Dear Brad,
On PEN-L you mentioned that Neumann's Behemoth is fundamentally wrong.
Your only criticism is his inability to have understood the real threat
of
genocide, yet you fail to note that by 1944 Neumann had already
corrected
himself and offered what he called the spearhead theory of
anti-sem
Title: [PEN-L:19706] Re: anthropology question
Greetings Economists,
Charles Brown wrote briefly responding to Michael Perelman concerning writing systems this way,
Charles,
CB: Yes, on the Marxism list I once pointed out this archeological example of the origin of writing in economic trade
Actually Athenian culture was pretty thoroughly oral. In the
5th century oral contracts only were binding, written contracts
having no force of law. Plato says somewhere that his central
doctrines cannot be expressed in writing but only in speech.
Scholars still debate whether Homer even knew how
Here's a quote from Will Durant's _The Story of Civilization_ Vol I, "Our
Oriental Heritage":
p.105. (chapter VI The beginnings of civilization. 2. writing.)
... The linear script of Sumeria, on its first appearance (ca. 3600 B.C.)
is apparently an abbreviated form of the signs and pictures p
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/26/00 06:22PM >>>
At 03:15 PM 5/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>The Institute was originally financed by a wealthy Dutch rentier, proving
>that one should never be afraid of reappropriating The Man's capital flow
>to fight oppression.
for better or for worse, al
>>> Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/26/00 09:01PM >>>
> CB: Yes, I often think that the Wallace would have been president without
> the switch. Was Wallace for real ? A red ?
Well, he would have been prez if he'd still been vice-prez when FDR died
at beginning of fourth term in 1945.
I just returned from Bard College, where graduation ceremonies for the
class of 2000 and a reunion for my graduating class of 1965 were held.
Bard is an interesting institution. Along with Black Mountain College,
Bennington, Antioch and Goddard, the school was seen as an experiment in
progressive
>>> Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/26/00 06:46PM >>>
Michael Perelman wrote:
> I have a question for anyone with a passing knowledge of anthropology.
> The speaker on our campus made these two statements that some very
> interesting. Are they true?
>
> cuneiform was only used for business
JD:
The EITC is works through the IRS [internal revenue service], an
organization which scares most people to death, especially now that the IRS
has decided to pump that cash-cow, the poor. Humor aside, it's traditional
to help the poor in the most bureaucratic, nosy, and authoritarian way.
Since
Ted wrote:
>I should have mentioned that the "laws of dialectics" can be interpreted
>as expressions of internal relations.
I should mention that it's possible to state valid propositions in more
than one language. Here, I'll use a Althusserian structuralist language.
>Where relations are inte
>>> Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/27/00 06:58PM >>>
Charles:
> >So, Marx says in the Preface to to the Contribution to the Critique of
> >Polit Economy that economics can be done almost with the exactness of a
> >natural science, unlike art, etc
Chris:
>Could you give the quote as I wo
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/27/00 10:03PM >>>
>Charles:
>> >So, Marx says in the Preface to to the Contribution to the Critique of
>> >Polit Economy that economics can be done almost with the exactness of
a
>> >natural science, unlike art, etc
I don't exactly think so, Charles. Last semester, w
>>> Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/26/00 03:14PM >>>
Jim Devine wrote:
>but what is "thaxis"? I know what "praxis" is.
Theory + practice = thaxis. No relation to Thurn und Thaxis, or
whatever that thing from Pynchon's Lot 49 is.
___
CB: Yea, if praxis is practical-critical activity
>>> charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/27/00 07:17PM >>>
Michael Perelman asks if this is true:
>
Early humans only sharpened one side of a stone by chipping it
for 800,000 years before they began to chip the other side.
<
Yes, it is. The earliest stone tools, associated with "Lucy,"
date about 2.5
I should have mentioned that the "laws of dialectics" can be interpreted as
expressions of internal relations.
Where relations are internal, A is not-A because the being of A is
internally related to what is not-A.
Changes in quantity lead to discontinuous changes in quality because as
relations
Thanks for that, Michael. A proper little worry-guts you make of me as I
make for my bed ...
One paranoid thought that struck as I read the Observer piece was that
government and medical authority campaigns here have been in full swing on
the matter of the gradual decline in various bacterias' v
Strange that the British papers have so much more information than those
in the U.S.
Published on Sunday, MAy 28, 2000 in the London
Observer
New Research Shows Genetically
Modified Genes Are Jumping Species
Whitehead's treatment of logic and mathematics is closely connected to the
idea of "internal relations", the idea I identify with "dialectics".
An important instance of the connection is found in his examination of the
role of deduction (of "formal logic") in reason. Here he makes the same
point
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>Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 23:04:48 -0700
>From: "Boles (office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "Savage, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: the US Mafioso racket
>Here's a block from an article in today's IHT (origin
Chris, I got you wrong. From this post, I learned much, and I am not joking.
All these years I tried to conceptualise the world in terms of forests, a
handy analogue for space/time continua. You showed a better way.
Here in England for example we have Epping Forest. This is a
small woody area i
Wow, Chris! Huge effort! I'm gonna have to read this thing again (and read
Barkley's piece, too, when I've the time and ashtray for the job) - but
LOVED the stuff about language (I guess I'd have realised it if I ever
thought about it, but I wasn't about to do that). Anyway, one quibble:
>Inte
forwarded by Michael Hoover
> Re: Call to Action - Protest the OAS / FTAA detailed background information.
>
> A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
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At 11:27 25/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
> For those who are curious, I have a recently published
>paper on these issues.
>"Aspects of dialectics and non-linear dynamics," _Cambridge
>Journal of Economics_, May 2000, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 311-324.
> It is also available on my website without th
>"It's not science that has lost us control of the crops in our fields. It's
>the rush for profits by biotech companies chasing new markets, and the
>sluggish response of governments in regulating them."
Good on ya, Chris. I'm a big New Scientist fan, myself. Not least for that
British under
"It's not science that has lost us control of the crops in our fields. It's
the rush for profits by biotech companies chasing new markets, and the
sluggish response of governments in regulating them."
From the editorial in the latest edition of the excellent UK weekly "New
Scientist". They al
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