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Radicalizing Democratic Theory: Conolly, Deleuze and Ranciere
Unformatted Document Text:  46 40. 120. Michael Kammen, In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 175. 121. The quotation is from David Noble, The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden(New York: George Braziller, 1968), p. ix. The exceptionalist ideology has been subject to numerous critiques, most notably in David Veysey’s influential essay, where he dismissed the notion of an American distinctiveness and asserts that contrary to the presumption of a generalized, unique and singular American character (and mission), “we are but one fractional (and internally fractionated) unit in a polyglot world, and that social history is composed of a vast number of separate and distinct pieces, like a mosaic that seldom stops at international boundaries lines...” (Quoted in Michael Kammen, In the Past Lane: Historical Perspective on American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 179. 122. Morrison discovered the basis for her story when, as she says, “I was looking at the book of photographs Ghost Towns of Oklahoma,” and noticed that , “it scarcely mentions any of the black ones” (in Christopher Hitchens, “Morrison’s West,” Vanity Fair 450, February, 1998, p 144. 123. Morrison, Paradise, p. 194. 124. Ibid., p. 217. 125. From Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture, December 7, 1993. 126. Ron Eglash, African Fractals New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999), p. 31. 127. See Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kafka. Towards a Minor Literature trans Dana Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).

Authors: Shapiro, Michael.
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40.
120. Michael Kammen, In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 175.
121. The quotation is from David Noble, The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden
(New York: George Braziller, 1968), p. ix. The exceptionalist ideology has been subject to
numerous critiques, most notably in David Veysey’s influential essay, where he dismissed
the notion of an American distinctiveness and asserts that contrary to the presumption of a
generalized, unique and singular American character (and mission), “we are but one
fractional (and internally fractionated) unit in a polyglot world, and that social history is
composed of a vast number of separate and distinct pieces, like a mosaic that seldom stops
at international boundaries lines...” (Quoted in Michael Kammen, In the Past Lane:
Historical Perspective on American Culture
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p.
179.
122. Morrison discovered the basis for her story when, as she says, “I was looking at the
book of photographs Ghost Towns of Oklahoma,” and noticed that , “it scarcely mentions
any of the black ones” (in Christopher Hitchens, “Morrison’s West,” Vanity Fair 450,
February, 1998, p 144.
123. Morrison, Paradise, p. 194.
124. Ibid., p. 217.
125. From Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture, December 7, 1993.
126. Ron Eglash, African Fractals New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999), p.
31.
127. See Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kafka. Towards a Minor Literature trans Dana
Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).


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