[lbo-talk] Mute magazine: out now

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 4 13:58:06 PDT 2007



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:25 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
>
> > The excellent September issue of Mute magazine ('Culture and
> > politics after
> > the net') features ... [an article] by Jeff Strahl on what global
>economic collapse might
> > look like.
>
>Which is a crap piece that attacks me!

I think James cited the Strahl article in jest, Doug. After all, Strahl voices great alarm about environmental degradation, viz.:

"Furthermore, this [the incipient failure of post-WWII economic regulatory mechanisms] is coming on top of a crisis in the real physical world which serves as a setting for capitalist production. This comes in the form of degradation of the environment, e.g. global warming, contamination by toxic chemicals of land, air and sea, species die-offs. And it comes in the form of resource depletion, be it of the soil, or supplies of raw materials vital for production – most importantly that of oil and natural gas, which provide the cheap energy that has made the global production system viable in the first place."

Everyone knows James Heartfield thinks environmental degradation is a joke.

Carl

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