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76 [lbo-talk] Howard Zinn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:25 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > But - for the present at least all I can remember of him is that in the last > year of his life he urged liberals and radicals to vote for the most > dangerous and destructive president in the history of the U.S. Oh good lord. What hyperbole.

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77 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:22 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > what's a terf? You're not keeping up with Social Justice Twitter! Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. That is, feminists, mostly of the liberal-bourgeois sort, who insist on a stark gender binary and don't like all these trans-types blurring the boundaries.

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78 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > On Mon, January 19, 2015 4:07 pm, JOANNA A. wrote: >> Wittgenstein's favorite cartoon character. Daffy. > > > Now THERE, if you please, is a data point worth knowing. Who's yours?

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79 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Shag Carpet Bomb <gracehinchcliff at gmail.com> wrote: > Although, from my dealings with them - Amanda, Jessica Valenti, etc. - they > don't have a clue what deconstruction is. In fact, they generally attacked > anything related to theory -- where theory is *explanation* about why women > are oppressed and how women's oppression relates to other forms of > oppression. As an example, they consistently chalked up differences among > feminists t ...

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80 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > all the posers to lbo-talk I was going to say they're not all posers, but then I thought of the X-Ray Spex song.

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81 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > You're much too hip for us old farts, Doug. C'mon you can do it too

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82 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote: > I think there is much throwing of babies with bathwater in Mark s article, but I m sure he wouldn t embrace the idea of scapegoating postmodernism for this. Would he? I feel like I've entered a time tunnel with this scapegoating of postmodernism again. Didn't we get past that ages ago?

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 13:13:36 PST 2015

83 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Diacritics 31.3 (2001) 67-88 In the Wake of Cultural Studies Globalization, > Theory, and the University Tilottama Rajan > > 1 > > Theory today has become an endangered species, as evidenced by the > resistance to difficult language. Thank you for this. Cultural studies is in decline, no? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 13:01:00 PST 2015

84 [lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie? -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 11, 2015, at 4:56 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Who Profits from Killing Charlie? stop posting this crap now

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85 [lbo-talk] Fake death ? -- rank: 1000

Oh, fuck no, not this. > On Jan 11, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > bar at idirect.com via lists.riseup.net > > 4:20 PM (35 minutes ago) > to a-list > Watch this video-the French cop they climed to have been shot in the head > and killed was not-a gun is fired near him into the ground-=he plays > dead-shooters leave- > > Proof positive in my view this was a police operation. > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ ...

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86 [lbo-talk] Am I or Am I Not Charlie? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:21 PM, magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > I promised to do better . . . Hello! Nice to see some old familiar names popping up again. I am not Charlie. I have no further comment. Doug

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87 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:13 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > "Using techniques ranging from supermarket loyalty cards to targeted advertising on Facebook, private companies systematically collect very personal information Really? I had no idea! Relatedly, so fucking what? The thing is free.

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88 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2015, at 4:08 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > The archives exist, but their usefulness to those who see themselves as FB s users - who are in fact not so much its users as simultaneously its unpaid laborers and its product - has never been FB s priority. This is deliberate. Ex-FB employee Kate Losse, who wrote a good book on her experience, told me that they deliberately make it difficult to find old stuff because they want you to produce new stuff. > Despite an i ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 13:22:36 PST 2015

89 [lbo-talk] backgrounder on Brazil -- rank: 1000

there was this from the FT the other day (and this doesn't mention that Rousseff appointed a climate denialist as science minister): Brazil s overburdened pension system has long struggled with one particular problem: sugar daddies , or more precisely, the situation where young women marry men old enough to be their grandfathers so they can lay claim to their pensions when they die. Up until last week, Brazil had some of the most generous retirement rules in the world, allowing the spouses of d ...

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90 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

Well maybe we're gradually picking ourselves up for a livelier 2015!

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