tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post3335214239993937506..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: SON OF THE RETURN OF ‘DOCTOR WHO AND THE STRANGE DEATH OF LIBERAL ENGLAND’Gavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-9617421193064727942011-10-25T18:53:55.532+01:002011-10-25T18:53:55.532+01:00It is our unfortunate duty to inform you that, as ...It is our unfortunate duty to inform you that, as is as common, your anti-radical inability to ask the real questions makes your piece merely a charade of critique. A job appears done through exercise of a formal gesture, with no consideration as to content.<br /><br />The real question is of course – where are the Time Proles?<br /><br />Of course this narrative absents them. Gallifrey is a planet entirely composed of the overlord class, with no consideration as to who they may be lording over. It is never asked who builds the fine chambers in which they sit and pontificate.<br /><br />The ‘magic’ of the Tardis most clearly encapsulates the way class exploitation is made to ‘disappear’ through sleight of hand. It being impossibly bigger on the inside than the outside represents the bourgeoisie’s supposed ability to extract surplus value without the exercise of exploitation – an impossibility which must be covered up with conjuring tricks.<br /><br />But of course the productive classes, the motor of history, cannot be entirely extinguished. The repressed always returns. They appear to some extent through the Doctor’s ‘companions’. These tend to be shop assistants or office temps, emphasising the difference between them and their Lord. However this arrangement also demonstrates them to be happy in their subordinate role, acknowledging it as part of the ‘natural order’ of things. They are the class equivalent of the fawning “house negroes” that Malcolm X so disparaged.<br /><br />In a patriarchal society they are always the ‘inferior’ sex. And of course history teaches us, as if common sense were not enough, how Lords actually treated their servant girls while society feigned to look elsewhere. And yet such inevitable and sordid truths are placed the other side of one of the show’s most sacrosanct rules.<br /><br />But of course the main place the proletariat appears is cloaked in villainy – in the guise of the Doctor’s enemies, such as the Daleks or Cybermen. These are X’s “field negroes.” Needless to say collective identity, rather than demonstrated as a collective becoming, is presented in the most negative terms. The extinguishing of decadent petit-bourgeois liberties is week after week transformed into a totalitarian impulse.<br /><br />Take for example the fan favourite storyline <i>’Genesis of the Daleks’></i> This spins a metaphor for the period of the First World War. Historically this was the high-point of the assertion of the proletarian identity, as workers worldwide mutinied against slaughter and seized control of the units of production they had previously been forced to toil in. But this distorting mirror has eyes only for Lords flitting by to rescue us from our folly, and for the tyrannical Daleks.<br /><br />Though we recognise these caricatures for what they are, true revolutionaries will nevertheless side with them. (Much as in anti-imperialism, where we side in struggle with the lesser evil.) We therefore respond to the Doctor by siding with his enemies, and assimilating their slogans into the revolutionary cause.<br /><br />“The bourgeoisie are incompatible! Delete! Delete!”<br /><br />“You are the Doctor! Exterminate the expropriating class! Proles rise up and destory!”Avant-Vanguardists Inc.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_analysisnoreply@blogger.com