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February 3, 2003 - 2:35pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

nolympics writes:

"Force and Consent"

Perry Anderson

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25101.shtml

February 3, 2003 - 7:19am -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Technology

jim writes: from Rethinking Marxism Volume 13, Number 3/4 (Fall/Winter 2001)


Protocol, or, How Control Exists after Decentralization


Alex Galloway

So far there is no Marxist theory of the media.

-Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The basic question asked by Empire is this: How does control exist after decentralization?

In former times the answer was clear. In what Michel Foucault called the sovereign societies of the classical era, characterized by centralized power and sovereign fiat, control existed as an extension of the word and deed of the master, assisted by violence and other coercive factors. Later, the disciplinary societies of the modern era took hold, replacing violence with more bureaucratic forms of command and control. Gilles Deleuze has extended this periodization into the present day by suggesting that after the disciplinary societies come the societies of control. Hardt and Negri (2000) fundamentally agree with this periodization, calling it instead the move from the modern disciplinary societies to societies of imperial control.

January 31, 2003 - 11:36am -- Uncle Fluffy
Analysis & Polemic
Prisons & Prisoners

jim writes ""Governor Ryan's Song"

Mumia Abu-Jamal


Gov. George Ryan, in the last passing days of his first and only
term, saved the best for last.


He sent shock waves across the nation when he issued four pardons to
men sitting on the Condemned Units of the state's prison system,
opening the doors of the dungeon for four men, one who sat in the
shadow of the gallows for nearly two decades. Speaking in a soft,
Midwestern accent, his words were as damning as the death sentences
that his orders negated: "The system is broken."

January 31, 2003 - 8:48am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Empire and the Multitude:

A Dialogue on the New Order of Globalisation (*)

Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo (Translation by Arianna Bove)

1. A Debate of Exceptional Scope

D.Z. I confess that for a long time I've resisted the calls, coming from many sides, to publicly debate Empire, the book that you and Hardt have published in the US two years ago that promoted, on both sides of the Atlantic, a debate of exceptional scope and intensity. What stopped me was a sense of impotence before such a complex, ambitious and ample work.

January 30, 2003 - 10:28am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

"The Ba'athists"

Tariq Ali

Given that different factions of the Ba'ath Party have ruled Syria and Iraq for almost half a century, a study of its origins is not a purely academic exercise.

January 28, 2003 - 9:48am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

hydrarchist writes:

In the autumn there was considerable discussion of two articles on the subject of sharing and its broader social consequences. This essay brings us back to similar themes in the context of a proposition for the construction of communities in relation to commons as an alternative to trite forms of political activity and representation. The essay is in two sections. All footnotes can be found at the end of the second installment.


"Commons, Communities and Movements:

Inside, Outside and Against Capital"

Olivier De Marcellus

Three proverbs:

One for all of us: "Leave your village, but never let it leave you!" (Afghanistan)

One for Mr. Bush and friends: "He who has no enclosures around his field, has no enemies." (Burundi)

And one for my generation: "Experience is the comb that Nature offers us as we grow bald." (Belgium)

January 28, 2003 - 8:27am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

John Holloway writes:

"Is the Zapatista Struggle Anti-Capitalist?"

John Holloway

The march of the zapatistas is the march of dignity. Not
was: is. And not just of the indigenous, but of all.

January 28, 2003 - 8:21am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

Dan Welch writes:

"American Taliban"

Daniel Patrick Welch

Among recent media awareness of the burgeoning antiwar movement across the country, several items stick out. Moveon.org has released an antiwar ad to be shown on TV stations across the country, part of a grassroots campaign gone overboard. The group asked for enough money from supporters to launch a modest print ad, and wound up with enough for a nationwide TV campaign. Based on the 'Daisy' ad which has now become a classic in political advertising circles, the new ad warns against the inherent unpredictability of conflict, and the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons. It is an impressive grassroots achievement, and a compelling visual and emotional statement.

January 26, 2003 - 4:02pm -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

A submission from Turkey? Worth publishing for this alone. Otherwise check our friends in korotonomedya.

Salvation Isreal writes "

Anarchism and Leftism in Anti-Globalization Movements

Introduction

On November 30, 1999 there was something happening on the streets of Seattle, US. Unionists, students, environmentalists, young activists, socialists, anarchists and many others were on the streets against the global corporates. These ten thousands of activists got together and did not allow the participants of WTO to meet and decide about the future of this world. A world, that belongs to all of us. Once again we remembered Marx’s words: “A spectre is haunting Europe”. Today it’s not only Europe but also the whole world that the spectre is haunting.

January 26, 2003 - 3:36pm -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

This article was recently published in the the Commoner Webjournal. Maria Rosa della Costa is also the author of essays in a new volume published by Autonomedia, "Revolutionary Writing".

Anonymous Comrade writes

"If we submit the world "locality" to the litmus test of
the word "hunger," we find that it is
valid for at least seven good reasons, which means
that it is impossible to face the problem of
hunger if we do not take into account the question of
"locality."

I have reflected for years on this issue, on this
constant creation of hunger and misery
which, produced primarily by land expropriation, has
characterized capitalist development since its
origins.

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