Re: Morales Longa, Vita Brevis

thanks for sharing - excerpt: These findings suggest the hopeful possibility that we can encourage the development and maintenance of cultural worldviews that emphasise commonalities rather than differences between individuals and foster tolerance of such differences. thus the only to defeat fas

Re: Facebook / MZ, "trust," and "mythic forces"

t; Enjoy the links, they tell a more complete story than I ever could. > > > > Best wishes -- > > > > Geoff > > > > [1] http://www.bitsbook.com/2010/05/mark-z-grow-up/ > > > > [2] > https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-

Re: Facebook

; To be brief: I'd say social media is too vast to accurately > assess. > > /:b > > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > > environmentalists, arti

Re: Facebook

who form somewhat of a community - it's a way to > distribute work, especially if one's not in academia or media industry. > It's brutally flawed but also useful and it gives more scope to textual > work than Instagram. > > Alan > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederi

Re: Facebook

Thanks for your answer! My best, FN On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:49 AM José María Mateos wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:28:01AM -0600, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > >environmentalists,

Facebook

ogy/2019/nov/03/facebook-politics-republicans-right is not the reason of my email, but its occasion. Thanks in advance for your light on this matter, Frederic Neyrat # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative tex

Present, past, amnesia, and rearview mirror

, even a reading of neglected writers has to make appear that which was not written, or read - it's the same thing - "to read what was never written" (Hofmannsthal). Hermeneutics anyway. So, let's read Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, Alexis Pauline Gumbs "with

Re: Ben Quinn: Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert (Guardian)

Hi Nina, I understand your point, but the *Guardian*'s article says that: "Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with prolonged exposure to psychological torture and should not be extradited to the US, according to a senior UN ex

Re: Fascist "trolls" and back on track

Hi Iain, You're right about the "deep intergenerational transmission of a culture of resistance." About the anecdote, just some context: the journalist was asking this question in reminding Macron's "Make the planet great again" vs "Make the USA great again," so the interviewed person was explain

Re: Fascist "trolls" and back on track

Hi Dan, hi Angela, Thanks for your posts. Just an idea about morals and politics: - When the most important thing is me, myself, my identity, my job, my work, my resentment, my religion, etc., we are in the realm of morals and revenges and trials (and lawyers and money and punishments) reign; -

"Let the dead bury the dead"

Brian wrote: "How to let the nationalist-populist dead bury their dead, while we move on to the urgent question of living under twenty-first century conditions?" And of course I think / we think about: "Let the dead bury the dead and mourn them. In contrast, it is enviable to be the first to ente

Re: (no subject)

Dear Brian, I totally agree with you, as usual. I'd like to highlight your last sentence: "What we are missing is a theory of social relations in the future" - but, let me play with your sentence, what future? A universal subject could have been the green one, the wretched of the Earth (aka Gaia);

Re: Paul Mason: Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause

Dear Brian, Thanks for your answer. I think you're right, speaking about capitalist (self)destruction is useless, in the end, and even not philosophically interesting. Also, I do not think one second that there are not people who, at local levels, are involved in bio-regional fights. In *L'Instan

Re: Paul Mason: Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause

Dear Brian, As always your emails are illuminating. I've one question: to you, what are the parties, social formations, social forces that could enable "dispersed transformation of the energy and agricultural systems accompanied but pervasive reworking of the patterns of inhabitation and entirely

Re: Best Collaborative Site(s)

No idea... Difficult to say without a clue... Could you let us know? Frederic Neyrat On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Anthony Stephenson wrote: > What are/is the best collaborative writing sites? > > -- > > - *Anthony Stephenson* > > > > *http://a

ZAD

Hi, Others links, infos, about the ZAD: - twtitter, in French: https://twitter.com/defendrehabiter -This article: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/060418/comme-la-zad-de-notre-dame-des-landes-defendons-dautres-manieres-d-habiter followed, below, by its translation. As w

A blind alley?...

Hi everybody, An interesting photo about a certain form of electronic blindness, also about power: My best, Frederic Neyrat # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of

Re: Quit Facebook: Open letter to Yann LeCun

Dear Olivier, Really, people don't know what Facebook is? Holy cow! Happy new year out of FB! :) Frederic Neyrat 2018-01-10 11:49 GMT-06:00 olivier auber : > Open letter to Yann LeCun, former Professor at College de France, Head of > Research in Artificial Intelligence at Faceboo

Re: Barcelona: nationalism, municipalism?

Hi, I found this text interesting: ​"​ The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia ​" http://www.atimes.com/article/future-eu-stake-catalonia/ Quote (amongst other interesting things): ​"​ The Catalan government beat the fascist goons with two very simple codes – as revealed by La Vanguardia. “I’v

Re: Who said the US is boring?

Dear Brian, Like you, I don't see any organization able to do this coup. But what seems to me very important is to understand that, IF there is a strategy at stake in Trump's politics, this is not a democratic one: 1/ First, is there a strategy at stake, and not only random tweets and volte-faces

Re: Bifo: Democracy is not possible in Europe & Reply by Varoufakis

Moving and powerful text of Bifo, even though Yanis Varoufakis is right: "renouncing Europe but not Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Britain etc. only plays into the hands of those propagating the fantasy of returning to the bosom of our benevolent nation-states" the question is: how to refuse sim

nationalism, outernationalism

Just read on CNN: ​"Trump says he's 'absolutely destroying' regulations " Is nationalism anti-global? No, nationalism is globally destructive, for instance the fact to refuse environmental regulations is globally destructive, unless for people who believe that nationalism pr

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

nationalism is a good thing? I certainly misunderstood your email, sorry, as nationalism leads to wars and global destruction, cf. WW1, WW2 - and WW3? what we need is, as north-american poet Gizzi says, an outernationalism best, frederic n. 2017-04-04 8:16 GMT-05:00 heath bunting : > dear jano

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

? - and Alex Foti is right, it's a reactionary turn (not a conservative one) and an exit from what we used to call neoliberalism. So, I'd say that our task is to be consistent and to not only act "multiply and chaotically" (even though I like multiplicity and choasmo

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory + Badiou

openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html On Nov 22, 2016, at 6:56 AM, Frederic Neyrat wrote: Hi Steven, Concerning fascism - is Trump fascist? - cf. this talk of Badiou, "Reflexion on the recent election": https://www.

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's Victory + Badiou

Hi Steven, Concerning fascism - is Trump fascist? - cf. this talk of Badiou, "Reflexion on the recent election": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRnUpVLc31w in which he speaks about a "democratic fascism."� Maybe it's not the best way to define the current situation but, again,

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory? Platonism

Hi Angela, Just one thought: you wrote that "� I� leave that to� Platonists. I do think that every person who voted for Trump is a racist �" etc.� But Platonism (I mean the way you interpret Platon) precisely implies to say� X "is" Y! It's precisely a way to define someone by h

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

ere not something racist, from the beginning, in capitalism? Please, let me know your thoughts, In solidarity, Frederic Neyrat 2016-11-10 23:55 GMT-06:00 Angela Mitropoulos : > Brian, re this: > > The great achievement of the US Democratic Party since 1968, which I > don't

Re: Live Your Models

Hi Florian, Thanks a lot for your explanations! All my best, Frederic 2016-05-04 17:20 GMT-05:00 Florian Cramer <[1]flrnc...@gmail.com>: Hello Frederic, 1/ on the one hand, you show very well that "there is hardly a system that is more dependent on� efficiency-optimized g

Accelerationism, Prometheanism, and Posthumans

an electronic-based system that denies its material ties? (http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/) Best, Frederic Neyrat 2016-05-04 16:07 GMT-05:00 Frederic Neyrat : Dear Florian (and thanks Brian for your post),

"Everyday I am Çapuling." - A symbol video of Taksim event

a video about Turkey event FN -- Forwarded message -- From: Volkan Çelebi Date: 2013/6/5 Subject: "Everyday I am Çapuling." - A symbol video of Taksim event To: Volkan Celebi http://videogaleri.gazetevatan.com/21008_9_Everyday-Im-Capuling.html Turkish word "Çapulcu" which Pr

Please Announce and Circulate This Campaign - regarding Istanbul Taksim Movement

s. Any nettimers in Istambul these days? Felix" Here it is: Best, Frederic Neyrat -- Forwarded message -- From: Volkan Çelebi Date: 2013/6/5 Subject: Please Announce and Circulate This Campaign - regarding Istanbul Taksim Movement To: Français: https://www.change.org

Re: Driverless cars, pilotless planes -- will there be jobs left for a human beings / intellectuality

Dear Brian, I was thinking about your expression, "constituent forces": they already exist, they already work, they already produce, and they can do that until the "end". So, for me, the real problem is not only to know where is the constituent power, the center of the value, etc, not only the bat

Re: Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software

Capital?...) in order to fight against the ideological representation of it-is-the-fault-of-the-machines-and-sorry-we-can't-help-it-just-put-another-coin-please; 3/ I love Sci-Fi and his power to turn concepts into perceptions, but I feel unwell to read that especially when the Real appear

Fwd: [multitudes_colred] Place de la Puerta del Sol, Espagne

-- Message transf?r? -- De : Raul Date : 19 mai 2011 18:45 Objet : Re: [multitudes_colred] Place de la Puerta del Sol, Espagne ? : multitudes_colred Un article sur le mouvement ?crit par des copains de l'Universidad N?mada. Ra?l *On 15thMay 2011, around 150,000 people took to