Peter Dorman wrote:
ps: Electricity also had its failed utopias. See Kropotkin's
interesting but false speculation in FIELDS, FACTORIES, AND WORKSHOPS OF
TOMORROW.
Also, a very interesting parallel of eletricity to today's enthusiasm about
computer and its
world-shattering power can be
I think I've heard a Pete Seeger song syaing that he wants to move to San
Marino because it's got the lowest military spending in the world. Anybody
remember which song it is?
I think Ken is right. It would be more feasible to count those that can't
be bombed. First of all, all countries in the
Hi y'all,
Anybody got some analysis of the resignation of Lafontaine? Wall Street Journal is
jubilant over his resignation and practically says Shroeder reversed Germany from
the red manace back to sanity.
Somethign bad must be happening when the WSJ is so happy.
--
Hsin-Hsing Chen
Dept
My reading of Marx's real and formal subsumption agrees with Jim Divine's. The
following is a message I sent to Michael and Tom off-line about specific case
that I am working on. Looks like it might be of interest to others, too.
=
Greetings,
If you got other
In a March 29, 1913 letter to L. B. Kamenev (p. 94, v. 35, Collected Works),
Lenin said:
"I have read Rosa's new book Die Akkumulation des Kapital. She has got into
a shocking muddle. She has distorted Marx. I am very glad that Pannekoek and
Eckstein and O. Bauer have all with one accord
the company more vulnerable to an external "corporate
campaign."
Hsin-Hsing Chen
Dept. of STS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Dear Pen-Lers:
First, thanks to all of you who responded to the query on the definition of
underemployment. I hope the very go
Thanks, Laurie, for the clearer explanation.
ISO 9000 is a series of protocols agreed on
by the International Standards Organization
(the same outfit involved in the Java wars).
The ISO 9000 series involves quality control
procedures in manufacturing. There are
different levels of
Hsin-Hsing Chen wrote:
Talking about this. Does anyone know of any good critique on the ISO-9000s
series of standards? That can be a fun starting point for examining this
recent wave of management reform. Almost all of the big export firms here
have passed some ISO-9000s certification, but I
In said book, Caffentzis ("Why machines cannot create value, or, Marx's
theory of machines") notes that the significance of the Turing machine is
that, with a few notable exceptions, any mental activity can in theory be
^^^
automated.
Fascinating! But still
++
A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car... The
explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based
manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless
production systems.
Robots can NOT (presently)
which is already occupied with other bigger TNCs.
Can anybody point me toward some systematic general examination of the
state of direct foreign investment in sub-Sahara Africa?
Hsin-Hsing Chen
Doctoral Student
Dept. of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Greetings to everybody!
Is there anyone who happen to have a copy of AMPO, the Japan-based proggressive
magazine? I will appreciate any information on how to subscribe to AMPO.
Thank you in advance!
Hsin-Hsing Chen
Doctoral Student
Dept. of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer
On Apr 16, 4:09pm, Fikret Ceyhun wrote:
Subject: [PEN-L:4733] East-Asia Models
I am not a China (or East-Asia) "expert." I cannot empirically
verify or refute the claims made in the discussions. But those
discussions raise questions in my mind.
1. It seems that there is a confusion
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