[lbo-talk] Re: Callinicoss-Negri

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 30 11:34:49 PST 2003


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 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:

Hmmmm, very funny...anyway, IMHO you can't compare Eagleton to Callinicos. Eagleton would probably be ok if he would just lose those glasses. I am afraid that Callinicos would need to go on that program, what's it called, "Extreme Makeover", where they do plastic surgery.


>
> How about the Queer Eye for the Marxist Guy?

That's a good idea; most leftie intellectuals seem to cultivate a sloven appearance, so I am sure that that would be a real challenge for the "Queer Eye" people.


> 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:

Well, that decides it..and on top of that, Hardt is a fairly nice looking guy, so the autonomists win the beauty contest! Time to switch camps, Yoshie :)


> In any case, it appears that Europe is short on
> female left-wing
> celebrities --

This is, I believe, true. I am looking at my "Lessico Postfordista" which I will take as representative...Out of 60 entries, only 6 are written by women.

Thomas

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