I agree with Doug's more nuanced views on pomo. Identifying the
Sokal affair as a turning point is not to assert that it was the
definitive or even an important critique. We must look elsewhere for
that. Is it profoundly ironic, or profoundly non-ironic that an
ironic intervention (a jape
The latest statistics reveal that the per capita income in Albania is
continuing to decline rapidly. Already the poorest country in Europe, per
capita income has declined from $800 USD per year in 1996 to around $600
USD per year based on the average for the first seven months of 1997.
The
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Subject:[PEN-L:12404] Re: the beautiful poor
I think Maggie Coleman is quite right
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Johns Hopkins University
just issued a report form a survey of Maryland nonprofit organizations.
Some more interesting findings include:
- nonprofit sector is a major employer in MD, it employs more people than
manufacturing and created over
Maggie and all,
At Columbia University, from the 1930's until his death in the late 1950's
(1958?), the Marxist sociologist and anthropologist Bernard J. Stern -- who
gave the journal "Science and Society" its name -- taught graduate courses
in Social Class. Perhaps also at the New School,
Ricardo Duchesne writes that: Being totally against ethnocentrism leads to
cultural relativism, which is that no culture is superior or inferior to
others, which means that one foregoes the right to condemn other cultural
practices.
Right. We have to learn how to steer between the Skylla of
Postmodernism surely is capable of uncovering basic flaws in what passed
for Marxism in the Social Democratic, Communist and Trotskyist movements,
but I suppose astrology could as well. We have been burdened by horrendous
dogmatism in the name of Marxism. "Official" Marxism has been reductionist,
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Colin, I think you are asking some interesting questions. But I am
afraid that answering each one directly will get us bogged down into
an endless debate.
Ricardo, I asked you *one* central question. When you used the
term "cultural practice," what did you mean
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tom wood wrote:
Richard Duchesne wrote:
What about pre-linguistic mental capacities, say in the first two
years of a child? This is possible, but should we call that
"thinking"?
Are you saying learning is possible without thinking?
I wanted to wade in just to the
On Thu, September 18, 1997 at 10:22:55 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
I realize that you are being brief, but can you tell us what, in plain
English, pomo offers that cannot be found elsewhere?
I don't have time to answer this right now, but I will soon.
That would be most
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Coverage of "APEC Women Leaders' Meeting" protest, September 13, 1997,
Hull
1. The Ottawa Sun, Sunday September 14, 1997, Page 21
2. The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday September 14, 1997 Page A6
3. The Globe and Mail, Monday,
Quoth Bill Lear:
I realize that you are being brief, but can you tell us what, in plain
English, pomo offers that cannot be found elsewhere?[...]
[...]
How would pomo help us enrich our understanding of class---or race or
gender, for that matter?
Convince
please post and forward...
"Globalization From Below:
Contingency and Contestation in Historical Perspective"
an international conference at Duke University, Durham, NC
February 5th-8th, 1998
Second call for papers: abstracts due
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The ITF reports (part of) the International Day of Actiom in support of the
Liverpool dockers without even mentioning them !! This is scandalous.
Chris Bailey
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From ITF Info 13
Dockers' unions take action for global solidarity
Subject: KPFA Workers Sign Divisive Contract, Lay-Off's Follow
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[Those unfamiliar with the history of Pacifica radio may want to check out
http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica. -- Aaron]
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 97 09:09:50 CDT
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In his book on the war, _In Homage to Catalonia_, George Orwell talked
about shoe shiners
(I imagine he called them bootblacks) as being strong supporters of
anarchism and - I think -
as being unionized.
Barnet Wagman
From the New York Times
August 25, 1997
After Bombings, an Israeli's Protests Stand Out
By JOEL GREENBERG
[R] AANANA, Israel -- Yuval Lotem, a lieutenant in the
Israeli army reserve, vividly remembers the scene
when he reported to the
Wojtek Sokolowski brings up the issue of the nonprofits.
My wife has worked for several nonprofit organizations since I met her and
it's amazing how bad most of them are. One of them, the Arthritis
Foundation, gave company cars and big salaries to their vice-presidents,
except for the one who
William S. Lear wrote:
I realize that you are being brief, but can you tell us what, in plain
English, pomo offers that cannot be found elsewhere?
I don't have time to answer this right now, but I will soon.
Doug
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
In fact, employment statistics can be
criticised along the same lines as other economic aggregates, such as GDP --
namely, that the reported figures do not distinguish between qualitatively
different phenomena. For example, GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) uses the
Does anyone know anything about the bit of Spanish Civil war history
mentioned below? Or do you know someone who might know? If you do know
could you reply to both the M-Fem list below and to me. Thanks
Harry
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:59:38 +0200 (SAT)
Andrew: Can you resend this message in the body of the text and/or as
text-only?
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Andrew Dragun wrote:
Peadophilia, cover-up and dirty politics?
Some folks might find this interesting! ... Ms Arena, who
made the allegations, is highly believable ... she was
responsible
Shawgi A. Tell wrote:
U.S. corporations cut over 230,000 jobs in the first five months
of 1996 - the fastest in a decade and 34% more jobs than the same period
in 1995. This level of cuts is 6.5% higher than 1993, the highest year of
job elimination this decade. A total of 615,186 jobs
On Wed, September 17, 1997 at 08:58:49 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Oversimplifying greatly for this medium, my position has evolved from
thinking that all that stuff is silly wrong to finding some of it so
(e.g. Donna Haraway and her inexplicably influential Cyborg essay) - but in
any case,
At 06:49 16/09/97 -0700, you wrote:
Tom Walker writes:
This is precisely the point at which identity politics swallows its own
tail. Mapping differences (race, culture, gender) onto static positions
of
victim and victimizer makes *less* sense than fitting all of humanity
into
two great economic
Peadophilia, cover-up and dirty politics?
Some folks might find this interesting! ... Ms Arena, who
made the allegations, is highly believable ... she was
responsible for outing a senior judge in a similar context.
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