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2281 _A Critique of Postcolonial Reason_ (1) -- rank: 1000

Interesting parallel between Spivak's theory of the 'native informant', and more generally that of the subaltern, on the one hand, and the theory of the 'marginal man'. It was a commonplace of race theory that the marginal man who was caught between two cultures was particularly pathological. Aspiring to Western standards, but hampered by native sensibilities the marginal man was supposed to be prone to excessive cunning and violence, as well as prey to self-loathing and pretension. The 'margina ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 15 05:56:21 PDT 1999

2282 Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...) -- rank: 1000

Engels on the Enlightenment generally: 'It was the greatest progressive revolution that mankind had so far experienced, a time which called for giants and produced giants - giants in power of thought, passion and character, in universality and learning. The men who founded the modern rule of the bourgeoisie had anything but bourgeois limitations.' Dialectics of Nature, p21 Engels on Kant: 'Kant's epoch-making work' p 25 'The first breach in this petrified outlook on nature was made not by a natu ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 14 17:55:13 PDT 1999

2283 An Indian take on "globalization" and kakistocracy -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010ab42ba8a68a71@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Actually that's not exactly true. "Corruption" is one of the >obsessions of the World Bank these days. Yes, the politics of corruption should be taken with a pinch of salt. I'm just reading a vile little book called 'The Criminalization of the African State' by some French third-worldists. Their thesis is that the African state is essentially criminal, a kleptocracy. Of co ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 14 13:13:20 PDT 1999

2284 empty gravesite -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19991013120857.007c8240 at pop.bc.sympatico.ca>, David Horne <dhorne at bc.sympatico.ca> writes > The >important thing to remember is that the other enthic groups would do >exactly the same kinds of things given the opportunity. It is not so much >that the Serbs have been given a bad rap, but that the other sides have >been let off too lightly. A truly misanthropic view. Of course, as we all know we are all potential killers (in much the same way t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 14 15:07:36 PDT 1999

2285 Spivak sez... -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421011bb42a6aec6408@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: > >>Apart from that, I am of course deeply prejudiced >>against her because she denounced me as a 'racist' on the grounds that I >>quoted Francis Bacon, and therefore supported the colonisation of nature >>by reason (as I've related before). > >This sounds very odd, especially since she spoke at some length about >her admiration ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 14 15:12:06 PDT 1999

2286 Factory boss slain in wake of reforms (fwd) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910111451180.13904-100000 at uhunix4>, Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes >Subject: Factory boss slain in wake of reforms > >Hong Kong Standard >10.11.99 > >Factory boss slain in wake of reforms on > corruption > > STORY: A CHIEF executive of a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in the > northwest province of Shaanxi is thought to have been murdered > because of his ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 13 08:30:22 PDT 1999

2287 Spivak sez... -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.991012154539.538976853A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> writes >Eagleton can be interesting, but he misses the point: theory does not >think in sentences. It's the grammar, the space between the sentences, >through which the lightning-bolt of content flashes. Eloquent, but meaning what, exactly? Is grammar the 'space between sentences'? Does theory really dispense with sentences. I often tell studen ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 13 08:21:04 PDT 1999

2288 internet stalking -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.19991011161417.006de650 at pop.flash.net>, kelley <oudies at flash.net> writes >but quite frankly jim, between the idiot and your comments and the comments >of people that take a similar position., i don't give a bat's eyelash >anymore. it IS a losing battle but not because he has power by himself. >he has power becuase of the attitudes you just promulgated. Well, I'm happy to be told that I am wrong. But it is a bit excessive to say that my attitu ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 11 17:51:22 PDT 1999

2289 [fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut ofresponses(fwd) -- rank: 1000

In message <003a01bf1424$f310b5c0$5a19050a at de.diamondmm.com>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes quoting me >> I would never trust the state as it is presently constituted to execute >> people, but I do think that the mainstream 'anti' argument has some >> flaws. >Could you elaborate, what those flaws are? >Johannes Well, Charles here illustrates the argument with his all-too-accurate description of law as it is taught (I am not disag ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 11 17:45:45 PDT 1999

2290 food stamps? was Re: [fla-left] Bloody -- rank: 1000

Marx said of the English poor law, that 'poverty is so endemic in Britain, they have made it into an institution'. His criticism stands for relatively (but only relatively) less degrading forms of welfare relief. It seems close to the dependency school's argument that welfare creates institutional dependency, except that Marx sees poverty as prior to the institution. What he does say is that welfare is part of the problem, not part of the solution. In message <004b01bf1406$5c6140e0$aee13ecb a ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 11 13:30:36 PDT 1999

2291 internet stalking -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.19991010193211.00744d44 at pop.flash.net>, kelley <oudies at flash.net> writes >my reason for writing is that i'm pissed and i want to take action against >this creep. i have no idea how to go about such a thing. Why don't you ignore it. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 11 06:51:35 PDT 1999

2292 [fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut of responses(fwd) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910101846400.27618-100000 at uhunix1>, Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes >Max, >Your sense of history is bizzare. Food stamps programs are a product of >struggles from the left, particularly working class based struggles..The >death penalty? > >Steve I don't think you can automatically make the equation left = anti, right = pro. Lenin pleaded with his comrades to keep the death penalty, feeling that it was an essential for t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 11 06:45:57 PDT 1999

2293 More on the UK rail crash -- rank: 1000

I agree with Carl. The London Underground (which is in public ownership) is in a grotesque state of decay. At King's Cross scores of people wee killed in a fire about ten years ago. One of the reasons that the traditional left is so weak in Britain is that it is much more difficult to make a case for the superiority of national ownership. The lessons of the Coal Board, Railways and British Steel is that public ownership can be just as brutalising as private. The extension of public ownership - a ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 10 14:44:30 PDT 1999

2294 E Timorese embrace escudo -- rank: 1000

In message <003201bf114d$cf84bcc0$c6e13ecb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >btw, isn't Portugal in the EU? Yes. Diario de Noticias editorialises that 'Timor represents Portugal's last chance to redeem itself for the great errors of de-colonisation, errors made not only in Timor but also in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau.' Here it is the act of de-colonisation that is to be apologised for. Diario is helpfully candid about for whose sake the mission is ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 9 13:49:58 PDT 1999

2295 Unionism in Australian: the state of play -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130302b4249b3788d3@[137.92.41.119]>, Rob Schaap <rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au> writes >Rio Tinto decision hailed by Howard In the British parliament last year MP Michael Clapham must have been surprised when quizzing the one-time radical firebrand Overseas Development Minister Clare Short about one company's record of oppressive labour relations to be told 'Rio Tinto had a bad reputation, but it seems to be working to change. All of us, including my hon. Friend, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 9 13:45:26 PDT 1999