Re: The Society of the Unspectacular

2007-06-12 Thread Keith Sanborn
rk, or browser sit-ins, or the way the do-it-yourself car ads were subverted for statements about the damage done to the environment, but the dream of being famous for 15 minutes--is it still that long, Andy?--is just another phantasm of the unconscious of capital. Plus ça change... Keith Sa

Re: IDF reading Deleuze and Guattari (and Debord)

2006-08-21 Thread Keith Sanborn
Comment faire la guerre, Editions Champ Libre or my own English translation of that same collection) are at least equally relevant to contextualizing current "culture" and real wars. Napoleon gives us the first critique of ideology; he coined the word "id?ologue," for examp

Re: IDF reading Deleuze and Guattari (and Debord)

2006-08-20 Thread Keith Sanborn
;security issues." 9. Even if IDF tactics are not credible as a recuperation of decades-old French theory, we should remember the old Situationist dictum: those who make revolution half-way, are only digging their own graves. Keith Sanborn # distributed via : no commercial use without permissi

Re: The Ultimate Straussian Links

2003-11-07 Thread Keith Sanborn
Ironically, Fukuyama may know have known about it since Mr. Bloom expurgated it from the American Edition of the work in which it appeared. A translation of that chapter did appear in a Straussian journal on another occasion. Sorry but the references escape me at the moment. Keith Sanborn On Wed

Re: Google's Weapons of Mass Destruction

2003-07-06 Thread Keith Sanborn
on of what Debord called "the integrated spectacle" and may even represent a new tactic--if not a new strategy--for commodifying dissent. Keith Sanborn # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text

the ugly american

2003-02-17 Thread Keith Sanborn
orrespondents famously put it: "Rien ne vous tue un homme comme de l'obliger de representer un pays." Keith Sanborn # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of

Re: art as torture

2003-01-30 Thread Keith Sanborn
In that case, it'll go down with painting chimps in the annals of interesting but unverifiable twists on the moderne. It just seems like such a slander against the anarchists, not to mention the sacred myths of formal experimentation and radical (left??) politics marching lockstep together. We won'