Dear Emaline and Alice,
Thank you for generous replies. Nobody's ever pinned down what may or many
not be attributed to consciousness unencumbered by four or five decades of
lived experience and memory, but I detect something vaguely optimistic in
both
your responses, an optimism that I sometimes
Dan,
Even before your solicitation, I was prepared to be the American
20-something (thanks, also, for your post, Alice):
What an interesting experience it's been here on Nettime for the last few
years as I've been writing a critical-psychological dissertation about
"Internet Addiction" (a
Hi Iain,
You're right about the "deep intergenerational transmission of a culture of
resistance."
About the anecdote, just some context: the journalist was asking this
question in reminding Macron's "Make the planet great again" vs "Make the
USA great again," so the interviewed person was
Frédéric: You say "To be a rightist is the opposite way: me first; then,
maybe, the world (I heard on France Info (French radio) someone in Texas
saying: First, the USA, then the planet; "it's like parents in a plane: first;,
they put on the oxygen mask; then, they can take care of children"-
I usually and prefer to lurk but since we’re talking about Generation Queer, I
want to weigh in as a queer 26 year old :) Here’s the longest thing I’ve ever
written on nettime.
I thought Dan’s words about morality and politics were great, as well as
Angela’s analysis of how Protestantism
Hi Dan, hi Angela,
Thanks for your posts.
Just an idea about morals and politics:
- When the most important thing is me, myself, my identity, my job, my
work, my resentment, my religion, etc., we are in the realm of morals and
revenges and trials (and lawyers and money and punishments) reign;
-
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 11:30, Dan S. Wang wrote:
> The reduction of politics to a question of good and bad people deeply
> afflicts radical political subcultures in the US,
Dan,
I find it difficult to reconcile your historiography of US activism and
politics with what I know about both US
Thank you, Angela.
Until Ryan singled out the tasteless and revealing remark about
Charlottesville, it hadn¹t registered for me. Why not? Because in Bard¹s
response addressed to me, his first line about my post being "so very very
brilliant" put me off to the extent that I didn't even read the
