Thanks Keith, I really appreciate you taking the time squat with me at the old nettime pidgin bar: posting your work, and entering into discussion. I love your mention of the "ringing true" of the sovereign. There is a kind of ringing true of discourse that is able to reflect on how the memory bank of money and language are of a piece.
Your post on African urban development was as example of something that rings true because it asks the right questions. > Transparency as a political and economic virtue still has something to be > said for it, but the concept itself, like much else from the liberal > revolution, has been corrupted by its contemporary use for purposes opposite > to those originally intended. > > Surely, what is new about neoliberalism is the perverted use of liberal > ideas to mystify the reversion of capitalism to its feudal origins. Marx > understood that capitalism was feudalism in drag: that's why he coined the > expression surplus value. But, in his anxiety to rush to the next stage, he > also subscribed to the notion that capiralism had replaced > feudalism. I like this funny slip. It does look like crapilism at times or katzenjammer-ism. > Bush capitalism is literally the Old Regime: autocratic rule, unhindered > looting by the big corporations, colonial war, torture, abuse of civil > rights -- the whole package, George III and the East India Company all over > again. > > My mentor, CLR James, used to say in the 70s that there were only two world > revolutions left: the second Russian revolution and the second American > revolution. The fall of the Berlin Wall certainly felt like the former at > the time. It might be farfetched to think of the present political and > economic crisis as the latter or its antecedent. To endorse such a view > would be to imply that the American people still have the dynamism that > Tocqueville found in them. I think they do, but that makes me pretty unique > in my circle and probably on this list. Boosh is fronting for a kind of imperialist fundamentalism that like the religous fundamentalisms is a very contemporary phenom, no matter what atavisms of fear and fetish, of rattle-shaking and obscurantism it musters. It looks more and more hollow every day, and seems to be losing traction with the populace as McCain's rhetoric is falling flatter and flatter. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
