Re: Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

2022-11-30 Thread analoguehorizon
Out of the woodwork we come. My handle is @fl...@social.coop (https://social.coop/@flgnk) which is a cooperatively run instance. I'm not involved in the organization side, but as a coop member I think it is safe to say 'we' raise money for the running of the instance using OpenCollective (

Re: Strom vs Morozov: knockdown punch

2022-07-11 Thread analoguehorizon
Just came across this - https://shows.acast.com/jacobin-radio/episodes/dig-its-still-capitalism-w-evgeny-morozov On Fri 8 Jul 2022, 03:08 Molly Hankwitz, wrote: > > Hello, Boris, and Brian, > Thank you for all of your writings and reviews. Boris, those descriptions > of how corporations will

Re: Anne Applebaum

2022-05-04 Thread analoguehorizon
What are the odds of a left majority parliament in France? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/french-socialist-party-agrees-alliance-with-far-left-for-june-elections On Wed, 4 May 2022 at 02:26, Brian Holmes wrote: > That's brilliant Frederic. I have not followed French politics for

The Hackers BBC series

2021-12-22 Thread analoguehorizon
Haven't seen this posted here. A great short series with Gabriella Coleman. 'Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world.' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012fjk/episodes/guide # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a

Re: The Dawn of Everything (very short review)

2021-12-08 Thread analoguehorizon
Hi Felix, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've been enjoying listening to various podcasts and interviews with Wengrow but I haven't got around to the book yet. LSE have had a seminar series recently on Graeber's work which is worth checking out. The final seminar is this week -

Re: Was cultural Marxism the leading force behind the new world order

2018-11-16 Thread analoguehorizon
Hi Orsan, I recently listened to this interview with Quinn Slobodian in the second half he talks about the developments from Mises to Rothbards Anarcho Capitalism and it's links to the American Paleocon movement and subsequently the development of the Alt-Right.

Re: Troll factories in some shitty St Petersburg office?

2018-03-18 Thread analoguehorizon
Part of the power ascribed to Neoliberalism is it's valorization in the theoretical abstractions of the left, which mirrors in many ways how capitalism is conceptualised as an all encompassing totality rather than a material process, historically and geographically located. Terms like

Re: Return to feudalism

2017-09-17 Thread analoguehorizon
Excuse the tangential thinking Protection of property rights and ability to extract rents depend on the capacity of regulatory apparatus, state or private, to perceive infringement and enforce those protections. At the same time its important to make such a spectacle in prosecuting the few that

Re: Nancy Fraser: A Triple Movement? Parsing The Politics...

2017-01-18 Thread analoguehorizon
Thanks Brian Just came across some really interesting posts on the use of data analytics. Linked below. Anyone who is paying any attention will recognise that we are in a period of crisis. Those with wealth and power are no exception. I suspect there is an intentional and pre-emptive push to

Re: Nancy Fraser: A Triple Movement? Parsing The Politics...

2017-01-16 Thread analoguehorizon
Thanks Felix this is quite useful A big issue is the polarising nature of politics being characterised as left or right. The right are attacking emancipatory forces in general. They make no distinction between - liberal currents that gravitated in the direction of marketization and socialist and

Re: The Meme Wars

2017-01-16 Thread analoguehorizon
Hello, I never post here but hey, I've also been doing a lot of reading over the past month and wanted to share some of what I've learned. Basically I've been on the internet forever and somehow never ended up in the libertarian internet. I'm in Europe too and actual anarchism still has some