Re: Evo Morales: people of Bolivia are rising up

[martha rosler]

belatedly (but for the record): 

hmm, your anecdotes are impressive!  Speaking of Ecuador, I happened to
be in Quito working with a group of indigenous, mostly women, trying to
keep their market from being demolished by the government and joined in
an anti Correa march with them in summer 2015 and many other groups,
including protesters against Yasuní exploitation, feminists and  even
pharmacists against Correa, and  a group carrying large puppets of
Correa and associates in cages, and at nightfall charged by police. that
makes me an expert!

As to Bolivia, this is interesting though slightly surpassed by events: 
https://historicly.substack.com/p/evo-morales-camacho-and-the-coup?r=17930_campaign=post_medium=web_source=email=IwAR1bHyxTTAOJsei-zNBoCYer03U3suq55hsNgYw_z0V39C8cpZzJs8_4jW8

>  
> .What caused the fall of the government of Evo Morales in Bolivia is
> an uprising by the people of Bolivia and their organizations. Their
> movements demanded his resignation before the army and police did. The
> Organization of American States sustained the government until the
> bitter end

> it began with systematic attacks by the
> government of Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera against the same
> popular movements that brought them to power, to the point that when
> they needed the movements to defend them, the movements were deactivated
> and demoralized…
etc.

 overstatement is cool. Members of Morales’s party /movement agree that
they had developed a strategy of elevating Morales to a cult figure and
disempowered the social movements, ,many of whom are pissed and
disempowered. But in the intervening days, many have indeed rallied to
the defense of the country against a putatively illegal government with
an army cutting the wiphala off their uniforms and elsewhere, and a self
anointed leader (holding up a bib copy of the Bible) tweeting that  she
is all for a government free of ‘ ritos sàtanico indigenistas” and
affirming that  “la ciudad noes para los indios que se vayan al
altiplano o al chaco!”

 A handy local (US) reference:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/14/what-the-coup-against-evo-morales-means-to-indigenous-people-like-me
“Pachamama will never return. Today Christ is returning to the
Government Palace. Bolivia is for Christ.”
"The Organization of American States cited “irregularities” without yet
providing documentation. A report

 by
the Center for Economic and Policy Research, however, found no
irregularities and no fraud.

and then there’s lithium.

cheers,
martha


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Re: Evo Morales

[martha rosler]

is this where nettime is heading? Toward straight rightwing talking points?
 Sheesh!
 Makes Morlock seem rational, or at least original.

martha  r
> On Nov 11, 2019, at 6:26 PM, Hanns Holger Rutz  wrote:
> 
> the ones who are living in Venezuela without food, medicaments and
> electricity, the ones that get robbed on a daily basis, the ones that
> are imprisoned, tortured, disappeared and killed for speaking up, or the
> ones that have taken refugee in other countries and are now facing
> increasing racism in their new host countries.
> 
> the advantage of the people in Bolivia was that the military hadn't been
> taken over by Cuba, and so it was still independent enough to force
> Morales out when he refused to uphold basic democratic principles.
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2019 00:06, Menno Grootveld wrote:
>> Which thirty million others are you talking about?
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Re: Ben Quinn: Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert (Guardian)

[martha rosler]

finally, even I have to join in the heaping of abuse on this fictive character. 

Fie on you, you blighted bloviator!



> On May 31, 2019, at 3:55 PM, Morlock Elloi  wrote:
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> Unprotected penetration of a sleeping woman (or sleeping women) is the 
> ultimate crime that warrants any punishment one can think of. This worldview 
> will be remembered as the only lasting achievement of identity politics and 
> victimhood industry.
> 
>> Whatever Assange has done, he should not be tortured, correct?
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Re: Studio-Office

[martha rosler]

pardon me for complaining, but this looks a hell of a lot like a standard issue 
artworld advertisement, without any specific address to a person or discernible 
topic.
[And the unnecessary, and unnecessarily large, image literally crashed my 
account, which is always running near quota.]
dear moderators, I hope nettime isn't moving in this direction.

martha lurker rosler


> On May 5, 2019, at 9:24 PM, Yvette Johnson  wrote:
> 
> Notice: This project is blocked at Santa Fe after 'positive affirmation' from 
> Argentina and Portugal.
> 
> Kundera: pls "interfere" at business English.
> Yvette
> 
> Image: near Ft Union, NM, USA
> ~
> Most of the concern of a work/live club for Studio-Office(r) 1-11 contain and 
> pertain to the inability of commercial art to keep abreast of new technology.
> 
> Between concerns: mergers, sell-offs, turnaround, officers find they fell 
> into spaces in time where they do not have time and money of equal worth.
> 
> For this reason, Studio-Office carries the onus of completing time as a 
> method of expression and the cost-benefit analysis emotes as the cost of the 
> pressure of living.
> 
> The work component of a work/live environment entails (mainly) research, but 
> the “live” component entails (mostly) experimentation.
> 
> The integrated price (cost + presence) is motive for the social supplement of 
> the club or cost conversion, which is to say the costs of socializing is 
> depreciative; the question prepares the officer for future questions.
> 
> After contemplation of plurals (couples, reversals, trusts) officers look to 
> each other around the time address to find expressions without impression.
> 
> Evaluation of the cessation, cede of mutation of prior nodes of expression 
> (movements, skirmishes, news) into full-blown sea change will contain the 
> past, and future.
> 
> What is normal for the present, with presence being the latest competition.
> 
> Welcoming change takes away from the adjustment, and reclaims energy to past 
> events, sometime misordered.
> 
> Priorities make time seem essential, fluid, for granted, but finite because 
> time is finite.
> 
> Without contemplation, with entrenchment of the facts of life-giving to lead 
> toward innovation, time begins to enrapture energy, fold out of linearity, 
> and mirrate the flame of energy with aural tension that, while possessing 
> atomic power, releases an energy field that leaves remarks of time unclean.
> 
> More often than not, time cannot penetrate energy. Energy encompasses time. 
> Time rolls exponential. Energy unfolds in convoluted layers of time. Broadly, 
> time invests in time, making time look like energy, a rush, a fraction, a 
> lever.
> 
> Energy prefers return.
> 
> Energy is exact, a function of its dark matter, blank receipt, finite 
> presence.
> 
> It is the pressure of the officer to address energy as a purveyor and contain 
> its limit with extenuated time.
> 
> While at Studio-Office, the time spent should relieve the force of progress 
> with enlightened substance of time: rest.
> 
> The work component is an inversion of rest, while rest is predicated; the 
> “live” component is imprecise, vague, and personal, but should not be tested 
> by alternatives, though essential, fluid, and/or for granted.
> 
> Willingness presents commotion that can be instructed toward creativity, but 
> the officer can also complete smaller, more fit time pieces in limited 
> presences.
> 
> Longevity is not a code of ethics.
> 
> The next evidence there was time that could not reach the end of an argument, 
> or less time, which is time borrowed from the future, excludes  the future’s 
> future.
> 
> Best practices would be closing the gap between time and energy, fusing their 
> tendencies, to complete a method of compromise between work and live for the 
> sake of others in a club, or team work.
> 
> Club teams may relay between repose and field study. Business resists rest, 
> but what is built requires the flat timbre of time lost, felt, coerced, left.
> 
> Chance sets the scene: some phrases in contemporary logic cannot peruse from 
> the French to the English language: relative to system but superimposed on 
> technology.
> 
> Beginning with force, the case broadens, then retracts again at dance, ballet 
> and the rest. Guests like vernis lack origin. Suite has persisted to 
> existentialism. The round has no theatre, not even for the night; nuit knows 
> no song. Absurdly, the park has retracted to the camp, with no guide. At 
> last, overture is arrested at aperture (again), “to the pain” has found its 
> home in Russia, with no end.
> 
> These words are proposed to discuss at Spain (basque), from French language 
> to English:
> 
> force
> ballet
> vernis
> suite
> round
> nuit
> camp
> guide
> overture
> pain
> end
> 
> After consideration that there may be a problem to reverse, the last point is 
> the wave, onto paper into waste and dye to begin.
> 
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on 

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

[martha rosler]

 smallish correction, but worth mentioning.
 Nagle’s article was published in American Affairs.

 something of a successor to National Affairs, but not with quite the aims 
associated with that mag.
and here’s more than you need to know

'In an interview, Mr. Krein semi-jokingly described the journal as aiming to 
appeal to fans of both Foreign Affairs and the Slovenian Marxist provocateur 
Slavoj Zizek.  More seriously, he said, the magazine seeks to fill the void 
left by a conservative intellectual establishment more focused on opposing Mr. 
Trump than on grappling with the rejection of globalism and free-market dogma 
that propelled his victory.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/american-affairs-journal-donald-trump.html


cheers,
martha rosler
lurker

> On Nov 28, 2018, at 6:56 PM, Angela Mitropoulos  wrote:
> 
> Brian wrote:
> 
> Citizenship is based on rights and responsibilities. If citizens do not have 
> the right to be protected against the wage competition fostered by neoliberal 
> open-border policies, they will not accept the responsibility of paying taxes 
> for social programs.
> 
> This is economic nationalist mythology, in a nutshell. Each of its key points 
> (the subtraction of migrants from tax revenue, the claim of wage competition, 
> the fiction of open borders) are addressed here: 
> https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Ffgxru%2Fdownload 
> <https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2Ffgxru%2Fdownload>
> 
> Or perhaps this is an easier link: https://osf.io/fgxru/ 
> <https://osf.io/fgxru/>
> 
> As to the "rift between a neo-traditionalist socialist political left and an 
> intersectional political left" mentioned by Florian, this has an earlier 
> antecedent that involves a split along similar lines: the split within social 
> democratic parties over nationalism during the First World war, one part of 
> which aligned with fascism and national socialism. 
> 
> That is, Nagle does not represent an older Left battling against a new, 
> intersectional Left. Nagle's "traditionalist-socialism" is derived from 
> Catholic social doctrines, hence the antipathy to every "identity politics" 
> (really, let's be honest, this is a euphemism for queer, feminist and 
> antiracist politics) except that of nationalism. Nagle repeats every 
> conservative Catholic trope in defense of the (white) patriarchal family to 
> explain (and rationalise) the resurgence of the far Right. National Affair, 
> which published her article, was founded by a pro-Trump blogger, who has 
> since lamented Trump's failure to bring about a growth in support for 
> nationalism, and a guy who is a member of the Knights of Malta. 
> 
> This is not to say there is nothing new about contemporary debates and 
> divisions. It is to underline that Nagle is not drawing on some old Left. She 
> seems to have little if any understanding of the history of the Left, only 
> enough to be able to troll the gullible. 
> 
> In addition to the article which began this thread, there have been other 
> responses to Nagle's article, eg: 
> 
> https://libcom.org/blog/shocking-new-development-angela-nagles-left-case-against-open-borders-shithouse-23112018
>  
> <https://libcom.org/blog/shocking-new-development-angela-nagles-left-case-against-open-borders-shithouse-23112018>
>  
> 
> Which follows on from this:
> https://libcom.org/blog/5-big-problems-angela-nagle-kill-all-normies-24052018 
> <https://libcom.org/blog/5-big-problems-angela-nagle-kill-all-normies-24052018>
> 
> By the by, this note on Frederick Douglass, is indicative of the way in which 
> Nagle routinely twists matters and facts around: 
> https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1067799368420474881 
> <https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1067799368420474881>
> 
> The quote from Marx is not even taken directly from Marx, but lifted from 
> another article, and read out of context. Nagle makes an inferential leap 
> that she hopes no one notices. Marx makes no argument for border controls, 
> nor does he make an argument that there should be border controls to allay 
> the racism of the English. He is making an argument premised on who has power 
> within an empire: that is, for English workers to support independence from 
> the British empire. Nagle is promoting US and European nationalism, today. 
> False equivalence is a problem of logic and a failure of political integrity. 
> 
> Marx would be rolling in his grave at the grifters and charlatans. He was a 
> refugee from an increasingly nationalist Germany. Had borders existed in his 
> time as they do now, he may not have been able to live out the rest of his 
> adult life in London and written the words that these gr

Re: Paper Tiger programs: Media History for FREE!

[martha rosler]

>  
>  many  years of ground breaking activist television with a purposeful DIY 
> aesthetic that set the agenda for many of us.

here, here! 


appreciatons and gratitudes from someone inside the US.
long may the Tiger  (and Deep Dish)  growl and purr! 


martha rosler



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Re: nettime Gentrification - or a focus on income and wealth?

[martha rosler]

 A bit hard to believe that one needs to spell this out, but thanks for doing 
so. 
Ever since the term gentrification resurfaced (or was coined) in the 1970s, the 
issue has been a prime concern of the left, at least in the US.
 Working-class populations are driven out of their homes and neighborhoods 
(often speeded by the withdrawal of essential services on the part of 
fiscal-crisis-stressed cities and municipalities, though that no longer applies 
to many major cities)); even while these workers find it increasingly difficult 
to find accommodation, the costs (and time expenditure) of commuting to their 
employment increases dramatically. The latter of course has statistically 
converted from industrial jobs (small shop or large shop manufacturing) to more 
precarious, nonunion, and ill-paid service jobs, often serving those who have 
taken over their former neighborhoods.

The homeless population in New York City is the highest ever recorded.
At this juncture, 'conservatives' have expressed no concern over gentrification 
but rather applaud it as the hand of the market. One can find bourgeois 
hipsters applauding it as well, since they like Richard Florida's idea?seized 
upon (despite its aporia) by every possible city and country? that life is 
tastier with artisanal bread and coffee.

It's a mistake to overlook the costs of maintenance.
 Sexism and ageism (no matter how casual), which seems to negate the entire 
issue, does not constitute a political argument.
martha r


On May 18, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Alexandre Carvalho tudof...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all;
 
 Gentrification has always been an issue to the people that suffer its
 consequences, namely people from the lower classes, not old ladies
 with eight-room apartments for herself and her cats. in Sao Paulo
 this is very clear in the neighborhood of Belenzinho, East of the
 city, where huge condos are rising up and driving people out of their
 homes. i am a physician working with homeless populations in this
 area, and i can tell you that even the shelters are closing up thanks
 to the massive power of the real estate industry there. there is even
 one avenue, Celso Garcia, where on one side you see the forces of
 capital pumping the condos, and on the other side the old buildings
 and favelas.
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Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

[martha rosler]

yes,keith, brian, javier

-Hollywood started in Edison, NJ, and Astoria, Queens. (But full
industrialization happened as you describe, out west.)

The crushing of unionism is not really traceable to the attack on PATCO,
though it was a signal event in ending the historic compromise of labor
and industry, much like Thatcher's destruction of the miners and
scargill, which did lead to the end of mining  (or anything aside from
financials) as a major industry in UK. But note that PATCO was not
actually a union and supported Reagan's election.

The rebirth of union-like activity, such as it is,  is also in large
measure traceable to movements in low-wage servce industries like
Justice for Janitors in Cal.

Brian, thanks for reminding us that California is home of the
military-industrial-educational complex.

---

- unless I am reading something incorrectly in my haste, Kotkin links
  the real-estate booms to liberals? H AH

-And doesn't link the destruction of Caliifornia education K
throughgrad, and the decline of state infrastructure spending, to Howard
Jarvis and his Prop 13? And the rule of the state by Reagan, Deukmejian
et al in the 80s?

-his memes are so distorted it would require a full-length rebuttal to
his framing.

-Orange County (he's paid by the Orange County Register  conservative
Chapman college) = Republicanland.

I like the idea of a Surgeon General's warning. (But stay away from the
Daily Beast!)

martha hasty rosler

On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Keith Sanborn mrz...@panix.com wrote:

 One detail, which begs others: California was NOT historically the
 birthplace of mass entertainment. That dubious honor belongs to the
 combined forces of NY and NJ. The industry moved west to avoid the grip of
 the motion picture patents trust, for better year round conditions for
 filming outside and in order to better bootleg existing product. I wonder
 how many other details are incorrect in this essay? Not that the basic
 narrative of stabilizing class divisions and downward mobility is not true.
 The elephants in the room are the breaking of the unions (starting with
 Reagan's breaking of the air-traffic controllers, a blow still being felt
 both as implied threat and lowered safety of air travel in the us) and the
 off-shoring of the jobs in the industries where unions were strongest.
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Re: nettime The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

[martha rosler]

ah, I should not butt in without getting me ducks in order.
Unlike all the fabulously articulate nettimers, I only have time for sloppy 
seat-of-pants writing. SO apoogies for what will be a RANT, adnd moreoever 
flinging at ya thinks you must already know

 Yes, my memory of PATCO as a mere labor association did not serve me well. 
(and didn't say they endorsed Reagan in his second term, did I? He fired em in 
1981! Second term was supposed to be dedicated to taking out Nicaragua and then 
presumably Cuba)

 PATCO had changed its status from a professionall org to a union, but it did 
not get ITS ducks in order. It failed to gain solidarity from other unions, 
including, i think, the pilots. They believed they were, in effect, part of the 
aristocracy of labor, though not in the guild sense. Having mostly come from 
the miltary, they no doubt identified with Republicans, and thought they were 
too essential to fire. but it was ILLEGAL for them to strike.
(As to endangering the public, that likelihood, or possibility, about which i 
said nothing, is too far in the past to argue over now.) If their firing really 
spooked the labor movement, it was because labor had been led for decades by 
consensus leaders rather than miltant ones. I remember an ad with (I think) 
George Meany, sitting in a chair chomping on a cigar, saying he'd never walked 
a picket line in his life. Business unionism

The first link that popped up when I google- searched  for PATCO:

http://monthlyreview.org/2012/03/01/reviving-the-strike-in-the-shadow-of-patco


 But whether you consider it causal or not is a moot point; it clearly marks 
 an historical watershed and this is generally agreed

well, on that formulation, I have to sort-of agree, but there is a thicker' 
story to be told. In other words, we have to moot it.

The beginning of the end for organized labor was the emergence of neoliberal 
strategies even in midst of Carter's time in office and which emerged fully in 
Reagan's 8 years in office. Industrial unionism (private sector) was declining 
as industrial production declined and as management followed the runaway shop 
strategy. [PATCO was a federal-workers' union of professionals, of course, of 
something over 15k members] . Reagan could act against PATCO because the 
decision to reinstitute out-and-out class war while also amping up the Nixonian 
Southern strategy, of appealing to traditional working-class values?racism, 
patriarchalism, homophobia, religion, militarism, nationalism, anti-urbanism ? 
as against elites and counterculture values, divided the working class  
(values voters) and separated it from its middle class allies? though it did 
not succeed in destroying union allegiance, but led to idiotic electoral 
choices (thus, the argument over Tom Frank's What's the Matter with Kan
 sas?, which i don't have time for here. you vote your pocket book when 
necessary but abandon an unpromising political leadership when the other side 
can promise bread and values)  (Cf Chris Christie 's [popularity in NJ: voters 
like the narrative of bluster cum pragmatism, as they liked Reagan's Morning in 
America narrative). The oil shock of 1973  shook labor relations as its shook 
the auto industry, and the movement south of the auto industry, the incursion 
of Japanese and germn manufacturers to the officially antiunion South led to 
concessionary bargaining?. making it clear that labor was losing strength even 
on its own behalf, let alone on behalf of Democratic candidates.  The Repubs. 
abandoned their pet union, the Teamsters, and the historic compromise, which 
had help establish pattern bargaining in industries like auto, died.
The neoliberal/Republican strategy took advantage of the fact that longstanding 
Congressional comity could result in the successful institution of more and 
more of the anti-labor agenda, until organized labor was going to die of a 
thousand cuts.  And then we got NAFTA under Clinton, which also brought the 
decision to end Congressional comity and mutual back-scratching under Gingrich 
and which has been im its fullest flower since Obama's election. So, back to 
the rhetoric of 'the makers and takers,' the 'usses' and the 'thems,' the lazy 
poor?. all of which have resonance in the rural redoubts of the old south, 
including the top tier, lIke Ky and W.Va. The war against labor is sold as the 
war against Others: poor people of color (Reagan's welfare queens), but that is 
adjustable to different populations, so that the working class does not see it 
as class warfare but a war of workers vs lumpen (and liberals, asin the silky 
narrative of the professor whose obfuscatory blog on california p
 rompted all this).  Meanwhile,  in that period, the service sector unions like 
SEIU were on the rise (albeit with disastrous, ongoing internecine battles). 
The 'war' against unionism was larger than any attack on actual union activity; 
private and public sector unions were and have been played off