Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 13

2022-02-15 Thread David Garcia
Brian Holmes wrote: Thanks for this - I am totally curious about Chinese society and haven't been there for a long time. Actually, more recommendations would be cool. I like this regular journal/digest https://www.neican.org/china-scholarship-digest-7/ Also

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 13

2022-02-15 Thread J Drew
olitics is to some extent froth. His administration is perhaps less >>> of an outlier than it appears. He is a man of few fixed ideological beliefs >>> which is how (like Merkle) he has held together a coalition with >>> contradictory ideologies.. The ?greased pig

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 13

2022-02-15 Thread Brian Holmes
of borrowing required to keep our economies from > flat-lining. So even for Tories on the right of the party any return to the > old fiscal narrative will be pretty much impossible. And Johnson has been > quicker to recognise this than other Tories. Despite Thatcherite n > ostalgia there can be no going back to the Cam

Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 173, Issue 13

2022-02-12 Thread J Drew
ponse to the > 2008 crisis. Johnson?s conservatism recognises that there can be no return > to small state with low taxes conservatism. His claims to NetZero ambitions > means that world has gone..(But of course he often has to pretend otherwise) > The post-covid mad Johnsonian UK has t