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2776 Salon on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011719b2a39c0bb947@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Nathan Newman wrote: > >>So where do we register Doug as the official pontificator for the >>culturally hip materialist left? > >Only Brits are allowed to play that role on American TV. Oh God, Cultural Britain, how embarrassing. There was a ditty amongst Keynesian civil servants during the postwar reconstruction that ran something like, 'they've got all the money ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 21 02:28:31 PST 1998

2777 Cassirer, Rorty -- rank: 1000

In message <367DC7A2.1C74FE5B at mindspring.com>, Henry C.K. Liu <hliu at mindspring.com> writes >Chuck Grimes' post on Kennan that led into Earnst Cassirer's The Myth of >the State is highly stimulating. I agree, it is a very interesting book that anticipates the great insights of Global-de-gook by a half century. Tragic, though, that Cassirer read Carlyle's parody Sartor Restartus (Spelling?) as a straight book, especially given the weight he puts on it. I cringed. In message ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 21 02:15:46 PST 1998

2778 British reaction to Iraq -- rank: 1000

The ever-loathsome prime minister Tony Bliar (that was a typo, but I'll let it stand) said in his news conference that Saddam had been shut up in his cage - the kind of dehumanising imagery that is necessary to justify bombardments. He said 'Those who abuse force to wage war must be confronted by those who use force to maintain peace'. Remember, Britain is the country that brought you double-speak. British commentators are less impressed. Historian Eric Hobsbawm said 'Saddam is a nasty dictator ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 20 09:47:48 PST 1998

2779 Class, race and gender in the early American Marxist movement -- rank: 1000

In message <ea2bd484.367c4361 at aol.com>, Apsken at aol.com writes >Louis Proyect omitted Karl Marx's revealing reference [from memory] to >Victoria Woodhull as a "banker's woman and all-around humbug." I imagine Marx >found this easier to write than a comparable slur on Frederick Douglass. I'm intrigued. What was Marx's slur on Douglass? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Sun Dec 20 05:59:26 PST 1998

2780 culture and illness -- rank: 1000

Reading Bill and Alec's replies to my post addiction I think maybe that we are talking at cross-purposes. When I said >> Most of the addicts I've known are pretty reprehensible characters. >. . . That's what I meant. Alec and Bill seem to be talking in the abstract about some ideal policy that the government ought to pursue. I was talking about how one lives one's life. Most people would give any serious drug or alcohol addict a wide berth, unless there was some special bond of obligati ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 11:39:32 PST 1998

2781 Women behaving badly -- rank: 1000

In message <367BCA59.CADAB10E at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at mail.ilstu.edu> writes >So far no Showalter adherent (including Showalter herself in the Diary in the >LRB) has given any very convincing reason why her book should be higher on >anyone's reading list than, say, some obscure 17th c. commentary on Calvin's >*Institutes*. Life is too short to spend much of it reading obvious nonsense. Translation: Carrol does not know what he is talking about. It's your ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 09:11:09 PST 1998

2782 Billy C -- rank: 1000

In message <367BB472.C57A6240 at netlink.com.au>, rc&am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes >does anyone know of the details of the guy who was killed by (i think) >injection in an arkansas prison during clinton's first run for the >presidency? i saw a doco some time back, and bill specially took time >off during the campaign to go and sign the death order. he was being >accused by the republicans of being soft on criminals. just saw >clinton on the telly say ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 07:38:16 PST 1998

2783 Derrida Marxist? -- rank: 1000

In message <367B0230.EFDF2E87 at uswest.net>, Charles Miller <bautiste at uswest.net> writes >> "Doyle Saylor" wrote: >> But there is nothing in Duchamp that is about >> deconstruction of other painters. > The deconstructionist character of the ready-mades strikes as one > sign of Duchamp's alignment with Derrida/others. I was once told that the greatest of all the surrealists, Rene Magritte wrote sub-Heideggerian philosophica ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 08:08:03 PST 1998

2784 Derrida Marxist? -- rank: 1000

In message <367B0230.EFDF2E87 at uswest.net>, Charles Miller <bautiste at uswest.net> writes >> "Doyle Saylor" wrote: >> But there is nothing in Duchamp that is about >> deconstruction of other painters. > The deconstructionist character of the ready-mades strikes as one > sign of Duchamp's alignment with Derrida/others. I was once told that the greatest of all the surrealists, Rene Magritte wrote sub-Heideggerian philosophica ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 08:08:03 PST 1998

2785 culture and illness -- rank: 1000

In message <199812190319.UAA29627 at smtp02.primenet.com>, Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> writes > You seem to have the desire to label someone morally bad? >What about an addict? Are they morally bad? Most of the addicts I've known are pretty reprehensible characters. Emotional parasites, always willing to dump their problems on you. Addiction is an easy excuse for bad behaviour. Nobody is making you buy that drink, or jack up. I usually steer well clear of them. Isn ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 19 07:57:03 PST 1998

2786 Billy C -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011742b29f296f2c65@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Over the last few months I've found myself defending Clinton against the >vile creeps who want to impeach him. Having written almost nothing but >diatribes against him since 1992, this was a strange feeling. Now, after >this attack on Iraq, I think the hell with him. I hope he suffers. Impeach >the bastard, humiliate him. Make the U.S. look absurd in the eyes of the >wo ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 18 00:56:45 PST 1998

2787 Lords reverse Lords -- rank: 1000

In message <A020F3516421D21185A900204808343B6C9E67 at exchange1.lancs.ac.uk >, Picciotto, Sol <s.picciotto at lancaster.ac.uk> writes >They wheeled out some ancient old crocks who were undoubtedly much offended by >the thought that a legal Lord would have any connection with an outfit like >Amnesty. Since the 3 Lords who voted to extradite Pinochet are just about the >only ones with liberal leanings among their lordships, odds are high that the >murderous old bastard w ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 17 14:52:15 PST 1998

2788 Iraq -- rank: 1000

Tonight I heard the president of the united states say that he had bombed Iraq because Saddam has not only got weapons of mass destruction but he has used them and used them against his own people. But since 1991 the only weapons of mass destruction used in the middle east have been the tomahawk and cruise missiles fired by the United States and its allies in the West - killing 180 000 during operation desert storm and as many again since through the embargo. Since that time president Clinton's ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 16 17:50:19 PST 1998

2789 Judy Fest -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011708b29c423299fd@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Alex LoCascio wrote: > >>Will be unsubscribed for the next few days while moving. Please *DON'T* >>start the Judy Fest until Jan. 9 > >I'm away from Jan 1-9, so I've drawn upon my privileges of listownership to >declare that the Judy Season opens on Jan 10. So, its open season on Judy, Jan 10? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Tue Dec 15 10:20:39 PST 1998

2790 British Editor in Military Intelligence? -- rank: 1000

The newspapers here are reporting that an editor of a national daily newspaper is a member of British intelligence. Press restrictions so far have kept the name out of the papers. Can anyone name that editor? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Mon Dec 14 08:29:58 PST 1998