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2296 debating libertarians -- rank: 1000

In message <004701bf129d$239388a0$d818c897 at bellatlantic.net>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >> >> I think that there is a racist element in this emphasis on Waco (just as >> . . . >The role of race in the treatment of these two is >pretty obvious. Waco is discussed often, MOVE >hardly at all. > >Part of the racial source is the outrage of the >far right re: Waco, which grief is not equally >apportioned to MOVE victims. Of course ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 9 13:11:02 PDT 1999

2297 CFH: ethic investment: contradiction in terms or? -- rank: 1000

In message <00cc01bf0da1$50241160$064fefd1 at default>, elena <spectra at elits.rousse.bg> writes >1) Any criticism of "ethic advertising/consumerism/investment" from a >marxist point of view? >From LM 93, September 1996: Introducing the new, improved, fairer, sharing Caring Capitalism In the eighties they told us that 'Greed is good'. But in the nineties, World Bank officials, Wall Street consultants and other pillars of the establishment seem to have swallowed an ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:42:44 PDT 1999

2298 Paglia in WSJ -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910021524210.13762-100000 at uhunix4>, Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes >Certainly, Jim, you would agree that Aijaz Ahmad's contribution to issues >Paglia addresses below are far more interesting? Makes Paglia's critique >look awfully amaterish at best. Ahmed is good, but does that take away from Paglia? She is a very different writer, whose speculative flights of fancy have often been used to attack her by those who, indulging the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 3 02:04:36 PDT 1999

2299 Paglia in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Well, the usual fireworks from Camille Paglia, but hardly warranting the epithet of racism. I should say it was a pleasure to find someone who felt so strongly about teaching. And on this score, she is absolutely right: the reduction of all knowledge to vested interests is a wholly pernicious influence on scholarship (it derives not from the revolutionary left, but the increasingly conservative Mannheim). If Paglia is the enemy, then its the wrong war. In message <v04210107b41c2bf2ef95@[166.8 ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:41:00 PDT 1999

2300 Paglia in the WSJ -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.SOL.4.10.9910011702170.3833-100000 at phoenix.Princeton.ED U>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes > >Boy, Jim H, you missed the point, though I hardly surprised that you have >to the incoherent defense of Paglia. I think on the whole that it is not constructive to discuss these matters with you. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 1 16:09:48 PDT 1999

2301 Paglia in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Yes, the theory of Aryan origins and its critique is quite well-known,. Most recently in Britain, Nazi Aryan theories were the subject of a rather good documentary on the fourth largest terrestrial television channel with viewing figures around three million (pop 60 m). It is the subject of best-selling author Umberto Eco's recent book on the quest for the perfect language, and indeed the subject of that most famous of all critiques, De Saussure's Course on Linguistics. Two fat volumes of Marti ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Oct 1 09:07:23 PDT 1999

2302 Paglia in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, Your critique is very good, but not having seen the article, it is difficult to judge. You suggest that Paglia's reluctance to go down that road is ignorance. But maybe she thinks it already a well-trodden road, and would prefer to bend the stick in the other direction. from your description her intervention is to emphasise the objective gains in Egyptology and archaeology. Is that a bad thing? Is all this science really reducible to its ideological motivations? All the good work that cr ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 01:39:21 PDT 1999

2303 ex-Marxist apostates (was He's Got the Whole World In His Hands) -- rank: 1000

In message <01bf0bcf$576d9b40$132250d8 at peterk.enteract.com>, Peter Kilander <peterk at enteract.com> writes >I think Doug's on to something when he suggests that many are intelligent >enough to recognize the class stuggle dimension of society, but sell-out >pure and simple, like Mr. Alcaly. Did anyone read about the ex-Marxist >who's George W. Bush's pointman on "compassionate conservativism"? He had >joined the Communist Party in his youth and seems rath ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 01:41:13 PDT 1999

2304 Keynes / 'jouissance' -- rank: 1000

In message <v03130301b4481a00f29b@[140.254.113.75]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >I'd say 'jouissance' is akin to Keynes' comment on the game of professional >investment: the point is to 'ape unreason proleptically' (qtd. in Henwood, >_Wall Street_, p. 206). I tried to argue that jouissance is just a particular theorisation of the surplus, where it is unproductively consumed in my pamphlet Need and Desire in the Postmaterial Economy. I mean that sense in ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 4 23:30:43 PST 1999

2305 Science vs. Ideology -- rank: 1000

In message <19991103152505.22682.qmail at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes > I'm thinking of the recent tendency to pepper >people with contradictory findings about whether high-carbohydrate or >high-fat diets produce more lasting weight loss; whether anti-oxidants >reduce or promote cancer; whether tea, coffee, alcohol, etc. is a net risk >or benefit at whatever level. Endless examples can be cited, of course, all >of them deeply tediou ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 4 23:24:26 PST 1999

2306 the australian constitutional thingy -- rank: 1000

Am I being naive, or is it plain obvious that Australians should vote against the monarchy? The only objections that I have heard are reactionary, like the one that it would be terrible if the head of state was a politician, or someone who was popular. Is there anything in the alternative proposal that is worse than entrusting Australia's head of state to the chance meandering of the Windsor's gene-pool? Allowing that the referendum does not contain the third option - a soviet socialist republic ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 3 03:56:16 PST 1999

2307 it's the Science vs. Ideology show -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9911021421080.22566-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes >I think Marx was wrong on this point, Jim. There are a couple of crucial >differences between the objects of social inquiry and the objects of >physics that prevent us from making valid universal statements about >social phenomena. And this keeps historical or social science from ever >being science in quite the same way that natural science is. Th ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 2 18:18:46 PST 1999

2308 Science vs. Ideology (was Re: foucault? relativist? ROTFL!) -- rank: 1000

In message <19991102151620.96843.qmail at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes > >Jim, I think this concept of "ever more refined" is misleading. You give >the impression that scientific understanding advances in pretty much a >straight line, with successive theories tugging this way and that but >following the same general trajectory. That sure isn't the way science >seems to proceed in, e.g., the health sciences -- whose contrar ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 17:57:14 PST 1999

2309 today's Suck -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210121b4437c9b2c1d@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Today's Suck <http://www.suck.com> is by the very fine "Ambrose >Beers" (real name: Chris Bray). Beers disappeared from the Suck >roster a few months ago when he signed up for the Army. Apparently he >had a spare moment to write a Suck. There may not be another for a >while. A reference, presumably to that fine American cynic, Ambrose Bierce, author of the D ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 12:22:46 PST 1999

2310 Science vs. Ideology (was Re: foucault? relativist? ROTFL!) -- rank: 1000

In message <005a01bf23b9$0f9c80e0$6d802bd1 at c77125a>, Lisa & Ian Murray <seamus at accessone.com> writes >Yoshie wrote: All truly scientific endeavors >contain the kernel of truth beyond ideology > >What is it about reality, language and mind that "allows" this to be a >possibility at all? "All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided", Capital, vol III, p 817 Lawrence and Wishart ed. ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:59:16 PST 1999