Emilia Carolina Diaries: Normative conclusions about transportation in Montreal

I have realized that the use of a pedal-driven, human-powered, single-track instrument having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other named bicycle (although in other languages it may also be known as bicicleta) gives me the sexy appearance of a civilized citizen.

I want to make clear that I do not meet however such high standards for the following reasons:

1. I am unable to circulate. I can only compete.

2. When I compete I can either win or loose.

3. If I win, I put myself in serious risk because I raise my hands and make the sign of victory, forgetting about cars and traffic lights.

4. If I loose I get annoyed, and I generally loose.

5. If I loose against elderly, fat or ugly people, I get really mad.

6. No matter whether I win or loose, I get exhausted and sweat.

7. I sweat a lot.

8. I also swear and spit on car drivers and other passers-by, using a very sophisticated French slang so that I make myself understood.

9. All that was yesterday: today I have an awful pain in my butt. I simply cannot ride anymore.

   
   

That evil instrument should be taken out from the streams of commerce and abolished

Dysruptive Solidarity

After reading Jameson's Postmodernism, I have the feeling that, as he describes it, Postmodernism is a very destructive movement. Disbelief, skepticism in all arts, about all traces of unity in society, everything seems uncognisable. Go for Robert Merton, and you will see how somehow he discredits the work of Malinowski and other anthropologists by showing how industrialized societies have dysfunctions, unlike the primitive societies that Malinowski or Levi studied. It seems to me that postmodern world, as depicted by Jameson, is the institutionalization of the dysfunction. Sort of unity in the disintegration, that paradoxically creates a new community (kind of Durkmeim's solidarity), but a deteriorated community. Everyone is worse off.

That is something that happens in Spain. You can see the destructive tensions in the state: Basque, Catalan and Galizia's nationalist create a community against solidarity (really over discussed concept of regional solidarity of Article 2 of the 1978 Spanish Constitution). That is actually solidarity, perhaps Schmittean solidarity. Which by the way is a shit of solidarity. An instrumental amity or even sincere amity created to fight to the death to other subjects.

Probably Marx is sitting on a chair down the road waiting for us to kill each other, in solidarities each time more stringent, towards the struggle to the death.