The phrase "Let's be honest" has strong echoes of what the relatively non-political Barthes says about "Let's be frank…": it opens the door to stupidity or worse: to the naturalization of opinion as fact, I.e. reification.
On May 6, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Armin Medosch <ar...@easynet.co.uk> wrote: <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
