Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

2017-07-10 Thread David Garcia
Felix Stalder wrote.. > > Looking back, the shortcomings of the approaches "emanating out of > Amsterdam", say tactical media in particular and, but the cultural/media > left more generally, seem to be twofold, in my view. > > First, while the intuition about the necessity to interrupt the

The alt-right and the death of counterculture

2017-07-10 Thread Alexander Bard
Excellent postings, Brian and Keith, as always! Could a Freudian-Marxist approach a la The Frankfurt School be the way forward for critical theory here? I'm working with Jan Söderqvist on a re-reading of Freud's "Civilisation and its Discontents" for the digital age for release in 2018 myself. And

Re: The alt-right and the death of counterculture

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Holmes
Keith Hart wrote: > What does it mean to be human? To be self-reliant and to belong to others. > It sounds like such a simple statement. But it spans left and right, society and autonomy, the whole and radical difference. Having lived among the French intellectuals, I have enormous respect for