> > >...a brilliant and utterly coruscating essay published in the NY Times by > Pankaj Mishra a writer and polemicist from India who situates the crisis in > English post-colonial delusion < > > Thanks, David. You are right that Brexit is the UK's post-imperial > hangover come home to roost. Have spent my adult life waiting for Brits to > wake up in this regard and I am not convinced that even this will do the > job. In the early twentieth century, the strongest political and > intellectual opposition to the Empire came from Ireland, India and South > Africa and the first two are still the best source. Apart from Pankaj > Mishra, Fintan O'Toole is keeping up the good work with his book, Heroic > Failure: Brexit and the politics of pain. Ireland is noted for its literary > Nobel prize-winners and he is well up to standard. His latest article came > out today: > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/18/europe-brexit-britain-state-politics-fit-for-purpose > >
O'Toole's point -- that Brexit was never about Europe, but rather about the home political dispensation -- is one that I have been making for two decades. I call it the creeping constitutional crisis of the cruel historical experiment, the United Kingdom. I wrote "Where once was an empire" soon after the 2016 referendum result: https://www.academia.edu/29662300/Where_once_was_an_empire_on_Brexit_ Best, Keith > > >> # 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: nett...@kein.org >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > > > > -- > > <http://keith-hart.com/?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb> > Keith Hart > keith-hart.com > <http://keith-hart.com/?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb> > > > # 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: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: -- <http://keith-hart.com/?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb> Keith Hart keith-hart.com <http://keith-hart.com/?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api&utm_content=thumb>
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