Re: Conversion disorder of the left

Morlock, quoting you here: <> we know the ten year plan...move to a privatized government so interlaced with profit-making that the term "military industrial entertainment complex" will go out of style and we might need to replace with "fascist commercial industrial comedy

Re: WHAT IS IT TO RE-THINK MOVEMENT, TODAY? Videos,

Ρ���Χ�� Σ�ι� 22 �οε 2016 6:46 ��, ο ��ή��η� "Krystian Woznicki" �γ�α�ε: Hi nettimers, the results from the TACIT FUTURES conference are available now: video interviews with conference guests like Brian Massumi (social thinker),

Protocols and Crises

[This text is an abstract for a larger argument I hope to develop on how to frame the political character of the crisis, by understanding the appeal of trump and other stongmen, while trying to avoid the trap of leftwing nationalism (which I think is largely an illusion). I know it's very abstract

Digital leftism in a globalised world?

Thanks a million for your lengthy and thoughtful response, dear Dan! Exactly what I was looking for. Cheers to lucky Madison for having you around. Well, I have been here at Nettime long enough to see people blame "neoliberalism" for the crisis in Greece when in reality those

Re: Conversion disorder of the left

I don't think that this list of fears justifies bothering to run the country. There is not enough money in all of that together, those are all small incremental operations (and the morality thing will be the cost center, not the profit one.) Plus there would be no desperate attacks on the new

Re: Protocols and Crises

Looks promising, Felix. An abstract should be abstract and this one is not confused, just sometimes elliptical, Some notes: The three types of power (hard, soft, neo-liberal) seem to be discrete categories, but don't their inter-relationships blur those boundaries? The contrast

January 30, Time To Wake Up

January 30, Time To Wake Up "The media always has taken Trump literally. It never takes him seriously." (Peter Thiel) What is beginning to dawn upon Americans is that the exact opposite is true: That by taking Trump seriously, they completely misunderstood what he was telling them and vastly

Re: Digital leftism in a globalised world?

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 01:01:09PM +0100, Alexander Bard wrote: > Thank you for an excellent expose of your position on world politics and > your defense of the term "neoliberalism". I was just exercising empathy towards people that use it more than me. ;) > To begin with, hardly any