Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory
Hello Folks, I highly recommend this article by Nafeez Ahmed. He has mapped the relationships between members of European and American neo nazi groups and how they have infiltrated mainstream politics and placed their people in positions of influence and power. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-jo-coxs-killer-and-donald-trump-were-radicalised-by-a-global-web-of-nazi-power-cdba54aa1353?source=linkShare-73e8b6c82c06-1479945025 Best Kevin On 23 November 2016 at 23:22, Kurtz, Steven <[2]sjku...@buffalo.edu> wrote: Molly--I wasn't suggesting that racist tendencies or behaviors shouldn't be addressed. I was only saying that most republicans are not racists, and that during the recent election the right was driven by numerous diverse issues and we should acknowledge that if a representative critique of the current crisis is going to be constructed. The indifference I spoke of bothers me tremendously, and that needs to be worked on as well. <...> -- Skype: kev.flanagan Phone: +353 87 743 5660 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Meantime, in the real world (who runs Xen?)
The discourse both on the left and on the right is increasingly becoming an exercize in irrelevance. Trapped in their little VMs all sides compete for CPU cycles without having to offer anything whatsoever. The ultimate goal of identity politics and personalization (as if there is any difference between the two) has been reached - one person per VM, and there is no where to further subdivide. We are witnessing the death spiral of virtualized politics. The model has completely lost the capability to predict the future. The talking heads (including current, upcoming and wannabe heads of state) spit out words that have absolutely nothing to do with intentions. These words then spawn eddy currents of more CPU waste, etc. etc. The latest example is a call for 1-day general strike on the US inauguration day. https://occupyoakland.org/2016/11/call-general-strike/ One day general strike. 30-minute love affair. 1-week MBA degree. Sent using Guerrillamail.com Block or report abuse: https://www.guerrillamail.com/abuse/?a=T0RgEQQNRvkZqAO1%2BXJReRHOQ4SfwNA%3D # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory
Regarding the debate around the racism of the multiple factions of the right, the comments in this Breitbart article are worth a look. The article itself, not so interesting. What is especially interesting to me here is the assertion by many commenters that *any* assertion of race is a liberal sentiment. Both overt white supremacists and its critics (BLM) are labeled tools of the left. The expression of a nationalism that is *passively* (rather than explicitly) defined as white, heterosexual, and misogynist is seen here *opposing* explicit expressions of white supremacy as a racially-defined nationalism (that also justifies any eugenic, colonial or imperial acts). “Mainstream" conservatives seem to just want to deny race as a historically produced reality, while continuing to benefit from it. It seems like both BLM and neo-nazis prevent them from being able to reproduce the myths of assimilation and meritocratic freedom, obviously for very different reasons. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/16/business-insider-bannons-2014-vatican-speech-strikes-fear-wall-street/ Ryan # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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I agree with Alex -- the end of liberalism in all its forms is nigh and the West/Security Council will soon be 'fascist', with the possible exception of poor old Blighty which, according to me, is breaking up and its state no longer able to project power inside or outside its territory. But to use the term 'fascist' is to focus on the wrong period, like referring to post-2008 as a return to the Great Depression. We need a longer-term perspective, such as the 20th and 21st centuries taken together, if we want to place our moment in world history. In 1900, Europeans controlled around 80% of the world's land. Europe itself had a population of 400 million, a quarter of the world's population (36% including lands of temperate zone new settlement). Its expansion was fuelleded by a demographic explosion, 1830-1930. It was the main centre for imperialism and machine industry; Africa had a share of only 7.5%, hardly any cities and almost no machines -- the 'scramble for Africa' from the 1880s was easy, feeding notions of White racial superiority. By 2100, Asia is projected to have 42% of the world's population (down from 60% today) and Africa 40% (up from 15% today). The rest -- all the New World, Europe and Russia, Australasia and Oceania -- will muster 18% between them, Europe 6% (including many migrants from Africa and Asia). This shift is extremely rapid. Between the 1880s and 1914, 50 mn Europeans left home, 37 mn to the US; 50 mn 'coolies' from India and China moved to the Tropics - they had to be kept apart since Europeans earned 9 shillgs a day and Asians 1 shilling for the same work. But the two met in the US and South Africa, where whites already controlled substantial black populations who weremoving fast into the cties. Robert Vitalis, in White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations, shows that IR was first driven by racism and imperialism, not by power struggles between states or geographical blocs, as it has been since 1945 (with racism latent, not overt). Foreign Affairs started out in 1910 as The Journal of Race Development. The question was how the whites could retain control in the face of a declining share of the world's population. The outbreak of World War 1 changed everything. In the previous three decades, financial imperialism (what Polanyi called haute finance aka the Rothschilds, JP Morgan etc) ruled the world, the Russian economy grew at an average annual rate of 10% and all that movement transformed art and science -- cubism, relativity and quantum etc. Until then, no-one thought that nation-states could control the turbulence of urban markets, industrial capitalism and population movement -- stated were a fixed and outmoded relic of an agrarian age lasting 5,000 years. A new alliance between capitalists and the military landlord class in revolutions of the 1860s and early 70s gave birth to national capitalism, gestated through the age of imperialism until it became the 20th century's dominant social form. After the Great War, the senseless slaughter of the trenches undermined Europeans' belief in their own monopoly of reason and civilization. The hit movie of 1922 was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North, showing an Eskimo's resilience in the face of appalling natural forces. In the same year, Malinowski launched modern anthropology with Argonauts of the Western Pacific, TS Eliot published The Waste Land, Joyce Ulysses and Wittgenstein his Tractatus. During the war, states mobilized and killed off vast armies, they controlled industrial production, set prices in markets and rationed supplies, monopolised propaganda. Trade, transport and migration were severely disrupted. After the war, the race was on to determine which kind of state would rule the world -- welfare state 'democracy', fascism or communism? The world economy, led by Wilson -- who saw that nationalism would undo the European empires, especially the British -- turned inwards to national capitalism import-substituting industrialization (socialism in one country) for 60 years. WW2 knocked out fascism, unleashed the anti-colonial revolution and the Cold War, followed by les trente glorieuses of developmental states in the western capitalist, Soviet bloc and newly independent countries. For the first and only time, governments gave priority to increasing the purchasing power of working people and investing in public infrastructure. This was the last world revolution; Reagan and Thatcher's neoliberal conservatism (ably assisted by Kohl and Nakasone, not to mention Deng, Pinochet, the Chicago School etc) was the counter-revolution. The collapse of national capitalism and of neoliberal globalization in our time is more reminiscent of 1913-14 than anything else, with the US as Britain now and China as Russia. British power was already in decline then and many would like to think that American power is on the way down now. I beg to differ and so does Trump. The US still has all tho
Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory
Steven, I am in disagreement with you on several points and I am working on trying to understand. To overlook race, is to my way of thinking, a misunderstanding of the nationalism - idea of great America (not the theme park)--that is at the heart of both Republican and the right's agenda, (not at all the same exact group). Republicans by and large may not be quite as extreme as their far-right versions. The nation which the far-right speaks to is deeply Euro-centric, and needs to be taken back and outsiders eliminated --the nation of the let's-say-not-so-racist Republicans is, what--a place of nostalgia for all kinds of binaries and where white people will not fear losing out? ---imho, color-neutral/blind or not so - soft-racist? - so still a cover for the desire to put forth white dominant privilege, wealth, antagonisms - as every Republican president in my life time has demonstrated. (Snip) As for racism, I don't even know how helpful this term is at this point.(snip) I agree that labeling isn't useful, but I'd argue that racism is an idea, not a term, and is therefore -in a Wittgenstinian sense--part of a form of life - and its media--which includes concepts of deeply-problematic nationalism and perceptions that whites are or have been sidelined by Obama era - and that's what this presidency wants to redress - and it's all about equalizing the nation in favor of white - so binary "racist" logic. (Snip) I think it's only a tiny minority that hold one race superior (in this case white) and others inferior, and that the superior race has the right to subjugate the inferior as this hierarchy is legitimized by the natural and/or spiritual order, and then act on this belief. (Snip) Well, I hope so, really, I do, but the danger lies in those ideas gaining media and mobilized attention and starting to "make sense" to borderline liminal types who crave identity. (maybe unconsciously) (Snip)The crisis of inequality grounded in biology must be acknowledged and addressed, and especially now due to global and various national population shifts.(snip) I am sorry, I fail to understand what you mean---or what inequality that would be grounded in Biology unless you are speaking of the production of " race" as genetic ? and then I'm triply confused. Peace Molly Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 23, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Molly Hankwitz wrote: > > Steven, others, > >> In response to... > (Snip) <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Search for Terrestrial Intelligence
"It is easy to imagine that a legitimus-style civilization can evolve in a distant galaxy. It is much more difficult to imagine that it can emerge here where intelligence seems too often trapped in systemic stupidity. - On Earth as in devoratus civilizations, the trend remains predation of resources and increase in energy consumption, with the ecological and geopolitical consequences that we know. The networks activated in this game (energetical, financial, political, military) are clearly not legitimate within the meaning of the STI H6 criteria. - As in formabilis civilizations, most of the efforts of research and industry converge towards the development of some sort of Artificial Intelligence pretending to surpass that of the population. Humans have the right to ask themselves what their place is in the midst of AIs, and therefore to question the legitimacy of the networks on which they are proliferating. - As in imitativus civilizations, terrestrial networks are a battleground for the control of opinions, emotions, behaviors and personal data. Everything happens as if some actors were taking advantage of the humans� confinement in cognitive bubbles and of their inability to claim the legitimacy of the networks that maintain them confined. - As in pervasus civilizations, terrestrial technologies held by an ever smaller number of individuals claim to regulate all the vital and cognitive functions of all the others. Natural competition between individuals is increasingly engraved in silicon and soon in manipulated genes. Social classes threaten to turn into castes, the most favored of which is dreaming to become immortal. The breakdown of legitimacy would thus be definitive." https://medium.com/@olivierauber/search-for-terrestrial-intelligence-2673ef92c2ec Olivier Auber # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #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 # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
