From: Maxwell Clark <maxclark84-AT-gmail.com>
Date: 18 Feb 2010 16:12:00 UTC   (11:12:00 AM in author's locale)
To: situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org

'To read a work in the Heideggerian mold is to encounter a world of no prior
class distinctions, no hierarchical structures of social power, no complex
bodies politic and social institutions, and, of course, no market valuations
and coordinations, no military-industrial technologies [??], and certainly
no dynamics of capital accumulation through uneven geographical development.
Actually existing materialist history and geography, including an earth that
had been radically transformed, if not ravaged, by human action over
millenia, is washed away in the make-believe Heideggerian universe that
withdraws from the practicalities of daily life in order to offer a critique
of where we now are in terms of our social, cultural, and natural
relations.' -D. Harvey, *Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom*

Aside from the nonsense of stating Heidegger never concerns himself with the
actuality of military-industrial technologies, this is perhaps the sharpest
edge of an otherwise more balanced and serene approach. Harvey also points
up in the given chapter how the Heideggerian need to conserve our
"rootedness" in a particular "place" actually becomes amenable to
marketing/tourist techniques. He's also quite good in illustrating how
Lefebvre appropriated Heidegger for his *Urban Revolution*.

Are there Situationist writings on Heidegger?

The very best,
Max Clark

"All writing is pigshit." -Artaud
clarkmax.blogspot.com/
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