NIETZSCHE AT THE MALL, WHITE AND HOLLERICK

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• They are seeking a pathway toward a new "answer" or "solution" to postmodern conditions. They thus relate to Jameson's inquiry as well as to that in Table Talk. They are doing this IN TERMS OF postmodernism. They hold that Nietzsche would have us TRANSCEND the polarities of the old game (master-slave) and enter "the freedom to be a true player," "a maker of games," presumably through the will to power fully realized.

  W. and H. disagree with the view of late capitalism advanced by Fredric Jameson. They think that he sees the commodification by capitalism as DELIMITING. Guided by Nietzsche, postmodern thought can see power not as delimiting but as creative. Nietzsche would ESCAPE from the locked-in dialectic of capitalism seen by Jameson.

  They say: "What we hope is taking place is a splintering of the very mechanisms of control that gave us the structures of consumerism in the first place--and the opening up of a creative option for politics and culture."

• They thus give encouragement also to the project of Honi Haber, who seeks a basis for a postmodern politics.

• They deal with the postmodernist critique of the unified liberal humanist self. This relates them to THE PROGRAMME Commandment III. The self results from "the play of differance in the psyche, creating the personas of selfhood via the multilevel paradoxes of play."

  They argue that CONSUMPTION also can be unmasked as one more metanarrative demanding to be un-universalized. They thus support Commandment II.

  W. and H. strongly affirm the idea of play in Derrida, reinforced by Bateson. This gives affirmation to the self-referentiality of THE PROGRAMME, as it happens. It lends support to the graffiti on the sidewalk on Sixth Avenue.