Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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articul8
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I went to that ICA thing last night - pretty banal all round. Mason was quite interesting - serious fella if prone to techno-futurist pant wetting. Laurie was doing her usual "voice of a generation" schtick - she admitted to being no kind of theorist ("just writing what I see around me") but babbled on at great length without saying much more than "students are now in lots of debt", people are angry, blah blah. Nothing much to say on how that relates to Marx - which was the topic of the event. Robin Blackburn was a bit dull. The chair was awful - lacing trite observations with "as Hardt and Negri argued", or "as Alain Badiou has said recently" for no purpose.
What did I expect?
What did I expect?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Ahem, as a scribbler myself I'd firmly dispute your useage of the term 'writer' to describe exactly whay it is that she produces.
'Self-publicising, self-aggrandising, self-pitying jobbing hack, whose current public profile is infinitely more due to relentless self-promotion than actual writing ability, and who uses protest and activism as a means to further her climb up the greasy pole of corporate media' would be far more appropriate, albeit not quite so snappy.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I went to that ICA thing last night - pretty banal all round. Mason was quite interesting - serious fella if prone to techno-futurist pant wetting. Laurie was doing her usual "voice of a generation" schtick - she admitted to being no kind of theorist ("just writing what I see around me") but babbled on at great length without saying much more than "students are now in lots of debt", people are angry, blah blah. Nothing much to say on how that relates to Marx - which was the topic of the event. Robin Blackburn was a bit dull. The chair was awful - lacing trite observations with "as Hardt and Negri argued", or "as Alain Badiou has said recently" for no purpose.
What did I expect?
I take it that was Jason Barker who made the film and has done an English language intro to Badiou as he can't go 2 minutes without mentioning him. He's doing a follow up to Marx Reloaded called Marx Returns. Let's see if he can manage more than 50 minutes this time.
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
I'm not anti-theory by any means - but it does make me chuckle when people take every utterance of some continential megastar to be loaded with genius. Badiou could fart and Barker et al would be saying how it illustrated the interruption of the event into the fabric of being whilst also stressing the radical singularity of affective resistance to the plurality and multiplicity of signfication etc.e tc.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
has this actually be confirmed? saw it last night
Wow -
all at the same time [think that's my record smilies per post - but they all apply]butchersapron
Bring back hanging
JHE
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If it is Prof C's son, it'll be fun to watch any ructions. I think Social Worker and Michael Rosen gave Diane Abbott a hard time over her son's private schooling. It might be a little different this time.
Perhaps he'll say he had no say in the lad's schooling, which is possible I suppose.
As in the Abbott case, though, I don't think the problem is that some parents want to buy a privileged education for their progeny. The problem is that they are in a position to do so.
Perhaps he'll say he had no say in the lad's schooling, which is possible I suppose.
As in the Abbott case, though, I don't think the problem is that some parents want to buy a privileged education for their progeny. The problem is that they are in a position to do so.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
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The Labour Party members who were upset by their MP's decision should take a leaf out of the Millies book and select a candidate who if elected to Parliament will take an ordinary wage.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
HmmmNeed a pic of him. If he's got ears like the handles of the FA Cup, we'll know.
imposs1904
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binka
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FATHER AND SON HAVING A NICE CHAT ON FACEBOOK
what kind of father denies his own children? disgusting behaviour
what kind of father denies his own children? disgusting behaviour
I can see Lusty's getting stuck in
Anarcho Stalinist? That's ern, I think.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
proper aristocrats dont let the bloodline die out do they?
tbh if he has denied having kids i'd probably believe him because if it turns out he is lying then he's going to look like such an arsehole
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
that never stopped him in the past
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
oh ok, someone said @Lustbather tho on there!
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I think Stephen Fry may be the father.
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