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37576 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >nix, nix, if the implication is i emailed him. haven't >spoken to the man, electronically or otherwise, in >months.. Sorry for assuming so then. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 20:13:30 PST 1999

37577 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >but doesn't the theoretician to whom you play love-slave >consider himself a lacanian? Yes, but a politicized, more-or-less Marxist Lacanian. Speaking of which, a Zizekian approach to the whole Satanic ritual abuse madness might be very fruitful. It seems to me there's a collective fantasy apparatus at work there, a playing out of anxieties about changed family structures, gender relations, and childcare arrangements, compounded by profound anxieties about the sexuality ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 20:18:05 PST 1999

37578 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I understand that Alex doesn't like computers and doesn't even have an >email address. How did he get all these messages? He's got a new iBook, and does have an email address. But I think the uncanny parallel in phrasing between Alex's column and Steve Perry's gloss might offer a hint. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 19:26:46 PST 1999

37579 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

The lead of Alexander Cockburn's column in this week's New York Press, which starts on the front page, of all places: <quote> "The New York Press is a foulmouthed and stupid rightwing giveaway paper here In New York, for which Alex, for reasons best known to himself, writes a column. It's read by media junkies like Doug [Henwood] and the kind of guy who you suspect Is building bombs In the garage--or more likely, wishes he could but his mom won't let him." So now you know. And wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 17:00:16 PST 1999

37580 irony, etc. -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >But doug, re Z mag and its lack of irony -- aren't you forgetting Lydia >Sargent's "Hotel Satire" feature? How could I? But I already have a reservation at the Grand Hotel Abyss. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 12:00:18 PST 1999

37581 Lefebvre on irony -- rank: 1000

[From "On Irony, Maieutic, and History," from Henri Lefebvre's Introduction to Modernity (Verso, 1995).] Question (which the reader cannot fail to ask): 'What gives you the right to talk in the name of official Marxism, the Marxism you call 'institutional' and are so critical of? You call yourself a dialectician, an ironist, anti-establishment, a partisan of radical critique. You represent only yourself, and you're not a spokesman for any social or political force. Well, what are your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 11:13:49 PST 1999

37582 irony, etc. -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >well, what i have in mind at this very moment is that >you ought to read the rest of the sentence, and the paragraph. ...which is: >(and its longtime companion, paralytic >cynicism) in the livelier minds round journalism and >academe. they've essentially ceded "serious" writing to >the dullards. ...and leaves me none the wiser. I'm at a loss to name the "livelier minds round journalism and academe" who are paralyzed by cynicism (which is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 10:51:36 PST 1999

37583 Fwd: Bulgaria: anti-Clinto demos arrested -- rank: 1000

[Elena from Bulgaria asked me to forward this.] Date: 17 Nov 99 11:22:06 EET From: Elena Zlatanova <elena.zlatanova at usa.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: <JaredI at aol.com> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: Emperors-Clothes Writer Arrested in Bulgaria Dear people, Today three women, including emperors-clothes writer Blagovesta Doncheva, were violently arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria for daring to take part in a peaceful protest against Pres. Clinton's visi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 10:40:45 PST 1999

37584 irony, etc. -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >gosh, that's funny--while i agree with you entirely about >the joyless, unimaginative prose that clogs most left >publications, i'm inclined to blame it on an excess of >ironic sensibility (and its longtime companion, paralytic >cynicism) We must read different publications. Could you give an example of what you have in mind? >but then you're a fan of ana marie cox, aren't you? Ana's a very smart person and a very clever writer. I wouldn't endorse her politi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 10:34:37 PST 1999

37585 irony, etc. -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Now I was there to explain the style to those who did not understand it >and to explain that MR was a radical magazine and that Yurick was >appalled by the drug business. But the writer does not know who will >read what he or she has written or in what context or with what level of >schooling and sophistication. So does the radical writer, one who >desires a transformation of the social order, have any special >obligation to write in manner which woul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 17 10:12:13 PST 1999

37586 trade poll -- rank: 1000

Public Support for Freer Trade Conditional: Majority Wants More Aid for Workers, Global Standards for Labor and Environment For Immediate Release, Nov. 16, 1999 Contact: Nicci Millington, (202) 232-7500 Executive Summary and the raw data are available at http://www.pipa.org U.S. public support for freer trade is conditional, according to a study released today by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). While a majority of Americans supports in principle the growth of international ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 09:44:33 PST 1999

37587 Soros in Kosovo joint venture with World Bank -- rank: 1000

[If the name includes "Open Society," it must be Soros. From the World Bank's daily clipping service.] KOSOVO SECURES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUNDS. The World Bank and the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS) yesterday announced a new fund which will provide small loans to help rebuild communities in Kosovo, Reuters reports. The new fund, called the Kosovo Community Development Fund, expects to have financing of $20 million to allow it to provide loans backing small-scale infrastru ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 09:41:29 PST 1999

37588 women?feminism? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That said, militias and believers >in Satanic day care workers _are_ idiotic, in a peculiarly American way. 44% of Americans surveyed told Pew Center pollsters that Jesus Christ will arrive on earth sometime during the 21st century <http://www.people-press.org/mill2rpt.htm>. 44% said He wouldn't. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 08:53:37 PST 1999

37589 Third Parties (was RE: Fulani's endorsement of Buchanan) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm just wondering why the Labor Party doesn't want to use electral >campaigns _as_ a great recruiting strategy. Because, Mazzocchi argues, campaigns would become the party's raison d'etre, and be fatally tempted to make compromising endorsements just to get votes. There's also the sobering precedent of Jesse Jackson, a personality without a base. Real democracy is about self-organization, not electoral rituals, right? The strategy is to sign up members first, and ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 08:46:52 PST 1999

37590 Thorts after a week selling Europe to the Japanese -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >Absolutely agreed. I'm on record as saying that Alan Greenspan will go >down in history as America's equivalent of Nigel Lawson. What's the status of the "Lawson boom" these days? Is there any memory of it, or is British politics as amnesiac as American politics? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 08:50:18 PST 1999