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61 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:30, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote: > At 11:15 PM 4/9/2010, Sean Andrews wrote: >> >> For fucks sake sometimes I wish I >> had a "shag" button on my computer that would generate the relevant >> level of ostentatious befuddlement and ridicule ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Apr 10 12:05:18 PDT 2010

62 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:49, Christopher Cutrone <ccutrone at speedsite.com> wrote: > Dear Sean, et al., > > This will be my last post to the list, at least for a while. Indeed, I was drawn into a place of "sandbox" disputes. we actually never even got to that point ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Apr 10 12:02:43 PDT 2010

63 [lbo-talk] we make the dead left deader (was: Platypus) -- rank: 773

we have a friend who's a totally mad scientist nerd geek kinda guy. he's got this project going for his kids that mi mirado says is inspired by steampunk. poking around, he comes across this: http://zombiehunters.org/. I have appropriated their tagline. we need t-shirts and coffee ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 11:36:35 PDT 2010

64 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 1000

... wanted to say something about the editorial policy of the Platypus Review (PR). We are indeed an open-submission publication that ... who mostly come from outside, far beyond the circles of Platypus membership) in the direction of critical reflection. We have an ...

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Author:	Christopher Cutrone
Date:	Sat Apr 10 10:49:49 PDT 2010

65 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

At 11:15 PM 4/9/2010, Sean Andrews wrote: >For fucks sake sometimes I wish I >had a "shag" button on my computer that would generate the relevant >level of ostentatious befuddlement and ridicule. http://cleandraws.com/2010/04/10/shagalize-button/ >Who. was. doing. this???? Everyone who engaged with ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 10:30:59 PDT 2010

66 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

>On 4/8/10, Chris Maisano <cgmaisano at yahoo.com> wrote: > > If the US left > > Afghanistan next month, for example, we probably would not see a > progressive > > regime take root there. We'd likely see a reversion to decentralized, > > clan-based rule and warlordism. so? i don't mean to ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 06:40:21 PDT 2010

67 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 954

At 10:13 AM 4/9/2010, Doug Henwood wrote: >On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:01 AM, JAMES Heartfield wrote: > >>Chris C.: >> >>"More than 50 years of "Third World" so-called "revolutionary" >>movements >>have failed to produce any emancipatory results whatsoever" >> >>Is that something of an overstatement? Having visited both ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 06:22:50 PDT 2010

68 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Re: Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

At 10:43 AM 4/8/2010, SA wrote: >shag carpet bomb wrote: > >>See also: Eric's recent post about trying to avoid the >>patronizing position that these other people can't possibly have a >>politics and that anything that smacks of a politics that's supportive >>of u.s. intervention ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 05:14:43 PDT 2010

69 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 22:18, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote: > ... and lots of other good stuff. > > Bravo for this post, and good paper too - I'd be keen to read the > finished version. Thanks. It is mostly written in longhand, but maybe I will type it ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Fri Apr 9 21:31:01 PDT 2010

70 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Joseph Catron wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Actually, on further thought, I'm not sure I have some "principled" > > opposition to imperialism, in some rigid, a priori sense. It does seem to be > > an empirical fact, however, that every ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:58:36 PDT 2010

71 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

... Shag button... great image, too. I stopped reading posts with Platypus in the subject line a while back but am glad ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:22:57 PDT 2010

72 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote: > Here I'm struck by the similarity between some of the early actions of > the New Left, but also a very distinctive discontinuity.  The > continuity is in the idea of holding some sort of public ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:18:08 PDT 2010

73 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 18:58, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > But Chris Cutrone is teaching us an important lesson that ought to be heard. teaching who? Who the fuck doesn't understand this in the terms you've suggested here? do you really think we ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:15:52 PDT 2010

74 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > I made a polemical critique of Ali that he falsified the situation > in Iraq under the occupation. Saying or even implying that > marketplace and mosque bombings were the work of Black Ops and not > sectarian forces was and remains a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 18:37:37 PDT 2010

75 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: On Apr 9, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Richard Seymour wrote: > inserting not only the Taliban but also Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic >> Republic of Iran on top of it all into this narrative of ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Fri Apr 9 18:15:33 PDT 2010