>dave dorkin wrote:
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>>I have heard Callinicos speak and he is far from being
>>some "leninoid university lecturer." Ridiculous.
>
>When I saw him at Zizek's Lenin conference in Essen, Feb 2001, he
>wasn't dull as a performer so much as dull as an analyst.
I've never heard Alex Callinicos speak, nor Antonio Negri, for that matter, so I can't comment on their respective public speaking skills.
I looked up photographs of Callinicos, found one at <http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/staff/atc.htm>, and decided that he needs a make-over.
So does Terry Eagleton, whose style and appearance are uncannily similar to Callinicos's: <http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011104/spectrum/wars.jpg>.
How about the Queer Eye for the Marxist Guy?
Antonio Negri, in my view, is an Alvin Toffler + Jeremy Rifkin of the post-Soviet left, but he is nowadays (unlike in his photos from the 70s!) somewhat easier on the eye than Callinicos: <http://www.chilevive.cl/especial/imperio/img/negri.jpg>.
In any case, it appears that Europe is short on female left-wing celebrities -- those who attended the ESF have something to say about George Galloway vs. Rahul Mahajan, Alex Callinicos vs. Antonio Negri, etc., but I haven't seen reports that treat female intellectuals' ideas as seriously as debates between male celebs. -- Yoshie
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