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46 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > You're much too hip for us old farts, Doug. C'mon you can do it too

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47 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote: > I think there is much throwing of babies with bathwater in Mark s article, but I m sure he wouldn t embrace the idea of scapegoating postmodernism for this. Would he? I feel like I've entered a time tunnel with this scapegoating of postmodernism again. Didn't we get past that ages ago?

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48 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Diacritics 31.3 (2001) 67-88 In the Wake of Cultural Studies Globalization, > Theory, and the University Tilottama Rajan > > 1 > > Theory today has become an endangered species, as evidenced by the > resistance to difficult language. Thank you for this. Cultural studies is in decline, no? Doug

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49 [lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie? -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 11, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Who Profits from Killing Charlie? stop posting this crap now

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50 [lbo-talk] Fake death ? -- rank: 1000

Oh, fuck no, not this. > On Jan 11, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > bar at idirect.com via lists.riseup.net > > 4:20 PM (35 minutes ago) > to a-list > Watch this video-the French cop they climed to have been shot in the head > and killed was not-a gun is fired near him into the ground-=he plays > dead-shooters leave- > > Proof positive in my view this was a police operation. > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ ...

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51 [lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:21 PM, magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > I promised to do better . . . Hello! Nice to see some old familiar names popping up again. I am not Charlie. I have no further comment. Doug

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52 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:13 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > "Using techniques ranging from supermarket loyalty cards to targeted advertising on Facebook, private companies systematically collect very personal information Really? I had no idea! Relatedly, so fucking what? The thing is free.

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53 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > The archives exist, but their usefulness to those who see themselves as FB s users - who are in fact not so much its users as simultaneously its unpaid laborers and its product - has never been FB s priority. This is deliberate. Ex-FB employee Kate Losse, who wrote a good book on her experience, told me that they deliberately make it difficult to find old stuff because they want you to produce new stuff. > Despite an i ...

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54 [lbo-talk] backgrounder on Brazil -- rank: 1000

there was this from the FT the other day (and this doesn't mention that Rousseff appointed a climate denialist as science minister): Brazil s overburdened pension system has long struggled with one particular problem: sugar daddies , or more precisely, the situation where young women marry men old enough to be their grandfathers so they can lay claim to their pensions when they die. Up until last week, Brazil had some of the most generous retirement rules in the world, allowing the spouses of d ...

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55 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

Well maybe we're gradually picking ourselves up for a livelier 2015!

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56 [lbo-talk] Piketty Responds to Criticisms from the Left: A very detailed interview with Thomas Piketty -- rank: 1000

Good stuff. He's got better politics than I'd thought. > On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:08 AM, Chris Macs <chrismclsf at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://potemkinreview.com/pikettyinterview/ > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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57 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

Charles, stop posting empty messages. It's as annoying as your Obama apolgetics.

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58 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

Though that's dated 2009, I'm pretty sure that's from a book from the 90s. > On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:02 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2015, at 11:55 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > >> By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different >> matter. Do you have a citation for i ek's version? I'd be interested in >> seeing exactly what he means. > > > "When an authoritarian regime a ...

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59 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 28, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > > By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different > matter. Do you have a citation for i ek's version? I'd be interested in > seeing exactly what he means. I wish I did. I binge-read a bunch of his books and they all blurred together.

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60 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:33 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > That said, according to Trotsky, the cossacks refused to beat up the workers after a certain point in 1917. That's when a regime collapses. Zizek tells the story of the refusal of the Shah's cops to fire on demonstrators as marking the end of his reign.

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