a disaster happened today

2016-11-17 Thread sebastian
"The greatest music library in the world is gone." "Saddest day of the year for music. Even Bowie and L. Cohen death can't beat that." "I can't really begin to explain how much of a loss this is. This was the biggest digital repository of music the world has ever seen. Spotify, iTunes, even

Re: Word of the Year 2016 is ...

2016-11-17 Thread Richard C Wilkerson
I still think "post-factual" has a better ring. -Original Message- From: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org [mailto:nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org] On Behalf Of János Sugár Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:42 AM To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: Word of the Year 2016 is ... After

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-17 Thread Armin Medosch
Hi > Also, Trump won on ALL white demographics, including affluent, college > educated, and female identifying. I find this a point worth dwelling on for a bit. In an article written by Paul Mason I found this statement: "Donald Trump has won the presidency – not because of the “= white working

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-17 Thread Alex Foti
braudel once said that capitalism makes use of hierarchies but doesn't create them - the slave trade was functional to the launch of global capitalism by creating the atlantic economy, just as the genocide of indios, native americans and native australians was product of european colonization that

Word of the Year 2016 is ...

2016-11-17 Thread János Sugár
After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is: post-truth an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief'. #