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5941 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 190

... On Thu, 8/13/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote: If you think that > the world is more ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:14:09 PDT 2009

5942 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 190

... 2009 at 8:56 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote: > > The famine of course was used as a ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:12:15 PDT 2009

5943 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis -- rank: 190

... 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, c b<cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > Isn't Angela Davis a Stalinist ? > > Charles > ___________________________________ > http ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Wed Aug 12 12:19:43 PDT 2009

5944 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... 12, 2009 at 2:06 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > On page 68 of _Interpretation of Culture_ > ( > http ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Wed Aug 12 12:16:21 PDT 2009

5945 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Wed Aug 12 12:15:34 PDT 2009

5946 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff and Alan, > > Isn't it pretty clear ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Wed Aug 12 12:11:01 PDT 2009

5947 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

I think this is mostly correct: a few extensions/clarifications. The meanings (plural) symbols (individually) come to possess are tied to their materiality, or material expression in linguistic forms, but - and this is the important moment for me - these meanings are bound up in cultural systems - they are bound up in ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Wed Aug 12 10:37:14 PDT 2009

5948 [lbo-talk] bada bing bada-badiou -- rank: 190

... 2009 at 6:26 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:06 ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Tue Aug 11 21:18:03 PDT 2009

5949 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

// Geertz s theoretical contributions start with his definitions and descriptions of culture. For Geertz, culture is an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [sic!] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and their attitudes ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Tue Aug 11 15:37:17 PDT 2009

5950 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... On Tue, 8/11/09, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote: > yeah, not to get into semiology. i > was ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 11 12:18:04 PDT 2009

5951 [lbo-talk] bada bing bada-badiou (was: Review of Badiou's Number and Numbers) -- rank: 190

... 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:24 ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Tue Aug 11 12:05:26 PDT 2009

5952 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... On Tue, 8/11/09, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote: > > on the ot

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Tue Aug 11 11:52:36 PDT 2009

5953 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... On Tue, 8/11/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote: In answer to > your question, and Chris' really ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 11 11:10:17 PDT 2009

5954 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

... On Tue, 8/11/09, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote: > on the other hand, i admit it's ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 11 10:50:41 PDT 2009

5955 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 190

This: http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_culture/culture-definitions/geertz-text.html is a pretty decent take on Geertz' approach to defining culture/s. My sense is that the key is that Geertz approaches the topic as one focused on the interpretation of historically accreted and locally-learned ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Tue Aug 11 09:50:27 PDT 2009