[lbo-talk] Sarkozy proposes measuring 'happiness' and 'well-being' to replace the 'cult of the market'

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  i'm undecided on what it means for badiou to 'be an advocate of direct action'.  perhaps from the ivory tower and conference facility provide provocations for others?   i gues thats what the abolitionists did for slavery----up in those new england white churches talked it up, and then eventually you got J. Brown (godfather of soul) to do something---talking loud, saying nothing.
 
   there's A philosophy which can unpack it---called pragmatism, and which is now being repackaged by tenured radicals so it can be sold again as new.  who knows, maybe the new packaging will have it take off. do the Marcusean 'capital as power', humans as corporthings, world as panopticon (i wonder if bentham ranks mention in 21st century policitcal economy, or maybe thats too upmaket) described withe matrix (the s-matrix of heisenberg, which essentially measures the entropy of the positive whole numbers, or negative if you take the p-adic version).    
    one can use these to construct a GDP measure to (which i actually proposed to my 'radical' science group; but unfortunately this is not a way to get elected to the city council immediately, or a chance to give a paper to other white men elsewhere.)

--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>