n, and it will
> give you a very accurate picture of the paralyzing lack of agency that you
> diagnose with such consummate precision. Go ahead, look at all that, take
> some time to put it all in the balance, and reconcile the results with your
> horror at anyone who attempts a 'wh
Andre, you really nailed it.
As some may have noticed, the US in particular is suffering from, let's
say, a *maldistribution of agency*. It's mostly imaginary, but like all
imaginaries, it functions like a mass-magic spell: its very unreality
makes it that much more real.
The left — not a good na
On 15 Feb 2023, at 20:02, Pit Schultz wrote:
> In terms of the green transition, this war is already a huge setback,
The Economist:
> This complexity makes it difficult to discern whether the tumult in energy
> markets has aided or impeded the energy transition. To assess the overall
> picture
On 14 Feb 2023, at 4:48, Michael Guggenheim wrote:
> I sent an email to NLR alerting them to this quote. Maybe I was not the only
> one. I was hoping, and suggesting, they would add a comment to D’Eramo’s
> text, explaining who Ganser is, and maybe asking D’Eramo to explain to the
> reader why
Geoff —
Thanks for this. I agree with the outlines of what you say, and with most of
the detail too. Felix and Doma have their own perspectives, so this is just me.
I'm not sure what you mean about a recurring argument, but that's not to
suggest you're mistaken. As a mod, I probably see nettime
< https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58169 >
networks.h-net.org
Dickey on Century, 'Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the
Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age' | H-Sci-Med-Tech
Author: Michael Century
9–11 minutes
Michael Century. Northern Sparks: Innovati
<
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/alexander-dugin-darya-putin-russia-ukraine-assassination
>
/// There are many in the West happy to take him at face value, as 'Putin's
Brain' or 'Putin's Rasputin'. He is not, though, and never has been especially
influential. He has no personal connection
This Twitter thread by Kamil Galeev on Dmitry Galkovsky is really worth reading:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1533154409722658824
Notable:
"People think with words. If you want to change the way people think about
things, you *must* be giving those things new names. If you wan
On 12 May 2022, at 6:05, podinski wrote:
> "Why I Can't Wave a Ukrainian Flag – A Dissenting Teach-In on Russia's
>
> Invasion" by Daniel Herman
>
> [https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183040](https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183040)
This is a wordy, milquetoast variation on self-styled
On 5 May 2022, at 8:38, Michael Benson wrote:
> In a windy piece in the NYRB on her last book, Jackson Lears
> tries to palm Applebaum off as someone under the influence
> of behavioral economist Karen Stenner, who (he says) views
> ideological differences as "merely" reflections of varying
> "cog
Allan, WRT Russia/Ukraine one notable feature of the current US political
landscape is that a fair number of ostensible leftists are making arguments
that are remarkably similar to fascist trolls like Tucker Carlson. I'm no fan
of Applebaum's at all, so when I saw her name I was skeptical; but a
Happy (and not not) to say I agree with all of this — really well put, Brian.
Two thoughts:
(1) As you probably know, "lustration" also refers to a more or less formal
process of governmental and social transformation — basically, an alternative
to more rigorous truth-and-reconciliation process
viewpoints.
Ted
On Mar 20, 2022, 17:03 -0400, David Garcia
, wrote:
> Ted Byfield
> > Internationalism is an absolutely legitimate leftist stance too:
> > anti-imperialist I'm seeing here and elsewhere seems to be, more than
> > anything else, not just intellectually is
On 19 Mar 2022, at 13:42, I wrote:
> I read Streeck's essay when it first appeared, and my sense was that you
> could string together many of the points he makes and arrive at very
> different conclusions.
Someone pointed me to this FAZ piece on Streeck's essay:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wis
n-naznachen-generalnym-direktorom-pervogo-kanala
>
>
> Panorama is like Onion or Titanic in Germany
>
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2022 18:54, Ted Byfield wrote:
>> via Facebook. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is it should be an
>> opportunity to see a
via Facebook. I have no idea if this is true, but if it is it should be an
opportunity to see a bit more clearly whether Dugin is really so significant.
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Alexander Dugin has been ap
I read Streeck's essay when it first appeared, and my sense was that you could
string together many of the points he makes and arrive at very different
conclusions.
His historical analysis is strong, but at key points it hinges more on
simplistic grievances than facts, or as close as we can get
This is my favorite debate strategy: when you don’t have a substantive
argument, just say your interlocutors are incapable of understanding the truth.
It works for Macgregor’s fanboys on Fox, no reason it shouldn’t work on
nettime.
Cheers,
Ted
On Mar 17, 2022, 18:26 -0400, Stefan Heidenreich ,
On 16 Mar 2022, at 4:45, Stefan Heidenreich wrote:
> add this: Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor
> on the situation in Ukraine and Washington:
It seems strange to see this on nettime.
Macgregor is a Putin apologist who's called Zelensky a "puppet," accused him o
On 15 Mar 2022, at 0:07, Brian Holmes wrote:
> The American theory was produced after the 2005 Isreal-Lebanon war which
> resulted in the Israelis finally exiting the South of Lebanon. Origin of
> the concept is a guy named Hoffmann, 2007 (bit.ly/3MPtEVc). This is
> distinct from the Russian conce
What Michael said.
It's also worth noting that dwelling on whether that document is authentic is a
privilege of peace. We could debate whether 'we' are 'at war,' what kind of war
it is, etc etc, but that too is a privilege of peace. No one in Ukraine would
doubt that we're at war; only those wh
Felix gets it, imo.
Not sure about elsewhere, but the 'special relationship left' — the US
certainly and the UK as well, I think — has been stuck in a rut. OT1H hard-ish
doctrinaire 'anti-imperialist' formations robotically denounce NATO in the
monolithic, one-sided terms Felix points out; OT0H
I took the noise about Surkov with a grain of salt, because it was obvious even
at the time that "he" was an orientalist trope — a Svengali-Rasputin figure,
maybe with an added dash of vulgar Baudrillard. The fact that that *trope* —
not the actual person but the figure — still exerts such magne
27; is to whom your email is addressed
>
> seems a perfect subliminal reflex (I won't say knee jerk response) ...
>
> as ever
>
> B
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 13:26, Ted Byfield wrote:
>
>> Alan, your question seems right on. I think there's an answer
ply? It seems to suggest that vaccines are being foisted on the
> global south when the actual problem is hoarding...
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ted Byfield wrote:
>
>> This kind of 'concern trolling'–esque appropriation of leftish discourse
>> in the
This kind of 'concern trolling'–esque appropriation of leftish discourse in the
service of rightish agendas is becoming pervasive in the US at least — and
elsewhere, I'm sure, albeit with less detail.
As with most of these discursive tendencies it's first and foremost impersonal,
which can make
So, basically, magic is indistinguishable from any sufficiently advanced
technology. I mean, if we can't distinguish the two, then the observation
should cut both ways, right? But Arthur C. Clarke's formulation, "any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is the only
I agree with Brian that Facebook's "rebranding" isn't an urgent problem in its
own right, but I disagree with the rhetorical gambit of introducing a preferred
subject by dismissing another. There are lots of genuinely important subjects
that never get a word on nettime, and it isn't hard to see
The first page opens with a “fable” about a lifeless town, but she puts that
conceit to rest just a few paragraphs later: “This town does not actually
exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere
in the world. I know of no community that has experienced all the
Tacticalmediasplained!
On 27 Apr 2021, at 5:52, d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote:
But when a supermodel is doing tactical media that's far more
compelling than all
of nettime combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate
relevance to issues that are (let's say) less 'pale, male
NFTs don't strike me as intrinsically interesting, but the seeming
inability of conventional leftish/academic to address them *is*
interesting. I'd be hard-pressed to think of another time when it seemed
so clear that the force of criticism has been *to categorize* — that
is, to dispense with t
I have a few thoughts: the first has to do with these one-off comments
about "deep," the second has to do with the gender aspect of this thread
in just five messages long. They're related, in a way.
(1) DEEP
Somewhere in my piles of scribbles I have some notes for an essay on the
poetics of "
On 23 Apr 2021, at 19:11, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
What is “Deep Humanities”?
This seems like your basic Silly Valley 'branding' proposal powerpoint,
right down to the gobsmacking conceit that what they're doing is 'deep,'
which implies that what everyone else has been doing — like for the
las
On 18 Mar 2021, at 13:21, I wrote:
Felix, what you're talking about looks theoretical, but at root these
are really just questions of provenance, which the art world knows
about only too well.
Lo and behold:
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/6
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