Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Minor Simulations, Major Disturbances

2010-05-03 Thread micha cardenas
2010/4/14 Green Jo-Anne j...@turbulence.org I don’t mean to detract from the debate about the role that universities play in supporting research that subverts the status quo. I just think that this “event” should be considered within this larger context, additionally, one in which millions of

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Minor Simulations, Major Disturbances

2010-04-18 Thread gh hovagimyan
Many campus radicals in the 60's 70's came to the same conclusion. They realized that the only way to be a true revolutionary was to be a criminal or outlaw. You get people who become bank robbers or drug dealers to fund their revolution. The other call from the 60's 70's was to work

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Minor Simulations, Major Disturbances

2010-04-18 Thread Christiane Robbins
Re: de Certeau - Ahhh. but there is that nasty issue of intellectual property which innumerable university administrators and academic senate committees have set their sights on for years now. On Apr 15, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Beatriz da Costa wrote: Dear Jo, Rita et al, Thank you

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Minor Simulations, Major Disturbances

2010-04-15 Thread Beatriz da Costa
Dear Jo, Rita et al, Thank you all for your thoughtful postings, I am glad I finally joined -empyre- and am getting the opportunity to follow such a lively discussion. Amidst all the events down at UCSD and the responses and comments on this list, my initial thoughts seem to be most

Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Minor Simulations, Major Disturbances

2010-04-14 Thread Green Jo-Anne
Dear All, On March 28, 2010, Frank Rich wrote an op-ed for the New York Times entitled The Rage is Not About Health Care. In it he said ...The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964... The conjunction of