Mark, Flick:
On the question of whether and how is ³democracy² relevant to an
understanding of Chinese politics, I lean towards Mark¹s views.
To add to them, Flick¹s characterization of the CCP as a ³supreme² ruler, I
must say, is far from the reality (and as for its ³legitimacy,² at the level
Mark - and others,
Whatever the name of the (class) beast, or the nature of the (digital)
technology, my only interest is to have the vast majority of the people
have a decent, interesting, enjoyable, and healthy life - from birth to
death. The present dispensation does not provide for that.
Twenty years ago, class was not in the vocabulary of Swedish pundits and
mavens. Class was something that belonged to the past. Today, however, it is
back with a vengeance. Recently the Swedish Occupy movement Allt åt alla
(Everything for Everyone) organized a bus safari through exclusive
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
Last week I [Moxie Marlinspike] was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one
of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project
that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably
popular MITM tools,
On 05/15/2013 08:56 AM, allan siegel wrote:
The thesis of the death of the middle class is simple and not
peculiar to Sweden: every time you try to define the allegedly most
important contemporary social formation, this middle class breaks
into two, writes Greider; one part that serves the
Mark writes:
But, before you roll up your sleeves, if you want to have any useful
ideas on the structure of labor (and leisure and consumption) then
you must begin with a CRASH effort to understand the impact of
*digital* technology on the economy.
You could also begin with a crash course on
Jon:
As i said it appears to me that people have been struggling
with this since the 90s and i see no sign of it stopping.
Thanks! You are certainly correct that the various professions have
circled their own wagons and not stepped up to the challenge of understanding
the effects of
What I find interesting is the realization of the Randian dream through the
refocusing on skills rather than credentials - one of my students just quit
school because of the crushing debt he was going to incur because of the
turning away of the state from higher education, privatization of loans,
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Edward Shanken rotorel...@gmail.comwrote:
What would the world be like if Roy Ascott's La Plissure du Texte (1983)
sold at auction for $34.2 million instead of Gerhard RIchter's ?Abstraktes
Bild?? In what sort of world (and artworld) would that be possible?
