Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread t byfield
On 16 Jun 2017, at 13:25, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote: Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws in analysis. Thanks for your points below. But I am just not seeing the connection between your analysis of left vs right language politics and the basic flaws in

Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread Morlock Elloi
[I was looking for patterns. The proposition that in the grand scheme of things everything is connected, mixed, gray-shaded, and therefore essentially the same, will not fly until the thermal death of the universe, when everything will be the same (contingent on one's position on the

Re: Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:05:49AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > - the ultimate sanctity of NGO's that have no transparency about > their funding, nor their intentions, and notwithstanding their > actions which may well be directly opposed to the interests of the > majority in a given

Re: Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:56:46PM +0200, János Sugár wrote: > The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental > organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil > society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European > Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties

Re: e-flux: Galleries Against Gaslighting: how can the UK

2017-06-18 Thread jo
Hi all, I am excited by this call for solidarity and action from the UK. It bears strong resemblance with similar cases in recent Dutch history. The so-called Bijlmerramp of 1992, an El Al plane crashed on two flats in Amsterdams migrant ghetto. Also here many undocumented migrants were among

e-flux: Galleries Against Gaslighting: how can the UK art world

2017-06-18 Thread nettime's_roving_reporter
MorganQuaintance16h3 https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/galleries-against-gaslighting-how-can-the-uk-art-world-respond-to-grenfell/6694 Jun 17, 6:04 PM The increased visibility of various forms of discrimination, populism, nationalism, state sanctioned cruelty and bureaucratic indifference, as

Hungary: new NGO law passed

2017-06-18 Thread János Sugár
The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will apply civil disobedience. The approved

Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread John Hopkins
Of course, individual and mass conditioning occurs on a pinishment *and* reward basis -- you get access to more 'optimal' partners for reproduction ... when you buy this automobile... Optimized pairing (for the good of the species) is at least as powerful a motivator as the baseball bat. Because

Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread Sam Dwyer
The question I would ask is, *need the left meme?* Addressing exclusively the word-picture-hahas, the power of memes is I think largely in the condensed arguments they offer; the format of memes force a certain clarity of expression: short, punchy, funny. These features are rewarded in any

Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
On 2017-06-15 05:16 PM, t byfield wrote: > Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over basic flaws > in analysis. Thanks for your points below. But I am just not seeing the connection between your analysis of left vs right language politics and the basic flaws in the analysis.

Re: Can the Left Meme?

2017-06-18 Thread André Rebentisch
Am 16.06.2017 um 00:31 schrieb Florian Cramer: >Even the visual structure of imageboard memes is a 1:1 continuation of >medieval and Renaissance emblems which consisted of a title (motto) >printed on top, an image (pictura) in the middle and a subtitle >(subscriptio) at the