RE: Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-05 Thread Nicole Seibert
04, 2000 10:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard In a message dated 9/4/00 5:34:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >I'll answer you after right after you answer this question. Are children an >exploited class? Are t

Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-05 Thread Charles Brown
n terms of totality and happiness. Nor did Marx invent the concept of genesis, development and finality. CB: Baudrillard seems to be misrepresenting Marx with respect to Marx subscribing to the "finality" part of what Baudrillard is criticizing. Marx does not foreclose de

Re: Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 9/4/00 5:34:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << >I'll answer you after right after you answer this question. Are children an >exploited class? Are they an investment good? A consumption good? I just can't make up my mind. Doug >> An expensive

Re: Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread michael
Calling Dr. Becker, Calling Dr. Becker. > > > Are they an investment good? A consumption good? I just can't make up my mind. > > Doug > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >I'll answer you after right after you answer this question. Are children an >exploited class? Are they an investment good? A consumption good? I just can't make up my mind. Doug

Re: Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread Louis Proyect
>Oh really? What of Robbins' work are you thinking of? > >Doug I'll answer you after right after you answer this question. Are children an exploited class? Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/

Re: Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >The problem with Baudrillard is that he blames this not just vulgarized >Marxism, but science itself for the oppression of primitive peoples. In >this he is consistent with people like Bruce Robbins Oh really? What of Robbins' work are you thinking of? Doug

Baudrillard

2000-09-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Just to refresh people's memory on Baudrillard, he is a leading French postmodernist thinker who has achieved some notoriety in recent years for two of his "interventions." On the eve of the Gulf War, he argued that television had made actual war superfluous. He predicted an unce

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-15 Thread James Heartfield
;events not experienced by the potatoes? Well, the experience of those who were bombed was certainly different from that of those who watched the events on TV. > >I guess you could say this, keeping in mind that Baudrillard does >not celebrate but criticizes our post-modern soc

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-15 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
> Date sent: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:33:52 + > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Heartfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Baudrillard > You might have exprienced the war through the medium of

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-14 Thread James Heartfield
of experience. > > >> >...Callinicos is not to be >> >trusted on Baudrillard, or any postmodernist; he has yet to outgrow >> >the infantilism of international revolution. >> >> Does postmodernism aim at maturity? I don't think so. Is it maturit

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-14 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
> Date sent: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:31:07 + > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Heartfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Baudrillard Ricardo Duchesne: >Nothing absurd about Baudrillard&#x

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-14 Thread James Heartfield
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Duchesne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Nothing absurd about Baudrillard's analysis of the Gulf war. Wouldn't Baudrillard be disappointed with the judgement that his work was not absurd? > The war >was hardly "real"

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-13 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
> Date sent: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:26:46 -0800 > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: James Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Baudrillard > Louis writes: >On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] ar

Re: Baudrillard

1998-01-12 Thread R. Anders Schneiderman
At 12:26 PM 1/11/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote: >Louis writes: >On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that >television made actual war superfluous. < > >Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de >Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog,&quo

Baudrillard

1998-01-11 Thread James Devine
Louis writes: >On the eve of the Gulf War, [Baudrillard] argued that television made actual war superfluous. < Baudrillard was absurd, but it sure suggests the recent Robert de Niro/Dustin Hoffman flick "Wag the Dog," in which a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer conjure up

Re: M-I: Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard

1998-01-11 Thread James Heartfield
they need the uranium within our >land to feed the industrial system of the society, the culture of which the >Marxists ARE STILL A PART." >Churchill does have kind words for Jean Baudrillard's "The Mirror of >Production." According to Churchill, Baudrillard reaches ma

Re: M-I: Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard

1998-01-11 Thread Louis Proyect
Heartfield: >Louis Proyect is right to say that post-modernism and >indigenism have the same outlook, because both are an expression of the >anti-enlightenment thinking. From this reactionary standpoint it is >right to say that Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice >towards progress and

Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard

1998-01-10 Thread Louis Proyect
m for political and intellectual support for their struggle. Ward Churchill describes his own intellectual odyssey in the introduction to the book. A Creek/Cherokee, Churchill made the rounds of all the Marxist groups, including the outfit I belonged to at the time, the Trotskyist SWP. He considered himse