Re: hegemons
I believe the Gramscian concept of hegemony generally favors the perception of hegemony as maintained through an alliance of various forces rather than the imposed will of a unitary actor. Where a unitary actor tries to impose its will without regard to the other forces, it will fail (apropos the current situation). In this sense, it would seem *more* appropriate to refer to hegemons rather than a single hegemon. Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] hegemons we could talk about separate spheres of influence, each with its own hegemon. Sparta and Athens both were hegemons in their spheres. So were the USSR and the US during the Cold War. In both of these cases, there was meddling by one hegemon in the other's sphere (and vice-versa). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] hegemons Could there not be overlapping hegemons? Imagine an Asian hegemon and a N. American hegemon, each with a great deal of autonomy in there own sphere, but with conflicting interests in others. Could we speak of both as a hegemon? On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:09:23AM -0700, Devine, James wrote: Q: How can there be more than one hegemon? A: there can't be, except in the sense that one or more nations might _share_ hegemony. Having more than one hegemon would be competition, not hegemony, unless the hegemons are working hand in glove. jd -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: The Origins of Continents
There are very solid geological theories on which our understanding of the continents is based. Here is one site with some basic information: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents .shtml Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Origins of Continents am I right to say that the division between Europe and Asia (which aren't separate continents, strictly speaking) simply reflects the us vs. them attitudes of the ancient Greeks? Jim Devine These supposed us vs. them attitudes are certainly not to be found in Homer, Herodotos, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, or Demosthenes. For the ancient Greeks it was always much more us vs. us. Nor did they consider Europe, Asia, and Libya to be continents in the sense indicated by Plato, but rather as areas within a much larger landmass whose total dimensions were only vaguely known. Shane Mage -Original Message- From: Shane Mage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/25/2004 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Origins of Continents Jayson Funke asks: Can anyone tell me of [the] origin of the term continents? The term is of Greek origin, *epeiros*. It seems to have been first used in the sense of continent by Herodotos. Plato, at Timaios 25A, speaks of the American continent: ...all that we have here, lying within the Pillars of Herakles, is evidently a bay with a narrow entrance [in Phaedo he compares the Mediterranean to a frog pond] but that yonder [the Atlantic] is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Shane Mage When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly. When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true. (N. Weiner)
Re: University of Fear
As always, it would be most helpfulif posters would includefull citationsand/or links to online sources with forwarded material ... - Original Message - From: Diane Monaco To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:40 AM Subject: [PEN-L] University of Fear APRIL 2 - 8, 2004 University of FearHow the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a big man on campusby Steven Mikulan snip Frederick Emrich, Editorcommons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/)RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdfinfo-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml)email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism
A URL is also better because it provides some reference data and because it eliminates pesky email reader formatting problems. I encourage everyone to post a URL whenever possible, whether or not you also include full text of an article. Peter, if you have it could you please either post the URL for the story to the list or send it direct to my email address (listed below)? Thanks, Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Reply to Louis Proyect on revolutionary socialism This article is very long for the list. It is better to post a small part and a URL if possible. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: Michael Moore and General Clark
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Michael Moore and General Clark Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox wrote: You mean that there will come a wonderful day when, having gone to bed voting for the DP, we awaken the next morning to a glorious dawn of class consciousness. Wow! If that day doesn't come, will there be a day when we go to bed not having voted for the DP, but done things unspecified, we awaken to a glorious dawn of class consciousness? Could you flesh out those things unspecified? Put my comment back in the context of the precise post it was responding to. I've been reading your stuff for years, and I still can't figure out your idea of a political strategy. On the one hand, you - correctly, I think - invoke the importance of a mass movement, but on the other you say it can't be built by converting the nonradical to the cause. So I'm completely mystified as to how this essential mass movement can come into being, other than by some political equivalent of spontaneous combustion. Doug I think you may honestly be ignorant of political history, and thus actually can't understand that what I advocate is absolutely nothing new, but what every single left movement of any momentum whatever, from local reforms to successful overthrow of the state, has always practiced. It is simply bizarre to divide the population into the radical and the non-radical. And if you can't see how bizarre that is, I can't help you. Carrol So we're reduced to the old, If you don't know, then I'm certainly not going to tell you, are we?
Re: congressional research service
Apparently even Penny Hill does not have a comprehensive listing. I found a number of sites that index various CRS reports. You might try here (http://docs.unh.edu/Links/crs.htm) or here (http://www.freepint.com/gary/crs.htm). You also might consult with a librarian specializing in government documents. Any university library worthy of the name ought to allow a competent G.D. librarian to track down the report quickly. Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] congressional research service - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have any idea why I might be having trouble locating the Congressional Research Service web site? -- = http://www.pennyhill.com/ The reports used to be up on the web, free. Now the f#$%#$%# er's double charge US citizens. How soon before they're 'privatized'? == Looks like you can still find some free stuff: http://www.freepint.com/gary/crs.htm
Re: congressional research service
This would fit with the mission of the CRS as exclusively a research arm for Congress. In the case of this report (mentioned in a news story), I suspect it is available. If the librarian can't do it (tell him/her to look for reports related to pension issues), my next step would be to try to track down Patrick J. Purcell, who surely has a copy of the report and perhaps would be forthcoming with additional insights and information. Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Ellen Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] congressional research service A few years ago I was trying to find a CRS report cited in a newpaper article and discovered that CRS reports are not publicly available. They are commissioned by individual legislators and when completed are given to the legislator who requested the research. Sometimes the legislators make the research public, sometimes they don't. Or so I was told. Ellen Frank PEN-L list [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently even Penny Hill does not have a comprehensive listing. I found a number of sites that index various CRS reports. You might try here (http://docs.unh.edu/Links/crs.htm) or here (http://www.freepint.com/gary/crs.htm). You also might consult with a librarian specializing in government documents. Any university library worthy of the name ought to allow a competent G.D. librarian to track down the report quickly. Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] congressional research service - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have any idea why I might be having trouble locating the Congressional Research Service web site? -- = http://www.pennyhill.com/ The reports used to be up on the web, free. Now the f#$%#$%# er's double charge US citizens. How soon before they're 'privatized'? == Looks like you can still find some free stuff: http://www.freepint.com/gary/crs.htm
Re: oscar wilde on socialism?
I don't have any source, but the quote I recall (and one that sounds much more like Wilde) was the problem with Socialism is that it takes up too many spare evenings. I'd love to hear the exact quote, of course. Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: [PEN-L] oscar wilde on socialism? below was posted to another list... michael hoover The statement The trouble with Socialism is too many meetings, is frequently attributed to Oscar Wilde. A Google search has turned up several attributions of the statement, but no formal citations. It does not appear in my editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations or Bergen Evans' Dictionary of Quotations. Does anyone have a firm citation to where (or if) he wrote or said it? Thanks.
Michael Perelman interviewed at info-commons.org
Of course Michael Perelman is well-known to PEN-L list subscribers. Michael graciously agreed to be interviewed for the info-commons site and we recently posted the interview. The announcement and a direct link to the interview follow below: At info-commons.org, we post a provocative interview with Michael Perelman, Professor of Economics at California State University at Chico and author of Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity (Palgrave 2002). See Economic Orthodoxy and the Information Commons: An Interview With Michael Perelman at info-commons.org: http://info-commons.org/perelman.shtml Frederick Emrich, Editor commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/) RSS Feed: http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.rdf info-commons.org (http://info-commons.org/index.shtml) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nine seconds to subsistence
I'm sure Michael is right about the Bushites using this as fuel to promote retrograde policies. Possible good news, though: here in Ontario there's been big political fallout from the Tory push to privatize Ontario Hydro (the electric system), which sent electricity prices skyrocketing early this year, forcing the Tories to back off a bit and prompting speculation that former Premier Mike Harris's resignation was a result of him seeing the writing on the wall about that one. Current Tory premier Ernie Eves was AWOL for the first five hours of the blackout and was slow about declaring a state of emergency. That, coupled with the fact that, under Tory privatization Ontario has become an electricity consumer rather than seller, led one commentator on CBC radio to say, in regard to the Tories' hopes in the upcoming election, leave the bus in the garage. I don't know what other media are saying (here in Ottawa my neighborhood has been without power for all but four hours since 4 pm yesterday), but just hearing that gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling. It took some of the sting out of the blackout. Frederick Emrich - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Nine seconds to subsistence guarantee -- we will hear that it was the environmentalists fault. We need more nukes, more coal Pass the damn energy bill. On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:31:37AM -0400, Kenneth Campbell wrote: ABC News ran the most stunningly disturbing graphic... A map of the NE continent, here... with a little second clock in the corner. With each second, a jurisdiction or two shut down. Off the grid. Michigan. Tick. Connecticut. Tick. Ohio. Tick. New Jersey. Tick. Wham -- Ontario, New York and Pennsylvania. Tock. Nine seconds... and tens of millions of people are on the edge of subsistence. Without any leadership any where. (Well, CBC Radio did a fine job, operating on backup generators.) So... how is this going to play out politically? Ken. -- Luxury employ'd a million of the poor, and odious pride a million more; Envy itself and Vanity were ministers of Industry; Their darling folly, and dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade. -- Bernard Mandeville The Grumbling Hive 1705 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
