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2446 Vamping on Work and Class (was: History....) -- rank: 1000

In message <36B92FFD.6CCC at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes >> I wanna see some comparative analysis to Buffy. Oh and that >> reminds me, one of my side little projects to keep my spirits >> cheered is working with a pal on a critical theoretical >> examination of the political economy and work in the >> Vampire Genre. Any thoughts Paul? Esp w/ regard to Buffy > >It's all primitive pre-capitalist accumulation, no? > De ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 4 00:29:24 PST 1999

2447 Sadie Plant (Re: postmodernism and neoclassical economics -- rank: 1000

In message <00b901be4fb1$9f37ea00$1faef783 at compaq>, Frances Bolton <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes >Can someone please explain to me the appeal of Sadie Plant? I found Ones and >Zeroes to be a deeply irritating and nonsensical book. I wanted to like it, >really. I still do. Is her other cybergrrrl stuff better? Anyone in England on the weekend of 6 & 7 March can hear Sadie Plant speak on 'Is the book Dead' and yours truly talking to Paul Gross and Norman Levitt ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Feb 3 17:43:07 PST 1999

2448 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

In message <010701bf5344$48355700$55e33ecb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >not "universalising tendency" perhaps, but certainly we continue to take a >political cue from the form of abstract equivalence at work in capitalist >production processes: abstract labour, money, etc. I think Marx talks of a 'universalising tendency'. But whatever he says, I take seriously Capitalism's universalising tendency, and welcome it for the progressive cont ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 31 08:45:43 PST 1999

2449 A Request -- rank: 1000

I am looking for some quotable early expressions of the idea that the male gaze objectifies woman. I think that Simone deBeauvoir first argued this, in the Second Sex. But if anyone has any good references, or better still some raw, referenced text, I would be very grateful. Please mail to Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 08:54:43 PST 1999

2450 Capital Productivity -- rank: 1000

In message <v04220812b49011e6b4e6@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > And second, and not unrelatedly, capital >equipment is fundamentally the embodiment of human labor - what is >the machine's productivity but all the physical and mental labor went >into it? It depends what you mean by capital, I guess. If you mean instruments of labour, then clearly these are productive of useful objects, though they create no new value. If you mean the socia ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 08:22:33 PST 1999

2451 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

In message <0.8d5d8ad2.259c213d at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >Justin. This is the Friedman/Nozick line that capitalism is antiracist that >started this thread. It is true in a sense. Capitalism has tendencies towards >reducing everything to no-color abstract labor. These tendencies are in a >sense egalitarian. Marx alluded to this element of capitalism when he said >things like Workers have no nation, etc. But that is not the only tendency in >capitalism. That is ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 08:42:49 PST 1999

2452 Marxist and Bourgeois Categories, was Re: GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people. -- rank: 1000

I would not get hung up on Marxist categories, but most categories have a capacity for being ossified to the point that they mask instead of revealing the underlying relations. One of the great difficulties of the formal rehearsal of Marx's categories is that they generally remain a dogmatic assertion with no attempt to relate them to the economy. So the restatement of organic compositions and so on does not really offer a contrast to empirical economic data. On the contrary, failing to engage w ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 16:29:19 PDT 1999

2453 "Nato bombing 'caused ethnic cleansing' says Carrington" -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990831082405.00fb0bcc at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >Factually Carrington is right that NATO bombing precipitated Operation >Horseshoe in Kosovo and it was executed in the first few days with many >atrocities that might not otherwise have occurred. Whoa, Chris, what's that you say? The Nato bombing precipitated Operation Horseshoe? I don't remember you admitting so much at the time. this though, need some unpacking: ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 02:24:15 PDT 1999

2454 Stratfor -- rank: 1000

In message <199908301754.NAA27413 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >The PLP charge was in an unsigned, anonymous piece - 'Marcuse: Cop-out or >Cop' (Feb. 1969) that said more about the self-immolation of the US New >Left than anything else. The unidentified author(s) call him 'G-Man >Marcuse" and claim that his period as an intelligence analyst for three >agencies of the US gov't began his work as a spy that continued u ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 02:06:15 PDT 1999

2455 Milosevic's Willing Executioners? -- rank: 1000

In message <001601bef308$240a5f20$e6f48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >What bothers me, and why I keep arguing the point and playing the role of >"imperialist" in folks view, is that the same reverse relativism is used by >some lestists to justify local colonial domination. As in, see the United >States is bad and racist, so how can it object to racist or colonial >oppression done by a local bully. First, it might be right tha ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 18:46:37 PDT 1999

2456 The Heartfield cistern [was Waco and the Lesser of Two Evils] -- rank: 1000

In message <B03898593BC0D011A5B50060973D0F5C01265CC2 at rlm- exch1.rlmnet.com>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes >Jim, this anti-green idée fixe of yours has got to go. Sorry Carl, much as I'd like to 'get with the program' I can't take the green movement seriously as a progressive force. Of course it is tempting for leftists, having seen the workers' movement defeated, to jump on this middle class bandwagon. But as far as I can see, it is going in the same reactionary d ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 18:56:01 PDT 1999

2457 Milosevic's Willing Executioners? -- rank: 1000

In message <001901bef286$f81640e0$6ef48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >Nice thesis except the issue of Serb chauvinism was hardly started with the >Kosovo war. >It was what what fueled wars across the region (along with other forms of >Croat and, yes, Muslim chauvinism). Well, that depends on what you mean by 'the issue of Serb chauvinism'. There are two issues of Serb chauvinism: the first, is the issue of Serb chauvinism as it is the Balk ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 04:06:07 PDT 1999

2458 Waco and The Lesser of Two Evils -- rank: 1000

In message <199908291705.RAA31985 at services.infothecary.com>, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> writes >Rob Schaap asks: > >>the thing we never got to hear was what *really* caused the trouble in >>the first place. Janet Reno, I thought. This was a case of 'who do you criminalise?' Under the Republican administrations the targets would be black groups like the MOVE commune that was bombed. That does not quite fit the Clinton administration's hate list. But ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 29 17:03:41 PDT 1999

2459 Milosevic's Willing Executioners? -- rank: 1000

In message <000601bef270$262a06e0$6ef48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes > >This weekend's NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE has a long profile of life in >Belgrade, and amidst the tales of kleptocracy and anomie, the author notes >the absolute apathy of the citizens towards any atrocities that might have >occured. 'Rather unexpectedly, the racist group points accusingly to a manifestation of racism among the oppressed' Franz Fanon wrote describing t ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 29 16:49:50 PDT 1999

2460 Waco and the Lesser of Two Evils -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010cb3ef15a1144e@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >He's not talking about capitalism, he's talking about a socialist >rhetorical strategy. Capitalists use without regard to >destructiveness; red-greens want to be more careful. It makes me laugh to think that you could ever make a bold social transformation by being careful. We want courage audacity, elan and a thorough-going willingness to take risks. Careful people don't change ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 29 14:03:33 PDT 1999