Hi Dan, hi Angela,
Thanks for your posts.
Just an idea about morals and politics:
- When the most important thing is me, myself, my identity, my job, my
work, my resentment, my religion, etc., we are in the realm of morals and
revenges and trials (and lawyers and money and punishments) reign;
-
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 11:30, Dan S. Wang wrote:
> The reduction of politics to a question of good and bad people deeply
> afflicts radical political subcultures in the US,
Dan,
I find it difficult to reconcile your historiography of US activism and
politics with what I know about both US
Frédéric: You say "To be a rightist is the opposite way: me first; then,
maybe, the world (I heard on France Info (French radio) someone in Texas
saying: First, the USA, then the planet; "it's like parents in a plane: first;,
they put on the oxygen mask; then, they can take care of children"-
I usually and prefer to lurk but since we’re talking about Generation Queer, I
want to weigh in as a queer 26 year old :) Here’s the longest thing I’ve ever
written on nettime.
I thought Dan’s words about morality and politics were great, as well as
Angela’s analysis of how Protestantism
Original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/09/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-earth-by-jonathan-franzen-review-hope-in-an-age-of-crisis
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen review – hope in an
age of crisis
A writer at the top of his game considers climate change, what we
I thought some on the list interested in infrastructural / ecological
politics might find this of interest:
Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy
(online: https://inhabit.global/ , español: https://es.inhabit.global/ ,
français: https://fr.inhabit.global/ )
There are two paths: The end of the world
That pamphlet is another piece of male fantasies and cyberlibertarian porn
that might very well come from the Alt-Right. (Note the invocations of
"fight clubs", "indigenous families" etc.)
-F
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blog: *https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561
I think the reference to indigenous families is meant to point to some of
the indigenous-lead pipeline protests in the U.S. and Canada.
Regarding fight clubs, i'm not sure that equating all militancy with
masculinity is very helpful either, especially considering the rich
tradition of women's
