Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

2017-02-06 Thread Iain Boal
Greetings from Berkeley. We knew of course how the Bannon/Breitbart axis would spin our 'radical act of negation', viz. the choking of Sproul Plaza and the blocking of access to a campus pulpit for Yiannopoulos and his fascist theatrics. For sure, social media were instrumental, though hardly

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

2017-02-05 Thread Ian Alan Paul
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Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump + 10 Preliminary Theses on

2017-02-01 Thread sebastian
When I saw the "10 Preliminary Theses on Trump", what made me feel uneasy was, mostly, a matter of form: that the "10 Theses" format seemed strangely anachronistic, inadequate for a phenomenon like Trump, and that of all the attributes one could have possibly picked, "

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

2017-01-27 Thread Ian Alan Paul
"Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word. If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply not cover what it is you are trying to say?" Thank you for this question David ~ I

Re: 10 Preliminary Theses on Trump

2017-01-26 Thread David Garcia
Thank you Ian for these cogent thoughts.. I have one question for you: Is you 10th thesis calling for a revolution without using the word. If so why not? Why avoid the word? Has it become tarnished by carrying too much historical baggage ? Or does te word simply not cover what it is you are