Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[SpineyNorman]

Stalking is a vicious crime - I want nobody to be a part of it.
Is it stalking your friend by posting their advert for Samsung?




Monetise their fame?

You can never be the coolest kid in New York City and I think that makes you a better person

WTF is this? I don't believe she's a real person. She's an inventive advert for a sequel to Nathan Barley where he's ousted from trashbat.cock and replaced by a woman.

 

[Firky]

.

 

[DotCommunist]

Sometimes I think these people aren't even real, the universe is just trolling me

 

[Firky]

Subsidise videos and pics of racist attacks/graffiti and help prevent racism.

Haven't really searched him but the bit in his piece about exhibitionism and circumstantial evidence that internet forms have helped reduce actual exhibitionism sort of goes with that.

Virtually impossible to prove exhibitionists are using the Internet to find willing viewers instead of exposing themselves to unwilling passers-by.

Then why use / mention it

 

[sihhi]

American university student politics.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009

Why Is This Man Supporting Porn At UM?

Turns out they did actually show a porn film Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge

on Monday night, which was followed by a discussion on free speech by lawyers and professors. Only half an hour of the two-and-a-half-hour film was shown - but the students had made their point.
...
For the Student Power Party coalition, the push to go ahead with the film despite threats was to show that they would not be bullied. 'It's a great opportunity to have more of a dialogue on free speech and the role of pornography in society,' said Malcolm Harris, one of the organizers, adding that Harris was also invited, but declined.

spent over a thousand dollars on the campaign

http://www.diamondbackonline.com/article_c7aea174-a0d7-5afa-b230-e33a0a55410d.html

The party raised $1,187.52 and spent $1,040.29, mainly on T-shirts and printed materials, according to the new report. The discrepancy between the reports was due to an accounting error in the first report, Student Power Party Campaign Manager Bob Hayes wrote in an e-mail.

a leftist-liberal coalition - sample discussion:



sample manifesto

Malcolm Harris, an active member of more than three student groups on campus, will lead the Student Power Party as the candidate for President of the Student Body. Harris, along with 60 enthusiastic, talented, and organized student leaders on the SPP ticket are excited to change the face of the SGA. The SPP will make the first step in placing power in the hands of students who have the reputation of getting things done and out of the hands of student politicians who craft the illusion of promises without action

 

[DotCommunist]

chatroullette has made real life flashing go the way of hedge porn.

 

[Belushi]

That's fucking it, I'm becoming a Maoist

 

[J Ed]

I'm still getting over this cunt being against the Chicago teachers' labour rights because he thinks that schools are a prison. I kind of want him to die.

 

[equationgirl]

In that mollycrabapple advert I did wonder if they were going to show how the phone could be used to take copies of anything interesting found in a book. In a bookshop.

I was glad they did not

 

[SpineyNorman]

Malcolm Harris is the worst one out of all of them I reckon. Worse than Laurie, Molly, Owen, Sunni and Elly Mae all rolled into one.

He must be stopped. I don't care how it's done but the man is an affront to decency.

 

[Belushi]

I'm still getting over this cunt being against the Chicago teachers' labour rights because he thinks that schools are a prison. I kind of want him to die.

I dont think any reasonable person could disagree that he needs bayonetting.

 

[equationgirl]

I'm still getting over this cunt being against the Chicago teachers' labour rights because he thinks that schools are a prison. I kind of want him to die.

He was probably freeschooled

 

[DotCommunist]

let me get this right, this fuckstick spent nearl 600 pounds of real money so as to show a dirty film to a large audience

lol at 'only half an hour was aired' thats about the longest any porn film ever gets watched for, not counting fast forwarding etc.

 

[equationgirl]

Malcolm Harris is the worst one out of all of them I reckon. Worse than Laurie, Molly, Owen, Sunni and Elly Mae all rolled into one.

He must be stopped. I don't care how it's done but the man is an affront to decency.

He is the Hugh Hefner of Occupy Wall Street.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I dont think any reasonable person could disagree that he needs bayonetting.

We need to make sure his death is as slow as possible though - which means that at least as much effort must be put into keeping him alive as is put into making him suffer. Some of them Chicago teachers must have doctors as partners - maybe they'd volunteer to help us in our noble quest?

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm still getting over this cunt being against the Chicago teachers' labour rights because he thinks that schools are a prison. I kind of want him to die.

a re-education camp would show him the subtle difference between school and prison

 

[SpineyNorman]

a re-education camp would show him the subtle difference between school and prison

By combining the two - it's dialectical so he ought to appreciate it.

 

[Favelado]

let me get this right, this fuckstick spent nearl 600 pounds of real money so as to show a dirty film to a large audience

lol at 'only half an hour was aired' thats about the longest any porn film ever gets watched for, not counting fast forwarding etc.

One reference to hedge-porn and then one to "fast-forwarding" in the same thread. You're a sepia-tinged pathway back to the 1980s. Wanna come round mine and play Manic Miner?

 

[sihhi]

ambassador, you are spoiling us.

That's someone different as visible here - they share the same name http://malsirrah.com

The Malcolm Harris that LP shared an event with in New York is the one who tweeted : "If prison guards went on strike, would we accept it if they said it was for the good of the prisoners?" in the midst of the Chicago strike against the state effectively turning all schools into charter ones and destroying the AFT

 

[J Ed]

That's someone different as visible here - they share the same name http://malsirrah.com

The Malcolm Harris that LP shared an event with in New York is the one who tweeted : "If prison guards went on strike, would we accept it if they said it was for the good of the prisoners?" in the midst of the Chicago strike against the state effectively turning all schools into charter ones and destroying the AFT

Scum

 

[Belushi]

I actually am fucking furious. Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the ghetto uprising when men, women and children were slaughtered on the streets of Warsaw resisting the Nazis. Every day around the world people are killed, rot in prison cells and sacrifice their homes and livelihoods attempting to build a better world.

And then some rich kids poncing around the hip areas of new York and London claim that they are the left? Really?

 

[DotCommunist]

That's someone different as visible here - they share the same name http://malsirrah.com

The Malcolm Harris that LP shared an event with in New York is the one who tweeted : "If prison guards went on strike, would we accept it if they said it was for the good of the prisoners?" in the midst of the Chicago strike against the state effectively turning all schools into charter ones and destroying the AFT

ah cheers for the clarification. The bloke I quoted from was in the Huff so I assumed it was yer man.

 

[J Ed]

This is good https://www.evernote.com/shard/s203...noteGuid=96f99c75-cae7-4855-a7af-6a2e71975733

yesterday marked Occupy’s one year anniversary, and there’s nothing to show for that brief, and briefly-glorious cultural eruption but a memorable slogan stuck in our heads, like a jingle from a toilet paper ad. There’s nothing to hang on to, hardly even a memory to wrap yourself around. All that remain are what Occupy began with: A clever jingle or two, and the launching of a handful of anarchist “brands.”

One of these vile anarcho-marketing brands is a twenty-something hipster named Malcolm Harris. To me, the Occupy Movement will always be conflated with Malcolm Harris and the brand of marketing-concocted “anarchism” that he represents. And that’s bad, because one look at Malcolm Harris—his anarcho-hipster sneer, his marketing-guy hipster glasses—and you’ll be reaching for the nearest can of pepper spray.

The son of a Silicon Valley corporate lawyer turned State Department diplomat, Malcolm Harris brands himself as the “vanguard” of the Occupy Protests, and I’m starting to agree with him, the more I’ve come to accept that Occupy really was of, by and for the anarcho-marketing crowd. He was one of the very first to capitalize on the marketing possibilities of Occupy, and how he might exploit the marketing and messaging to quickly build his own brand.

Harris first distinguished himself among that inner-group of marketing parasites by pulling a prank on Radiohead fans. The Occupy protest in Zuccotti Park was still young, and still sparse—Harris sent out fake info that Radiohead was going to make an unannounced appearance, and that brought out the first throngs of groupies. Harris milked that JerkyBoys prank he played on everyone as proof of his radical anarchist genius—and it worked. From a marketing point of view, anyway.

By late October, just over a month after the launch of the Occupy movement, Harris had already signed a deal with the Lavin Agency, as Occupy Redlands discovered when they asked Malcolm to come speak to their fledgling occupy encampment. They discovered that if they wanted to hear Malcolm Harris talk about anarchism and the 99%, they’d have to pay him a $5,000 speaking fee. Not including travel and hotel expenses. They also must have been surprised to learn that Malcolm Harris has “earned the reputation of being the Naomi Klein of the 21st Century”

The email from Malcolm Harris’ agent to the Occupy Redlands coordinator has to be read in its entirety to be believed:

From: Rxxxxxl Rxxxxx Date: October 25, 2011 1:04:42 PM PDT
To: …@gmail.com
Subject: Malcolm Harris
Kathleen,
It was great chatting with you yesterday! Here’s the write up on Malcolm Harris:
Malcolm Harris is one of the most talked about young writers today. He has been on the vanguard of the #occupywallstreet movement well before day one of the Zuccotti part encampment began. His social media savvy and tactics flips the equation when it comes to the so-called influence of media on the youth. With Malcolm Harris at the helm, we are witnessing a new media movement where it’s the youth that’s influencing— and manipulating— the mainstream media to enact what has become a global uprising of youth demanding the change that was promised to them in 2008.
As an editor at Sharable.net, Harris brought politically savvy coverage of the protest movements in Spain and Greece to the attention of the young digerati who would eventually work alongside Harris in New York City to facilitate the first planning meeting for #occupywallstreet. In the intervening months, Harris has earned the reputation he has today as the Naomi Klein of the 21st century, with his instant-classic article, “Bad Education,” (http://nplusonemag.com/bad-education) which went viral in April of 2011 and remains the most cited article on the student debt crisis today (listen to Harris debate the issue on NPR here: http://www.wnyc.org/people/malcolm-harris/).
Once the occupation was underway, Harris’ article in the Jacobin Magazine, “Occupied Wall Street: Some Tactical Thoughts” (http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=1663 ) spelled out a strategy that has since helped to give the movement the force and coherence it needed to self-sustain, even without the benefit of mainstream media attention. The turning point, however, was when Harris and a group of his collaborators posed as Radiohead’s manager, notified the media the band would play Zuccotti park, and caused tens of thousands of youths— as well as news cameras and big media attention— to turn out. Read Harris’ reflections on the tactic here: http://gothamist.com/2011/10/02/alleged_radiohead_imposter_hoax_was.php
Harris’ forthcoming book, (title TBD) is about the student debt crisis, global uprising, new media and #occupywallstreet (title TBD) and he acted as editor of the book, Share or Die: Youth in Recession: http://shareable.net/share-or-die/contents
He speaks for $5,000, not including travel and accommodations. Let me know if you have any futher questions.
Regards,
xxxx
xxxxx
The Lavin Agency
Making the World a Smarter Place​

​

 

[J Ed]

Is the state playing any role here? If they aren't, they'd have to invent a Malcolm Harris...

 

[J Ed]

“Who’s against the strike at all? I’m against education, not labor strikes…”

“I don’t think teachers by and large like or care very much about the kids in their classrooms. The unions, even less. Rahm, not at all.”

Look, no one actually likes kids or we wouldn’t put them in jailish schools and make them ask to pee and take tests and line up to eat, okay”

 

[SpineyNorman]

This is good https://www.evernote.com/shard/s203...noteGuid=96f99c75-cae7-4855-a7af-6a2e71975733

​

Digerati lol

The Radiohead thing stinks IMO - loads of kids will have spent money they couldn't really afford to get there to see them, only to find that some fucking oxygen thief hipster scumcunt made it all up to promote the occupy movement himself. That's really going to win them over to the 'cause' isn't it?

I think it tells us a bit about how they think though. Social change doesn't happen because disenfranchised people are pulled into collective action - it happens because a few dedicated middle class types make it happen. [insert that quote Ellie Mae posted about a handful of dedicated and brilliant people being the only thing that's ever brought about positive change here] And so if they need to shit on a load of kids to get media attention so be it.

Cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts cunts.

 

[frogwoman]

I actually am fucking furious. Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the ghetto uprising when men, women and children were slaughtered on the streets of Warsaw resisting the Nazis. Every day around the world people are killed, rot in prison cells and sacrifice their homes and livelihoods attempting to build a better world.

And then some rich kids poncing around the hip areas of new York and London claim that they are the left? Really?

Completely agree with you there mate. They see it as a game. They want to make a game out of it when this is a serious fucking business.

They are not our comrades.

 

[sihhi]

On Malcolm Harris

He voted Obama in 2008, but became an leftist at University of Maryland whilst being part of the new SDS there and helped found Washington DC's SDS:

To mark the anniversary of the war in Iraq, for instance, Washington area SDS members held a “Funk the War” dance party at the offices of companies the organization sees as profiting from combat.
“We dance, we throw glitter. It’s a really good time,” said Bob Hayes, a mechanical engineering student at Maryland, who along with Harris helped found the chapter there.
“At the same time we send the message that students are no longer accepting this war and that war based on empire, or war in general, is not something we can tolerate,” Hayes said.
Hayes said he and Harris started an SDS chapter because they wanted to belong to a group that approached issues “from a different direction than other groups that existed already.”
...
Malcolm Harris expanded on Bowman’s concerns. Within SDS, he said, “there are people who think voting is counterproductive and there are people who think voting is a necessary half measure that’s not going to get you everything you want but it’s part of playing the game.”
And although he described his political views as in line with “leftist strategic essentialism,” Harris said he intends to vote for Obama.

Then an anarchist afterwards

A: I grew up in Palo Alto, California, which is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Stanford University, California." After graduating in three years with good behavior from the University of Maryland with a degree in English and politics, I lucked into the job at Shareable (thanks Craigslist). That was about a year ago now. In a lot of ways it's a continuation of what I was doing in college, which included a lot of activism around student debt and a weekly column for the school paper on university politics. The struggles that erupted at the University of California campuses my last year of school over tuition hikes juxtaposed with the financial crisis and resulting recession had a deep effect on my thinking and what I wanted to do with my newly unemployed self.

heavily influenced by 1970s Italian autonomism/workers struggles

I like to think of the relationship between something like Share or Die and so-called post-fordist theory (a strand of heterodox Marxism focused on terms like "multitude," "the common," and precarity) as neither causal nor coincidental. The understanding of precarity in the collection doesn't come (mostly) from reading about it; it comes from the writers' experience being the precariat. Theory coming out of the academy has played an important role in Europe in articulating both problems and solutions, but considering the degree to which the American university system adheres to market logic, I'm skeptical of the role it has to play. The best analyses don't come from cloistered dissertation research; in Italy, where a lot of this thought is coming from, the foundations were developed through workers' struggle in the late '70s.

As an anarchist, his friend and now magazine co-creator Rachel Rosenfelt wrote this on behalf of Lavin speakers agency to a person from Occupy Redlands (a town in more rural California):

From: Rachel Rosenfelt Date: October 25, 2011 1:04:42 PM PDT
To: …@gmail.com
Subject: Malcolm Harris

Kathleen,

It was great chatting with you yesterday! Here’s the write up on Malcolm Harris:

Malcolm Harris is one of the most talked about young writers today. He has been on the vanguard of the #occupywallstreet movement well before day one of the Zuccotti part encampment began. His social media savvy and tactics flips the equation when it comes to the so-called influence of media on the youth. With Malcolm Harris at the helm, we are witnessing a new media movement where it’s the youth that’s influencing — and manipulating — the mainstream media to enact what has become a global uprising of youth demanding the change that was promised to them in 2008.

As an editor at Sharable.net, Harris brought politically savvy coverage of the protest movements in Spain and Greece to the attention of the young digerati who would eventually work alongside Harris in New York City to facilitate the first planning meeting for #occupywallstreet. In the intervening months, Harris has earned the reputation he has today as the Naomi Klein of the 21st century, with his instant-classic article, “Bad Education,” which went viral in April of 2011 and remains the most cited article on the student debt crisis today (listen to Harris debate the issue on NPR here).

Once the occupation was underway, Harris’ article in the Jacobin Magazine, “Occupied Wall Street: Some Tactical Thoughts” spelled out a strategy that has since helped to give the movement the force and coherence it needed to self-sustain, even without the benefit of mainstream media attention. The turning point, however, was when Harris and a group of his collaborators posed as Radiohead’s manager, notified the media the band would play Zuccotti park, and caused tens of thousands of youths — as well as news cameras and big media attention — to turn out. Read Harris’ reflections on the tactic here.

Harris’ forthcoming book, (title TBD) is about the student debt crisis, global uprising, new media and #occupywallstreet (title TBD) and he acted as editor of the book, Share or Die: Youth in Recession.

He speaks for $5,000, not including travel and accommodations. Let me know if you have any futher questions.

Regards,
Rachel Rosenfelt

The Lavin Agency
Making the World a Smarter Place
rrosenfelt@thelavinagency.com
www.thelavinagency.com

Interestingly, Malcolm quickly exited the Lavin roster when that email was shared, claimed he had no idea he was being marketed for $5,000 - essentially dumped it all on Rachel who also left soon after.

This is Rachel:

Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder, publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. In addition to her work for TNI, Rachel is an independent media consultant for small press publishers, independent producers, and digital media non-profits specializing in educational technology. Most recently, Rachel has developed public programming in collaboration with organizations such as Google NYC, Tumblr, BOMB Magazine, Lapham's Quaterly and New Directions Publishing.She holds a degree in Women's Studies from Barnard College.

Courses Taught: GLIB 5831 Contemporary Approaches to 21st C. Publishing
Email: rosenfrd@newschool.edu

But Molly Crabapple is still part of the field there at Lavin

Molly Crabapple has been described as “a brilliant and principled artist” by BoingBoing, but she has also written for CNN and Vice magazine, on subjects including the Spanish general strike, her former career as a pinup model, and her arrest during Occupy Wall Street. At age 22, she founded Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a chain of alternative drawing classes that now has branches in 140 cities, and has produced events at venues including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Brooklyn Museum.

Crabapple’s books include Discordia (with Laurie Penny), the forthcoming Straw House, and Week in Hell, based on a recent project in which she locked herself in a hotel room, covered the walls in paper, and produced 270 square feet of art. “Shell Game,” her series of large-scale paintings about the revolutions of 2011, will be shown in the Spring of 2013.

Crabapple’s work is in the permanent collection of the New York Historical Society, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Groucho Club (London), and has been shown in exhibitions at venues including New York University, the Riverside Art Museum in Los Angeles, and Cabinet des Curieux in Paris. She was one of the main artistic voices of Occupy Wall Street. Crabapple has also hosted documentaries for France’s ARTE television channel, and she regularly speaks to institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the London School of Economics.

 

[sihhi]

This is good

I've reposted with Rosenfelt's name still there.

This is his honors thesis http://destructural.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/a-war-of-juxtaposition.pdf

His writing then was full of odd stuff - this from 2007 speaks about simply powering through lives after a graduation.

It’s not necessarily that the Over-Generation is apathetic. We just don’t have the time to plan major insurrection. Between classes and honor society and community service and beer-pong tournaments, who has time to build Molotov cocktails? Wharton only accepts 13.6 percent of applicants. Plus, mom and dad might not approve, and they’re the ones who pay the bills. So we put our heads down and study, powering through college, then graduate school, then the rest of our lives, without the time or imagination to dream of a different world.

 

[SpineyNorman]

This, comrades, is why we need the workers' bomb