At 22:09 10/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
On Fri, December 11, 1998 at 14:52:46 (+1100) Ajit Sinha writes:
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I have been reading Wittgenstein's PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS as a
preparation for my work on "Sraffa's method". This is probably the most
remarkable book I have ever read. I think you must
At 00:43 11/12/98 -0800, Ken Hanly wrote:
I didn't realise that Wittgenstein had any influence on Sraffa. I
though the influence was the other way around. Sraffa sort of woke
Wittgenstein from his dogmatic slumbers. In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein
holds that all language, to communicate,
At 12:14 10/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
With the US led inspection team's surprise visit yesterday to Baath
Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad to search for weapons of "mass
destruction", it is clear that the US and Britain are seeking an pretext
for unleashing the bombers.
And once the
Dear Friends,
I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at risk of
dismissal from employment for refusal to turn them over, and he, a music
teacher/administrator wannabe, has determined that my
Ajit Sinha wrote:
My bit of whimsy mislead you. Of course the Sicilian gesture did not cause the
change in Wiittgenstein all by itself. I always like to pull economical legs. Von
Wright's remarks are probably quite accurate but my remarks do indicate precisely the
sort of thing that
There's a fundamental difference between marketplace and market. The
former a particular, local place of exchange, the latter a more abstract
place of exchange with price-making mechanism (a la Polanyi). There are of
course several other usages of market/place (see Boyer in States against
(This was written by Dr. Gerald Smith, an English professor at Clark
College and colleague of Jim Craven. Smith is also the co-chair of the
Native American Student Club.)
I am writing on behalf of Professor James Craven who is under a censorship
order to cease his participation in the
Jim,
Very sorry these creeps on your case more and again.
Is there anything we can do to help?
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:42:36 -0500 Louis Proyect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Friends,
I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
Instruction who
Jim,
Very sorry these creeps on your case more and again.
Is there anything we can do to help?
Barkley Rosser
I just got off the phone with Jim and has probably left town already.
PEN-L'ers might remember that I had a similar hassle with Columbia. A
provocateur told the Columbia
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I enclose a message I sent to Jim's private e-mail address. As I point
out even if the administrations' case were fully proved-- of course this
is wholly contrary to fact-- the removal of email privileges would not be
I think Jim should challenge the University to produce the transmission logs
from the computers of a random sample of deans and administrators for any week
in the last year and he could readily demonstrate that virtually everyone at
the University with access to the institution's electronic mail
This material is excerpted from the ONTARIO MILK PRODUCER as it appears
in the Manitoba Co-operator Dec. 10, 1998 p. 4
"When the idea of deregulation is discussed in the dairy
industry, we often hear proponents holding up New Zealand as an example
of how producers can prosper in a
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Rob Schaap wrote:
they can not be synonymous. There is discourse that is not power and/or
there is power that is not discourse. Power, we are regularly told, is
what constructs/legitimises discourse. Obviously, power must be
communicated. Communication is what
PFIZER HIRES BOB DOLE FOR TV AD CAMPAIGN ABOUT IMPOTENCE, TO HELP IMPROVE
VIAGRA SALES
Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/
Have any list members yet tried to give Clark College a piece of
their mind? Good luck, there are kindergarten kids with more
of a Net presence. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough,
but Clark's Website certainly fails to point a visitor's
way to any directory or faculty/student search engine
Pen-l'ers-
We are looking for some assistance in putting together a document which
outlines the barriers to trade and investment in the United States for a
new book that the In Focus project is producing on U.S. Foreign Policy. I
am looking for any documents, organizations, or people which have
Pinochet's Lawyers Ask Court To Reconsider Immunity Ruling
By T. R. Reid Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 11, 1998;
Page A50
It's not exactly a presidential palace, but for an 83-year-old former
soldier who is on the lam from prosecutors in three countries, the elegant
On the Enlightenment Marketplace of Ideas, Paul David has written a very
interesting piece. Here are my notes:
Notice that the key element was a unique conjuncture in which uneducated nobles
had to display the worth of their kept scientists, so they established
scientific societies in which
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Data from the BLS longitudinal survey, which traces the work experience
Ajit, now that you are reading Wittgenstein I can only defer to you.
Let's say my knowledge of him is based on hearsay. Checking one of
my readily available sources on 20th century philosophy, I can say
that, in the passages cited below, W is questioning the presumption
of an ideal
hello ajit,
many of the things you say may well be the case, but a couple of comments: it
seemed to me that 'spectres of marx' was most interesting when it tackled many of
the themes that walter benjamin had tackled; that the notion of surplus value is
not simply - or even most importantly - a
At 07:59 10/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
Ajit brings up the question of whether the "Pinochet to Spain" precedent
had not been already amply established by the American hustling of
Panamanian caudillo Manuel Noriega straight from his villa to a Miami
courtroom and thereafter to a Federal prison.
Ajit Sinha wrote:
The Investigations are radically incomplete, consisting of numbered
sections, often of just a sentence or so, written in an oracular style
and ranging over a wide range of subjects; but all basically dealing with
issues that have troubled philsophers in the area of the
At 12:59 9/12/98 -0400, Ricardo wrote:
So much hogwash has been said about the enlightenment in pen-l that
perhaps it is time someone set out to answer "what is the
enlightenment?" First, contrary to what everyone in pen-l thinks, the
enlightenment is NOT about science. The enlightenment is a
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