*Farage's as Hyper-leader and the cult of disintermediation*
It is no longer news (if it ever was) that the big winners in the UK’s European
Parliamentary elections were the Bexit Party or
rather the Nigel Farage party. This was a remarkable achievement bearing in
mind his party has only been
Beautiful Obits for 'Ilya Lee'. R.I.P.
The two nettime posts by him Geert refers to are here:
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00140.html (1999)
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0107/msg00508.html
(2001)
and they are well worth (re)reading!
Ciaoui,
Who can make sense out of yesterday's municipal elections in Barcelona?
The left-wing separatist candidate, Ernest Maragall, narrowly beating
Ada Colau. Is this another case of separatism crowding out ecological
and social issues, thus preserving conventional political structures
(even if with new
