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

2016-11-18 Thread Molly Hankwitz
dear all, we shouldn't assume that racism is the only force behind the voting, no. but, given that the election was already skewed in the direction of white, southern and midwestern wealthier voters with the undermining of voters' rights (supreme court decison 2013) it is no wonder t

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

2016-11-18 Thread t byfield
One of the quirks of this list, which is one reason I've loved it so much for so long (and that's no exaggeration), is its very European style. For many purposes, the US has served as a weird sort of Orient -- not just in the sense of a trope that encompasses an empirically geographical 'over t

mondo risiko: the geopolitics of trump

2016-11-18 Thread Alex Foti
the thaw with putin and the freeze with eu and nato have occurred as expected - aleppo is pounded by russian bombs as a consequence of trump - fillon one of the droite runners in the french primary argues for rapprochement with russia - germany has always been softer with putin, and

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

2016-11-18 Thread Frederic Neyrat
Hi Angela, Just one thought: you wrote that "� I� leave that to� Platonists. I do think that every person who voted for Trump is a racist �" etc.� But Platonism (I mean the way you interpret Platon) precisely implies to say� X "is" Y! It's precisely a way to define someone by h

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

2016-11-18 Thread John Haltiwanger
Hello Angela, "I do think that every person who voted for Trump is a racist, and this is because from the perspective of its effects and those who will suffer them, there is no difference between the person who embraces Trump's voluble racism and those for whom it was not a deal-b

Schneier: 'The internet era of fun and games is over'

2016-11-18 Thread nettime mod squad
< http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bruce-schneier-internet-of-things/ > Bruce Schneier: 'The internet era of fun and games is over' Austin Powell Nov 16 at 4:31PM | Last updated Nov 16 at 4:31PM Internet pioneer Bruce Schneier issued a dire proclamation in front of the House of Representatives' En

Re: Word of the Year 2016 is ...

2016-11-18 Thread Joseph Rabie
...how about "post-cluster-fuck" ? # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.

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

2016-11-18 Thread Angela Mitropoulos
Felix, >And to argue that all forms of social solidarity that existed in >the post-war period (such as the welfare state, unions, community >churches and so on) where simple white solidarity seems also overly >broad. Polanyi's understanding of social solidarity stretches much, much further back t