I have lived in Pars now for two decades and in that time I have been
sustained mainly by French economic sociologists and institutional
economists, as well as by networks taking in Latin America, Southern and
Northern Europe, Africa and South Asia. There is a dominant ideology in
these circles: th
On 2017-07-08 10:53, Brian Holmes wrote:
> These lines, while pitched at Milo and the young sexy neofascists,
> describe a lot of the cultural pranks we used to celebrate in the
> festival circuits emanating out from Amsterdam. The big difference
> is that until very recently, the world was stab
The notion that one must condone the existing 'efforts', or suggest
something better, or shut up, as anything else is supporting the
'enemy', is asinine at best.
Desperately clinging to the ideals of the 19/20th century (welfare
state, democracy, employment etc., plus some identity politics) i
"the arc of social movement experience shows that anarchist/autonomist
exodus strategies have reached a dead end. Unfortunately, demos like those
in Hamburg are just a detail for the state, they don't spill over to the
general population and their main effect is to feed the militarization of
the po
On 07/08/2017 07:39 AM, lincoln dahlberg wrote:
what should critique consist of today? what of today's party
politics (Corbyn, Podemos, etc?), and what of today's social-political
movements? Are you suggesting a left populism (of, e.g., Laclau et al,)
in stating "The crucial thing now is not to
> Absent of an orthodox Marxist determinism or an anarchist appeal to pure
> chaotic spontaneity
Except for its detractors, and pollution by right wing libertarianism, anarchy
was never about chaotic spontaneity. It was (and is) about self organisation,
autonomy, mutual aid and solidarity. It i
The government billboards began appearing all
over the capital and beyond just days after Orbán
accused Hungarian-born financier and
philanthropist George Soros of building a
_Brussels kingdom_. He also suggested that Soros
is directly involved in the European Commissions
ongoing infringement
Thank you Brian for this post, and Lincoln for the elaboration and
highlighting of some of the central problems Brian posed for us.
I want to respond to this in two ways, first by calling into the question
the novelty of the present to some degree, and second by trying to map the
dynamics / ruptur
Thank you Brian, your post is as challenging as the article, and your personal
intellectual-political struggles resonate. But it left me wanting to ask you to
fill in a little more the abstract paths forward that you suggest and questions
that you pose, as I italicize in the quotes cut from your
>As Nagle writes: ‘When we’ve
> reached a point where the idea of being edgy/counter-cultural/transgressive
> can place fascists in a position of moral superiority to regular people, we
> may seriously want to rethink the value of these stale and outworn
> countercultural ideals.’
Sorry Fascists
This is one of the more challenging pieces I've read on nettime. It must
speak to many people's experience - certainly it does to mine. I wonder
if anyone else might like to repond to this one?
The alt-right has latched onto the transgressive and paranoid libertarian
style of culture jammers a
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