One Never Really Knows Who One's Enemy

The Usage Of The Words "public" And "public Sphere" Betrays A Multiplicity Of Concurrent Meanings. Their Origins Go Back To Various Historical Phases And, When Applied Synchronically To The Conditions Of A Bourgeois Society That Is Industrially Advanced And Constituted As A Social-welfare State, They Fuse Into A Clouded Amalgam. Yet The Very Conditions That Make The Inherited Language Seem Inappropriate Appear To Require These Words, However Confused Their Employment.

The Avant-garde Understands Itself As Invading Unknown Territory, Exposing Itself To The Dangers Of Sudden, Shocking Encounters, Conquering An As Yet Unoccupied Future ... The Avant-garde Must Find A Direction In A Landscape Into Which No One Seems To Have Yet Ventured.

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.

Each Murder Is One Too Many.

I Shall Develop The Thesis That Anyone Acting Communicatively Must, In Performing Any Speech Act, Raise Universal Validity Claims And Suppose That They Can Be Vindicated.