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White Magic (http://critcrim.org/redfeather/journal-pomocrim/vol-6-virtual/whitemagic.htm)'"Here," said Sir Christopher Stephens, Esteemed AOE Puppet Master, and First Secretary of the AxSys Secret Police (the Fuzz), " we encourage self-expression, personal pride, and the politics of difference...

League tables do nothing to improve standards and promote learning; they are all about divisiveness. On the face of it, it was superficially odd that keith Joseph pushed for the elimination of red tape in every other area of public life, but INTRODUCED it in education. But as Paul Meme...

John, don't see what's heated and irrational about courtesy. :-) I should have thought it was just the opposite. In any case, I thank you. The issue with the family is that the ideology of the Family has been used to destroy the concept of comprehensive education. Parents' wishes are, it is...

You're totally right .. Marrin seemed to move seamlessly between a well-founded assault on the lameness of Leigh's class stereotypes to an idea that class is itself a passe topic (presumably on the assumption that we're living in a classless society now lol). She also had the rather strange...

Pleased to see that the sacred cow Mike Leigh got a long overdue slaying in the Sunday Times yesterday. Minette Marrin dared to break ranks with the near unanimous consensus and proclaim the obvious: that Leigh's films are intellectually lazy, stereotype-ridden, patronizing and simplistic...

I know I've read at least one excellent interview with Nico Sykes online... but a cursory google search didn't turn up much except <a href=http://home.earthlink.net/~efrans/swope-transmissions/nico.html>this</a>, which wasn't what I was thinking of... Anyone got any ideas?

Thanx... sfunny, that's one of my fave Wu trax too... The vocal on Amtrak is 'here is a group trying to accomplish one thing... and that is to get into the future....'

Choice, as everyone knows, is the endlessly bleated mantra amongst the political class now (despite most polls showing that the public have no interest whatsoever in having a 'choice' of hospitals, schools, etc). The emphasis on choice reveals the extent to which not so much a methodological...

Just preparing a post on 'Torque'... was wondering if anyone knows where the vocal samples from 'Damn Son' and 'Amtrak' come from?

Yes, but 9/11 signalled a shift in American psychology, not a shift in the geopolitical situation (except that wrought by the US going into rabid resentment mode). Americans had to confront terrorism on their own soil from agents of a foreign power. Gee whizz. It's not that big a deal, the...

... so Ccru wrote in its piece <a href=http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_swarm.htm> 'Swarmachines' </a>, as performed in the Hacienda at the Situationist Conference in 1995. It is a reasoned antipathy to debate that has led to my hesitation about posting here over the past few weeks. According to...

Matt b, You obviously hate yourself. Carry on enjoying it. My claim was that I am not an elitist. Surely you can see the difference between the idea of elitism and the idea of opening up everything to every single person (if you've got a functioning CNS come on in...) I would say teaching...

Luke, the whole point is that it was never personal --- not from 'my' side, or Infinite Thought's ---- That's the benefit of being a Cold Rationalist. You don't take things personally --- because you know that there are no persons. :)

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." (Matthew 10:34) What can Christ mean when he demands that his followers hate their father and mother, even their own life? Well, simply that to escape you must disidentify with everything that you have...

The gnostics divide humanity in three groups: Hylics - carnal humans, slaved to the dense, dull heaviness of the body and its sensual pleasures. They like eating, sleeping and reproduction. Spirituals - those who have detached themselves from the carnal to some degree, but who have not yet...

To John Eden: You get an F for your patronising nonsense. No, teachers aren't structurally evil. Teaching AS A ROLE is the exact opposite of lawywers: it gives people autonomy and makes knowledge available to others, it doesn't rob them of autonomy and speak for them, like lawyers and...

Yes, H and N's positive story about globalization is surely one of the things about Empire to unequivocally support.

(I thought politics MUST be worth a thread of its own.) The Economist last week carried a post-US election article which said that the reason that the Democrats lost was not fear, not the rise of bigotry, but in effect the 'vision thing'. They simply do not have one. While Bush and the...

There would be an easy ad hominem rejoinder to John Eden's post, along the lines of wilfully obscurantist esoeteric white male magickians with a small press audience of ooo 20 calling k-kettles black... but... The claim that I am in any bad sense elitist is ridiculous. I AM a teacher. I teach...

Message from the Professor of Watching Countdown You don't learn rationality in universities. On the contrary, they are full of the same idiotic embedded subjectitivities that we find defended here and elsewhere on a planet run by an animal which is programmed towards destruction and...