It is not a nickname, Julio. It is a *nom de plume/guerre*! Yes, I first introduced the Sandwichman on Pen-l 12 or 13 years ago.
The Sandwichman was a character-type who recurred in Walter Benjamin's Passagenwerk and was the subject of an essay by Susan Buck-Morss, "The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering," published in New German Critique in 1986, the year before I went to Cornell to study with Professor Buck-Morss. To make a long story short, incarnation as Sandwichman is the fate of the lumpen-intelligentsia. Herr Marx also makes a similarly inflected quip about the distinction between private property and the "properties" of a person: In reality I possess private property only insofar as I have something > vendible, whereas what is peculiar to me [*meine Eigenheit*] may not be > vendible at all. My frock-coat is private property for me only so long as I > can barter, pawn or sell it, so long [as it] is [marketable]. If it loses > that feature, if it becomes tattered, it can still have a number of > features which make it valuable for me, it may even become a feature of me > and turn me into a tatterdemalion. But no economist would think of classing > it as my private property, since it does not enable me to command any, even > the smallest, amount of other people’s labour. A lawyer, an ideologist of > private property, could perhaps still indulge in such twaddle. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > Have you ever shared with PEN-L the reason(s) for your nickname? > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Meanwhile, *The Economist* has finally succumbed to the Sandwichman's >> relentless drumming: "Get a Life: working hours"! >> >> http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/working-hours >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Paul Krugman and Dean Baker seem to be agreeing that the US economy is >>> in a period of secular stagnation. >>> >>> This has been obvious to some for years. >>> >>> Concealed by bubbles, by wars, by depressions, by deportment and/or >>> imprisonmnet of millions, and especially by economists like Autor and >>> others who have insisted, and still insist, that technology creates as many >>> jobs as it destroys. >>> >>> Glad to see Baker and Krugman speaking out, at long last. Now for some >>> policy beyond sharing unemployment. >>> >>> Gene >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> >> Tom Walker (Sandwichman) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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