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41416 Bourdieu on neoliberalism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Just as Jacques Ranciere broke with Althusser, he >has written a severe criticism of Pierre Bourdieu, summarized by Kirsten >Ross in her intro to Ranciere's The Ignorant Schoolmaster. Could you summarize Ross's summary? >Even if the collective power of labor is crushed, this still would not make >the Walrasian model an adequate description of bourgeois society. I don't see PB arguing for the wisdom or functionality of Walras' model - I see him arguing that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:03:17 PST 1998

41417 Political Ecology -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >The critique of political ecology >can never be the world-historical task which Marx's critique >of political economy was. Why not, Mark? If, as David Harvey argues, the built environment and the modification of "nature" (which is rarely "natural," but almost always humanly remade; and don't forget Adorno's dictum that the image of undistorted nature originates in distortion, as its opposite) are deeply social, then political ecology and political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 07:52:35 PST 1998

41418 Bourdieu on neoliberalism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >The OECD is a bunch of bureaucrats in Paris. They don't have any serious >money. They publish reports and hold conferences... And to join you have to satisfy certain criteria of financial and product market "opening," much to the recent damange of newest members Mexico and South Korea. And the OECD was the forum where the MAI was being negotiated until their cover was blown; now it's being transferred to another bunch of bureaucrats, the WTO. As the man said, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 19:32:20 PST 1998

41419 Women We Love: Gina Gershon -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Esquire... > >Anyhoo, Here's a piece on Gina Gershon from their August 1996 'Women We >Love' issue, written by contributing editor Michael Angeli. Hey, Katrina vanden Heuvel made their list once - or maybe even twice. They loved her (now retired, I think) green leather miniskirt. For what it's worth, Susie Bright says that the lesbian sex in the movie Bound was the total vindication of everything she ever wanted to show on a screen. Details will be in her forthc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 18:43:36 PST 1998

41420 Bourdieu on neoliberalism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >If this were the gong show, he'd be gone halfway through this first >paragraph. The OECD as an *armed* extension of the economic world??? He's French, Brad. They use language extravagantly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 18:37:08 PST 1998

41421 Antarctica melting? -- rank: 1000

Christopher Allen quoted: > July 27, 1998 > > A Decade of Hot Air > > by Patrick J. Michaels > >(Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato >Institute.) I suppose we could exchange snippets all day. But a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute would not have that job if he didn't take the position he does in this article. Whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 09:09:30 PST 1998

41422 Bourdieu on neoliberalism -- rank: 1000

LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE - December 1998 UTOPIA OF ENDLESS EXPLOITATION The essence of neoliberalism ______________________________________________________________ What is neoliberalism? A programme for destroying collective structures which may impede the pure market logic. By PIERRE BOURDIEU * ______________________________________________________________ As the dominant discourse would have it, the economic world is a pure and perfect order, implacably unrolling the logic of its predictable cons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 08:52:30 PST 1998

41423 mortgage rate-history -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Can any of you tell me where I can look--on the 'net--for an overview of >mortgage rates since the 1950s. I seem to recall that when I was in the >market for a house this summer, that the rates were the lowest they been >since the fifties. Am I right? The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis has a bunch of time series; the mortgage history - which begins in 1964 - is <http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/data/irates/fha30>. The Fed's Board of Gov's has a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 07:50:54 PST 1998

41424 Reading Judy .. Judith wouldn't like it -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I took it that the addition of "Judy" [in questions addressed to her] >was an effort to dislodge me from the more formal "Judith" and to recall >me to a bodily life that could not be theorized away. There was a >certain exasperation in the delivery of that final diminutive, a certain >patronizing quality which (re)constituted me as an unruly child, one who >needed to be brought to task, restored to that bodily being which is, >after all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 20:03:09 PST 1998

41425 Professor Judy Butler -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >But, Doug, are you sure that he is a >Marxist? Does he claim to be one? Oh that purity thing again. As far as I know he claims to be one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 16:39:23 PST 1998

41426 Abject Judy -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In 'Gender Imitation and subobordination' (reproduced in C Lemert's >Collection Social Theory, 1991) Judith Butler critiques the positions of >objectification (bad, obviously) subjectivity (bad she says because it >implies objectification of others, of which I am not convinced) and then >raises a third way, which avoids both of these traps... > >...the 'abject'. Hmm, I thought the abject was necessary for a dominant regime to function as a norm, and if ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 14:48:27 PST 1998

41427 Judy -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Judith Schapiro, the President of Barnard, is a well-established feminist >scholar who writes about transgender issues. When the primarily >African-American clerical staff organized by the UAW went on strike to >defend their health insurance gains, she tried to break their strike. Class >matters in the final analysis and the pomos try to bury it. The most >compelling indictment of all these pomos is that their profile in political >struggles, as opposed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 14:25:31 PST 1998

41428 grad student unionizing -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >ps Gina Gershon played a v. Hot butch lesbian in the absurd mob flick Bound Bingo. Silly movie, but Gina was an eyeful. Watched it on pay-per-view the other night. For a sample, see <http://members.tripod.com/~yellowbastard/pictures/corky6.jpg>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 14:03:34 PST 1998

41429 Antarctica melting? -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:10:02 -0800 To: can at asis.com From: Climate Action NOW! <climate at asis.com> Subject: Is Antarctica Disintegrating? Is a Madhouse Century Knocking at Our Door? by Andy Caffrey (updated revision of "Antarctica's 'Deep Impact' Threat," originally published in Summer 1998 Earth Island Journal) Argentina's Antarctic base camp on the Larsen Ice Shelf had been rattled by nonstop ice quakes when the radio crackled, "Rudy, something's happening, the ice ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 09:59:23 PST 1998

41430 Wellstone & Bradley -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Please please. Bradley is not a New Jersey guy. >I'm from NJ. As am I, and distinguished listmember Frances Bolton too (who, unlike me, loves the Garden State). While in the Senate, Bradley was a loyal servant of the pharmaceutical industry, a major presence in NJ. I'll try to dig out the old Counterpunch story on his services rendered to Merck. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 09:13:16 PST 1998