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41296 The Psychic Life of the Living Dead -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >A report came across labor-l reporting that the Peruvian employees of >their psychic hotline are on strike. At last, Doug's wish that political >economy become more cognizant of the spiritual side of life has come to >pass. I saw that and almost forwarded it to this list. But is it true? Seemed like a Stephen Glass story on second reading. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 25 19:02:50 PST 1998

41297 Jameson -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an address kink] Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:09:58 -0500 From: jeff sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> Organization: World HIstory Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lbo-talk at lists.panix.com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Jameson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Doug, I haven't read ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 24 12:59:31 PST 1998

41298 Economic Salvation? But for whom? -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >BTW, what is TINA? The abbreviation of Margaret Thatcher's famous declaration that "There Is No Alternative" to brutal capitalist restructuring. Or, "you do it my way, see?" as they used to say in the ganster movies. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:29:33 PST 1998

41299 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >max is going to be the daria of the judy fest. i can't wait. Gleen Eichler, the creator of Daria - the former head writer for Beavis & Butt-head - is the neighbor of a friend of mine in Montclair, NJ. Daria is modeled on his son, whom I've met. I'm having a hard time seeing Max as either. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:15:30 PST 1998

41300 Doug - Sue the F***** -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 98-12-22 21:21:41 EST, you write: > ><< > Not too long ago a really big name in economics lifted some of Doug's > social security analysis---word for word. I pointed this out to Doug. > Did Doug get angry? No. He said something like, "it's good for the > cause to get the word out." > >> > >Really Doug, these guys deserve to be both financially and publicly >humiliated!!!! > >Who was it? ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:10:24 PST 1998

41301 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I'll do the intro; Alec has chap 6. That leaves 5 chapters unclaimed (and >> part of chapter 5 is Adam Phillips' commentary. >> > >I'll take a chapter--your choice, Doug. I have not yet purchased the book >(I believe Mr. Kiernan got the only copy in Tampa) so I can't choose >one--something not too Lacanian, please. And, I *insist* that Snit take a >chapter, since she was the one who ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:09:26 PST 1998

41302 Bill Blum Re: the other Butler... -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >> >> Compiled by William Blum >> Author: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since >> World War II >> http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm >> >Has anyone read Bill's book? Is it any good? Yeah, it's a very useful compilation of just about every coup, assassination, destabilization, whatever, the U.S. has sponsored abroad since WW II. An excellent place to turn if you want to get a quick view of what ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:04:31 PST 1998

41303 the other Butler... -- rank: 1000

From: BBlum6 at aol.com Delivered-To: cj at cyberjournal.org Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:31:20 EST Subject: the set-up of Iraq SOME DETAILS OF THE SET-UP YOU MAY HAVE MISSED "A U.S. official who follows Iraq", speaking of the November cancellation of an air strike: "We were so close to pulling the trigger and circumstances were so optimum to do so that there's something surreal about SENDING UNSCOM BACK IN TO BUILD A CASE AGAINST HIM AGAIN when we had the best possible case and didn ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 09:35:49 PST 1998

41304 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >What's useful about Butler & Foucault is they make us think about all those >micromoments of reproduction (and in Butler's case, make us think about how >humans are sexed, which is something Marxists have been rather bad on). Oh yeah, also, most political economists don't know squat about culture or the psychic life of power, and are often hostile to the effort of understanding it, denouncing it as mystical or decadent. And most cultural radicals, Marxist or not ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 09:20:40 PST 1998

41305 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I expect that this passage is making people that much more excited about >the impending Judy fiesta. Reminder: we need people to volunteer to do >each chapter. Since it was Snit's idea, she is obligated to take a >chapter. Sweet Alec has already offered to do one. I am now volunteering >to do one. Max--you gonna take one? Doug? How do people learn to write >like this? Anyone willing to take a stab at translating it? One way they learn is by reading ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 08:53:28 PST 1998

41306 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I think Butler is saying that in the past, capitalism, as one social >system (as analysed by Althusser), dominated in a fairly transparent >way. But today, power is dispersed, throughout society. The 'contingent >sites' is referring to the way that sources of authority are not set in >stone. The implication being that once oppositional forces, like, say, >trade unions (my example, not JBs), can become conservative. I think it's less a change in the nature ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 08:35:46 PST 1998

41307 Calvin Trillin -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >This is the guy who writes those incredibly bad (even for jokes) poems for >The Nation. I've often wondered if he used to be some hot shot, so they >let him do these. Il've also wondered if he actually got paid for these. I >think of him as the Andy Rooney of the left, though Rooney is sometimes >acidentally amusing as well as irritateing. Trillin - "Bud" to his friends - started doing those poems for The Nation after he took up a syndicated column, and the ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 24 07:21:52 PST 1998

41308 Henwood in Baffler #11 -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >A funny thing about Alan Wolfe is that he used to be >a Marxist. Back in the 1970s he wrote or co-authored at least >a couple of Marxist-oriented textbooks on politics. This all >goes to show what a good career move becoming an >ex-Marxist can be. There is hope for Doug, yet. -:) One of the many things that makes Wolfe's book - One Nation, After All - so repellent is that he explictly serves it up as a peace offering to suburbia, a penance for all his c ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 23 19:30:43 PST 1998

41309 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

No doubt many of you have seen this a hundred times already. Judith Butler has won this year's Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the journal Philosophy and Literature (anyone know anything about this journal). The full story is at <http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily>. Here's the winning sentence, from her essay "Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time," in Diacritics: The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 23 15:05:06 PST 1998

41310 tobacco and political money -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Moreover, I still find it remarkable that >my observation that tobacco is 3% of the total is huge >carries no weight with some. 3% of the total ain't much, Greg, given the way some tobacco hysterics are painting Philip Morris as somehow controlling the national political agenda. Insurance, health interests, and trial lawyers, most of whom are anti-tobacco (how about those legal fees in the tobacco settlement, eh?), dwarf their contributions. If tobacco is so godalmig ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 23 13:45:28 PST 1998