Dear Nina, Dear Geert,
thanks for your reports and views on diem25 - an event that is
ostensibly about setting up demoradical constituent power in europe
- lead by varoufakis, the only credible opposant of ordoliberal
austerity.
i agree it wants to try to be the Great Recession version of the
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I was also there at the Volksbühne (though not like Geert during the day).
I completely agree with DiEM25's general analysis that the current
crisis in Europe is a crisis of democracy and not one of money. Europe
still is one of the richest, best
On 13/02/16 11:29, Felix Stalder wrote:
> crisis in Europe is a crisis of democracy and not one of money.
> Europe still is one of the richest, best resourced regions on the
> globe.
can you elaborate (which resources, measured how)?
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despite I would share amost all of the general goals of DiEM25, there
are some remarkable procedural inconsistencies:
- intransparency: how can you criticize the compositon of EU-closed
meetings and apply the very same practice with a totally intransparent
selection process for the core
Hi Felix,
I agree with your analysis completely. The European problem is democracy
not money. But where is the democratic push going to come from? I am a
europhile, I have lived in Paris for almost two decades. In recent years I
have begun to see that I may have backed the wrong horse.
In 1900
so here i are my 2cents.. after a while. take it a duty free molotov
cocktail without the lighter.
yes, i listened to the stream, there were a few public and private
screenings, for a lower entry cost. and indeed my expectations must
have been too high, even if this volksbuehne event format
A few unstructured thoughts from one who just went to see (and pay for)
the evening event:
There was a LOT of interest by German media, unsurprisingly, since
Varoufakis draws a lot of attention. No other left event intending to
start an initiative for whatever would have that effect.
No
The trend(s) that Europe is seeing itself dragged to are not result of
'wrong' thinking and misbehaviour of supposedly powerful masses. They
are the result of material circumstances, and no amount of magical
(group)thinking will change that.
Material circumstances are mostly related to
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On 2016-02-13 19:05, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The trend(s) that Europe is seeing itself dragged to are not result
> of 'wrong' thinking and misbehaviour of supposedly powerful masses.
> They are the result of material circumstances, and no
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El 12/02/16 a las 21:33, Geert Lovink escribió:
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> Vital European energies are coming from Spain, and in particular
> Barcelona. The program centered around Spain.
I like to remark that there was a repeated mistake during all the sessions:
Podemos was
seen like a reference, like The
As a person who watched the evening on live-stream, but spend the day
in the Volksbühne to listen to the discussions of the âworking groupâ
I just want to add: the âworking groupâ was not working â too many
people who spoke too short, no real discussion. BUT it was good to get
an
> I think you are overrating technologies of control, neither the Stasi
> nor the KGB could save their systems from collapse (though the ruined
> a lot of lives).
I think that the conclusion that nothing really changed and that power
grabbing and re-grabbing mechanisms are the same as they
Hallo Brian -- (sending this a third time to nettime and cc'ing it to you as it
seems to be delayed by the moderators that are letting other things through...)
I had read about the Amurikan tourist in Iceland, and your notes, and thought to
re-reflect/meditate on that from a
Where is the British Labor party's new radical leadership under Corbyn
in relationship to the Diem initiative?
Is it my imagination or is it non-existent? This is not simply a
parochial question as within months a
generational in/out referendum will be taking place in the UK and
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