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I'm not sure whose views are being attributed to whom here, but either way: where on earth did the idea that the '"workers of the world" cannot see exploitation' come from? I suppose the implication is that they did not exactly develop Marx's categories; but even this is not quite the truth...

it's cold = it IS cold didn't achive its object = did not achieve object belonging to it however it's still 'william's object'.

no, it's william's snack bar. short for (???) william HIS snack bar. william's tired = william IS tired. the key thing is it's/its though

i find it more fun anyway, and i don't read uncut -- i've put in the hours with the later stuff, honest. for an excellent critique of godard's recent stuff, see the durgnat piece in the new film comment.

as with godard, isn't it just *more fun* to say 'all shit post-68'? it's basically correct in each case.

actually, the mistake is that k-punk is not being structuralist. the problem with bashing utopian political projects with the stick that humans are self-centred and venal is not so much that this posits an unchanging human nature (what a terrible assumption! perhaps if proven we should all not...

to stoop to psychologism, gray is trying to make amends for the none-more-progress minded views he held as an arch-thatcherite free-marketeer in the '80s.

Obviously the 'belief' of Blair and Bush that elections in Iraq justify everything and that 'democracy' within its obvious limits is the best we can expect for a social system (in fact it's just a means of legitimation) is rubbish. But beyond this, I'm not sure who is arguing And I'm also...

you're better than that. you can't say you're uninterested in marx scholarship and then declaim that the hegelian part of marx is embarrassing. you've taken a brazen althusserian stand there. marx's analysis of kapital is hegelian. althusser himself ended up junking everything bar 'the gotha...

The problem of Progress can't be dismissed *that* easily -- and it's less Hegel's sin than Marx's. Marx's view of the transition to communism is possibly his weakest point. Kojeve: "Thought is dialectical only to the extent that it correctly reveals the dialectic of Being that is and of the...

or vice versa: and this is kind of what i was reaching for in re process: in classical marxism communism was the supercession of free trade. free trade had to exist first to create the necessary historical conditions for communism. the obvious initial problem is: it didn't happen. immiseration...

not really -- it's more relevant appeal to historical facts. if even free trade's defenders had eventually to acknowledge the insurmountable social difficulties produced by free trade, i think it's worth pointing that out. [of course i'd feel more like engaging with yr anti-authority-appeal line...

are you sure about this? if you're going to use the word 'capitalism' i think you owe some debt to that word's theorists, most of whom came through with the idea that free trade was *not* a fantastic idea, and that its social consequences, in late victorian england, for example, were terrible...

the monkey thing isn't just farce though -- it's also a 'scientific experiment' *and* it connects to the brothers' racism, their view of eddie murphy as an ape one way or another (even the brother who thinks he'll prosper cannot conceive of him as a thinking subject).

or "curate's egg" huh?

wtf?! halle berry was in this? i know it only for the ost chart-topper 'end of the road' by boyz 2 men.

Vincent Gallo will be BOOKING All Tomorrow's Parties has a nice ring. I can just picture him nursing rolodex-thumb and taking an irate call from an ex-Beta Band as the catering falls through...

Abigail's Party: Abigail herself is not in the film, she's AS's kid, and her party is a 'punky reggae party', this being 1977--there is a kind of lower-middle-class squeeze going on, phe4r of 'that sort of thing' (ie youth, non-nuclear family rules), but also terrible culture-shame: felt...

All true... but the Sunday Times would be less than keen on yer structural assessment of class, cf Norman Stone's infamous assault on everyone from Loach to Jarman ten years back.

one of them is robbe-grillet-resnais, one is marguerite duras-resnais. i forget which is which. barthes was a champion of r-g in 'writing degree zero'.