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2101 Self/Other or Singular -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.5.32.20000206000804.007aadb0 at pop.netlink.com.au>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >I wasn't quarreling on the issue itself, but as to whether it's possible to >simply toss aside 'the problematic of self and other'. This is an >occassion where I think it's at work. The 'problematic of the self and other' makes a transient conflict into an absolute logical form. Sartre and deBeauvoir did this with the concept of 'the other' that they took from Heg ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:37:03 PST 2000

2102 "Choice" & History (was Re: Rawls) -- rank: 1000

In message <v03130300b4bbc64a9023@[140.254.114.153]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Liberalism contains the idea of historical evolution -- the history of >Progress -- with stages and all; it is clear in Mill, Kant, and other >giants of liberalism, so it is no wonder Rawls endorses it. Some people >think that historical materialism is a version of teleology, a stagist >history of Progress, but I beg to differ. I do agree with you, however, >Mar ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:48:46 PST 2000

2103 Speaking of Rape & Deconstruction -- rank: 1000

I had to read a post-modern theologian Don Cupitt's book, After All, for a seminar recently. In it Cupitt advances the deconstructive argument that evil is the excluded other of theology, and that religion ought to embrace evil, too. In message <v03130306b4bcc1360f9e@[140.254.112.204]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >I wonder if devotees of deconstruction are comfortale "deconstructing" the >"binary" between consent and lack of consent and ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:41:35 PST 2000

2104 Desire & Scarcity (was Re: Desire under the Elms) -- rank: 1000

There is a good illustration of the relative nature of need and desire in the British household income statistics. In 1984 around 15 per cent of income was spent on food and 10 per cent on entertainment. Today those figures are reversed. Trying to work out what the difference was it seemed to me that you could put some of it down to cheaper food (ie increased agricultural productivity), but it might also be down to higher wages (in 1984 we were still in a big recession). As incomes increased the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:30:33 PST 2000

2105 Brand-Added Value -- rank: 1000

In message <3A4F7873.589C5896 at igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes > >You've got the ratio reversed. Using these numbers, the rate of >exploitation (s/v) would be 1.60. Unfortunately, assuming total value >(output) of 1.279 trillion, the figure for surplus includes the >replacement cost of fixed capital (see below), so, in that sense it >overstates s/v (by excluding c, what Marx called circulating constant >capital). Either I misunderstand you, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 31 14:02:59 PST 2000

2106 Eurogrowth, Rwanda -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 31 December 2000 EUROPE: RETURN OF THE 'OLD ECONOMY' America's misfortune is proving to be Europe's advantage. The new technology Nasdaq market's worst ever year -falling 39 percent - was matched by the New York Stock Exchange's worst result in 20 years as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell six per cent since 1 January 2000. In 1999 the European Union's Annual Economic Report anticipated a 'flight to quality' as investors shifted from the depressed Asian market into Europe, bu ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 31 01:03:28 PST 2000

2107 London tube closing -- rank: 1000

Not to my knowledge. Underground drivers have been exceptionally militant in the early nineties taking on the then head of the Underground Dennis Tunnicliffe (?). As I remember their union was then so supine that the drivers had to meet in secret without the union's knowledge. The big change to London's celebrations this year comes not courtesy of the underground unions but the precuationary principle at work in the British courts that has prevented Mayor Livingstone from holding a firework disp ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 29 10:23:07 PST 2000

2108 Brand-Added Value -- rank: 1000

In message <4.3.2.7.1.20001229072836.00cbfa00 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >>Interesting numbers, Jim. > > >Comparing £491 billion to £787 billion would imply a rate of exploitation >of about 60% which would be massive. Not that massive considering the long run trend to increase labour productivity and thereby cheapen the value of labour power. >Does the figure of £787 billion >include raw materials and fixed capital costs? ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 29 10:06:13 PST 2000

2109 Scrooge defended -- rank: 1000

This is my nomination for the Scrooge competition Dying of consumption The more we consume, the happier we will be. Or so we like to believe. But for the planet, it's disastrous George Monbiot Guardian Thursday December 28, 2000 The modern industrial economy works like this: resources are dug from a hole in the ground on one side of the planet, used for a few weeks, then dumped in a hole on the other side of the planet. This is known as the "creation of value". The creation of value im ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 29 10:19:26 PST 2000

2110 Brand-Added Value -- rank: 1000

In message <3A4975A9.DAD51A80 at igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes quoting me > In >> Britain in 1999 24 million people worked a sum total of 47 736 million >> hours. In that time they created first goods and services to an >> equivalent of their wages, £491.3 billion, and then an additional value >> of £787.4 billion for their employers. Then asking >Interesting numbers, Jim. But where did you get them and what do they >mean? Do th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 27 04:56:32 PST 2000

2111 Jan Carowan -- rank: 1000

Dear Mr Carowan, Moved as I am by your predicament, I am sure that the libertarian principle involved is not freedom of speech (which has not been abrogated here, since you are at liberty to set up your own list) but the freedom of property and contract. You surely cannot be suggesting that Mr Henwood is not at liberty to dispose of his property as he feels fit? Such a view would seem closer to the Marxist critique of the capitalist's monopoly over the means of communication than any libertarian ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 27 04:49:36 PST 2000

2112 Brand-Added Value -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 24 December 2000 Issues in the news: With drinks' company Diageo's purchase of Seagram Brands like Absolut Vodka ahead of Xmas its stocks fell and rose - another chapter in the continuing business obsession with THE ADDED VALUE OF BRANDS Branding is key to contemporary business theory, which sees brands as wealth generators in their own right. Interbrand estimates the additional value that brands bring to some big name products: Brand Brand value $M Coca Cola ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 24 02:41:08 PST 2000

2113 US Elections, Yob Culture -- rank: 1000

In message <20001218181411.9001.qmail at web10807.mail.yahoo.com>, Adam Pressler <adampopulist at yahoo.com> writes >Excuse my ignorance. Could you please explain what >"Yob Culture" is? > >Adam Excuse my anglo-centrism. Yob Culture is a buzzword in British politics right now, meaning culture of violent crime. 'Yob' is an English slangword for hooligan (to use the Irish name our forefathers gave him). It's etymology is boy, spelt backwards. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 18 12:17:20 PST 2000

2114 US Elections, Yob Culture -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 17 December 2000 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN? THAT WAS AFTER THE ELECTION Throughout the autumn, Americans endured the most boring election campaign in living memory. The candidates, dubbed Gush and Bore for their insubstantial contribution to the debate. Though the form was a contest, the content was missing. Differences between the candidates were minimal. Appeals to the traditional constituencies of either party were deliberately left understated, so as not to jeopardize the imagine ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 17 03:07:30 PST 2000

2115 Anti-capitalism wasRe: Queen's Speech, NSPCC, Nice -- rank: 1000

In message <l0311070fb65e8658e323@[137.43.14.46]>, Andrew Flood <andrewflood at eircom.net> writes > >I don't know if James wrote this or he's forwarding >something but in either case (I wrote it) >This is the BIG probelm with using the media as your source for >information about the movement. The reality is that all the >protests have included large and well attended counter-summits >to which the media were invited and at which a mixture of >names and ordina ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 15 15:20:00 PST 2000