RE: Re: Re: Social Capital

Christian, How would you measure this? Could you not account for this through other transactions? -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: human "capital"

Jim, Have you read Paula England's Comparable Worth? In particular, in Chapter 2 -- "Theories of Labor Markets" she writes, "The neoclassical theory of human capital posits that individuals invest in their stock of skills by paying and/or forgoing something in the present for the sake of some fut

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Social Capital

Mat, I have responded to your questions below with answers pertaining to human capital, which if I remember correctly is close to social capital according to economists. Barkley can correct me if I am wrong. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Re: RE: human "capital"

elationship and that would in the hippie world view not be foregoing anything worth while Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message ----- From: Nicole Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: [PEN-L:8201] RE: human &q

RE: Re: Re: meme

Are you suggesting that Sociology does not experience that same hypocrisy as "master of my fate" and "dupe to social structure" implies? -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of kelley Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 12:51 PM To: [

RE: Re: another software query

This is only a problem when we forward things to each other; we can also forward "advertisements" that require further downloading from the advertisers or the originator of the forwarded items website. This does not last forever and can be a problem if, well..., if you are not attached to a unive

RE: Slowdown

There was a article in the guardian (yesterday?) that said the reduction in US interest rate by the fed was due to the possible breakdown in our banking system? I didn't understand it all, but apparently the Bank of America is in serious trouble and may go bankrupt? Any ideas on this? -Nico --

Pomotismo

This question is actually put to everyone --> What are your feelings on Jean Baudrillard? I heard somewhere in my own department that he is not even a sociologist!? I found that amazing, but am not sure why a person would hold such beliefs. I think this is the group to explain to me why Baudri

RE: Re: Pomotismo

o men, just black men and white men, etc., and indeed, no black men, but gay Chicagoans three eights of whose ancestors were imported from Africa in antebellum times, and indeed, isn't that essentialist--what do you mean "gay" or indeed "Chicagoans," etc. > >If I am no

RE: Re: Pomotismo

H...nothing like starting a big one on Labor Day weekend. I will start with Jim's response first since this (for me anyway) is the easiest for me to discuss. Hi Jim, Agree, agree, and agree. I think it is helpful to look back at what influenced the pomo I saw developing during the 1990s:

RE: Re: Re: Re: Pomotismo

What about the postmodern texts: Paige: Coffee and Power Castells: The Power of Identity and others in the series Held & et al: Global Transformations Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures And don't forget Foucault, Deleuze, Kristeva, Lacan, Hillman and Hegel.

RE: Re: Pomotismo

Ha. Ha. Only it doesn't look I will be getting any pomo anytime soon except what I can get out of Harvey and Baudrillard laying around the house. Out. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Friday, September 0

RE: Pomotismo

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Pomotismo From Justin to Nicole: >I find your objection to essentialsim and foundationalsim

RE: Re: Re: Pomotismo

You are assuming that everyone knows that 2 + 2 = 4 or Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Some people could care less and it may or may not be a part of what makes up their reality. If something is not part of a person's reality then it can not possibly influence what they think "the truth" is. T

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pomotismo

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:1159] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pomotismo Brad DeLong wrote: >>I think people who comment on "pomo

RE: Re: RE: Pomotismo

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:1181] Re: RE: Pomotismo In a message dated 9/2/00 6:01:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAI

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Pomotismo

e: Re: Pomotismo Nicole Seibert wrote: > You are assuming that everyone knows that 2 + 2 = 4 or Ottawa is the capital > of Canada. Some people could care less and it may or may not be a part of > what makes up their reality. If something is not part of a person's reality > th

RE: pomoistas

Hi Doug, Sounds about right actually. The point this author neglects to make is that movements start with small steps just like this one. Is it so demeaning to focus on a living wage for a group of workers who are not only thought the least of by most people (remember the scene from Breakfast Cl

RE: Dark Days

Hi Louis, This movie sounds great. I wish it was playing here in Atlanta. Do you happen to know who the author of this piece is? Do you think this is a postmodern/liberal reaction by the author of this piece in the Village Voice? -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Pomotismo

Hi Rob. I think that outside of academic terminology we are saying the same thing - only coming at the same thing from two different directions. Or, rather, I fail to see the difference between what you and I are saying. You allow for a physical constrictions to ones knowing - I whole heartedly

RE: Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard

Hi All, I never thought of a luxury good as one that was needed. Or, rather of a person that was needed. And children are needed by a community - not necessarily an individual member. Can something that is needed also be abused or exploited? Yes. Medication, food Can I answer yes to all

RE: Pomocanadianism

LOL. Ummm... think so or something or whatever. The original question was posed by Carrol and I don't remember what it was. It was rhetorical anyway. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Pomotismo

Oh my. Well Ken, I am going to break up your response into four sections if you will. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Hanly Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 5:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:1215] Re: RE:

RE: Re: pomoistas

Hi All, I think that there is a general feeling in pomo work that before we pass judgment, I mean present academic work, we need to consider things more carefully. We may need to study the culture or nation-state more closely before gathering the data or using an existing set. Pomos are scared o

RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Pomotismo

Hi Jim, If there is no such thing as objective thought then there is no such thing as objective reality, since reality is all in our heads anyway. If the context changes then that is subjective. The context is determined within our reality which again is in our own heads. My reality in the case

RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

Hi Rob (& Doug), I answered part of your note (with quotes from Doug) below: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rob Schaap Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Being serious about Pomotis

RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug) II

Hi Rob - I agree with your assessment of the middle part I wrote here. I have to think more about what I am trying to say. Q: Besides Foucault do any other pomo theorist discuss power relationships? None right? Baudrillard maybe, but generally in a kind-of snide anti-powerful way. Thinking mor

RE: Wittgenstein, Etc. (was Re: Pomotismo)

Hi Yoshie, Sorry to be so late replying to you. I am moving down the list by date and time. I am a little behind; I didn't know this topic would last this long. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Monday, Sept

RE: pomoistas

Check out James Hillman. You might just like him. He wrote A Blue Fire and The Myth of Analysis. Also, you could read Kristeva, Lacan, Nicholson, McNay, Grosz, Deleuze and of course, David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

RE: Pomocanadianism

According to Carrol it is Ottawa. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Pomocanadianism In a message dated 9/4/00 3:58:48 PM Easte

RE: pomos and out

By the way, I like your piece on dialectics. I have periodically trying to work through it. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug) Nicole Seibert wrote: > The problem with acting like

RE: Re: Pomotismo

Hi Jim, Cool. I don't think I got your message, so here goes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:1290] Re: Pomotismo Hi, Nico. Ove

RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

This is what I meant, Doug, when I said that pomoisma encourages bad epistemology and metaphysics that districts everyone from debating important substantive issues while failing to advance epistemological or metaphysical discussion. And where you are wrong J is that you think academia and the re

Pomo, again! (response to Jim)

Jim writes: Anyone who embraces such a view is saying that their statements are simply opinion, a bunch of subjective feelings, with no assertion of possible truth. So there's no reason to respect those opinions. I'll ignore them. My response: But, what I am saying is that what any of us say is

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Pomotismo

Very cool Carrol. But *knocking on computer screen* I am here. *waving arms wildly* I am here. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Re: Pomocanadianism

Hi - Has anyone thought to compare Canada with Norway or Taiwan or Austria (?) or Ireland or Scotland? -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Burgess Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug) I was a professional philosopher of scie

RE: RE: Re: Pomocanadianism

Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: RE: Re: Pomocanadianism En relación a [PEN-L:1391] RE: Re: Pomocanadianism, el 7 Sep 00, a las 9:25, Nicole Seibert dijo: > Hi - > Has anyone thought to compare Canada with Nor

RE: Re: Re: Australia

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rob Schaap Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Re: Re: Australia G'day Nestor, In late August the bastard Niemeyer lent Scullin's bastard Torie

RE: Re: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

So, how did feminism start? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:1394] Re: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

RE: Hume & the Postmodern Grin without a Cat (was Re: pomoistas)

I think you are right, but understand that pomo is not a philosophy. It is a way of analyzing theory, methods, almost anything that uses language and metaphor. At its base it points out misnomers and illogical arguments. It is dialectical criticism of theory. It is a lot more, but I am hoping

RE: Re: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

Sure, I do. But the categories, models that I use to judge them are periodically critiqued (usually about every four years). Reference to Kristeva's work on science. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Th

RE: Re: Re: Being serious about Pomotismo (with quotes for Doug)

Yes, I think I was trying to work out why and how the dialectical process occurs that Kristeva talks about. Seems we need to reevaluate our criteria, models, etc. for judgment occasionally. With the space/time compression it is just happening more often. Does anyone know of any researchers that

Dead white men

Jim: My argument is against the view that everybody's views represent _nothing but_ subjective opinion. With all the dead white men I have been studying it sure seems like it. -Nico _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at ht

Science and ideology

For every good example of ideology effecting science we can find horror stories as well. Hitler's experiments come to mind. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 1:34 AM To: [E

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RE: Feminism (posted originally on marxism@lists.panix.com)

Hi All, My question was a more rhetorical one guys. Yoshie said that work, as I was suggesting pomo is, that concentrates on the life of the mind is a waste of time. One of the things she mentioned was that the life of the mind confuses issues when it come to doing actual activist type work. Th

RE: Wallerstein & Post-Modernists (was Re: Wallerstein on slavery and capitalism)

The subject has no action when passive voice is used. This is not postmodern; this is standard English 101. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: [PEN-L:3526] Re: 20Re: Brenner, C. L. R. Ja mes, & José Carlos Mariátegui (was Re : Brenner Redux)

Hi all, I have not been following this argument. But I can think of at least one form of free labor that capitalism has never lived without - women's labor in the home. -Nico -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colin Danby Sent: Thursd