http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0002/0475.html
i hope this is a misunderstanding because you're accusing me of pretending to be ted and all i did was paste a post from ted to the list in order to point out that this isn't the first time the concern has been raised that conversation here can be quite difficult.
At 12:42 PM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote:
>X-From_: tbyfield at panix.com Wed Jan 29 03:04:20 2003
>X-Original-To: dhenwood at panix.com
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:04:20 -0500
>From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com>
>To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life"
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>would you mind passing this on to LBO-talk? -t
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>when doug asked me what was up with this i had no idea what he was
>talking about. then he forwarded it to me, and i was flabbergasted.
>if it had been introduced in another way (say, without the headers)
>i could have been half-convinced that i *had* written it. so maybe
>that makes me cartoonish; but modesty forbids me from interpreting
>that as making me special. on the contrary, as the sits would have
>said if they'd had a sense of humor, We Are All Cartoons. which, i
>believe, is the point. only a twit would feel ashamed of that, par-
>ticularly in a conversation in which marxism is taken seriously.
>
>anyway, kelley's Right and yoshie -- who i haven't burnt a calorie
>thinking about in years -- is Wrong. worse, she's Wrong in a *very*
>special that's completely and historically inexcusable.
>
>cheers,
>t
>
>> >Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:43:59 -0500
>> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>> >From: Kelley <jimmyjames at softhome.net>
>> >Subject: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life"
>> >
>> >At 11:29 AM 1/10/03 -0600, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>> >>here comes the yoshie article-snippet-bombardment.
>> >>
>> >>for someone so disdainful of information as a force, you certainly
>> >>have a penchant for info warfare.
>> >
>> >I miss ted, not that he posted enough as it was....
>> >
>> >> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 20:18:33 -0500
>> >> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>> >
>> >
>> >> Every day, LBO-talkers, academic or non-academic, collectively &
>> >> empirically demonstrate Thomas Hobbes' proposition that nature hath made
>> >> men equal, especially in the faculty of the mind. A more effective &
>> >> practical refutation of apologies for inequality (such as Charles
>> >> Murray's)
>> >> than this cannot be found anywhere. Therefore, I'd say that the regular
>> >> LBO contributors are daily rendering a modest service to humanity.
>> >
>> >
>> >i read this on saturday, and the bee it put up my butt is still
>> >buzzing around happily, a-tippling on the nectar that pervades
>> >its new home. unfortunately, i find it rather less comfortable,
>> >and so i must evict it.
>> >
>> >
>> >when i close my eyes, i see yoshie as a stretch armstrong-like
>> >action figure, so supple must she be to pat herself on the back
>> >in this fashion. if filtering out over-limit messages, relent-
>> >lessly bombarding a list with conspicuous exercises in 'connoi-
>> >seurship' in the form of interminable ****ing quotations, and
>> >generally seeking to dominate and subjugate open discussions to
>> >her Inexorable Will is a 'modest service to humanity,' then i'm
>> >alan greenspam.
>> >
>> >
>> >how about this: her hostility to psychonalysis, rather than the
>> >fragile house of philosophical cards she fobs it off as, is in
>> >fact a far more humdrum terror at the kind of humility and com-
>> >fort with ambiguity borne of a self-examination that sees Will
>> >as, above all, a symptom: not exclusively so, but primarily so.
>> >of course, to anyone willing to view him- or herself as anything
>> >less than a prince(ss) of thought, to acknowledge such a possi-
>> >bility is first and foremost an act of dignifying legitimation;
>> >but i suspect this Central Truth of psychoanalysis and its prog-
>> >eny will be lost on the tireseom ideologues who oppose it 'on
>> >principle.'
>> >
>> >
>> >sorry for the ad hominem; but anyone who so lacks in circumspec-
>> >tion is Really Asking For It. stick that in your arse and smoke
>> >it, o language microfascists. but make sure your reading of my
>> >metaphors doesn't occlude the marxist understanding of class.
>> >
>> >
>> >cheers,
>> >t
>> >-
>> >http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0002/0475.html
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