Re: MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

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Re: On the Biggie Brexit Bandobust (re: Laurie Penny's

While the class is the the primary divider, there are collateral divisions in the Left that are few (causal) generations removed from the class but extremely effective. These divisions are actively and successfully nurtured: educational and academic echo chambers, identity politics and related

MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

MIT Media Lab put out an Award for Civil Disobedience. In many ways, this boggles the mind, but then again, it doesn't. First reaction of quite some people has been to nominate Aaron Swartz. While this is an obvious, and warranted, symbolic gesture, it might be more interesting to take them up

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

Problem is that in the specific Hungarian case (and all cases are specific) is that it raises the spectre/ skeletton in the cupboard called 'Trianon', the evil treaty that dismembered the Austrian-Hungarian empire after WWI punishing it far more than it did punish imperial Germany. Etnicity in

On the Biggie Brexit Bandobust (re: Laurie Penny's Despair)

This is a core statement: "I’ve spent the better part of my youth thinking up creative insults for these men, trying to form and reform the contempt and disgust that almost everyone who came of age in the UK after the financial crash feels for the way these people have pissed all over our

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

dear janos from your perspective of hungary suffering from fragmenting ethinicism, could parallels be drawn with situations in north africa where nation states are purposely being divided along ethnic lines by outside powers to enable access to former nationally controlled resources eg: libya,

Re: CEU

At 8:35 PM -0500 4/4/17, Keith Sanborn wrote: > How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I > address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information > on the links provided. Did I miss it? hello keith, you have to go through this long list:

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

folks, what in hungary is going on is not nationalism, but ethinicism, big difference. Gáspár Miklós Tamás: /.../ To get as far as they possibly could from democratic nationalism-which is a variant of classical republicanism: political equality and self-determination-they engaged in

Re: Laurie Penny on Brexit, March 29

Either public debt is too high or public spending is too low/"austerity" too harsh, she can't have both. I don't think that economic woes are a good rationale to justify anti-continental sentiment and the resulting brexit. On 04.04.2017 15:31, barbara strebel wrote: >War of Nerves Laurie

Re: CEU

How can I add my name to a letter of support, or to whom shd I address a letter of support for CEU? I did not find that information on the links provided. Did I miss it? Keith Sanborn > On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:49 AM, János Sugár wrote: > > (btw in Hungary only government

nationalism, outernationalism

Just read on CNN: ​"Trump says he's 'absolutely destroying' regulations " Is nationalism anti-global? No, nationalism is globally destructive, for instance the fact to refuse environmental regulations is globally destructive, unless for people who believe that nationalism

Re: [spectre] Lex CEU

nationalism is a good thing? I certainly misunderstood your email, sorry, as nationalism leads to wars and global destruction, cf. WW1, WW2 - and WW3? what we need is, as north-american poet Gizzi says, an outernationalism best, frederic n. 2017-04-04 8:16 GMT-05:00 heath bunting