[lbo-talk] MH & DG on university

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Sat Feb 25 08:08:10 PST 2012


i know! it must have made your head explode, right?

At 10:12 AM 2/25/2012, Doug Henwood wrote:


>On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:55 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
> > At a forum on the future of OWS, Malcolm Harris asks about student debt
> and how the university could ever be a place worth saving as a place that
> ignites the political imagination if the only thing the university has
> done so far is to immiserate people to the point that they are now
> capable of an insurrectionary political imagination.
>
>Doesn't that outcome please Malcolm, even if the mechanism wasn't what one
>might have predicted?
>
>But, really, that's not "the only thing the university has done so far."
>
> > Graeber defends the university as a place to light up, kick back, get
> laid and that's perfectly OK because others are thinking about the
> meaning of life, reading up on revolutionary history, etc.
> > http://youtu.be/K1bfo775dnI?t=1h15m57s
>
>It's also been paying his salary for many years.
>
> > Penny Red is making furious faces as HArris speaks because Mark Crispin
> Miller
>
>Oldie but goodie - MCM sings:
>
>http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MCM-Queen.mp3
>
>Doug
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