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2641 O'Connor on crisis theory, etc. -- rank: 1000

In message <l03020900b27f76c27622@[128.114.140.14]>, Barbara Laurence <cns at cats.ucsc.edu> writes > This is why S/V is the >central category in Marxist thought. It is a quantitative measure of the >potential (or not) of the system to suffer a realization crisis; it's also >a qualitative measure of capital's power over labor. The greater the latter >(e.g., since late 1970s in the US), the higher will be S/V hence the >greater the problem of realizing value (solved ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 24 01:44:17 PST 1998

2642 CIA Comsymps -- rank: 1000

In message <19981123235115.8641.qmail at rubella.ecst.csuchico.edu>, michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes >Actually, the CIA [or at least the OSS] had to be full of comsymps, >because they had to work with the underground during WW II and the commies >were the most effective fighters. This is true also of the British secret services, who infiltrated (and werre infiltrated by) Communists during the time of the common cause of the Second World War. The British Civil Services went out ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 24 02:07:43 PST 1998

2643 Fwd: American Bioethics Advisory Commission Demands... -- rank: 1000

In message <000a01be14b9$5c423260$02f246d1 at epi59.EPI>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >So if my tush is hanging in the breeze but my >head is in my mother (mother-to-be?) and you >use some sort of instrument to suck my brains >out of my skull, what is that called? If YOUR head is in your mother and your tush is hanging in the breeze ... We might call it many things: a miracle, incest, a monstrous crime, not an image to dwell upon -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 20 11:59:18 PST 1998

2644 Oppresseder than thou -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130309b279f0b233c5@[137.92.41.119]>, Rob Schaap <rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au> writes > >>The charge of anti-semitism >>against Marx (in my view unjustified) comes about because he does indeed >>intend the abolition of the Jewish race, in the sense of the abolition >>of all racial differences. > >I'm suddenly wondering if this logic can, or should, be applied to sexual >differences. I mean, when gender differences are defeated, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 20 02:29:19 PST 1998

2645 Brenner reply to doug henwood -- rank: 1000

I read Robert Brenner's original article as essentially one that located crisis in the realm of exchange, rather then production, so more of a Sismondian argument than a Marxist one. I don't think that the view that there are many Marxist theories of crisis stands up. There is one Marxist theory of capital accumulation which argues that Capital, in its tendency to displace living labour relative to dead, undermines the basis of its own reproduction. In the first volume of Capital Marx looks at ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Nov 20 03:06:57 PST 1998

2646 Oppresseder than thou -- rank: 1000

In message <s652f887.015 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Charles: Let me repeat that what you >said was that what I said was dangerous >and you claimed I was exoticizing >the other and ignoring or >insulting Mexicans, Chinese >and other non-Black oppressed >national groups. You said nothing >about what you say immediately >above. As something of a student of Marx myself, I am interested as to how a Marxis ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 19 02:02:45 PST 1998

2647 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

In message <199811181511.IAA29972 at smtp04.primenet.com>, Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> writes > I realize you don't feel >disabled people are not human. Well, that's mighty big of you. > I am trying to get you to examine why you >unconsciously need to use this sort of thinking to talk about >marginalization of someone. My choice of metaphor was conscious and deliberate (I like to think I always try to choose my words carefully). You can't avoid the argumen ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 18 11:06:29 PST 1998

2648 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

In message <199811170426.VAA00695 at smtp04.primenet.com>, Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> writes > Look Jim I am pointing out to you that you use disabilty as your idea of >what is safe to characterize as the "other" and ok to make a margin. It >isn't. Disabled people are just folks just like you. I never said that disabled people were not people. I said that sightedness is preferable to blindness. Tell me otherwise. How many blind people confronted w ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 17 02:28:58 PST 1998

2649 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

In message <199811161524.IAA01151 at smtp04.primenet.com>, Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> writes >I have brought this up with Max Sawicky in the past. When someone starts >talking about marginalization of some position which is what Jim Heartfield >is trying to do with Post Modernists, they use language replete with >anti-disabled metaphors of the margin. Pomos are "blinding", causing >"idiocy", "hysterical", and finally "i ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 16 09:05:27 PST 1998

2650 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

[nb, I wrote this reply to Francis before I read all the other replies, which make some of this redundant. Sorry to repeat points. I think you Yanquis must start mailing at just the same time as I go to bed] In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.9811151514060.26637-100000 at CHUMA.CAS.USF.EDU>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes > >The only thing clear to me, Jim, is that you have made a tremendous leap >in logic here. Sokal and Bricmont, deride french social the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 16 02:11:20 PST 1998

2651 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.9811151227030.21811-100000 at CHUMA.CAS.usf.edu>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes > I have >not yet read the book-it's on order at my local library, but my >understanding from other people is that Sokal and Bricmont freely admit >they don't understand the work of Derrida, Lacan, & Irigaray (the objects >of attack), but they use their thoeretical work anyway. This is really unfair. It is a consequence of their pri ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 15 11:54:01 PST 1998

2652 The 'gay mafia' row -- rank: 1000

A big row broke out in Britain after the largest selling tabloid daily, the Sun, suggested that the Cabinet was dominated by a 'gay mafia' following the revelations of the private lives of Ministers Peter Mandelson, Nick Brown and Ron Davies. The Sun was roundly condemned on all sides and forced to make an embarrassing climbdown, promising never again to 'out' anyone. Leading the campaign against the Sun was the liberal broadsheet newspapers, The Guardian. The Guardian has made much of the Sun's ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 15 05:41:27 PST 1998

2653 heritage industry -- rank: 1000

In message <bb01360c.364bad19 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >In a message dated 98-11-11 13:56:07 EST, you write: > ><< Speaking of the recent constructedness of ancient traditions, where is > Hobsbawm's essay on the Heritage Industry (it is Hobsbawm, right?)? > > Doug >> > >The Invention of Tradition, a rathere nice book by EJH. Canto (Cambridge) I >think. --jks Actually a collection edited by Hobs. and the unsung hero Terence Ranger. Ranger, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 14 02:31:41 PST 1998

2654 heritage industry -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.BSI.3.96.981111133518.5412e-100000 at pcjfn.msc.com>, jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> writes >On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Speaking of the recent constructedness of ancient traditions, where is >> Hobsbawm's essay on the Heritage Industry (it is Hobsbawm, right?)? >> >> Doug The Invention of Tradition, eds Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, Canto Imprint, Cambridge UP 1992 (orig. 1983). Hobsbawm's intro sets up the basic argu ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Nov 11 15:59:40 PST 1998

2655 Indigenous Rights -- rank: 1000

In message <199811091335.IAA18591 at panix2.panix.com>, G*rd*n <gcf at panix.com> writes >Can someone give a precis of Marxist thought on the subject >of indigenous rights, especially in land? Marx's writings on private property in land reverse the teleological version of the history of property rights. Whereas it was traditionally assumed that as the historically prior form, landed property was the form out of which other forms of private property developed, Marx's approach to ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Nov 9 09:16:53 PST 1998