mp <[email protected]> Re: Stuart Hall: Stalinist in theory and Blairite in politics allan siegel <[email protected]> Richard Barbrook who? "Patrice Riemens" <[email protected]> Re: Stuart Hall: Stalinist in theory and Blairite in
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:30:09 +0100 From: mp <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <nettime> Stuart Hall: Stalinist in theory and Blairite in politics On 13/02/14 04:38, Richard Barbrook wrote: > If there is one lesson to be learnt from this sad tale of political > failure and theoretical chicanery, we must not make the same mistake > as Hall and his disciples. Comrades - let us become Marxists who've > read some Marx! .. it was going so well, but in the end you ruined it all. Unless you're speaking of Groucho, of course. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: allan siegel <[email protected]> Subject: Richard Barbrook who? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:50:20 +0100 Hello, Richard Barbrook=92s overwrought diatribe against the memory of Stuart = Hall proves, lest anyone forget, that shallow ultra-leftism comes in all = sizes and shapes. If anyone has an I=92M A REAL MARXIST button please = send it Richard - we don=92t want to lose sight of a true believer. =93straight, no chaser=94 - RIP Stuart your memory will surely endure. allan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:14:56 +0100 Subject: Re: <nettime> Stuart Hall: Stalinist in theory and Blairite in From: "Patrice Riemens" <[email protected]> As Colonel Race (David Niven) in 'Death on the Nile' would have said: "Well, at least it's a fresh approach". Cheerio, p+2D! (met SH once, nice guy, R.I.P.!) > I suppose those who make their living out of teaching Cultural Studies > have to mourn the demise of Stuart Hall. However, the airbrushing of > Hall's unpleasant politics in his obituaries cannot be allowed to pass > without some attempt at correcting the historical record. Here are my > thoughts which come from someone who - in more than one period of his > life - was on the opposite side of the barricades to this high priest > of philosophical confusion. <snip> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # 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://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
