David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity is wonderful!; can't find the title of the other book, it was also on postmodern geography, I thought it was Edward Rojas... but it's not Do take a look at the Harvey if you can, and anything by Mike Davis, especially his early The City of Quartz. I still reference that.
Post-Fordist, post aseembly-line, company-'man' and so forth - thanks, Alan On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Simon Mclennan wrote: > Forsooth Alan, I feel I was not clear - to be precise I had an image > of the cultural consumer playing in them ashes - not really the > producers - although... > Now Roja and Harvey I don't know.. > Twas just a thought.. > Mmm occupy... > Post-Fordist..? > > Simon > > On 29 Mar 2012, at 18:55, Alan Sondheim wrote: > >> >> >> Except that if you look at Roja or Harvey you'll find just the >> opposite, >> and it's this sort of post-Fordist analysis that contributed to Occupy >> etc. I taught pomo at one point at UTD and don't recognize this >> 'played' >> you speak of; if anything, it was hard-edged. Mike Davis too of >> course. >> >> - Alan >> >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Simon Mclennan wrote: >> >>> ... and so post modernism played into the hands of the bourgeoisie - >>> "We never cared about socialism anyway, and could revel in the >>> thought that it didn't really matter and we could just go on doing >>> the thing most dear to our hearts... making money". So easy now to >>> play in the ashes of modernism and the critical discourse of the >>> intellectuals could be merrily diluted into the ironic mish-mash of >>> hybridity that was easy on the ear and easy on the wallet! Hor hor >>> hordy hor!! and let's pop into the ICA while we're at it...ha ha >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> == >> blog: http://avatarpaste.blogspot.com/ >> eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ (closed) >> email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >> web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 >> music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ or >> http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/ >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rj.txt >> == >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == blog: http://avatarpaste.blogspot.com/ eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ (closed) email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ or http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rj.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
