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i mean neither [nor do i think the author of the article you cited meant either, despite his american patriot/capitalist ideologue slant] i simply mean the potential for serious social conflict in europe b/w muslim immigrants and the native working and lower middle classes that is, i think...

conceding that the highest peaks of philosophy are in Europe (or rather, Continental Europe), and conceding that fact alone, how is American culture today any more devoted to "junk" than Europe's?

Isn't it rather the case that both Europe and U.S. are in decline, if for different reasons? -- Europe b/c of its demographic crisis & generous social programs, which together necessitate its having to absorb lots of Muslim immigrants, despite (1) no prolonged modern history of absorbing...

getting back to appropriating black music versus appropriating hip hop street speech no matter how much I may prize black music -- and i prize it highly -- and i "understand" black music on the dancefloor or just relaxing in my apartment much more than i ever have other kinds of music -- i...

As for my own view, I think that one cannot seriously address the question of the best regime or the best political arrangment by resort to some abstract reasoning that goes (1) all individuals belong equally to the political space where they are, i.e., all count the same; therefore, (2)...

Let me begin by juxtaposing two of Badiou's statements from the same interview, but not from the passages you quoted (1) "There is no natural definition of Evil; Evil is always that which, in a particular situation, tends to weaken or destroy a subject. And the conception of Evil is thus...

I think we're largely in agreement, but just to clarify . . . . First, I distinguished b/w appropriating (1) this or that slang term and what I called (2) wholesale appropriation of rhythms and speech patterns, or mimicking. So, yes, I'm all for appropriating slang terms because, often, slang...

I have lots of black friends, but I speak grammatically proper English with them, for the simple reason that that's who I am, where I'm from, what I'm about, where I'm at -- shooting straight And I get really annoyed with middle-class white people who talk hip hop style. I just don't buy it...

agreed -- the olympics are none too popular in ny either http://www.newyorkpress.com/18/7/news&columns/olympics.cfm and this on the "voodoo economics" of buidling stadiums to promote development: http://www.newyorkpress.com/18/7/pagetwo/newshole7.cfm

some would argue that every thinker is responsible for his epigones. maybe. but i agree with oliver crane that the bbc doc "power of nightmares," which i've read in transcript but have not seen in video, provides only a crude caricature of strauss . . . . if resort to secondary literature you...

me too . . . . whether it's hip hop, grime, ragga, i likes the female mc's -- perhaps b/c female mc's reduce the testosterone factor of the music while preserving the rhythmic dynamism, the street edge, etc when i have the money, i intend to start buying lots of gyal dancehall and female mc grime

i'm not trying to be cheeky, and I'm not trying to be a troll . . . . indeed, on a certain level I'm being quite serious . . . . but substitute God for some such term as "war" or "trench warfare" or "modern warfare" . . . . and what do you get?

i should, however, add that i find your thoughts on Spinoza compelling, i.e, they strike me as on the mark but my impressions aside, i'm not in a position to discuss the relationship b/w Spinoza and Badiou

Bat was quoting Badiou's "Ethics" in the paragraphs above . . . . Which is not to say that the language is not lucid, merely that I couldn't follow it and while i think i should probably duck out of this debate now, as i haven't read enough badiou to justify saying as much about him as i have...

get ur freak on = everybody get random?

well if you put matters that way, it makes her sound like Sting! however, to my American ear her voice simply sounds freaky & bizarre

So are you suggesting that reggae represents a third way b/w modernist edge/intensity/power and postmodernist irony/weakness/gesture? -- cf. the Libertines thread & the James Murphy interview on Blissblog

This looks like the key paragraph in the passage, but I can't make any sense of it. I think my next move will have to be to read either the book on St. Paul or else the Ethics, from which this passage was taken . . . . As a matter of historical fact, many of the fascists on the streets in 20s...

I should probably retract this statement . . . . I just read an article on the Internet about Badiou and the Organisation Politique [OP], about which I previously knew nothing -- here's the link to article, "Badiou's Politics: Equality and Justice," by Peter Hallward...

actually, reading this passage over, it looks like i may be conflating inclination w/ revelation . . . . but the expression that people give to their inclinations is largely determined by the political-religious order in which they live, by the prevailing opinions of the best way to lead one's...