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

[Nate Holdren <nateholdren@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ouch, yeah, ditto Harald. Perhaps a deep breath is in order?


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:47:41 +0200, Harald Beyer-Arnesen
<haraldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: AUT: RE: what is to be done with what is to be done?
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> Dough, I am not sure of the value of distributing the below on the list.
>
> Harald
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> > 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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