Re: Re: Bachelor Machines Commodity Fetishism (was Cyborgfucking)

2000-12-10 Thread Rob Schaap
Nice examples, Yoshie, but have you been watching any ads of late? Heh heh, as if someone in America could help it ... Capitalism has long since democratised 'the gaze', hasn't it, Yoshie? Men are sex symbols, too. Their bits neatly alienated from 'em, impossibilised, and presented on a plate

Re: Turkey, Argentina and the IMF

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Burford
At 12:59 08/12/00 -0500, Louis Proyect forwarded: NY Times, December 8, 2000 Floyd Norris: With Argentina's Peso Overvalued, It Can't Compete By FLOYD NORRIS Significant article which I also spotted in the International Herald Tribune. I think it would help in forwarding articles if people

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

2000-12-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Anthony D'Costa: But Korea didn't get an infusion of capital as in FDI. The United States financed almost 70 percent of South Korea's imports between 1953 and 1962. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/

Re: Re: Bachelor Machines Commodity Fetishism (wasCyborgfucking)

2000-12-10 Thread Doyle Saylor
Hi Big and little Economists, Hello Yoshie, Rob Schaap's response to your remarks is apt from my point of view. He points out how commodities are not fixed. One time it is naked women that sells the products. The next minute Men are supposed to have 12 inch dicks. Abs like a washboard.

sucking capital out of the rest of the world

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Burford
Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England, now recently knighted as Sir Edward, on the Frost programme this morning: "the magnetic effect" of the high productivity and other favourable factors of the USA economy is "sucking capital out of the rest of the world." Chris Burford London

Re: Re: Turkey, Argentina and the IMF

2000-12-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Burford: The overt agenda however is why the hell is the IMF once again "bailing out" a major intermediate economy in such a mucky fashion? Why not let them rot in the name of freedom? From Robin Hahnel, "Capitalist Globalism in Crisis, Part III: Understanding the IMF" But when the IMF

Re: Bachelor Machines Commodity Fetishism (was Cyborgfucking)

2000-12-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Rob wrote: Capitalism has long since democratised 'the gaze', hasn't it, Yoshie? Men are sex symbols, too. Yes, but not to the same extent. Perhaps affirmative action is necessary to de-gender the gaze. To the extent that the erotically-charged gaze has become democratized, I'd credit gay

Gene Coyle , take a bow!

2000-12-10 Thread Tom Walker
December 10, 2000 RECKONINGS California Screaming By PAUL KRUGMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/opinion/10KRUG.html California's deregulated power industry, in which producers can sell electricity for whatever the traffic will bear, was supposed to deliver cheaper, cleaner power. But

Re: Bachelor Machines Commodity Fetishism (was Cyborgfucking)

2000-12-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Doyle: One time it is naked women that sells the products. The next minute Men are supposed to have 12 inch dicks. Abs like a washboard. When male female incomes wealths become more equalized, perhaps we'll see more male images selling commodities than today. So far, gendered income

A Journey To A Denied Homeland

2000-12-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Hi Pen-l, Below I post a first-person essay by a friend that describes life and death in occupied Palestine. His view of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is hard to find in the US. Regards, Seth A Journey To A Denied Homeland Elias A. Rashmawi Abstract: Although he was

Re: Bach. machine/fetishism

2000-12-10 Thread Tom Walker
Rob wrote: Capitalism has long since democratised 'the gaze', hasn't it, Yoshie? Men are sex symbols, too. Yoshie replied: Yes, but not to the same extent. Perhaps affirmative action is necessary to de-gender the gaze. Maybe it's the incongruity of the term "democratised" in this context.

Re: Re: Re: Question for the Lefties

2000-12-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Gene Coyle's 15 minutes of fame? THE WALL STREET JOURNAL / CALIFORNIA Consumer Group Reverses Course on Electricity Law By Kathryn Kranhold Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal 08/20/1997 The Wall Street Journal CA1 (Copyright (c) 1997, Dow Jones Company, Inc.) Consumer-rights

Towards a Seductive Red Green Synthesis (was Re: GlobalWarming?)

2000-12-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Eli Moskowitz posts: John Thornton: "I still don't see how you can consider the work of Michaels, Balling, Lindzen, and Idso relatively unbiased." Ross Gelbspan, "The Heat is On": The skeptics are virtually unanimous in accusing their mainstream scientific colleagues of exaggerating the

Electric prices

2000-12-10 Thread Eugene Coyle
Today's San Diego newspaper article on electric prices in California concludes with the following sentence: Prices in excess of $4,000 per megawatt hour are being reported for electricity sales tomorrow. This for a commodity that sold for perhaps $50 just prior to the summer. Meanwhile,

Re: Re: Bachelor Machines Commodity Fetishism (wasCyborgfucking)

2000-12-10 Thread Doyle Saylor
Hi Hot and Cold Economists, Hello Yoshie, Yoshie's response concerning anime Porn reflects some of what I am pointing at. Yoshie, When _modelling_ for porn is purified of human labor, as in the case of Anime Porn, gender inequality seems to become more pronounced. Compare porn with human

election information

2000-12-10 Thread Michael Perelman
This seems to be the most comprehensive collection of information about the Florida vote. http://www.bushneverwonflorida.com/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

China: Obscure town a leader in state-firm shake-up

2000-12-10 Thread Stephen E Philion
SCMP Monday, December 11, 2000 COMPANIES Obscure town a leader in state-firm shake-up JASPER BECKER The drama of China's struggle to upgrade its struggling state-owned enterprises often takes place in obscure industrial towns such as Bengbu, on the banks of the Huai River in the north of

[Fwd: [evol-psych] Gould/Dawkins/Dennett/Blackmore/Behe debate]

2000-12-10 Thread Sam Pawlett
Check out this important Gould/Dawkins debate. http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i5/evolutionary-war.jpg Sam Pawlett

Re: Re: Re: Turkey, Argentina and the IMF

2000-12-10 Thread Chris Burford
At 09:01 10/12/00 -0500, Louis Proyect quoted: From Robin Hahnel, "Capitalist Globalism in Crisis, Part III: Understanding the IMF" snip So IMF bailouts are not bailouts of debtor countries and their economies at all. ThatÂ’s just a popular misconception that some find convenient to let pass