tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38549952011-07-14T21:26:26.032Zthe collective inquirymikenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1173547003991514542007-03-10T17:14:00.000Z2007-03-10T17:16:44.003ZBenjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1082365067489626912004-04-19T08:57:00.000Z2004-04-19T09:01:43.733ZTradition or Translation? Cynical or Sacred?
The Rise of Islamic Radicalism among British Bangladeshis
The identity of Muslim communities in Britain and Europe is informed in part by the perceived situation of many Muslim states. Both are poor and divided, confronted by many problems, economic, political and ideological. They find themselves oppressed and exploited by western, secular capitalismBenjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1082114590263081802004-04-16T11:23:00.000Z2004-04-18T14:09:48.076Zanother one x pls:
the collective lounge - antidote to the indoctrinated X X X
the collective lounge - because you were born pleased X Xmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1081769087663259242004-04-12T11:24:00.000Z2004-04-12T11:28:35.263Zoh yeah... you all need administator passes. so everyone is admin now.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1081767407590368552004-04-12T10:56:00.000Z2004-04-12T11:00:34.653Zcan't edit your post mike... what am I not seeing/doing to add an X?
Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1081496823055573822004-04-09T07:47:00.000Z2004-04-16T11:12:51.576Ztwo votes please gentlemen... drop an X at end of line - think they're all quite good actually, maybe we could consider a rotation...
the collective lounge - information for revolution X
the collective lounge - thinking for ourselves since 2003 X
the collective lounge - beyond the twilight of appearance X
the collective lounge - there is no future
the collective lounge - believe everything mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1080902896457103862004-04-02T10:48:00.000Z2004-04-02T11:12:38.950Zstraight to the vacuous banter that is representative democracy.. (or, as it has been referred to- elected dictatorship):
"goat-boy edited version"
house of commons
"that an humble address be presented to her majesty as follows:
most gracious sovereign,
we, your majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of te uk of gb and northern ireland, in parliament assembled, bef leave to philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1080641077233560792004-03-30T10:04:00.000Z2004-03-30T10:08:07.750ZNew Statesman Article by Mark Thomas
The "Fairford Coach" judgement, last week, found the police to be in
breach of the Human Rights Act but the judgement is only a victory of
sorts for peace protestors, leaving both sides looking almost certain to
appeal the decision. The case bought by Jane Laporte against the Chief
Constable of the Gloucester police started on March 22nd 2003. Three
coaches alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1078004062014402982004-02-28T21:33:00.000Z2004-02-28T21:37:11.950ZTo: Mr Malcolm Moss
MP for North East Cambridgeshire
House Of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Saturday 28 February 2004
Dear Mr Malcolm Moss,
According to a Press Association report of today;
'The Government has rejected fresh demands to release the Attorney-General's advice on the legality of the war in Iraq.
[....]
A Downing Street spokesman said: 'The Attorney-General's advice remains alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1076665582548743172004-02-13T09:46:00.000Z2004-02-13T09:48:51.716Ztelos, zoon politikon, polis - Politischer Aristotelismus in 10 Minuten
Die erkenntnistheoretische Basis die dem politischen Aristotelismus zu Grunde liegt, ist sein teleologischer Naturbegriff. Dieser besagt dass natürliche Prozesse zweckförmig sind. Deskriptive Aussagen dieser Art beziehen sich daher nur auf ihren zu erfüllenden Zweck, wobei zeitlich Späteres (Zweck) zeitlich Früheres (mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1076002076714740512004-02-05T17:27:00.000Z2004-02-05T17:30:16.043ZZapatista update
Mexican armed forces attacked the Zapatista community of Nuevo San Rafael, burning down 23 homes and violently evicting the indigenous Chol inhabitants. The attack, which happened on either 19 or 22 January, took place in the remote Montes Azules jungle area of Chiapas. This eviction (that the authorities describe as "voluntary") contradicts declarations of the government of Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1074529389576700412004-01-19T16:23:00.000Z2004-01-19T16:25:06.733ZThe case for more liberal immigration policies; why does Britain have such restrictive immigration controls?
This paper argues strongly that policies on immigration are too restrictive and will attempt to analyse why they are so restrictive. It will not be an argument for open borders as it is clear that absolutes are not the solution to this complex debate. I will attempt to outline some of theBenjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1073486613665087022004-01-07T14:43:00.000Z2004-01-07T14:45:14.233Zpaul celan - gedichte, prosaphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1071756570404714622003-12-18T14:09:00.000Z2003-12-19T13:35:22.340ZMedia Lens... correspondance on immigration and asylum and the media. let me know if you want more... and I'll post my term paper on the subject. (bzeitlyn@hotmail.com)
Dear Editor/Mattew Randall
I am a MA student at Sussex University studying Migration studies, and
recently read your excellent article on the media and asylum and
immigration. I was shocked by the findings of your study, Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1070061472526492402003-11-28T23:17:00.000Z2003-11-28T23:18:41.263Zphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1059509823815117062003-07-29T20:17:00.000Z2003-07-29T20:17:04.856ZFromm describes three ways in which we escape from freedom:
1. Authoritarianism. We seek to avoid freedom by fusing ourselves with others, by becoming a part of an authoritarian system like the society of the Middle Ages. There are two ways to approach this. One is to submit to the power of others, becoming passive and compliant. The other is to become an authority yourself, a person who philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1059244158037634292003-07-26T18:29:00.000Z2003-07-26T18:29:17.940ZBrigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt
geb. 24. Juni 1949
Vater: Kaufmann
1960 Bei der Scheidung der Eltern bleibt Mohnhaupt bei der Mutter
1967 Abitur in Bruchsal
1967 Immatrikulation an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität München
1971 Gang in den Untergrund
Maßgeblich beteiligt an Aufbau der RAF Logistik, Waffenbeschafung usw.
9. Juni 1972 Verhaftung in Berlin
8. Februar 1977 philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058938559145945202003-07-23T05:35:00.000Z2003-07-23T05:35:59.030ZCollateral Language
An Interview With Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian
------------------------------------
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and
Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of scores of books-his latest are
Power and Terror and Middle East Illusions. His book 9-11 was an
international bestseller.
BARSAMIAN: In recent years, the Pentagon, and then themikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058468940549796282003-07-17T19:09:00.000Z2003-07-17T19:09:00.546Zkommune haina berichtphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058122170666452482003-07-13T18:49:00.000Z2003-07-13T18:49:30.633Zhttp://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/fels/de/2003/06/10.shtml
pressearbeitphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058121756189623942003-07-13T18:42:00.000Z2003-07-13T18:42:36.166ZRote Fabrik Zürich
Kanzlei-Turnhalle Zürich
Kino Xenix Zürich
X-TRA Limmathaus Zürich
http://www1.woz.ch/links/link_www_auswert.php?id_thema=6
für eine linke strömung- in arbeitsgruppen...:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/fels/philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058120808184022182003-07-13T18:26:00.000Z2003-07-13T18:26:48.166ZRote Fabrik Zürich
Kanzlei-Turnhalle Zürich
Kino Xenix Zürich
X-TRA Limmathaus Zürich
http://www1.woz.ch/links/link_www_auswert.php?id_thema=6philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1058116759159873862003-07-13T17:19:00.000Z2003-07-13T17:21:33.356Zspecifically to mv
http://www.anares.org/verlage/index.html
verlag hinter lsr-projekt.de.. .org als "e-verlag"?
http://www.free.de/dada/oppo.htm
?hnlich. bücher sehen unwiderstehlich aus
http://www.iisg.nl/collections/collfrance.html
institute of social history
http://www.freitag.de/2003/29/politik.php
freitag berlin
http://www.copyriot.com/diskus/
damals aus der frankf schule philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1057912397098759492003-07-11T08:33:00.000Z2003-07-11T08:37:33.070Z DAS ARGUMENT
geht davon aus,
dass es die gemeinsame Aufgabe der Intellektuellen
ist, die Wahrheit zu suchen und auszusprechen
dass die Resignation zum geistigen Spezialarbeiter
einen Verrat an dieser Aufgabe bedeutet
In Form und Inhalt sichtlich von Brecht inspiriert, bezeugt der Text auch, dass die Verfasserin, Margherita von Brentano, ebenso von Horkheimers und Adornos Dialektik der philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-1057256105208848902003-07-03T18:15:00.000Z2003-07-03T18:15:05.170Z"Jeder Mystiker ist für Anarchie empfänglich" – Paul Valéry
Wir erfahren darin nicht nur über den „Sozialisten“ und den „Anarchisten“ Landauer, der all zu oft als „Räterevolutionär“, aber selten als Mystiker bezeichnet und gewürdigt wird, sondern auch über einen Landauer, der Anarchie und Mystik zu verbinden und miteinander zu verschmelzen wusste. Als solcher hatte er auf Anarchisten kaum philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-959764542003-06-24T10:23:00.000Z2003-06-24T10:30:01.000Zfachidiot - ludicrous
Sechzehn Jahre umfasst das Tagebuch von Rudi Dutschke. Es ist eine sensationelle Publikation. Es wird aufräumen mit dem Mythos von 1968. Damals fand keine Befreiung statt. Der Muff unter den Talaren wurde möglicherweise beseitigt. Aber nicht um endlich frische Luft zu haben, sondern um besser im eigenen Mief ersticken zu können. Auf 370 Seiten ist der mit weitem Abstand mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-959205132003-06-22T18:12:00.000Z2003-06-23T13:37:31.000ZReich, lsr-projekt.de
gegen alles, was in mir über mir ist
ZPPS, Band 3 (1936), Doppel-Heft 1-2 (8-9), S. 1-7
Der kulturpolitische Standpunkt der Sexpol
Die politische Reaktion überschreit sich in den verschiedenen Lagern mit der einhelligen Behauptung, dass die Kultur die Blüte der Gesellschaft sei und behütet werden müsse. Doch was sie mystisch und laut vertritt, verneint sie praktisch. philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-958920202003-06-21T14:02:00.000Z2003-06-21T14:02:03.673Zgadamer
"Following Heidegger's lead, Gadamerian hermeneutics sought to reverse the terms of philosophical study. "Worldliness," which thinkers like Plato and Descartes denigrated as philosophical "dross," became absolutely central. Certainty, the traditional telos of philosophical inquiry, was devalued as a burdensome intellectual encumbrance. On this side of the Atlantic, his orientation has philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-958916822003-06-21T13:41:00.000Z2003-06-21T19:14:26.000ZDr. Sex A human-sexuality expert creates controversy with a new book on gay men and transsexuals
Mr. Bailey lives in an apartment on the edge of Boys' Town, Chicago's historic gay district, and frequents gay bars on Halsted Street, both for research and for fun. "It is very interesting and vibrant and kind of wild," he says.
He recalls one time in 1995 when he took students to a gay bar calledphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-958890332003-06-21T09:29:00.000Z2003-06-21T09:30:52.000ZDas Prinzip Aufzählung
Zu Marcia Pallys Buch «Lob der Kritik»
Ein Buch über den Verlust des kritischen Denkens in den aufgeklärten Gesellschaften des Westens scheint aktueller denn je. Die New Yorker Autorin Marcia Pally, als Kolumnistin verschiedener deutscher Tageszeitungen bekannt, verspricht im Untertitel ihres Buchs «Lob der Kritik» eine Begründung für die ans Tautologische grenzende mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-958622932003-06-20T13:55:00.000Z2003-06-21T09:41:03.000ZNehmen wir die erkenntnistheoretische Grundproblematik, die seit der Neuzeit das westliche Denken prägt:
Subjekt erkennt Objekt
Es gibt hierzu zwei Grundpositionen, die wohl die ganze Ideengeschichte entzweit: für den Realisten ist das Fundament aller Erkenntnis das vom Subjekt unabhängig Wirkliche, das objektiv Existierende, die Erfahrung, der gegenüber das Erkanntwerden völlig sekundär ist. mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-957905552003-06-18T14:03:00.000Z2003-06-18T14:03:25.150ZHA... a five minute rant
Post-modernism is so 1980´s, so "end of history". The truth is that we still live in a modernist world of might is right, colonialism and surging technological progress and struggle against nature. The biggest ugliest, strongest motherfucker in town is still the boss and no ammount of french intellectualism (nothing against it) will change things. Post-modernism is dead,Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-957588592003-06-17T16:55:00.000Z2003-06-17T16:55:20.143ZUntil quite recently, there was a common belief that despite all the trials and tribulations suffered throughout the world, there was a general movement towards human emancipation. It was felt that society moved on. There were blips in this movement, it was not smooth: wars and famines, natural and man-made disasters took place but these were usually overcome and we all moved on.
However, in thephilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-957257172003-06-16T18:53:00.000Z2003-06-16T19:48:04.000Zkommune: "austrian attempt"
"Der Umgangston war ideologisch und brutal. So hieß es abfällig im Wiener Dialekt: 'Geh, du bewußtlosa Trott'll. Du bleada Hund. Du bist ja total kaputt! So a größenwahnsinniger, aggressiver Typ, die weast es nie schaffen! Stell erst mal deinen 'infantilen Haß' dar! Wer bist du und wer bin I!" (...) Es entstanden mehrere Ableger der AA-Kommune z.B. in der Schweiz, philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956934632003-06-15T20:55:00.000Z2003-06-15T21:20:08.000ZSigmund Freud und die von ihm begründete Psychoanalyse, die von Beginn an und über seinen Tod hinaus unangefochten von ihm allein dominiert wurde, waren von Anfang an strikt gegen die therapeutische "Zerstörung" des Über-Ichs, erst recht gegen die Prophylaxe seiner Entstehung. Sie fürchteten den Verlust der Kulturfähigkeit des Menschen, seine Vertierung. Freud hat, schon lange bevor er 1923 das philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956717502003-06-14T23:30:00.000Z2003-06-15T21:26:36.000ZWenn du dich aber vergessen hast, bist du dann ganz verschwunden, wenn du nicht an dich denkst, hast du dann überhaupt aufgehört zu sein? Wenn du in das Auge deines Freundes blickst oder über eine Freude sinnst, welche du ihm bereiten möchtest, wenn du zu den Sternen aufschaust, ihrem Gesetze nachgrübelst oder auch Grüsse ihnen zusendest, die sie in ein einsames Stübchen tragen, wenn du philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956709612003-06-14T22:41:00.000Z2003-06-14T23:00:41.000ZPhilosophen, sofern sie Aufklärer waren, waren zu ihrer Zeit stets Dissidenten. Früher oder später, meist postum, wurden ihre Lehren aber in den geistesgeschichtlichen Bestand integriert. Bei dem aufklärerischen Aufklärungskritiker Stirner ist dies jedoch, entgegen dem oberflächlichen Anschein, bisher nicht der Fall gewesen. Er ist, im Gegensatz zu Marx und Nietzsche, selbst bis in unsere Zeit, philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956566292003-06-14T08:52:00.000Z2003-06-14T08:52:13.000Z
brigitte mohnhaupt
started with SPK, later RAF "terrorist". in prison since 1982
mother upon recognising specimen above on screen: "diese raf-leute.. plem-plem"
i say: fuck "get with it"philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956431372003-06-13T21:39:00.000Z2003-06-13T23:38:18.000ZHier ist behutsam vorzugehen, zunächst einmal werkchronologisch. Stirners erste grössere Schrift (nachdem er, wie oben skizziert, mit ersichtlichem Widerwillen ein minimales Brotstudium absolviert, mühsam eine bedingte Lehrerlaubnis erworben und eine Stelle an einer privaten Mädchenschule angenommen hatte) war sein Aufsatz über »Das unwahre Prinzip unserer Erziehung«. Schon hier schlägt er philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956419042003-06-13T20:53:00.000Z2003-06-13T21:07:21.000Zbettina r, meinhofs daughter, compiled info on "meinhof mad after brain tumor operation" charge and publishing of photos of meinhof brain by spiegel at later stage. must-read if you are germanophonic (bet you havent heard about this bit michael!).. she was also the one to get original "now-foreign minister fischer in street combat with cops" ('68) published..
"Am 19.Dezember 2002 um 7.30 Uhr philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956396722003-06-13T19:38:00.000Z2003-06-13T19:38:03.263ZSah die Bewegung 2. Juni bei ihrer Gründung die Bundesrepublik als faschistischen Staat an, wie sieht sie den Staat heute? Hat sich die Analyse entscheidend verschoben?
Quatsch! Die BRD war und ist nicht faschistisch. Aber die staatstragenden Bürokratien, allen voran Polizei und Justiz, funktionieren unverändert, nicht erst seit dem 3. Reich, sondern schon seit Kaiser Willem und auch in der philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956269062003-06-13T12:56:00.000Z2003-06-13T12:56:49.230Z"Human beings are not fully conscious of their real lives. Groping in the dark, overwhelmed by the consequences of their acts, at every moment groups and individuals find themselves faced with outcomes they had not intended."
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Timephilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-956217962003-06-13T08:00:00.000Z2003-06-13T09:09:09.000ZIf it seems somewhat absurd to talk of revolution, this is obviously because the organized revolutionary movement has long since disappeared from the modern countries where the possibilities of a decisive social transformation are concentrated. But all the alternatives are even more absurd, since they imply accepting the existing order in one way or another. If the word “revolutionary” has been philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-955847982003-06-12T10:43:00.000Z2003-06-12T11:40:39.000Z"But this illusion, too, vanished: modern historical research has established beyond all question that scientific socialism only came from the old English and French socialists and that Marx and Engels were adept at picking the brains of others. After the revolutions of 1848 a terrible reaction set in in Europe: the Holy Alliance set about casting its nets in every country with the intention of philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-952335532003-06-03T12:28:00.000Z2003-06-03T12:28:02.583ZIn his Burnett Lectures, W. Robertson Smith explained that "even in its rudest form Religion was a moral force, the powers that men revered were on the side of social order and moral law; and the fear of the gods was a motive to enforce the laws of society, which were also the laws of morality." Émile Durkheim, of course, argued that religion exists because it unites humans into moral communitiesphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-951619972003-06-01T19:57:00.000Z2003-06-02T19:33:23.000ZThe world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-951507752003-06-01T12:38:00.000Z2003-06-01T12:43:33.000Z"Assiduous students of the print media will have noticed its practitioners becoming increasingly exercised about 'blogging'
On 18 May, for example, one Geoffrey Nunberg fulminated in the New York Times about the fact that whenever one does a Google search on any topical issue, the top page rankings often go to blogs rather than established media sources (such as the New York Times ).
This was,philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-951505772003-06-01T12:26:00.000Z2003-06-01T12:27:22.000ZThe Power of the Grade
"The hierarchy between student and pedagogue, which dictates that the student can only learn what “true” art is through the pedagogue, is constructed using the student’s perfection of selected relevant canonized forms as a way to “access” or test the proficiency of the students’ “knowledge.” The student will be given a “grade” or rating based upon how successfully “mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-951489892003-06-01T10:40:00.000Z2003-06-01T10:42:33.000ZNotes on "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
The massive and substantial social changes of modernisation have not led to cultural chaos thanks to a new cultural system, shown best in film, radio and magazines [TV was in its infancy, but Adorno saw that it would be the major force in the near future]. Modern architectural style also reveals the international spread of the mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-950294592003-05-29T10:04:00.000Z2003-05-29T10:04:03.293Z"Yes, our first ancestors, our Adams and our Eves, were, if not gorillas, very near relatives of gorillas, omnivorous, intelligent and ferocious beasts, endowed in a higher degree than the animals of another species with two precious faculties - the power to think and the desire to rebel.
These faculties, combining their progressive action in history, represent the essential factor, the philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-950285192003-05-29T08:53:00.000Z2003-05-29T09:23:08.000Z
Liberación, "La humanidad se libera de la miseria", 1963- Jorge González Camarena
this is actually my favourite mural (also bellas artes, mx d.f., 5x10 metres)- unfortunately there's only this slightly larger version available, colours are equally off. just trust me when i tell you it is very sexy indeed. i spent around an hour in front of it, mostly with mouth half-open like some teenager philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-950276472003-05-29T07:52:00.000Z2003-05-29T11:16:24.000Z
Man at the Crossroads. Long title: Man at crossroads looking with hope and high vision to the choosing of a new and better future, 1934- Painted by Diego Rivera. Fresco
"This painting had been contracted to be made in the RCA building (Rockfeller Center) in New York City in 1932. Before being able to complete the fresco, Rockfeller, seeing the revolutionary connotations within, demanded Riveraphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949977872003-05-28T17:44:00.000Z2003-05-28T17:44:18.610Zhicks.. got to love him
"What do atheists scream when they come?"
"Watch CNN Headline news for an hour, its the most depressing fucking thing: WAR, FAMINE, DEATH, AIDS, HOMELESS, RECESSION, DEPRESSION... and you look out your window
cricket sounds..
where's all this shit happening?!"
"I smoke... if this bothers anyone I recommend you look around this world in which we live in.. and shutin' philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949860782003-05-28T12:45:00.000Z2003-05-28T12:51:50.000ZHarper's Index - May 2003
Last calendar year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained in value : 1999
Last period in which the Dow declined for four consecutive years : 1929–1932
Percentage change since 1968 in the real value of the U.S. federal minimum wage : –37
Factor by which Americans' total debt to private lenders for college tuition has increased since 1995 : 4
Factor by whichphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949472782003-05-27T16:59:00.000Z2003-05-27T17:26:24.000Zdie autonomen als neue linke.. ob man sich da involvieren sollte? mv..
"Die Autonomen, wie man und frau sie sowohl aus eigener Beteiligung als auch aus der distanzierten Medienanschauung in diesem Land kennt und zuweilen ja auch erleidet, existieren im Grunde genommen erst im Gefolge der 68er Revolte, vor allem in Westeuropa. Diese Revolte wurde in der zweiten Hälfte der 60er Jahre sozial philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949468382003-05-27T16:47:00.000Z2003-05-27T17:04:31.000Zcrucial distinction I - more material
conspiracy buster
There is not space here to list and refute the various specific claims of 9-11 conspiracy theories, but three points of rebuttal should suffice. First, it is incredibly unlikely that the necessary network of players and operatives would or could have undertaken such a complicated and insanely risky enterprises as conducting the attacks or philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949420492003-05-27T14:55:00.000Z2003-05-27T15:01:29.000ZRevolutionäre Negerküsse
Am 30. Juli 1975 zur üblichen Zeit - halb zehn - wird eine Sparkassenfiliale in Berlin-Neukölln von fünf Leuten der Bewegung 2. Juni »gemacht«. Während des Ausräumens der Kassen bietet eine Genossin den KundInnen und Angestellten an, sich aus einem Karton mitgebrachter »Negerküsse« zu bedienen. Aus Angst oder Verdutztheit greift aber niemand zu, der Karton bleibt auf demphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949413592003-05-27T14:37:00.000Z2003-05-27T14:37:23.543Zdu gehst fuenf tage in der woche arbeiten, fuenf tage bist du nur ein bauteil ihres systems.
du lebst nur noch fuer's wochenende, aber auch da pfuschen sie dir rein, die ordnungshueter, sozialarbeiter und spiesser, die fuer dich entscheiden wollen, dir den richtigen weg weisen wollen.
sie haben das recht oder nehmen es sich, darueber zu entscheiden, was richtig ist und was nicht.
sie sagen es philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-949411762003-05-27T14:33:00.000Z2003-05-27T14:33:33.540ZThe Internationale
Emil Luckhardt, 1910
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale
unites the philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-937110552003-05-03T17:34:00.000Z2003-05-18T10:16:46.000Z"Auch aus nichts wird etwas. Aber es muss in ihm zugleich angelegt sein. So lässt sich keinem etwas geben, was er nicht vorher hat. Mindestens als Wunsch hat, sonst wird das Gereichte nicht als Geschenk empfunden. Gefragt muss es gewesen sein, wenn auch nur in einem dunklen Gefühl. Nichts wirkt als Antwort, was nicht vorher gefragt gewesen ist. Daher bleibt soviel Helles ungesehen, als wäre es philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-934967092003-04-29T23:49:00.000Z2003-04-29T23:49:50.820ZRevolution X
Bush said no child would be left behind
And yet kids from inner-city schools
Work on Central Avenue
Jingling cans that read
Please sir, may I have some more?
They hand out diplomas like toilet paper
And lower school standards
Because
Underpaid, unrespected teachers
Are afraid of losing their jobs
Funded by the standardised tests
That shows our competency
When I'm in philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-904267342003-03-10T01:07:00.000Z2003-04-28T17:35:45.000ZI think it's very similar, but Rawls (as quoted in what I've read thus far) says that producing justice will be the natural thing if a rational being operates from behind a veil of ignorance. I don't believe that - I think it depends on the upbringing of the individual in question. In other words, I guess I think the veil of ignorance that produces a person who is beyond not only the seeking ofrangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-903973082003-03-09T11:45:00.000Z2003-03-09T20:01:22.000Z"I think the only way justice can be applied well is if it applies to everything but oneself � that�s gonna help objectivity enormously, and help defeat the ego tendencies that are otherwise encouraged. Indeed, used this way and thought out extensively, I think justice would eventually lead to the realization of unity in all things � at such a time one could integrate oneself into the mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-902891522003-03-07T07:26:00.000Z2003-03-07T07:26:17.326ZOn Justice
Since justice was the topic of a recent posting, I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts I’ve been having, as they are somewhat related, and as the lines of reasoning have led away from where I’d believed they would go. Or at least, from where I’d been taught they would go (and no, I’m not talking about propoganda fed me, not in any ordinary sense, I’m talking about a spiritual rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-898702702003-02-28T00:37:00.000Z2003-02-28T00:37:32.623ZBtw, libertarian = concerned with freedom, liberal = concerned with choice. that guy = wanker, latter, no?philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-898343372003-02-27T12:45:00.000Z2003-02-27T12:45:51.390ZBtw, Gibbard was one of the brightest of Rawls pupils and Barry was Rawls' major rival as "king of justice"!alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-898343072003-02-27T12:44:00.000Z2003-02-27T12:44:53.796ZMy script from a seminar i gave yesterday on justice. Post the session i had a lot more thoughts but here he were i got to before hand. The second session was led by libertarian guy on risk - proposing exclusively "private" solutions. He got absolutely pilloried, and i was proud to be a part of it! He went for me over my justification for the presumption of equality (founded in terms of a lack ofalanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-895616262003-02-22T19:24:00.000Z2003-02-22T19:24:24.000ZPhiloLex/ Frankfurter Schule
Die Vernunft, die einst eine aufklärerische Rolle gespielt hat, ist in der modernen Welt zu einer instrumentellen Vernunft verkommen. Unter zunehmendem Verlust der Individualität werden die Menschen zu Vollzugsorganen und Objekten einer wissenschaftlich technischen Naturbeherrschung und einer zunehmend bürokratisierten Welt.
amenphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-876183802003-01-18T01:37:00.000Z2003-01-18T01:39:21.000ZIt is important to realize that the current Russomania is only a symptom of the general weakening of the western liberal tradition.
from Orwell's suppressed introduction to animal farm- thank you, Noamphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-875858212003-01-17T12:10:00.000Z2003-01-17T12:10:06.483Z
*** MISGIVINGS AND CRITIQUES OF "OUR FATEFUL CHOICE" ***
Re: Our Fateful Choice (http://www.presentdanger.org/pdf/PrD-OurFatefulChoice.pdf)
Having received my latest "Progressive Response," I learned about your "Our Fateful Choice" document. It is a good piece, expressing many important arguments and positive ideas. Also, it is signed by a number of people for whom I have a great deal of alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-853280382002-12-01T11:50:00.000Z2003-01-03T11:36:26.000Z"Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. Therefore, in a just society the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests."
John Rawls, may he RIPalanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-852694682002-11-29T21:53:00.000Z2002-11-29T21:53:13.396Zyesterday went to a conference by guatemalan ex-guerilla, it was just well and truly sexy. tears in his eyes, and thoroughly reminiscient of hemingway's memories from the internationale in anarchist-syndicalist spain, he spoke of sixteen years in the mountains, truly outside, no- beyond- the all-too rigid social structures, mayans and ladinas, men and women, fighting side by side. the U.S.-led philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-849413362002-11-22T21:13:00.000Z2002-11-22T21:13:05.333Znonsecock.
http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/Spring02/polspring02-5.htm
Andrew Norton: You are unusual amongst contemporary political theorists in that an explicit theory of human nature is central to your thought. Do you think political theories can do without a view of human nature?
Francis Fukuyama: I think most social scientists and a lot of post-Kantian philosophers have tried to do without philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-849256922002-11-22T15:11:00.000Z2002-11-22T15:11:52.070ZHave resolved to abstain from the sensi between new year and end of course (sept), dropping fags and am thinking about drink; although living here this is extremely difficult and am keen to avoid social suicide - in the long term of course it has to go...
So was interested to hear this story on bbc today (govt keen to ally the massive progress that the pro-legal lobby has made - info is not new alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-844164272002-11-12T13:48:00.000Z2002-11-12T14:20:39.000ZChomsky on Iraq, great punch line
The crimes were well known at once, but of no particular concern to the West. Saddam received some mild reprimands; harsh congressional condemnation was considered too extreme by prominent commentators. The Reaganites and Bush 1 continued to welcome the monster as an ally and valued trading partner right through his worst atrocities and well beyond. Bush alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-844160842002-11-12T13:38:00.000Z2002-11-12T13:42:52.000Z
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-844125072002-11-12T11:31:00.000Z2002-11-12T11:38:18.000ZReicher Mann und armer Mann
standen da und sah'n sich an.
Und der Armer sagte bleich:
"Wäre ich nicht arm
wärst du nicht reich."
Brecht LRB: "The major contribution of the English theatre to last year's Brecht centenary was Lee Hall's dazzling version of Mr Puntila and His Man Matti, presented by the Right Size, a touring company led by the comic actors Sean Foley and Hamish McColl. Their philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843683702002-11-11T16:48:00.000Z2002-11-11T16:48:08.250ZHigh Windows
When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives -
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843243312002-11-10T19:13:00.000Z2002-11-10T19:13:48.760ZBelow is a poem called "the portrait" by a street poet who approached me the other day. I typed it up from a napkin tried to introduce verse structure but presume this requires some kind of HTML type setting to avoid it running all into one as below? phil/mike? anyway very nice vibe from chap have encouraged him to visit site, name something like Zindo (?). do we have an admin email address as alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843239672002-11-10T19:03:00.000Z2002-11-11T16:39:14.000ZThe Portrait
Catch a moment in time that stood still
be mystified and amazed
Imagine as though it was a dream
although it was REAL.
People that were in motion were
suddenly projected by the painters brush,
then followed silence, then motion
all the same it was a glimpse of what was,
did you see the moment
Try never to be foolish by being deceived
by which is not authentic and that which is alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843154922002-11-10T14:30:00.000Z2002-11-10T14:57:33.000Zthe spirit of the romantic period and U.S. foreign policy
Review of a wanky a posteriori attempt at justifying liberalisms' questionable outcomes w respect to warfare and rejection of a meaningful institutional framework for international justice: "i'm a lover and so are the Britaineers"-style
"The root of the problem is that the ideal of equality in freedom--the good above all that liberalism philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843139012002-11-10T13:21:00.000Z2002-11-10T18:52:53.000ZMarxism, historical determinism and some cock who does not seem willing and certainly is paid not to get it
"The first of the many ironies surrounding this cult was its claim to being scientific. In Manchester, where he was sent by his father to be isolated from radical influences, the young Engels searched out the followers of Welsh industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen. The Owenites philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843125952002-11-10T12:14:00.000Z2002-11-10T18:54:20.000ZFellow heathens:
"In the past decade or so, a chorus of voices - feminists, environmentalists, cultural critics, politicians - have decried objectivity as arrogant, inhumane or simply quixotic. Since these critiques usually take objectivity (or pretensions thereto) to be part and parcel of modern science, the word has also become a banner (or target) in the revived debate between humanists and philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-843048682002-11-10T06:07:00.000Z2002-11-10T06:07:53.596ZWhen at UPenn I participated in one of these tests... we were given $20 to divide. Perhaps because we were Americans, or perhaps because the school also contained the top business school in the world and tons of very ruthless money-driven people, the breakdown was slightly different. There was, I think, one offer that gave the deciding person MORE money, which of course was accepted. Most rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-841776562002-11-07T16:30:00.000Z2002-11-07T16:30:19.103ZThe Imagined Market
Donald MacKenzie
Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science by Philip Mirowski | Cambridge, 670 pp, £24.95
I've started giving my students money. Not to bribe my way to favourable teaching reviews, but to provoke reflection about the relations between economic and sociological views of human beings. The money is used to play the 'ultimatum game'. A large class alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-839593262002-11-03T15:39:00.000Z2002-11-03T15:56:16.000Zsome thoughts...
It is my belief that “what happened in the 60´s” in most of Weestern Europe and the USA, which I wont even start to describe or summarise, was the result of many factors. Near the top in terms of importance, is the fact that at that time there was a generation who had grown up in a world dramatically different from their parents. World War 2 sliced bloodily across the middle of Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-838763772002-11-01T15:21:00.000Z2002-11-01T15:21:23.336Zstill haven´t figured out this link business so you´ll have to look these things up yourselves, also sorry for posting about old discussions but some loose cannon invited me, and i read most of your out pourings so I thought I´d put my own thoughts up, for good or ill.
For me, food is THE issue which most clearly demontrates the nasty nature of or method of social and logistical organisation. Benjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620921821706223504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-837174132002-10-29T14:33:00.000Z2002-10-29T14:34:28.000ZThis is fantastic, think may have emailed to some of y'all a while ago. just came across it again and re-read and thought you'd dig.
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than fu tile and hopeless labor.
If one alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-836603792002-10-28T13:37:00.000Z2002-10-28T13:37:48.910Zhere's an updated version of the bakpak contest entry...
"3rd wish? Take me to ‘60s San Fran."
"No can do. How ‘bout current Kyoto?"
"Even better."
How lucky that Kyoto, the most historic city in Japan, is also the only one that wasn’t obliterated by war. The opportunity remains to find our common inner Mystery Beauty provoked by the unique moving stillness of Kyoto’s spirit.
Perhaps therangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-834112092002-10-23T16:31:00.000Z2002-10-23T16:31:19.270ZSocial Morality and Individual Ideal P.F.Strawson (Philosophy vol. 36, Jan 1961)
Synopsis
There a multitude of visions men or a man might have of the “ideal forms of life” that is which ways, or by which principles, life might be lived most fully or correctly. The multiplicity of these ideals is such that they cannot help but contradict one another.
Our sympathies as to various ideals need alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663989834521102567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831980482002-10-19T02:57:00.000Z2002-10-19T11:50:48.000ZGuardian Unlimited | Special reports | Straw threat to bypass UN over attack on Iraq
"We are completely committed to the United Nations route if that is successful. If, for example, we end up being vetoed on statements which are as plain as daylight that Iraq is in flagrant breach of United Nations resolutions, then of course we are in a different situation," Mr Straw told BBC Radio 4's Today philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831748452002-10-18T16:29:00.000Z2002-10-18T16:29:55.846ZAgreed, I'm getting annoyed with blogger as I was saying very similar things but posts never got up... farm aid is big problem in the states, most everyone inside the country recognizes it but everyone is also scared to upset the farm interests, for a variety of reasons... like in the Senate, they have a large voice, as they control the political machinery of most of the breadbasket states - withrangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831660012002-10-18T13:00:00.000Z2002-10-18T13:00:13.870Zthis discussion is actually at the heart of the number one environmental issues re: deforestation for agriculture.. and we're not talking indio families growing their potatoes here! this is about beefburgers and coffee!philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831657212002-10-18T12:52:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:52:07.110Z"and i'm not talking u.n. emergency food aid to alleviate starvation in africa here.."
WFP nothing to do with food dumping in central/south am.. aforementioned principle tax for agribusiness, which is technically in violation of principle of free trade (tm) nonetheless applies
"WFP is the food aid arm of the UN. Current emergency situations where WFP has a leading role include Kosovo, North philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831655272002-10-18T12:46:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:48:59.000Zrestriction of speculative capital flows? a pint says they'll kill him
Luis Inacio da Silva (Lula), the left-leaning candidate of the Workers Party, has taken a commanding lead in the October presidential elections in Brazil. A victory for Lula would have political repercussions throughout the Western Hemisphere. Brazil is the largest country with the biggest economy in Latin America. It bordersphilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831652642002-10-18T12:36:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:36:01.623Zgot through! Will look at it in a while, going off the post, got to do work & be raped.Destroyer of Italyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536836323413108509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831651332002-10-18T12:31:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:31:20.976ZExactly, said same thing in recent non-posted postings (this is really buggy system methinks) but I don't go as far regarding economic dumping... the aid is generally going to legitimately needy people...
regardless, here are a couple links I found which say useful things, including a nice stat rundown...
This is an even-handed article about aid in general... and
This gives lots of stats... I rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02908200760570643463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831648502002-10-18T12:20:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:20:59.216Zvery aware of Colombia.... did I tell you one of my friends work for Bloomberg news in Bogota? He was in Venezuela earlier on this year when the CIA coup against Hugo Chavez took place....Destroyer of Italyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536836323413108509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831645102002-10-18T12:08:00.000Z2002-10-18T12:09:54.000Zneed comparison food aid and aid in arms of course, food aid first lie with structural consequence..
realistic quantity of capital for arms very hard to calculate, due to subsidy for arms industry in late capitalistic western countries (incl. germany, b.t.w. industry just carried right on after WWII).. but would be interesting to get "official figure". Amount for South American fascist philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3854995.post-831641902002-10-18T11:53:00.000Z2002-10-18T11:53:20.340Z...and we thought these American aids were given out of sympathy & goodwill..... decieved again! ¦ : )Destroyer of Italyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17536836323413108509noreply@blogger.com