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196 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:15 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Maybe the LOBsters ought to invite the Platypii to state the argument I'd be happy to do that - Bhaskar, you know 'em. Could you invite one or two? But they've written thousands of words of their own stuff ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:23:54 PDT 2010

197 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Oddly enough, the English language also makes possible a useful distinction between "Thought" and "Theory." ----- Original Message ---- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> (The Chinese language apparently makes possible a useful distinction between "Thought" and "Theory."

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 6 12:51:13 PDT 2010

198 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Judging from the language of the text you quote, these people are just.....graduate students. Nothing wrong with that I suppose. But extremely limiting. Joanna

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Author:	Joanna
Date:	Mon Apr 5 22:20:45 PDT 2010

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On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I will miss his presence on the list, > but I have placed him in my kill file so he can't sdend me on any more > wild goosechases before haviang the slightest idea of what it is I'm > chasing ...

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Author:	martin
Date:	Sun Apr 4 13:12:09 PDT 2010

200 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

I've enjoyed many of Bhaskar's posts, and he has interesting things to say quie often. But after the truble I've gone through and the wasted time in trying to findout what this thread was about, since all he's offered are naked URL's and cryptic comments, I ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Apr 4 12:50:40 PDT 2010

201 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Chris Doss: "Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? " Did I? Perhaps you could remind me of the words I used? Or maybe you are confused. I think I did say that _Heidegger_ was a Nazi: but then his NSDAP membership was never in doubt ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Apr 3 01:09:03 PDT 2010

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OK ----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? Drop this. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 19:27:10 PDT 2010

203 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? Drop this.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 19:19:17 PDT 2010

204 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Well, I don't know about 'vapid bullshit', but this is plainly a triumph of rhetoric over reason: 'Hitchens recognized that Ba'athist Iraq's steady disintegration and the emergence into plain view of Islamist fascism ...' http://platypus1917.org/2009/03/15/going-it-alone-christopher-hitchens-and-the-death-of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 2 16:46:08 PDT 2010

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At 03:07 PM 4/2/2010, mep "doesn't play well with others" wrote: >"vapid bullshit" would better describe that crap essay you keep >posting to this list: http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:14:26 PDT 2010

206 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Thanks, I always appreciate a well substantiated argument! Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:07 PM, mep <maximumep at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara > <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Calling out Klein's vapid bullshit is probably ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:14:21 PDT 2010

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > Calling out Klein's vapid bullshit is probably the most productive thing > I've done in the past 12 months and I filed my own taxes! > "vapid bullshit" would better describe that crap essay ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:07:02 PDT 2010

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > And it is not clear that "the Bourgelisie," as a class, is all that > clear on where its real interests lie at anygiven time. Yeah, I'm not sure ruling-class agitation against certain state ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:31:22 PDT 2010

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Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > > > What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and > > early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that > > doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective > > ruling class strategy at the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:24:39 PDT 2010

210 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and > early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that > doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective > ruling class strategy at the time. After all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:34:26 PDT 2010