Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-13 Thread Molly Hankwitz
Elegies and > Ulysses. Audiovisual media have been maturing for about the same time as > the novel had been in 1922: perhaps this pandemic year we'll see similar > aesthetico-political breakthrough. > > seán > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sa

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread Sean Cubitt
To: David Garcia Cc: "nettim...@kein.org" Subject: Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Obviously I agree with David in this thread. Global metabolic disruptions like the pandemic (and the coming climate-driven storms, f

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread Brian Holmes
will play as the climate crunch really > starts to bite. This is when we will return to the earlier postings on this > thread that spoke about the science wars. > > > > David Garcia > > > > > > *From: *patrice riemens > *Date: *Saturday, 12 February 2022 at 08:5

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread Joseph Rabie
Concerning... > Le 12 févr. 2022 à 14:43, David Garcia > a écrit : > > Actually Joseph I think quite a lot is new… going as far back as November > 2020 I wrote post which pointed to the proposition that before the pandemic > if anyone had suggested that under conditions, other than war, that

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread David Garcia
Joseph Rabie wrote: Concerning... A new and intense awareness of mutual dependency and the collective agency of which we are capable was the great revelation of the pandemic and our only hope of survival. This is not new, it has always been the case in times of disaster. This

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread Gary Hall
Is there a danger of seeing a lot of this as specific to Johnson; that he is somehow a special character or case? In Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England (2021), Richard Beard refers to the work of the psychoanalyst Joy Schaverien and her 2015 volume Boarding School Syndrome

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread Joseph Rabie
I do wonder, insofar as Boris Johnson is concerned, how much sex has to do with it all. In a biographical documentary shown on the Arte TV station, his use of comic behaviour and witty repartee at school (Eton) and university (Oxford), clearly appeared to be organised around garnering the sort o

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread David Garcia
Garcia Cc: "nettim...@kein.org" Subject: Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson Aloha, Let me (allow me to) take Brian's rejoinder as an opportunity to address David's and his argument in face of the (dangerous) shenanigans in 10, Clowning Street (-Marina Hyde, TG) ... and b

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-12 Thread patrice riemens
Aloha, Let me (allow me to) take Brian's rejoinder as an opportunity to address David's and his argument in face of the (dangerous) shenanigans in 10, Clowning Street (-Marina Hyde, TG) ... and beyond. There is absolutely no doubt that Boris Johnson is a very 'special' character and political

Re: The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-11 Thread Brian Holmes
David, your second paragraph sums up a really complex situation in a few words, thank you. It's fairly easy to understand how right-wing populists raise the anger of the people. They do it with fear, born largely of their own mismanagement. Fear of the pandemic, of economic disruption, of war, of

The Meaning of Boris Johnson

2022-02-11 Thread David Garcia
Old friend of nettime Patrice Riemens recently mailed to ask me how I felt about the weird/surreal state of the UK political scene. This maybe of interest to some if not I will no doubt be corrected. - Rory Stuart, one of the old-style Tories