Dear Nettimers.
*“Hello darkness my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again…*”
(Simon & Garfunkel)
My reading of the Podinskii email (and Brian’s earlier posting) was that
it intended to bring into focus an awareness of the alarming nature of
this historical moment; and further, how cultural organisations and
groups of people were responding to the crisis in Gaza and Israel. As
well as the political and social ramifications of multiple crises: the
war in Ukraine, COP etc. The consequences cannot and should not be
underestimated. It is far better for people to voice their various
responses to these cataclysms then to be silent; NETTIME exists as an
important discursive space within which the diversity of our collective
voices can heard.
Also, I don’t understand the usefulness of referring to “The Left” (as
in the example below) as if it was some homogeneous entity; there is a
wide variety of political groups and collectivities that are responding
to the crisis in Palestine and Israel; the diversity should be valued
and not reduced to some imaginary entity.
'For a consistently democratic and internationalist left'
https://leftrenewal.net/. “We have written this text as a critique of a
common sense that has come to predominate across much of the left.”
Best
Allan
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