Sebastian Salfate
3 Questions:
- How we can reproduce a discourse without a territory?
- Can we weaponize victimization?
- Has revolution changed?
I am interested in Junot Diaz and this specific shift to politics and social issues that his work have made. Nontheless I don´t specifically support his approach. His words are wise, thoughtful and of extraordinary compassion but they don't reflect in my perspective a truly form of radical thinking. Some how his perspective on radicalism and revolution portraits for me a "millenial" construction of justice that appears as a beautiful inclusive though but that doesn't propose any active verb to respond to the problems that this country -and maybe the world- is going through. I also perceive a lot of stillness in his verbs making radicalism part of a positive thinking.
I also don't share his conclusions on conceptual issues -maybe because of my background- in either a philosophical or an onthological approach. His conceptual definitions seems subjective to me and are not put to the strict evaluation that this abstract concept -like love- should have. As he is not logically rigorous his discourse becomes more territorial than argumentative, leading to a much personal surmises. What sometimes I feel that is leading his discourse/narrative is directly related to the idea of territory more than to an argument. The discourse then works as an experiential, personal logos that explains itself through the personal injustice more than through a methodic, accurate perception of the complexities of modern life. I personally felt lost in this kind of narrative, as if I was trying to get directions by my point of view rather than from a map.
Finaly I personally disagree with his perception of love as a one-sided, all good manifestation. I personally believe that love is a process in which you learn how to hate and in which the care for the people surrounding triumph over our personal difference. I also think -and this is obviously personal- that real action is hopeless.
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