Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-12-05 Thread Eric Beck
It's perhaps worth mentioning also that clowns like Nagle and Zizek aren't the only leftists who have aligned with Krein. He's also recruited respectable Trotskyists and Keynesians, Nancy Fraser and Dean Baker respectively, to his nationalist project. Fraser wrote an article framing the current

A short appraisal

2018-12-05 Thread Morlock Elloi
Not to disturb high intellectual discourses on nettime, a short interlude with numbers and reality. IMF suggests that a typical collateral for major loans should be around 60% book value or 30% market value. The Republic of Ecuador just got $1.1B loan using Julian Assange as collateral

Re: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

2018-12-05 Thread David Garcia
Hi Geert and Donatella as usual there is plenty to provoke, agree and disagree with. But whatever the detail this is particularly timely intervention as it feels like one of those moments when the light appears to have changed and a once familiar lanscape suddenly looks very different. For

The Circle revisited: Apple Stores' carefully managed drama (Jonny Bunning, The Guardian)

2018-12-05 Thread Patrice Riemens
original to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/03/claps-and-cheers-apple-stores-carefully-managed-drama Apple stores' carefully managed drama Those ‘geniuses’ in the bright, sleek Apple store are underpaid, overhyped and characters in a well-managed fiction story By Jonny