#Googlewalkout employee interviews | Vox

2018-11-02 Thread Örsan Şenalp
https://snuproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/googlewalkout-employee-interviews/ Nearly 17,000 Google employees walked off the job yesterday. The Google walkout was about sexual harassment as well as a lack of transparency and accountability at the company, employees said. Google employees in Camb

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2018-11-02 Thread Dan S. Wang
Greetings Nettimers, For me, the question of identity politics–--what it is, where it comes from, what problems it creates or exacerbates, its political efficacy and purchase?cannot be addressed in any useful way without putting primary significance on what both Brian and Keith, in their different

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2018-11-02 Thread Alice Yang
Thanks, Laura. This is why I keep saying that identity politics *is* class struggle. It's just class struggle from perspectives that don't have the privilege of assuming a non-racial (white) and non-gendered (male) point of view. Anyone who thinks that identity politics is overly branded, mass pro

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2018-11-02 Thread Johnatan Petterson
What would Marxist answer to those who like Berkley do argue against the existence of Matter in the struggles ? Le ven. 2 nov. 2018 à 6:08 PM, Alexander Bard a écrit : > Dear Alice > > If you refer to what I wrote, then please let me correct you. I never said > that gender is a social ghost. I s

Re: Identity and difference

2018-11-02 Thread Alice Yang
If you think that race is skin color, you're mistaken. Race is a social reality. Class, race, and gender are all "real" because people believe in them, so they have material consequences. If you think that "pure class struggle" exists and that class hasn't been commodified and sold back to you, l

Identity and difference

2018-11-02 Thread Alexander Bard
Dear Alice If you refer to what I wrote, then please let me correct you. I never said that gender is a social ghost. I said that race is a social ghost. There is no such thing as race outside of bigoted people's limited imagination. Skin color makes us no different from one another than hair or ey

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2018-11-02 Thread Alice Yang
Trust me, race and gender are not social ghosts. They have extremely material consequences. On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:48 AM Alexander Bard wrote: > Dear Justin > > Was Karl Marx an idealist or a materialist? I'm perfectly happy to leave > that for you and others to decide. Because I'm a pragmati

Hatice Cengiz: Jamal Khashoggi deserves justice. (Guardian)

2018-11-02 Thread Patrice Riemens
Original to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/02/jamal-khashoggi-justice-unite-hatice-cengiz Jamal Khashoggi deserves justice. The world must unite to pursue his killers Those responsible for taking the life of my kind, generous and compassionate fiance should not escape acco

Re: Tech for good or evil: Pls help me collect readings, bibliographies, & syllabi

2018-11-02 Thread Carsten Agger
On 11/2/18 8:57 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: Hi All, Could you help me collect any and all info that may be available on the use of technology for good and evil? I'm looking for readings, bibliographies, syllabi, media articles, and any other resources you may know of. Yasha Levine: Surve

Re: Tech for good or evil: Pls help me collect readings, bibliographies, & syllabi

2018-11-02 Thread Örsan Şenalp
Great idea for a compilation Yosem. About categorization and organization, I think it is possible to find an example of a use of technologies for good and for evil for every field of human activity. That's why you might follow a general line of categories of fields (like of Wikipedia's) as you are

Grand narratives vs Identitarianism

2018-11-02 Thread Alexander Bard
Yes yes yes, dear Jan Hendrik, this is precisely the way to go! We need to fundamentally reunderstand social relations to then make smithereens of western individualism (Descartes and Kant) to then present the relationalist or network-dynamical model for the 21st century society, for man and machin

Tech for good or evil: Pls help me collect readings, bibliographies, & syllabi

2018-11-02 Thread Yosem Companys
Hi All, Could you help me collect any and all info that may be available on the use of technology for good and evil? I'm looking for readings, bibliographies, syllabi, media articles, and any other resources you may know of. Below is a list of topics that I have mapped so far. If I'm missing any