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4786 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > I should probably reread the Agamben, but I think he's using a > different definition of petty bourgeoisie, or looking at class in a > different way, one that's not reducible to income or wealth. My guess > is that he's following Foucault here in thinking that neoliberalism > changes the form and function of the wage laboring, makes it something > more akin to an enterprise. In other words, rather than being just > workers we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 11:19:50 PST 2009

4787 [lbo-talk] recipe -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 7:41 PM, SA wrote: > The real genius on that website is Mary HK Choi. Check this out: > http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/mary-hk-choi-and-natasha-vargas-cooper-on-new-moon-teenage-female-desire-manifest By the way, Natasha Vargas-Cooper is Marc Cooper's daughter. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 16:57:51 PST 2009

4788 [lbo-talk] recipe -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 7:41 PM, SA wrote: > The real genius on that website is Mary HK Choi. Check this out: > http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/mary-hk-choi-and-natasha-vargas-cooper-on-new-moon-teenage-female-desire-manifest She's great. But I'd never put anyone ahead of Balk and Choire Sicha. They're my heroes. I met Choire at a party the other week, and I was starstruck. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 16:55:38 PST 2009

4789 [lbo-talk] recipe -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It's kind of weird that after fuck-you-I'm-a-Guy'ing it up for a few > paragraphs he winds up with this: > >>> Beringer's 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Private Reserve >>> makes an >>> absolutely delightful accompaniment, particularly if you've taken >>> care to >>> let it breathe a bit before quaffing. > > I mean: what a pussy. That's the genius of Alex Balk. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 14:57:30 PST 2009

4790 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> It's a lot easier to write theory when you don't actually have to >> marshall >> any empirical evidence. Because to make an argument like this, you >> couldn't >> marshall any empirical evidence. > > So what's the counterfactual empirical evidence to Agamben's claim? The petty bourgeois in the rich countries has bee ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 14:11:52 PST 2009

4791 [lbo-talk] recipe -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-to-cook-a-fucking-steak> How To Cook A Fucking Steak Go to the goddamn grocery and get steak. Yes, the grocery. A little ammonia is not going to kill you, you pussy. You want to be all fancy and grass-fed and environmentally conscious, go ahead, I don't give a shit, just get a fucking steak. Ribeye is good. And, yes, bone-in. Schmuck. Take the steak home. Get a bigass frying pan and put the shit on the stove, cranking the heat up as far as that fucke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 12:12:47 PST 2009

4792 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > This might be relevant, from The Coming Community: > > "IF WE had once again to conceive of the fortunes of humanity in > terms of > class, then today we would have to say that there are no longer > social classes, > but just a single planetary petty bourgeoisie, in which all the old > social > classes are dissolved: The petty bourgeoisie has inherited the world > and is > the form in which humanity has survive ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 11:35:09 PST 2009

4793 [lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do With It? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:38 PM, c b wrote: > How about poverty has > something to do with it _and_ race has something to do with , both ? Yeah, for sure. No argument from me.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 20 10:50:34 PST 2009

4794 [lbo-talk] mental health -- rank: 1000

<http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ginsberg50s.html> A brief excerpt from David Burner's Making Peace with the Sixties (Princeton University Press, 1996): Ginsberg's stay in the mental ward was not intended to help him realize his desire for life to be a "sweet humane surprise." Ginsberg tried to conform, returned after several months to Paterson, dated women, and found a job. He was miserable until he moved to California in 1954 and began seeing a $1 an hour psychi ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 20 09:59:17 PST 2009

4795 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Doug, jeez let 'em be 18-22... For sure. But Eric's not.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 19 18:07:25 PST 2009

4796 [lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do With It? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Why can't people sign their names to things anymore, either? > > I know, kids these days. How am I supposed to discern their, um, > identity? I can understand if people have workplace reasons for staying anonymous. But otherwise it's really nice to know who wrote something. Helps you evaluate where they're coming from.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 19 10:29:01 PST 2009

4797 [lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do With It? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> What political purpose is served by >> foregrounding the racial angle? Why not pitch it in some more >> universal way >> that might win broader support? > > First, not to be rude, but this sounds kind of whiny. One could just > as easily ask why you don't accept their outlook and why you expect > them to say the t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 19 09:55:08 PST 2009

4798 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > The university steals and homogenizes our time yes, our bank accounts > also, but it also steals and homogenizes meaning. As much as capital > is invested in building a killing apparatus abroad, an incarceration > apparatus in California, it is equally invested here in an apparatus > for managing social death. Oh please. Universities compared to what? Auto plants? McDonald's? The right hates universities because they provide some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 19 08:47:12 PST 2009

4799 [lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do With It? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do > With It? Well I don't know. What does it have to do with it? California is totally broke, in a class by itself among all U.S. states, really, so there is a serious fiscal problem which this unnamed writer doesn't want to admit to. Why is it at all surprising that the bourgeois solution to it would be to cut aid to those most needing it? This piece asserts, but doesn't eve ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 19 08:10:22 PST 2009

4800 [lbo-talk] the dark side of JMK -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > It also gives a sense of how thin academic and professional economics > was at the time. Keynes got his job at Cambridge, and the editorship > of the Economic Journal, having hardly studied economics at all, > mainly because his Dad was mates with Marshall, although he was > clearly very bright and had a lot of expertise in stats. > > Genius economist though. So maybe the thinness had a good side? The modern fraternity - it's ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 19 06:45:25 PST 2009