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11251 [lbo-talk] The Society of the Unspectacular -- rank: 1000

[an amusing rant from nettime] From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com> Date: June 10, 2007 1:42:47 PM EDT To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net Subject: Re: <nettime> The Society of the Unspectacular Reply-To: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com> If "empowerment" of the public by cheap self-publishing has demonstrated anything, it is that a vast majority has nothing to say, lacks any detectable talent and mimicks TV in publishing the void of own life (but unl ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 06:33:06 PDT 2007

11252 [lbo-talk] choose the right biofuel or the orangutan gets it -- rank: 1000

<http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/choose-the-right-biofuel- or-the-orang-utan-gets-it-now-on-video-20070606>

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Date:	Sun Jun 10 08:01:38 PDT 2007

11253 [lbo-talk] Cockburn Research -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > The Cockburn research effort, judging from his front-page piece on > Counterpunch today, seems to come from 30 minutes of Google or > something. Actually, from long acquaintance with AC's research habits, it's somewhere between highly likely and certain that someone else did most of the Googling. I'd always thought there was something a little scandalous about having other people do all your research for you - be they interns, fri ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 10 07:50:24 PDT 2007

11254 [lbo-talk] Profits - Prophets -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > simply couldn't be arsed If that's a typo for "parsed" it should enter a Hall of Fame. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 11:36:31 PDT 2007

11255 [lbo-talk] Jenna Jameson, Paris Hilton etc -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Conspicuous consumption also establishes hegemony: it > displays power, and signals to the dominated and exploited classes > their own powerlessness, and consequently reinforces the sense of > inferiority and inability at those levels. Yes. One of Beckert's themes is that the pre-Civil War elite was still deeply republican, but as their wealth increased and the proletariat increased in number from the 1870s onward, they turned deep ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 08:47:49 PDT 2007

11256 [lbo-talk] Finkelstein denied tenure -- rank: 1000

Dear Colleagues: I write to inform you that this afternoon Norman G. Finkelstein was informed in a four-page letter from President Holtschneider that he has been denied tenure and promotion here at DePaul University. The letter itself will be posted at www.normanfinkelstein.com in the next few hours. Matthew Abraham Chicago, IL

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 19:35:35 PDT 2007

11257 [lbo-talk] Paris as news... -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Paris as news, check out these photos, taken 35 years apart: <http://jezebel.com/gossip/portraits-of-grief/paris-hilton-the-kim- phuc-of-2007-267394.php>

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 18:52:21 PDT 2007

11258 [lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2007, at 8:31 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > Didn't Bourne also write some fantabulous > critique of war? "War Is the Health of the State": <http://www.bigeye.com/warstate.htm>.

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 18:45:05 PDT 2007

11259 [lbo-talk] Jenna Jameson on presidential politics -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > oops, i just read the post by doug about how everyone ought to know > who jameson is. Now I feel a little guilty for having issued such a declaration, though I did give the non-Americans an out. But if you think politics are important, isn't pop culture something to know about? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 18:41:52 PDT 2007

11260 [lbo-talk] Foucault, Marxism, and Liberalism (was Re: Bush and Foucault) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > liberalism, the > dominant form of piety here Anti-liberal theocracy is preferable?

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:42:06 PDT 2007

11261 [lbo-talk] celebrity unit -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > It was the sheriff's department that runs the > jails. Why would they want her out? Because officials who run jails > don't want anyone knowing what goes on inside. Well she's back in the can, and the prosecutor's pissed at the sheriff. Guess Paris will have her nervous breakdown after all. Maybe her sentence is a little harsh, but drunk driving isn't a victimless crime. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:35:13 PDT 2007

11262 [lbo-talk] offshoring & phantom GDP -- rank: 1000

Business Week - June 18, 2007 <http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_25/ b4039001.htm?chan=gl> Michael Mandel "The real cost of offshoring" U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong Whenever critics of globalization complain about the loss of American jobs to low-cost countries such as China and India, supporters point to the powerful performance of the U.S. economy. And with good reason. Despite the lat ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:22:55 PDT 2007

11263 [lbo-talk] JFK terror plot bogus -- rank: 1000

Newsday - June 6, 2007 Credibility of JFK terror case questioned BY CAROL EISENBERG When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," which might have caused "unthinkable" devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed. The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never been at risk. And the notion of blowing up the airport, let alone the borough of Queen ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:19:39 PDT 2007

11264 [lbo-talk] Jenna Jameson, Paris Hilton etc -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Is there ANY way one can get away from this? There was a time, > when, each time a was in the checkout line at the Pig, I read about > Aniston and Pitt, then it was Pitt and Jolie. I feel like this shit > is taking over my life!!!! I suppose now the check out line will > have the scooop on Paris &^%$ing Hilton. Check out tmz.com. You won't even have to leave your house! I was fascinated to learn in Sven Beckert's history of ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:08:28 PDT 2007

11265 [lbo-talk] celebrity unit -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > What happened to the good old community > service - working at a homeless shelter, picking up trash from > highways > etc.? Hey, Naomi Campbell just did it in NYC: <http:// entertainment.bodogbeat.com/naomi-campbell-completes-community- service-34214.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 7 10:37:27 PDT 2007