Graham Giles
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Graham Giles
@Fooslin
credentials, position, ironic quip
Beigetreten Haziran 2009
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@Ljiljana1972 I’ll suggest what the deal is, from Safouan: it’s ‘reciprocal divination’
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What's the deal with this 'harmony with nature' ideal and its proponents? I mean ... have these people ever seen nature? 😬 😄
Benjamin Todd@ben_j_todd
We imagine hunter gatherers living in harmony with nature. But just 5 million of them drove more than half the world's large mammals to extinction.
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Nazism is commonly seen as a top-down power mania-a convenient analysis for power’s operation, for the persistence of its ‘permission structures’-seeing it as subjective too (or first) cuts too close to affective dimensions of politics, social bonds and political subjectivities
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When people are observing or explaining something to you, they always have a reason to do so - even if they are unaware of it
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as ‘ol Maps used to say: “there’s nothing wrong with you that a bean salad won’t fix”
it was a different time
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this points to the old (Socratic, in one eg) price we have to pay if we want the truth
vs the provisional-frequently disingenuously apologetic-but always neurotic certainty of those who still refuse it as corrupting
you know the kind
by which the bad get done by the ‘good’
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what gets taken for positive is always normative. IDing norms is normalization; nature, naturalization; the landscape of ‘known’ effects is actually affects’ circumscription of them-eg locating climate precarity or ethnic cleansing is actually bracketing them from daily life
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no norms are more enclosed in self evident legitimacy than administrative ones-which gives rise to reactionary conspiracism when we really need to keep thinking mutable modes of power. they never stopped transforming & gathering new capacities, so why did our thinking about them?
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@mehdirhasan It’s about name calling and (mis)characterization, not arguing, but you know that
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Put aside that you're an antisemite who constantly conflates "Jews" with "Israel", you're also an ignoramus who just repeats the hasbara talking points you've been given and know nothing about Middle East history.
Here's what Israel's own prime minister said in 1982 about 1967: “In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”
Also, Google 1956 too, dumbass.
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu
Only Jew-hater Mehdi Hasan could look at 1967 as anything other than Israel defending himself. Egypt had amassed troops on Israel’s border and was preparing to invade. They’d kicked out the UN peacekeepers, and blockaded Israel’s shipping. At the same time, neighboring countries like Syria were teaming up and openly talking about invading Israel and destroying it. I actually appreciate these kinds of comments because it gives it away the game. Mehdi and his anti-Zionist freak friends literally expect Jews to lay down and die instead of defend themselves.
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so its really just a form of living
in structural complexity (think of the idea of ‘nature’) that cannot but humble the romantic managerialism of ‘imagination’
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I remember Indigenous scholar Dr Lee Brown speaking at a conference once: “in our ways of being, if you’re not creating you’re stuck.”
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those who think instrumentally won’t see that you do something ‘creative’ not to have produced it, or even to be someone who has produced such a thing: but to have manifested the conditions & the capacities for doing something as a consequence/possibility of having done it…
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