The provocative article by William Bowles posted by Patrice Riemens
prompts me to finally sketch an analysis of the momentous events that
are finally creating a fearsome social opposition to the financial,
political, and technocratic elites that caused the Great Recession,
precipitating millions
more out of sadness than anything else, i respond to the invitation of
german friends to explain wtf happened in the recent Italian general
elections.
Quick summary: monti and austerity lost, the mummy is back (oh
no!), grillo, casaleggio and the 5-star movement won, but the
centerleft
everything must not change for everything to remain the same the leopard
2.0 - Spaghettiland, 2013
So the electoral quake was all a fake. King George Napolitano is elected by
the Mummy into a second term for the first time in the history of the
italian republic, which effectively turns into a
The remark was paradoxical, and certainly the 5star explosion has instilled
fear in the traditional elites, but this president and berlusconi in gov't
i don't see much chance for basic income (it would have been quite
different with a centerleft+5star gov't - in fact precarious' associations
were
dear 'timers,
we are living in a William Gibson novel and it ain't pretty:
hypermediatization, random cruelty, aberrant irrationality, political
and ecological disintegration seem to rule the world.
yet there is a simple hobbesian logic to this all - i propose a simple
model to interpret the
is the european question the analog of the habsburg question or the ottoman
question in the 19th century? i don't think so, but there's certainly room
for the belief that the 'sick man of europe' is europe itselft, or rather
the EU.
One could counter that the stagnation that Merkel and the
hi Keith,
your pithy remarks are well taken, although i wouldn't put much trust
in demographic forecasts (they've always been wrong) 90 years down
the road, especially with rampant climate change. as you say, Europe
is the loser in the great recession, let's see if it's permanent -
the old
that's so sad. will the archives still be visible at the same url?
i'll miss it dearly
lx
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shit, and i thought i was astute because i had fooled my 13-year old
daughter into believing they had captured somebody from isis in the
neighborhood.. you got me really sad in fact. is it true or not? fuck
i agree with the guy (yes always guys..) who said that it's the only
place you get cool,
people this is an inchoate set of sentences provoked by the reading of
à nos amis - which is the best piece of revolutionary theory since
empire by hn (btw tarnac despises toni - in fact they seem to have
precious few amis - anarchists are ringards, anonymous are naive,
autonomist
(nettime lives:)
when i was a kid, a nerdy boy gave me to read this coldwar sci-fi
series which i have now found out was originally west-german (thought
it was brit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan). The hero
is an American space major who defends the West against its foes.
Can't
was thinking about robots when daesh started butchering people at
bataclan - cosmopolitan youth, aging rockers, executions going on for
hours - you know more than me what i m talking about.
clearly daesh attacked france and warned germany and everybody else -
stay out of syria and
blown away by this piece. i usually favor the term fossil capitalism,
because similarly to mandel-jameson's late capitalism somehow hopes to
consign it to a primitive past.
in my mind (since 'inside out' a pop metaphor) two people fight for
audience in the assembly of the self, the
-- Messaggio inoltrato --
Da: *Alex Foti* <alex.f...@gmail.com>
Data: lunedì 31 agosto 2015
Oggetto: what if we were all right but all wrong?
A: Eric Beck <ersatz...@gmail.com>
characterizing v as redbrown is warped. that's putin giving money to lepen.
i think it
you are right new age superstition is undermining people's critical
thinking. we need a lot more scientific education for the democratization
of tech. i meant simplification of political messages and identification of
key issues to polarize the body politic.
Il domenica 30 agosto 2015, Geert
Varoufakis has been talking about a European network for democracy and
against debt servitude and inequality in Europe. He's joined by other
left-leaning economists including the great Piketty, Galbraith, Dosi,
and others whose work I don't know. Politically he's found support in
Dear Alice, thanks a tera for the reference. my philosophical tools are
very blunt but i dont think i am fully persuaded about abandoning
humanism - i agree though the left is arch-conservative - but isn't
ecotech possible? would this make cyborg of us? i dunno i dream of
light-tech
if i can add my zero bitcoin to this heated debate, i download
everything in epub for free - since i got half unemployed couldn't
afford the non/fiction i wanted to read anyway. copyright is not the
right way to either spread knowledge or provide for authors'
livelihoods - my crude
Dear Nina, Dear Geert,
thanks for your reports and views on diem25 - an event that is
ostensibly about setting up demoradical constituent power in europe
- lead by varoufakis, the only credible opposant of ordoliberal
austerity.
i agree it wants to try to be the Great Recession version of the
couldn't agree more. also 15 euros an hour, breakup of bank cartels,
abolition of universal banking, fiscal expansion, ecojobs, a basic
income for the eurozone etc.
because otherwise it's lofty ideals about creating a multicultural
space which nobody knows what it contains, where it
best queer bunnies, lx
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From: Alex Foti <alex.f...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:55 AM
Subject: salafi easter and finis europae: let's break the loop
To: nettim...@kein.org
as self-appointed agony aunt of the fall of europe for u dear
net
Dear friends in Vienna and elsewhere in Europe and the World,
this motherfucker hofer got over a third of the votes in the first round of
austria's presidential elections. long gone are the days when FPÖ was seen
as a threat to "european" values, the guy could inherit the post that once
was
european xenophobia defeated again after fn was beaten in france
plus the winner's a green;)
lx
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Wow, Brian, comparative analysis of euroamerican middle classes and the
populist left!
according to laclau-chantalmouffe (from what I learned from Paolo
Gerbaudo, check out his upcoming book) the people is constructed around
a signifier (the wronged citizenry, the exploited
I totally agree you have to look at productivity distribution regimes
(in this boyer-coriat supplemented perez-freeman) - in 1950-1973 it was
basically productivity growth out of taylorized assemly-line operation
going to wages (in the US, for Germany, Japan and other laggards it
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/35800940/alex-foti-the-grid-amp-the-fork-left-curve/2
in case you wanna read what appeared on nettime 2006 on crisis theoy
and then was reissued on left curve shortly after. i have a scaled back
and refined version of the grid in english
Dear Brian, Felix, and all
the Schumpeterian state is already with us (e.g. The Entrepreneurial
State by Mazzuccato). The crisis has brought industrial policy back
into fashion, and today this means innovation policy, or rather
incentives and subsidies for digital innovation. So in a sense, all
well this is about falsificationism in social theory - and it pretty
much applies to any theory in social science - be it modernization
functionalism underdevelopment etc
in my view a good social theory must at least explain the basic facts
of the present and the recent past
Brian poses the right questions. As for regulation theory mixed with
kondratiev please also see (in addition to paul mason) my two 2009
contributions which built on stuff posted on nettime
https://www.academia.edu/9343417/Climate_Anarchists_vs_Green_Capitalists
(pag 5-6)
and
as they used to say in harlem: WORD
the European Continental Republic needs to happen fast and was greatly
inspired by Ulrike Guérot's political call -
http://www.euronomade.info/?p=6759)
if we want to make it a viable project we should start federating existing
paneuropean movements (blockupy,
i just wanted to add a rejoinder on the skewed generational nature of the
brexit vote - yes, the gerontocratic aspect is all too evident, even in
yesterday's spanish elections (where we should pay and homage to catalonia
and expect that pablo iglesias will ponder that it was a bad idea to the a
yeah totally libertarian is a misnomer - let's say ecoqueer populism
(ada colau's:)
agree that red left is dead for all present political purposes, but
hey anarchism as praxis is still alive and left populism without "the
Left" can be mightily empowered by it (bakunin's dual strategy, o
int'l
the white working class and the downwardly mobile middle class have
constituted an electoral majority on protectionism and racism - the rust
belt states proved crucial - it's huntington's vengeance and hooverism -
but the country is evidently nonwhite postpatriarchal - true it was a vote
against
honestly? i don't think that the bern would have made a difference - too
white, too old to have blacks, latinos, millennials turn out in the numbers
sufficient to beat that horrific guy and the hooverist id he incarnates.
people cite polls but who can believe the polls in the new age of extremes?
keith is mindblowing (razorsharp and bighearted at same time) but i
think he misrepresents trump as a neoliberal/neoconservative variant
- this is shocking like reagan was to the 70s but has a properly
fascistic, not a conservative agenda - i mean no neoliberal ever
would propose to deport 3
trump has brought neoliberalism to an end - he's a nationalist not a
conservative - in my view it will bring the demise of liberalism in all
its forms (including those protective of individual rights) across all
of what used to be called the west - i mean if le pen prevails in
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
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
i just read the latest perry anderson on gramsci's legacy in hall,
laclau, guha, arrighi
didn't know about domination without hegemony - however what struck me
incredibly is its domination/subordination bifurcation tree so i'm
gonna share it with you in shorthand (otherwise it's
Dear Vahid,
for the very little it's worth i've been campaigning to save aleppo
since the siege and furiously since the assad-putin-iran atrocities
escalated. i agree about the complicity by omission of the left, which
finds a depressing parallel with most of the left muddling truth
sure, some might say it's undesirable anyway.
and it's a big question for a thread, but do you have a honest answer
to this question?
please lemme hear your thoughts if you have time.
sunny solar sundays
lx
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the French have chosen a liberal to ward off the fascist threat (patriotism
vs nationalism this is how the youthful ex banker ex economic minister puts
it). it is a paradoxical outcome a year after Nuit Debout protests, which
have propelled mélenchon to a great score (and socialist hamon to a
Dear Alexander and All,
your spot-on remarks (!) make me wonder about the future of social
democracy, something Castells pondered in a recent editorial:
mediterranean socialist parties seem on the verge of disappearing (e.g.
France, Greece, Spain), but what about SPD and other Northern European
Dear Keith, Dear Brian and All
i was part of the 80s antinuclear/ peace movement (my first political
experience) - we even thought it was us that brought the wall down. in
retrospect it achieved little (ok nuclear energy was phased out after
chernobyl), since reagan's missiles bankrupted the
cari amici e amiche precari/e
i have finally managed to put out a coherent book on the precariat. i hope
you dig it. here's the link, below the back cover. ciao and thanks to Geert
and the INC!
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/general-theory-of-the-precariat/
>From the fast-food
Assembly by H deals with the problem of organization and exercising power
on the part of movements. Their proposal is to invert the relationship
between leadership and base, so that the democratic multitude (based on the
emerging subjectivities in wealth production and social reproduction) is in
fellow nettimers
long time no write - been busy surviving and promoting the book.
as DSA makes its (positive) electoral debut, i'd like to discuss with you a
question:
Why there is socialism in America, while there is no more socialism in
Continental Europe where it originated?
Before WWI
paul mason doesn't get national-populism right - he called the current
italian rightist government "neoliberalism in one country" (what??) - yes
we need a big progressive front like the one varoufakis is building - for
europe - too bad britain is no longer part of it - america today is part of
so should facebook pay us basic income? i think some ft editorialist argued
as much. but that would mean putting fb on a utility-like pedestal. i m no
media theorist and so forgive me for intruding, but i wonder how the latest
tweak to the fb algorithm (less news, more cousins) will affect
dear friends,
since the macerata attempted carnage just before the fateful march general
elections, racist aggressions have been steadily on the rise in italy. The
appointment of Salvini as interior minister, avowed racist, fascist
sympathizer, drowner of refugees, torture enabler etc has opened
your caricature of gramsci's postwar reception should then also
include an attack on Stuart Hall and any kind of cultural Marxism.
Also i would like to know what is this fabled political economy that
we should never violate - the falling rate of profit?
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:52 PM, ari
hi boys, hi sisters,
i don't feel any more italian than i feel european. i think i have more in
common with somebody living in Liège or Barcelona than somebody living in
the Italian provinces (invariably nightmarish from Lombardy to Calabria).
so i don't claim i have a special grasp of the
The current European divide brings Weber back to mind.
Calvinist/Lutheran Europe vs Catholic/Mediterranean Europe - Hansa
Europe vs Catholic League. For instance, Scholz is the shame of
European Social Democraycy. And he's from Hansa Hamburg. Calvinist
Rutte standing in for the Lutheran Kanzlerin
very true. but isn't korea also into cell phone tracing. i mean i
m no techie but anarchists here say that colao former vodafone ceo
is modeling the italian app control the viral subject on the korean
model. let's do mass immunological testing in radical neighborhoods,
no?
aviral, aysmptomatic,
as third instalment before replunging into isolation silence, i wanna
briefly discuss the following: in 2016, national-populism succeeded
neoliberalism in the nylon ganglion which had been at the heart
of financial globalization since reagan and thatcher's concerted
resurrection of international
ciao amici - hi Felix, Brian, Geert and ecosocialist/anarchautonomist
friends near and far
birds are singing and an ambulance hasn't gone thru the deserted
highway in 10 minute - a good dawn - although not buried under a
pile of corpses like Bergamo and Brescia, Milano has more than 1,000
dead
i know nothing but in america the strategy is red, in europe it's green.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:49 PM Ryan Griffis
wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2021, at 2:13 PM, From: Dmytri Kleiner
> wrote:
> >
> > What does? Do I need to be pedantic here and explain that they where
> > attempting to use Jo?o
true dat! also they shut down the montana portion of the border:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypxnz/anti-vax-trucker-convoy-blocks-canada-us-border?utm_source=VICEWorldNews_twitter_medium=social
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 5:06 PM openflows wrote:
> Comrades!
> It has been many years since I
hi guys,
i owe to my good friend cedric jonckheere this fundamental intuition that
well summarizes the postpandemic shift in modern politics.
there's no longer (woke) left and (populist) right. the emergence of major
novax movements largely hegemonized by the nationalist and racist right is
a
thanks for your critical remarks. true the fascist cancer hasn't spared
neither spain nor portugal, but it seems to me that they are not attracting
large numbers of people from other sectors of society as it happens in the
rest of continental europe (and canada!) with no vax movements.
best
Dear Felix and everybody,
i shall try to keep it brief and simple. you know the facts. meloni
won the elections and will head the first neofascist government since
mussolini was left hanging in loreto square in the spring of '45. this
is a political disaster for the whole of europe, not just
fret not, it's in english:)
i m writing this as italy is sleepwalking into refascism with ms meloni
billed as next prime minister out of the snap elections on september 25.
the crazy as nature of spaghetti politics has never been in greater
display, still the peninsular mutation lab always holds
Hi friends, ciao Felix!
we were in Frankfurt for the Transnational Social Strike Assembly (the
great transcontinental network working essential labor, gender equality and
climate justice) to peddle WCCJ aka the World Congress for Climate Justice,
to be held in Milano on October 12-15, 2023 - here
bring your ideas and strategies to Milano. There
will be around 300 delegates from many parts of the world, and we'll be
subsidizing travel for African and Latin American activists. Nettimers will
be given a preference;)
best ciaos to friends near and far,
Alex
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