‘All lives matter’ or ‘Palestinian lives matter’?: Yes, please!

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Abstract:

In a well-known Marx Brothers joke Groucho answers the standard question ‘Tea or coffee?’ with ‘Yes, please!’ – a refusal of choice … [O]ne should answer in the same way the false alternative today’s critical theory seems to impose on us: either ‘class struggle’ (the outdated problematic of class antagonism, commodity production, etc.) or ‘postmodernism’ (the new world of dispersed multiple identities, of radical contingency, of an irreducible ludic plurality of struggles). Here, at least, we can have our cake and eat it.

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