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@F414 There is no such thing as “capitalism” #
@sdv_duras @F414 [..] are you going to explain why we cannot describe the dominant socio-economic system in a term ? #
@F414 @sdv_duras “capitalism”is based ona simplistic,monolithic view of reality that is in turn based ona simplistic,deterministic view of history #
@sdv_duras @F414 of course I disagree but then you already knew that didn’t you, but then I tend to think that naming something helps us understand it #
@pareidoliac @sdv_duras @f414 naming may assist understanding and equally contribute to making hidden other things… #
@sdv_duras @pareidoliac sure i agree with that, but I would still maintain that a definition and name is a useful starting point… for example without # the name and concept of ‘feminism’ … well we know what that would mean in our society # […] I’m not speaking as a leftist here but as someone interested in why specific acts of naming are being refused # for example where ANT theorists refuse the notion of capitalism they end up with something un-understandable by non academics # for some reason that really bothers me… #
@pareidoliac @sdv_duras well i agree with @f414 that capitalism tends to be used in totalizing ways that are hardly productive of understanding # when used by non academics, ‘capitalism’ often tends to be entirely absurd! # when used by Marxist academics, ‘capitalism’ tends to play into a game of reification # perhaps if those who like the term were less ambitious with their goals… # i wonder if ‘capitalism’ is as misleading as ‘democracy’ or ‘terrorism’ for that matter? #
@sdv_duras @pareidoliac - that’s a different thing entirely, a matter of academicism, not being one its not my concern # a term like capital is a short hand which you can unpack and use, it’s a tool how you unpack it and use it is what amatters #
@pareidoliac @sdv_duras i agree with you re: ‘capital’ yet when we look at so many cases of how this is unpacked and used… that IS what matters! #
@sdv_duras @pareidoliac - if you reject all the huamn ‘isms’ including religion, science, democracy, liberal etc you reject all human knowledge #
@1D4TW “FACEBOOK.COM: intelligence agencies’ espionage site” http://bit.ly/b0wtJW
@PhilippaBeeb RT @cward1e The sudden rise of facebook as portal for news is staggering. This data gives weight to my anecdotes about my students http://bit.ly/bqjSlv
@PD_Smith Five journalists have spent the last five days locked up in a farmhouse in France w/ only Facebook & Twitter to rely on http://bit.ly/bpYCCY
@evgenymorozov the world is coming to an end: New York Review of Books reviews books about Facebook http://bit.ly/9vgYq5
@ybalagian The Post-Breakup Facebook Effect http://bit.ly/8LMLT5
More Information than You Ever Wanted [pdf] - link between time on facebook and romantic jealousy http://bit.ly/1ger84 via @researchdigest
@semioticmonkey APA Style Blog: How to Cite Twitter and Facebook, Part II: Reference List Entries and In-Text Citations http://tinyurl.com/yhxrbjp #biblio
— semioticmonkey on Dec 30th, 2009
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I love how glitchy it looks. Apt :)
- Fearful, we stooped sudating.. then flinched.
- Hoarse, I trade drops for hammers.
- “You’re strange yourself,” she said. “Fine.”
- She looked at him. He misunderstood.
- Chapter I “Dialing remodeled geocities, altering their vistas” Chapter II “Depopulated, home changed with the cursory” Chapter III “Sans serf, sans master, L’Aventurier understood.” Chapter IV “Someday, he’ll touch the maximal. Maybe.”
- Adventured in the Wilderness. Hence, parched.
@hannahnicklin My 2p: Putting the #BNPonBBC doesn’t legitimise them,1000s of people voting for them does.People are racist, we need to face this in public. +
@autobees First car crash point. Jack Straw should not be trying to compete with the BNP on who has the toughest immigration policy. Argh! #bbcqt +
@syrianews Warsi calls for limits on numbers of immigrants. Idiot. She is playing the BNP’s game. Idiot. +
@pickledpolitics Sayeeda Warsi and Jack Straw position on immigration is the same. She just said it better #BBCQT +
@syrianews They are trying to be better immigrant-bashers than the BNP. This is how low British politics has sunk. #bbcqt +
@pickledpolitics But the Conservative Party’s policy on immigration is the same as Labour’s. #BBCQT +
@pickledpolitics Chris Huhne sounding a bit hawkish on immigration… unusual for him. Suspect they’re all trying to outmaneuver Griffin #BBCQT +
@hannahnicklin #bbcqt I’m so bored with this fallacious anti-immigration rhetoric -a debate entirely cultivated by lazy right wing media +
@hannahnicklin And it hurts that Labour can’t acknowledge how bloody necessary immigration is to our ageing population, and groaning public sector #bbcqt +
@syrianews Griffin: we are the aborigines here (FACTUALLY BOLLOCKS) +
@LostLondon Is anyone going to tell them all idiots they would not be so many immigrants if they stopped messing other countries up?! #bbcqt +
@hannahnicklin OK, according to the internet, if a ‘proper Britain’ has to be as of 17000 years ago, we need to be Ukranian http://bit.ly/2Wp6j8 #bbcqt +
@autobees All of the parties are tripping over the topic of immigration to show they have the toughest policy & are pandering to BNP tactics. +
@autobees The most challenging questions on immigration came from patriotic British Black/Asian people. Interesting. +
@autobees One of the moments where the audience laughed & heckled the most: indigenous English are like Indigenous Red Indians & were there 1st. +
@jamiepotter RT @paulbradshaw: If you think #bbcqt somehow burst the BNP bubble remind yourself of these reactions http://bit.ly/3yMOMa +
@ninapower Never mind Griffin, the whole debate took place on racist terms. Fucking depressing. +
@kpunk99 RT @bat020 Warsi’s drivel demonstrates how the very presence of the BNP pulls political discourse sharply to the right #bbcqt +
@kpunk99 Of course the reverse is also true. Reason that the BNP has gained ground is how right wing the mainstream discourse on immigration is. +
@nextleft #bbcqt ‘cast conventional politicians in a largely favourable light which they have not enjoyed for many a month’ John Kampfner, guardian +
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@pareidoliac: this notion that Deleuze belongs to a Marxist lineage amounts to a betrayal of Deleuze’s philosophy to my mind
@sdv_duras: @pareidoliac - yes I understand this ‘betrayal’ you suggest, but actually it is you who wish to restrict #Deleuze by following Delandas line the mystery to me is why you would want to, since there is nothing to be gained and everything lost by this anti-marxist posi
@pareidoliac: @sdv_duras on contrary, DeLanda’s reconstruction of Deleuze’s ontology shows us we have many more options than ‘capitalism’ & ‘socialism’ - something that is obscured by an obsessive focus on Marxism and the dialectical politics common in representative democracies
@sdv_duras: But @pareidoliac we’ve always known that there are other options, the real question is how we avoid the unpleasent ones
@pareidoliac: @sdv_duras yup and i choose different options from the so called marxist lineage….
@sdv_duras: @pareidoliac - yes I recognize that, but what i’m trying to suggest is that it’s not a binary decision
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re: http://tumblr.com/xra31sjp7, @pareidoliac:
“Have you read http://www.shaviro.com/Blog… on DeLanda’s ontology/assemblage theory? i haven’t really read too much of harman, not really that interested in that line haven’t had much time… there is a scientific way of understanding ‘singularity’ ‘multiplicity’ in relation to virtual - actual its very precise. i would say DeLanda brings philosophy and science together in a remarkable way… recommend ISVP the full text.
and yeah there are bifurcation points for instance http://is.gd/36wk2 at which things tip. other way to approach it is to think of ‘attractors’ http://is.gd/36wr2 of which there are a variety. if you are interested in a social science pov in relation to such concepts > Wallerstein > Bifurcation and Agency http://is.gd/36wyW + The Reality of the Virtual: Bergson and Deleuze http://is.gd/36wNa Keith Ansell-Pearson + World-systems analysis: an introduction By Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein http://is.gd/36wTC”
the interwebz is good ppl :)
