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41371 Judy Fest -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >It's perhaps a little early to ask about this, but we're not just going to >open fire on the entire book on the 10th? I think it would be better to do >her one chapter at a time. It would be rad if we could get someone to >volunteer to give us a starting point for each chpt (diff person) but >that might be pushing it. I think we should start on the introduction. It's only about 30 pages, and it captures the themes of the book nicely, as I remember (bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 10:28:45 PST 1998

41372 AMZN madness -- rank: 1000

How about that stock market, eh? Amazon is up 47 3/4 points to 290 1/2 as I type. Yahoo has a hilarious 5-day chart at <http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN&d=5d>. Today's ostensible reason: an analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer figures the stock will hit $400, based on his profit projections for 2004! And by his account, the stock is cheap today, trading at only 28 times 2004 earnings!!! Based on current prices, Amazon's stock is worth $15.2 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' personal stake ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 10:23:09 PST 1998

41373 FAIR hiring -- rank: 1000

Anyone need a job? ----- Please pass this message on to anyone you think might be appropriate for any of these jobs. > DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR for FAIR, the national media watch group. > Responsibilities include: grant writing and foundation fundraising, > individual donor development, excellent communication skills, special > events. 40 hours/week, starting salary of $27,000+ child supplement, > full health/dental benefits. Application deadline December 21st. No > phone calls, pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 09:44:17 PST 1998

41374 Judy Fest -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: >Oboy oboy it looks like I'll be playing devil's advocate starting the >9th! 10th! What's the devil's position on Judy anyway? You're not implying that Max is on the side of the angels, are you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 16 09:15:16 PST 1998

41375 Clinton & Tobacco -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >During the 1996 presidential campaign I cut & copied a photograph from >the Economist magazine of President Clinton smoking a huge cigar. I gave >copies of this photograph to a number of my pals. By his own >addmission the president has admitted his fondness for a good cigar. Of >course I'm sure he doesn't inhale. Nope, Monica did. Christopher Hitchens says he knew Clinton's clique at Oxford, and they were famous for their pot parties. But they didn't smo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 15 11:14:48 PST 1998

41376 Judy Fest -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >somebody remind me what we're reading? The Psychic Life of Power, Stanford University Press, 1997. Amazon sales rank: 36,858. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 15 11:13:14 PST 1998

41377 Judy Fest -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Will be unsubscribed for the next few days while moving. Please *DON'T* >start the Judy Fest until Jan. 9 I'm away from Jan 1-9, so I've drawn upon my privileges of listownership to declare that the Judy Season opens on Jan 10. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 15 08:51:33 PST 1998

41378 Prisoners -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >I thought they only came out with new catalogs in the Spring and in the >Fall? This isn't the Spring '99 catalog is it? The one with Mike >Davis's POTAD that I've been eagerly awaiting? Yes, Spring '99. But Prisoners of the American Dream is listed for August publication. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 14:20:07 PST 1998

41379 Wagner, etc. -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >Everybody's comments on this subject have been very interesting, but I am >very conscious of intruding with a subject that is off-base for this list, >so I won't perpetuate the thread. I just hope that when some people look >scornfully at Wagner-lovers, they will remember the last time they listened >to the Rolling Stones, or whomever, and think twice. Yeah, who listens to the Rolling Stones anymore? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 14:18:24 PST 1998

41380 Hoover on HK movies -- rank: 1000

The new Verso catalog - not yet up at their website - is just off press. Prominently announced on p. 5 is City On Fire: Hong Kong Cinema, by listero Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes. The text won't scan because of a prominent graphic behind it, but here's what Andrew Ross says: "A tour-de-force analysis of Hong Kong's film genres, which profiles a city with no time to recover, from its own high-speed car chase through late capitalist development." So tell us about the book, Michael. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 13:20:37 PST 1998

41381 cyberutopian libertarianism -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Anyone remember an article in Mother Jones a loooong time ago called >"CyberSelfish?" The gist of the piece was that cybertopian whining about >government regulation was hypocritical, given that most technological >innovation has been the result of government R&D. > >The article served as the perfect weapon for waging war on that execrable >species known as the Internet Libertarian Geek Boy, whose natural habit >is Usenet newsgroups de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 12:53:50 PST 1998

41382 cyberutopian libertarianism -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote, responding to me: >>Did you ever have a moment where you thought that maybe furious change for >>the sake of production is an appalling, destructive, even oppressive thing? >>Even just a nanosecond? > > >Did you ever have a moment where you thought that maybe the left is sinking >into conservativism, and that could well be the reason for its declining >sex appeal? That ain't me, buddy. I've never been a Luddite or a sentimentalist. Why do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 09:11:08 PST 1998

41383 Nuts and berries -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 98-12-14 11:16:09 EST, you write: > ><< > And what does it all tell you, Rakesh? What do you gain from all that > tedious work? Those are sincere, not rhetorical, questions. > >> >Well for one - if you accept Shaikh & Tonak's estimates - the rate of surplus >value extraction did not slowdown, even though so-called measured productivity >decelerated after 1973. Moreover, the ratio of "unproductive/pro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 08:40:43 PST 1998

41384 another hit on Mike Davis -- rank: 1000

Today's Suck <http://www.suck.com> has another hit on Mike Davis - another referring to their own earlier hit (at <http://www.suck.com/daily/98/11/19/>, a link that's misspecified in today's Suck, actually - if you're going to piss on other folks for not getting their facts straight, you should probably try to get your own links right) as well as hits by the L.A. Times, the L.A. Weekly, and New Times. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 08:27:33 PST 1998

41385 Nuts and berries -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >As you surely know--being an economics professor--the formation of this >question over how to calculate the increase of exchange value led Marx to >reorganize the structure of *Capital*. Today there are a set of Marxists >who have undertaken conceptual and empirical work--Fred Moseley, Anwar >Shaikh and Ahmet Tonak, Paul Cockshott and Allin Cotrill, Alan Freeman, >Guglielmo Carchedi and the contributors to Quantitative Marxism, ed. Dunn. >I am only no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 14 07:59:20 PST 1998