What is left for the American intellectual to do?
Kermit
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Janet exposed our inner Clockwork Orange
By RUSSELL SMITH
The Globe and Mail
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004 - Page R1
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040205/
RUSSELL05/Entertainment/Idx
The least interest
The following article is the most convincing analysis I've seen yet on the
USA's most recent (and probably decisive) victory of its celebrity-
industrial complex.
Mike Davis's report comes to us directly from the belly of the beast:
California's San Diego County, where the recall started. A place
d the likes of
Mark Twain, are now praising time-honored institutions like nepotism and
the British nanny, squeezed in between ads for Lockheed-Martin, wealth
management services, and timesharing arrangements on Gulfstream jets.
The market for other expensive toys, like American intellectuals, has
cle
claim this
because they want to convince us that intellectualism is worth killing
for, and this Straussian killing is now going on as we speak. What I am
trying to ask is a hard and unpleasant (yet thoroughly impersonal)
question to which I myself claim no easy answer: which side are we, as
trauss and the carbon-copy devotees of his cult,
whom we can thank already for the many war memorials to come.
Kermit Snelson
Notes:
[1] http://www2.bc.edu/~wilsonop/teachers.html
[2] http://www.nps.gov/vive/home.htm
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[3] Gilder, _Microcosm_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), p.18
[4] http://www.discovery.org/crsc/materialism.html
[5] Kelly, _New Rules for the New Economy_ (New York: 1998), p.9
[6] e.g., http://www.gwu.edu/~icps/schools.html
[7] http://www.gildert
Many of you will recall that the phrase "NGOs are the future oppressive
postgovernments of the world" has been a nettime trope since early 1997.
Well, this concern about "the growing power of an unelected few" is now
shared by a powerful ally: the democracy-minded people who just brought
us the w
choice preferable to a world in which one
obeys only at gunpoint?
"To that argument no answer was given, for there is no answer." That was
Lewis's next sentence. Are the artists, the intellectuals, the creative
intellects here at nettime, as much in thrall as Lewis to media's po
Along with aircraft nose art, here's another one of the US military's many
interesting cultural traditions.
Kermit
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The Empire Strikes Back
by Ian Urbina
The Village Voice
January 29 - February 4, 2003
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0305/urbina.php
This Saturday, more than a thousand o
ause in which
it is really being waged. That Huntington's statement is authoritative and
current on this subject cannot be doubted. Not only is he personally one of
the architects of the present war, but his 1957 book is now (according to
Amazon.com) the number two bestseller at the United States Mil
terly. I do
not believe, as does (say) Bruno Latour, that "science is politics by
other means" [1]. The discoveries of science, and with them the principles
of valid inference and deduction, are not political. To say otherwise is
to leave us with no defense against that noxious
he bigger
reaction on nettime this week? A US president declaring a world religious
and geopolitical war, or a Web site hitting up its users for five bucks? No
wonder Bruce is trying to improve the threads here by waving money around.
Kermit Snelson
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High-tech billboards tune in to drivers' tastes
Roadside signs coming to Bay Area listen to car radios, then adjust pitch
By Robert Salladay
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, December 22, 2002
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/22/MN242772.DTL
The billboard is listening.
In a
Multimedia Instead Of Law?
Volker Boehme-Neßler
Telepolis, 10 December 2002
http://www.telepolis.de/deutsch/inhalt/co/13691/1.html
[translated from German by Kermit Snelson]
How electronic media change the law
The cultural predominance of the book and writing is coming to an end.
Digitization
dge. This means
that the academic Left will lose. At least they can console themselves
with the grant money they have successfully solicited from George Soros,
Motorola and Unilever, with their with gigs as featured technology
commentators in _Newsweek_, and with their handsome royalties from th
thout the
intellect, and a "knowledge economy" without the knowledge. This means
that the academic Left will lose. At least they can console themselves
with the grant money they have successfully solicited from George Soros,
Motorola and Unilever, with their with gigs as featured technolo
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