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"The Radical Imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis"
Scott McLemee
Paris in the forties was a city awash in forged identities and remade lives.
But few transformed themselves as completely as Cornelius Castoriadis. When
the young Greek émigré arrived, in 1945, he settled down to write a doctoral
thesis on the inevitable culmination of all Western philosophies in "aporias
and impasses." But by the end of the decade, he had quit academia to lead a
curious double life. As Cornelius Castoriadis, he worked as a professional
economist, crunching numbers at the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development. Meanwhile, adopting a number of aliases, he developed one
of the most influential bodies of political thought to emerge from the
non-Communist left over the last half century. Mr. Castoriadis's covert
writings helped to rally France's beleaguered anti-Stalinist left in the
fifties and to inspire the spectacular Paris revolt of 1968.
Ryan Griffis reviews:
Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices
A subRosa project, edited by Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright
Published by Autonomedia, 2003
"Mesa says that many of the women she worked with in the clean rooms are dead, gone before their time. 'I alone know of ten women who worked with me who are no longer here. It's more than just a coincidence.'" Ioffee, Karina, "The Clean Room Paradox," El Andar Magazine, Fall/Winter 2001
"Well the bosses think they're pretty clever with their doubletalk, and that we're just a bunch of dumb aliens. But it takes two to use a see-saw. What we're gradually figuring out here is how to use their own logic against them." Indian microelectronics worker quoted in Prema Murthy's "Mythic Hybrid"2002
"First-," "Second-" and "Third-Wave." It is interesting that the same metaphor has been used to describe social-technological paradigms as well as historical movements in feminism. Feminism may not often be associated with technological developments in the popular imagination, but there is a record of linkages between the trajectories of gender consciousness and technology.
Bowman38 writes:
Hello everyone, The Soft Cage explores the hidden history of surveillance -- from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and closely monitoring the poor as part of modern social work. It also explores the role computers play in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies -- such as credit cards, website "cookies", electronic toll collection, "data minings", and iris scanners at airports.
With fears of personal and national security at an all-time high, this ever-growing infrastucture of high-tech voyeurism is shifting the balance of power between individuals and the state in groundbreaking -- and very dangerous -- ways.
Mr. Parenti, author of Lockdown America, offers a compelling and vital history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives. I highly recommend it. Bowman38
Anonymous Comrade writes:
Next5Minutes4
An International Festival of Tactical Media
September 11 - 14, 2003, Amsterdam
a report
by Snafu - 09/27/2003
from thing.net, http://bbs.thing.net/communicator.thing
As the curtain fell on the conclusive meeting of Next5Minutes4 (http://www.n5m.org) the feeling was widespread that tactical media (tm) are in the midst of fording a swift river. It is hard to say what tm will find on the other bank of the river because riding the currents of these precarious times already seems quite an engaging exercise. By definition, tactical media are unstable, in permanent crisis, malleable, and adaptable to mutating circumstances. Nevertheless, the previous edition of the festival which gave birth to tm and followed its early steps was held more than four years ago when two major global events were still to occur: 9-11 and the outbreak of the Seattle movement. Between these two, the collapse of the new economy undermined not only a business model but also a way of building sustainable networks and techno-social infrastructures.
Linebaugh's London Hanged
John Lea
Reviewing The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (second edition)
Peter Linebaugh, 2003 London: Verso books.
ISBN 1-85984-638-6, 491 pages
This review first appeared in The Chartist
Verso have done a great service by republishing Peter Linebaugh's magnificent study, first published in 1991, of the men and women of eighteenth century London hanged on the gallows at Tyburn. Linebaugh set out, as he put it, to "explore the relationship between the organised death of living labour (capital punishment) and the oppression of the living by dead labour (the punishment of capital).” Through a meticulous study of the historical documents and court records he demonstratedthat those hanged at Tyburn were, in the main, representatives, not of some special class of professional criminals or a lumpen ‘underclass’, but ordinary working men and women, largely indistinguishable from the working masses as a whole. The ‘crimes’ they had committed were in fact varieties of resistance to the growing imposition of the capitalist wage relationship by means of the criminalisation of traditional forms of distribution tolerated by and integrated into the lives of the poor as a whole.
This review was published by the excellent Counterpunch
"Rhymsters and Revolutionaries:
Joe Hill and the IWW"
Peter Linebaugh
Reviewing Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
By Franklin Rosemont, (Charles H. Kerr: Chicago, 2003).
It's the right man by the right biographer at the right time.
Joe Hill's the man, the artist and song-writer of the Industrial Workers of the World. Franklin Rosemont's the biographer, the Chicago surrealist activist and publisher; the time is ours when warring monotheistic capitalism rains terror against a polyglot planetary proletariat privatized out of clean water, health care, and home. Joe Hill composed a song while awaiting execution under sentence of death by the authorities of the state of Utah. The song unifies the demands of the antiglobalization movement, not for "Communism," but a commons of actual equality and reparations of actual justice.
Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying,
We'll have freedom, love and health,
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers' Commonwealth.
Anonymous Comrade writes
People who are interested in Negri, Marx, Tronti, Deleuze, and Guattari might also be interested in The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and Prehistory of the Present
Summary
Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.
What is the relation between the economy, or the mode of production, and culture, beliefs, and desires? How is it possible to think of these relations without reducing one to the other, or effacing one for the sake of the other?
Sergio Bologna* Reviews
Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism.
By Steve Wright (Pluto Press, London 2002)
Storming Heaven is the outcome of research carried out for a PhD thesis and as such is also the first attempt at a critical historical reconstruction of the thought and militant practice of Italian operaismo. The research follows criteria of critical analysis of sources and shows a necessary detachment from events as well as an ability to comprehend its object that derives from a strong feeling of personal involvement with the ideas and motives of revolutionary movements.
"Do We Know What We Want?"
Geert Lovink, Nettime
Review of George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World
Order,
London: Flamingo, 2003 (published in the US by The New Press, early
2004).
No doubt the times they're a-changing when internal strategic debates of the
'anti globalisation movement' make it into mainstream publishing. According
to Amazon "Naomi Klein's No Logo told us what was wrong. George Monbiot's
The Age of Consent shows us how to put it right." Its publisher, Rupert
Murdoch's HarperCollins sells Monbiot's manifesto as "authoritative and
persuasive de facto figurehead for the contrarian movements in the UK."
Environmental activist Monbiot is columnist for the Guardian and author of a
bestseller about UK's privatisation disasters. Thanks to Rupert's
distribution network The Age of Consent made it into a newsagent at Sydney
airport where I purchased a copy.
TSOG: The Thing that Ate the Constitution
Book Review by Jaye Beldo
In Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution, an array of dimensionally challenged simians eating away at what remains of our freedom are aptly exposed. Robert Anton Wilson takes on radically illogical feminists, Faith Based Organizations, The Piss Police, CSICOPS, Bushware 2.0 and other elements of the Tsarist Occupation Government at large using his scientifically grounded wit and cannabis inspired candor to do so. Yet, sad to say, there is evidence of the author's non-Aristotelian amnesia throughout much of this tome."
Full story: http://newworlddisorder.ca"
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