Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to be done?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

.: s0metim3s :. wrote:

>Did I send this already?
>
>http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0102/msg00083.html

Thanks for the reminder - I'd forgotten that.

This, of course, is my favorite part:

>And then, of course, Doug Henwood, the extremely intelligent
>and fantastically entertaining American Marxist finance journalist finished
>off the conference in great party-thrashing style (I recall a similar
>performance at the Geert Lovink-initiated conference in Amsterdam, where
>many of us met last year).

But this is pretty interesting:

>The conference was a disaster mostly because of Zizek's two hand-picked
>sidekicks. One Sebastian Burgen (or something), your perfect cold-as-ice
>Marxist sectarian psychopath politruk only too trigger-happy as the head of
>the conference . A self-acclaimed British Leninist-Trotskyist, "Sebastian"
>might just as well have been your average Mormon or Jehovah's Witness. The
>kind of guy who goes to Pyongyang to satisfy his sadist (or masochist) taste
>for oriental pussy and has few if any friends anywhere else. And a living
>example of why we do NOT want to return to any "dictatorship" of the
>proletariat. "Sebastian" would have had every Foucauldian and Deleuzian in
>the world killed his first minute in office...
>"Sebastian" had consequently completely misunderstood Zizek's ambition (as
>if he was ever capable of understanding Zizek, his world was just "Zizek is
>OK cause he likes my Hero-God Lenin and has resources and fame") and
>therefore filled half the schedule with mainly defunct and asocial
>Trotskyists who had nothing but their classic, tiresome rubble to perform.
>And then "Sebastian" made sure dialogue at the conference was reduced to an
>absolute minimum.

Really makes you want to run out & buy the book, doesn't it?

Doug


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