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9706 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 1000
On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Doug Henwood quoted Jefferson Airplane: > >> "You call it rain >> but the human name >> doesn't mean shit to a tree." >> - Jefferson Airplane > > The full appropriation of "beauty" requires a fully developed > subjective capability. So too does the creation of the highest forms > of the objectively "beautiful". > > "Materialism" of the kind now dominant als ...
Document Size: 5862
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 6 06:07:59 PDT 2007
9707 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 1000
On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Carrol Cox wrote: > >> My objection is your and Joanna's implicit assumption (which I don't >> think you hold -- but your words surely carry it) that your judgments >> are valid from some perspective "outside" human perception and >> judgment >> -- that there is/would be something beautiful about the B-Minor or >> the >> arc of a dolphin even if humans did not exist. Both of you >> an ...
Document Size: 5309
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 6 05:02:36 PDT 2007
9708 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 1000
On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A certain amount of vulgar intelligence is useful in reacting to the > world. Your observations here have exactly the same content as > Doug's on > the B-minor -- species-centric praise of human superiority: for those > things are only beautiful from a human perspective of beauty. In fact, > this is rather mawkish anthropomorphizing. So why'd you spend your life on Milton and Pound rather than sorghum or strip malls? Doug
Document Size: 4976
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 20:48:18 PDT 2007
9709 [lbo-talk] showbiz for ugly people -- rank: 1000
The Politico.com Breaking News: --------------------------------------------------------- Actor-politician Fred Thompson finally declares his intention to run for president, annoucing during taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Full story: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5665.html
Document Size: 4959
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 17:41:07 PDT 2007
9710 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 1000
On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:44 PM, joanna wrote: > And what exactly are those higher functions except symbol > manipulation? > And why are they "higher" except that they allow us to justify > extremely > horrendous behavior. That, and the B Minor Mass. Has a dog ever written one of those? Doug
Document Size: 4786
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 17:27:15 PDT 2007
9711 [lbo-talk] Finkelstein resigns in deal with DePaul -- rank: 1000
[From the CHE online] September 5, 2007 Finkelstein Resigns at DePaul U., After Deal Forestalls Threats to Defy University Chicago -- Norman G. Finkelstein, the controversial political scientist who was denied tenure at DePaul University last spring, had planned to attempt to return to his office here on the campus this morning, even though he had been placed on administrative leave and his courses had been canceled. He had said that he was willing to be arrested if the university stopped ...
Document Size: 6166
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 15:25:30 PDT 2007
9712 [lbo-talk] PIPA: why Turks feel threatened by US -- rank: 1000
Why Turks Feel Threatened by the US Which Middle Eastern public has the largest percentage of people naming the United States as the country that poses the greatest threat? The answer, according to the most recent Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, is Turkey, a NATO ally and a country that is generally touted as the type of secular, multi-party democracy the United States should foster in the Middle East. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Turkish respondents name the United States which guarant ...
Document Size: 5607
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 09:24:19 PDT 2007
9713 [lbo-talk] new Goldner -- rank: 1000
Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> writes: This is to let you know that my article, "Fictitious Capital for Beginners: Imperialism, "Anti-Imperialism", and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg", is now also on the Break Their Haughty Power web site <http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner> Would you mind announcing it on your e-list? Feedback appreciated, and many thanks.
Document Size: 5052
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 5 08:40:39 PDT 2007
9714 [lbo-talk] mythbusting: a thankless task -- rank: 1000
On Sep 4, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > James H. wrote: > > > >> or that the entire >> science of climate change is based on a computer-modelled >> extrapolation from >> a measured increase in temperatures of less than one degree. > > > > Weren't you taking some hits here with your climate change arguments > when you were called away a few weeks ago? He was, and I don't think it'd be very productive to reopen that can of worms. Doug
Document Size: 5262
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 14:48:15 PDT 2007
9715 [lbo-talk] Mute magazine: out now -- rank: 1000
On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:25 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > The excellent September issue of Mute magazine ('Culture and > politics after > the net') features sections on the philosophy of debt, 'Amortise This' > written by Brett Neilson, and an very good rehearsal of > Luxemburgism by > Loren Goldner > > [though I have to object that I have already demonstrated that the > concept > of 'primitive accumulation' that Mr Goldner is using is based on a > knuckle-headed mis ...
Document Size: 5480
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 12:36:11 PDT 2007
9716 [lbo-talk] Atlas Shrugged turns 50! -- rank: 1000
Celebrate! <http://www.atlasevents.org/>
Document Size: 4617
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 12:06:25 PDT 2007
9717 [lbo-talk] server back -- rank: 1000
In case you were wondering, Jordan's server, which powers this list, was down from late last night into this morning, U.S. time. It's back now, obviously (or obvs, as the kids say). Listmom
Document Size: 4715
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 11:42:02 PDT 2007
9718 [lbo-talk] mythbusting: a thankless task -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - September 4, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/ AR2007090300933.html> Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a flier to combat myths about the flu vaccine. It recited various commonly held views and labeled them either "true" or "false." Among those identified as false were state ...
Document Size: 13898
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 11:33:10 PDT 2007
9719 [lbo-talk] nice work... -- rank: 1000
[Gawker excavated the terms of the employment contract of the widely reviled Bonnie Fuller, editorial director of American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer, Star, and Men's Fitness, disclosed in an SEC filing.] The Company is party to an employment agreement with Ms. Fuller. The term of Ms. Fuller's agreement commenced on July 7, 2003 and was amended as of April 1, 2006 to extend the term of the agreement through March 31, 2009 and to make certain other changes. Under her empl ...
Document Size: 5906
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Sep 4 11:03:57 PDT 2007
9720 [lbo-talk] Request for Bernstein & Cockburn material -- rank: 1000
On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > What's this about? Hope you're not reprising Peter O'Toole's role > in an > American context... :) A Lewis Lapham project. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455906/> An excerpt with Barbara Ehrenreich (Lapham gave her the idea for the book): <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgFiW2xtf0>. Doug
Document Size: 5224
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Sep 3 18:31:58 PDT 2007
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