June 21, 2008 - 8:42am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
"On the Pogroms in South Africa"
Richard Pithouse
The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and it seems to be all coal braziers, starved dogs, faded strip malls, gun shops and rusting factories and mine headgear. All that seems new are the police cars and, round the corner from the Harry Gwala shack settlement, a double story facebrick strip club.
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Alan Moore writes:
[Reposter's Note: S.H. is a sharp cookie. I first tipped to him through the video interview on the Edu-Factory website. This is a good rundown of the academic infrastructure of "anarchist management" techniques and theory, continuing the conflation of art and management very clearly limned by Negri and others in Radical Philosophy #149 ("Metamorphoses"). Harney teaches management in London, training anarchist bosses -- ;-).]
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Me thinks this was co-written with Gerry Hanlon, who does not seem to be listed here although he should be. As for training anarchist managers, I'm not so sure about that. Seems to me more like taking students, many of whom aren't sure what they want to don't believe in anything, and trying to mess with their expectations and understandings of the world. So far from a revolution, although intriguing nonetheless.