaning has been broadened to include the Universal, Justice, or even the Political in general.

I am not sure if that helps.

[Matt]

Luke, I don't see how the post by Norm Geras adds very much.

[Adam Thurschwell]

Matt, really? I don't know Norm Geras at all, but this post seems to me highly significant as a concrete example. Don't have time to go into why here but I vote to put it on the list . . .

[Jon]

Luke, Matt, Adam: I've added it as "adjacent" to this conversation.

[ricia]

the 'other Others' i get. but... well... thanx matt... i'll take that back to the 'reads' and see if i can better wrap my head around it.

appreciated.

[Matt]

I'd say you're welcome, but I'm fairly certain you meant to thank Alain.

[Adam Thurschwell]

Jon, FYI, another one.

[Chris Carlsson]

I put up some thoughts on this too, yesterday.
http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2006/02/why_we_fight_hi.html

[Nate]

Thanks for assembling this Jon. One thing: Attitude Adjustor is Chris, not Carl.
take care,
Nate

[Jon]

Apologies. Fixed.

[Scott Eric Kaufman]

And another. (Looks to see if Anthony's armed with ducks. Is satisfied he isn't. Gets shot in the face by the VP who mistook him for a quail.)

[ricia]

oops... thanx Alain!