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34021 Zizek and Polls -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: >Well, insofar as it could do with a bloody good edit, Had one, from Ezra Pound. Doug
Document Size: 4422
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 09:08:34 PDT 2000
34022 Zizek and Polls -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: > Methinks Zizek's 'modern' should more >properly be dubbed 'postmodern'. Is Eliot's Waste Land, with all that fragmentation and polycentricity modern or postmodern? I can never get these things straight. Doug
Document Size: 4562
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 08:39:45 PDT 2000
34023 Zizek and Polls -- rank: 1000
LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >I have been out of the country for a bit, presenting to Russian teachers on >civic education, so I am a bit behind in responding to Doug's citation of >Zizek here. But I would still like to say that Zizek's analysis seems to me >to be an example of the overextension of psychoanalytic approaches to >politics. I don't think you need psa to make SZ's point here: that polls measure things within (and by doing so, reinforce) existing parameters of discourse, ...
Document Size: 5124
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 08:17:33 PDT 2000
34024 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000
Russell Grinker wrote: >Since when did we put a plus everywhere the bourgeois press puts a minus? Since never. But the reaction of the bourgeois press - and bourgeois opinion leaders - is a hint that your analysis (that the "movement" is one of "morally indignant elites") isn't grounded in reality. Doug
Document Size: 4808
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 06:41:14 PDT 2000
34025 Rattus economicus -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - October 2, 2000 Moving Past Rats: More Economists Study Behavior in Online Experiments By JOEL ROSENBLATT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When 10 homes and nine lots in the Palm Springs, Calif., Bermuda Dunes development project sold in one hour and 29 minutes, the event was heralded as one of the highest-value Internet auctions to date. What the bidders -- and even the developer, real-estate giant Kaufman & Broad Home Corp. -- didn't know, is that the July au ...
Document Size: 12886
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 06:32:47 PDT 2000
34026 Net Polls -- rank: 1000
Gar Lipow wrote: >Doug -- I'm sending this to you personally, because the panix server is >refusing to relay this to the e-mail list. It did. >Doug Henwood wrote: >>>Gar Lipow wrote: > >>>When I took the quiz it told me two things: >>>1) My candidate is David M. >>>) I'm a moderate liberal. >>> >>>Uh yeah, right. > >>So which is inaccurate? > >>Doug > >Doug I know I have not posted that often, but do I soun ...
Document Size: 6133
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 2 05:15:35 PDT 2000
34027 NYC: low-wage jobs growing fastest -- rank: 1000
[NYC is much worse than the rest of the U.S. on this.] New York Times - October 1, 2000 Low-Wage Jobs Leading Gains in Employment By STEVEN GREENHOUSE New York City's rebounding economy has produced a record number of jobs, but a new study shows that the number of low-wage jobs, those paying less than $25,000 a year, is growing much faster than the number of middle- or high-wage jobs. The study, to be released tomorrow, found that while the city had added thousands of high-paying Wall Street and ...
Document Size: 14518
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 21:05:42 PDT 2000
34028 LBO-Talk = the W.W.F.? (was Re: Spreading rumors) -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Highly paid? Yes. Creative? No. I've said it before and I'll say it >again: A vast amount of corporate PR doesn't seem especially >clever. I always think, for example, of the Harry-and-Louise >campaign that helped wreck Clinton's national healthcare proposal as >being not much more sophisticated than "four legs good, two legs >bad." A commercial that ran mainly - perhaps only - in the New York and DC media markets to convince opinion leaders tha ...
Document Size: 5366
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 12:48:06 PDT 2000
34029 does multinationalization help capital? -- rank: 1000
JessEcoh at cs.com wrote: > interesting abstract... how do you interpret this? first, is the thesis >plausible? second, if it's plausible, what's its significance? would this >imply, for instance, that the multinationalization of capital could be >restrained or scaled back by, for instance, changing rules about the relation >between management and ownership? I read the paper yesterday, and it wasn't a lot more informative than the abstract. Basically, MNCs have a lower stock ma ...
Document Size: 5873
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 11:52:20 PDT 2000
34030 [fla-left] [Election 2000] Citizens Committee for Nader/LaDuke formed (fwd) -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: >those interested in "left luminaries" and "progressives" (is that what >they're called?) may find be of interest... Michael Hoover Hmm, with Korten & Mander on that list, I may have to reconsider. So Michael, psephology & celebrity aside, what do you make of Ralph? Or doesn't it matter who's president? Doug
Document Size: 5135
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 11:46:05 PDT 2000
34031 LBO-Talk = the W.W.F.? (was Re: Spreading rumors) -- rank: 1000
Apropos Chyna, she inspired one of the great tabloid headlines of all time. Her silicon implant burst in the ring a few months ago, an event the Globe reported under the hed: "Sexy Wrestler's Boob Explodes." Doug
Document Size: 4816
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 11:24:07 PDT 2000
34032 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000
Russell Grinker wrote: >I think the point he's making is that this "movement" of morally indignant >international elites has precious little progressive content. Which is, of course, why the bourgeois press is beside itself with patronizing denunciations of the protesters and bogus claims about Wolfie's deep humane sympathies. Doug
Document Size: 4847
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 11:03:50 PDT 2000
34033 Fwd: Conference "Justice or Barbarism" in Berlin -- rank: 1000
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:33:59 +0200 To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> From: Anita Mage <mage at zedat.fu-berlin.de> [Hi Doug - I don't know if this is too Berlin-specific for the lbo-list. it's certainly a very international group of participants! taken from the RLS Website. Links to workshop abstracts and registration info at <http://www.rosaluxemburgstiftung.de/Einzel/Barbarei/index.htm>. What's the Economist's International Union? - greetings, Anita] Conference &quo ...
Document Size: 10633
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 10:41:45 PDT 2000
34034 whee! -- rank: 1000
Anita Mage wrote: >But seriously, in an economic system in which savings and investment >overwhelmingly benefits the owners of capital, when income is rising >doesn't it make sense to spend some of the increase? Yeah, but it being capitalism, if "you" consume too much (leaving aside all questions of the analytical unit for the moment) then you run up big debts or run down your stock of savings, and at some point the bill collectors start acting threatening. Of course, this bei ...
Document Size: 5453
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 10:45:34 PDT 2000
34035 Billy Bragg lunches with the FT -- rank: 1000
Financial Times - September 30/October 1, 2000 [Lunch With the FT] Billy Bragg By David Honigmann Billy Bragg rolls up his right sleeve. "Look at that." His biceps bulge with a fresh tattoo of the English St George flag. "I hope it'll wash off." It will. It is a souvenir of a BBC programme about English identity that Bragg is fronting. "I'm trying to keep this on so my son can see it." Always fascinated by Englishness - one of his best-known songs was titled "A ...
Document Size: 14143
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 1 10:39:42 PDT 2000
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