So there I was, contemplating the savagely-deindustrialized wasteland of
the Pax Post-Britannia, when a line in the Economist's February country
survey of Germany caught my eye. Amidst the usual loathesome bleatings
about how the second-richest industrial country in the world (behind
Japan) just
I have been trying to get Louis Proyect to read Thy Will be Done. You can find
Walters and Brazil there.
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Tom, can you steer me to info on Gen Vernon Walters history in Brazil and
elsewhere in Latin America?
Gene Coyle
Tom Kruse wrote:
Stephen:
Sounds like a
One of t he very finest books to emerge from the whole anti-war
movement is H. Bruce Franklin, *M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America:
How and why belief in live POWs has possessed a nation.* Also extremely
good is *Vietnam and America: A Documented History*, edited by
Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin,
Tom, can you steer me to info on Gen Vernon Walters history in Brazil and
elsewhere in Latin America?
Gene Coyle
Tom Kruse wrote:
Stephen:
Sounds like a good class. How about also tacking on the "vietnam syndrom"
on the end, as that thing that had to be overcome so "the US" could once
Burn, with Marlon Brando. Wonderful film for your course.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Stephen:
Sounds like a good class. How about also tacking on the "vietnam syndrom"
on the end, as that thing that had to be overcome so "the US" could once
again stand tall, the Central American wars of the 1980s, etc.
My comment is prompted by a concern that kids see US military interventions
Charles, perhaps we can lower the heat a bit. I may have misread your
earlier post. When you referred to the "modern concept of race" I
thought it was something you endorsed. I'm happy to find out it's not.
Certainly "biology" in the "modern" period is pretty clear about the
vacuousness of
I read Richard Sennett's book, and liked it. Very much in the Studs Terkel
line of exploring social realtiy, but with a good bit more specuation about
the general drift of things. Anecdotal? yes, but we NEED anecdote to
suggest "flexibility" is a trap. After all, one person's flexibility is
I hope that Harvey's new edition has a clearer point than the first one. I
loved all of his brilliant insights into all sorts of issues, but in the
end I felt that "there was no there there." It didn't gel.
At 08:06 PM 2/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication
Confirmation of reading: your message -
Date:25 Feb 99 6:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:3832] Re: Re: Clarification on Cuba
Was read at 9:37, 25 Feb 99.
These are people you haven't read and don't know personally, but you seem
very sure of what they're all about. Where do you get these magic powers?
Doug
I have to rely on secondary literature because of time limitations. Unlike
most PEN-L'ers who post on a regular basis, I have a job which runs
Margrete Strand-Rangnes wrote:
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World: Creating People Centred
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Doug Henwood wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote:
Two of
the better-known post-Marxists are Laclau and Mouffe, who I've never taken
the trouble to read[...]
[For lbo readers: I have quoted Doug's post in its entirety. No snipping.]
Two points.
1. Lou has got to back off from pulling the Butler
:)
Louis Proyect wrote:
"I must protest this slanderous attack. I have defended the correct Marxist
position on Buffy as opposed to Rosenberg's rotten Menshevik position. From my
web page:"
Lou, the Buffy issue over on lbo has raised and been raised by a lot
of other issues, including one I
On Thu, 3 Jan 1980, Sam Pawlett wrote:
What is Larouche up to these days?
The Queen mother still the Queen pin of the world cocaine trade?
Last I heard he was still in the federal pen for tax evasion, bank and
credit card fraud. In 1992, during the prez. election, he ran these
goofy ads on
LaRouche is out and unleashed on an unsuspecting world. He's not just a
fascist. He's a crazy fascist with a messiah complex.
Michael
At 01:27 PM 2/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jan 1980, Sam Pawlett wrote:
What is Larouche up to these days?
The Queen mother still the Queen pin of the
Laclau and Mouffe make an excellent case study. Any theory of
learning that can't establish why they should not be read is inadequate
and intellectually debilitating.
First the specific case, then the general theoretical/historical problem
that this discussion eludes.
Part One. Laclau, Mouffe,
Squaring Off Over African Trade
Jackson Bill's Challenge to Rangel's Measure Splits Black
Caucus
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 24, 1999; Page A04
Call it a fight in the family. Two of
I am not sure at what tree Ms. Paglia is barking: Foucault's own writings
or the cult of his writing in the academe. I am afraid she utterly
confuses the two.
I have no quarrel with her jaded view of the academic environment full of
little personality cults, de-sexualized interaction aka
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APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE MORE THAN ONCE.
I am currently involved in planning an undergraduate "cluster course" for
next year with two collegues, one in English/Film Studies and the other a
historian. We are developing a year-long course which will be
interdisciplinary and have about 150 students in it (large lectures with TA
sections).
Michael Hoover wrote:
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication by David Harvey called
_Limits to Capital_ to be published in April of this year (192 pgs). Is
this an update of his earlier work of the same name?
RSP
yes, new edition, you can read description at www.versobooks.com...
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication by David Harvey called
_Limits to Capital_ to be published in April of this year (192 pgs). Is
this an update of his earlier work of the same name?
RSP
yes, new edition, you can read description at www.versobooks.com...
Michael Hoover
You can read the Economic Reporting Review by Dean Baker, economist and
Senior Research Fellow at the Preamble Center in Washington, on the web
site of FAIR at www.fair.org.
You can also subscribe to it by email.
Send a message to
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Philip J. McLewin wrote:
Assistant Professof of Economics (tenure track)
Ramapo College of NJ
"Responsible for teaching and overseeing introductory undergraduate
Business Statistics. The individual will
The Counterpunch authorities have asked me to announce some new articles on
the battle over Pacifica on their website - http://www.counterpunch.org.
Doug
jf noonan wrote:
Last I heard he was still in the federal pen for tax evasion, bank and
credit card fraud. In 1992, during the prez. election, he ran these
goofy ads on TV that characterized him as a political prisoner.
He's been out for years. LaRouchies are very pro-Clinton these days. A
Yes, I have indeed written at length about my objections to the grossly
overpraised Foucault, in a 78-page review-essay, "Junk Bonds and Corporate
Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf," published in 1991 by the
classics journal Arion and reprinted in my first essay collection, "Sex,
Art, and
Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/24/99 10:34PM
Jeez, it's hard to get through to some people.
_
Charles: Yea , I know what you mean. Read the below carefully.
Charles Brown wrote:
That race is a socially constructed category means two things especially.Firstly,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we should seal the border along the Susquehanna River (aka the
Mason-Dixon line), ship them as much fire arms as they want, and let them
kill each other.
The following is as unfair as is Wojtek's above, but my friends and I
who took basic training at Lackland Air
I think that Marx had the last words on the relevance of vampires. I hope that we
have our silver cross or whatever we need to ward them off from pen-l.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
At 10:43 PM 2/23/99 -0500, Maggie Coleman wrote:
A friend of mine sent me this. The really frightening thing about this is
that the law is being sponsored by those who want government out of people's
lives. I keep remembering that the National Socialists, er Nazis sent
homosexuals to the
so, what do you think of deleuze and guattari's book 'communists like
us'?
angela
In the translator's foreword to "A Thousand Plateaus", Brian Massumi tells
us that the philosopher Gilles Deleuze was prompted by the French
worker-student revolt of 1968 to question the role of the intellectual
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