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2791 From Heidegger to Pomos -- rank: 1000

In message <c92d4f91.36743ffc at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >In a message dated 98-12-11 10:01:09 EST, you write:On what, exactly? Rorty talks taht way and he's often rather vague and windy. >But on many things and perthaps longer ago than makes me comfortable to >recall, he has been deep and interesting. I was a student of his at Tigertown >in the 1970s, when he was still writing Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, a >brilliant and tendentious book. --jks Yes, it i ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 14 04:20:49 PST 1998

2792 Guilt-tripping -- rank: 1000

When I wrote about the way that the left tended to guilt-trip workers in the advanced nations about their "excessive" consumption Louis P. objected that "solidarity activists of the 1980s, including me, never spoke about the American people exploiting" the people of the third world "The guilt- baiting that Jim is referring to was typical of SDSpetty-bourgeois radicalism" which, according to Louis was a thing of the past. But what I had in mind was precisely what Lou ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 14 02:55:28 PST 1998

2793 cigarettes are code for proletarian -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981211141449.018c3a8c at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >The US ruling class promoted cigarette >consumption for 400 years. The reason it has taken action lately is not >because of anti-working class snobbery, but because it is a public health >hazard. 'Public Health Hazard'. It is utterly naive to think that when governments announce 'public health hazards' they are what they appear to be. Amongst previous public hea ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 11 13:20:10 PST 1998

2794 cigarettes are code for proletarian -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981211122105.00a6a710 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> makes two central charges against Doug H's (qualified) defence of smokers 1. >This is lacking totally in what should matter most, a historical analysis >of the role of tobacco in capital accumulation. 2. >Doug, as in a previous discussion of prostitution on PEN-L, doesn't see >these questions in class terms. They are only life-style questions for him. But as I see it, i ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 11 10:20:17 PST 1998

2795 Tobacco and capitalism. -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19981211075906.011850a8 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes > >In the UK and Europe there is a lot of concern about genetically modified >soya beans, which apparently have been rapidly incorporated into the food >chain in the USA with little public protest. When you say 'a lot of concern' you should say that the Guardian newspaper and a handful of health food cranks have objected, and the government has ridiculously kow-t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 11 07:51:42 PST 1998

2796 Great Britain: un peu d'histoire -- rank: 1000

In message <366F27E4.78716C2B at CNSVAX.Albany.Edu>, Greg Nowell <GN842 at CNSVAX.Albany.Edu> writes >I was recently asked one of those vexing questions (for >a yank), to wit, when to use Great Britain, United >Kingdom, England, etc. I would never use *Great* Britain - which is sheer pretention. The only exception being the abbreviation GB, and then only where it is well known, as in the phrase 'GB number plates'. The Communist Party of Great Britain suffered endless ridicul ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 11 04:46:18 PST 1998

2797 too much nature in New York -- rank: 1000

In message <v04003a07b294a61841d7@[128.32.105.161]>, Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >Yes. It's going to be interesting even if we manage to stabilize world >population at 12 billion. If it hits 20 billion by 2100, it will be a >much-impoverished world... I can think of 8 billion people who would disagree (20 - 12 = 8). Funny how people always end up on the debit side in these accounts. But strangely a large population never set the US economy back. Nor for ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Dec 10 01:47:39 PST 1998

2798 Marxism and Enlightenment thought -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981209154021.00979d78 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes > >Robinson's main point was that modern philosophy evolved in order to meet >the needs of the rising bourgeoisie. It aspires to be universal but >conceals the very particular and historical needs of the class which was >coming to power in the age of Descartes. One of the purposes of Marxism is >to make this connection and expose the class bias of bourgeois ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 9 15:39:01 PST 1998

2799 It's a Battlefield Out There -- rank: 1000

In message <366E18A7.31B5CCCA at uswest.net>, Charles Miller <bautiste at uswest.net> writes >James Heartfield writes: > >I'm often infuriated by the argument that somehow science is inherently >'western'. This is an attitude that mirrors the Eurocentric prejudice >that those ignorant folk sitting in darkness won't understand modern >science, and could not be expected to work a complex machine or handle a >vaccine syringe. > >James, > >The Greeks, Azt ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 9 03:23:23 PST 1998

2800 Louis Kant -- rank: 1000

In message <4.0.1.19981208185242.01044350 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >Immanuel Kant, "Physical Geography", Volume 8 of "Gesammelte Schriften": > >The inhabitant of the temperate parts of the world, above all the central >part, has a more beautiful body, works harder, is more jocular, more >controlled in his passions, more intelligent than any other race of people >in the world. That is why at all points in t ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 03:11:07 PST 1998

2801 Abject Judy -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011719b2935ca916f0@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Jim heartfield wrote: > >>In 'Gender Imitation and subobordination' (reproduced in C Lemert's >>Collection Social Theory, 1991) Judith Butler critiques the positions of >>objectification (bad, obviously) subjectivity (bad she says because it >>implies objectification of others, of which I am not convinced) and then >>raises a third way, which avoids bot ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 8 16:23:57 PST 1998

2802 It's a Battlefield Out There, Culturally Speaking byEdward Rothstein (FWD from NY Times) -- rank: 1000

In message <s66d30e0.026 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >But to be blunt and to the point, some >of the objectivity of the sciences developed >especially in Europe in the last 500 years or >so is demonstrated by the expansion of >European culture and system (bourgeoisdom) >all over the world. > Eurocentric world >dominance cannot be overcome >without sublating the current >European worldview, including ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 8 13:54:19 PST 1998

2803 Abject Judy -- rank: 1000

In message <000b01be22b5$3c8ab1e0$02f246d1 at epi59.EPI>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >> Anyhoo, so who's up for a reading of Butler? It's gotta be _The Psychic >> Life of Power_ . . . OK, so riddle me this: In 'Gender Imitation and subobordination' (reproduced in C Lemert's Collection Social Theory, 1991) Judith Butler critiques the positions of objectification (bad, obviously) subjectivity (bad she says because it implies objectification of others, of ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 8 13:42:36 PST 1998

2804 Article on Pinochet -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Tom and Sol for their comment on my article - especially since Sol's collection State and Capital (with John Holloway, Edward Arnold publishers, 1978) was one of the first books that really got me into Marxism, and still has pride of place on my bookshelves. I hope I am not insensible to the difficulties faced by the Chilean left, nor the opportunities offered by the re-opening of the debate. There's nothing I would like more than to be proved wrong, in this instance. My fear, though, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Dec 6 12:20:42 PST 1998

2805 World Bank memos -- rank: 1000

In message <00d901be2040$849b0420$85004bca at home>, Enzo Michelangeli <em at who.net> writes >I'm not the defense attorney for Britain: >I'm not even British. (Even though I must note that there have been much >worse colonial masters than them). Have there? I'm struggling to think of examples that compare to the opium wars against China (in defence of Britain's right to export Opium to the heavily addicted Chinese), or the vast numbers killed in the suppression of the boxer ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 11:27:23 PST 1998