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My name is Paul Werner and my paintings have footnotes. Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973. Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999.
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BTW: My world is divided between those who imagine you can "have read" a book, and those who don't. I happen to fall in the 2nd category. Those who belong in the 1st are asking the wrong question.
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In the 1900s, when all reviewers could be bought, a bad review cost more than a good one. To write a bad review you needed to actually see the art or read the book. Plus ça change.
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Also: "Goodreads, founded in 2007, was bought by Amazon in 2013 and has since become notorious as a den of pure spite. " What the hell is wrong with pure spite?
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Obviously these 2 quotes relate to our previous exchange about James English...
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"Someone has to have read the book to notice that a reviewer is full of baloney, so in the absence of skin in the game, reviewers such as Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times [...] can go on forever without anyone knowing they are either fabricating or drunk."
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On point [Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "Skin in the Game:"] "Book reviewers are bad middlemen; they are currently in the process of being disintermediated just like taxi companies (what some call Uberized)."
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Absolutely. I once wrote about the point where the entity that invented Autonomy in Culture "reinstalls itself as the true arbiter... and assumes the controls it had temporarily ceded." But then I was talking about the Art World, so we have Trotsky's "uneven process of development" at work here.
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I thought you were concerned specifically with the discarding of "specialists," which is addressed indirectly toward the end of English's book. It's something I wrote about elsewhere (glad to refer you to the Persian edition, btw), and here:
www.theorangepress.com/woid/woid17/...
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Well, there is a big Bourdieu influence on The Economy of Prestige (a terrific book), but apart from useful Bourdieu-ish concepts like the construction of fields I don't quite grasp how a book concerned with prizegiving applies to this particular vibe you describe.
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Hugo Heller 💕 Käthe Kollwitz [1/2]
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FAME! Does this count as peer-reviewed? My book, Museum, Inc., has finally appeared in Persian: شركت سهامي مـوزه نگاهي به درونِ دنياي هنر جهانيشده نويسنده: پل وِرنِر مترجم: مهدي مشفق Though it took a while to get approval from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Values, the Taylor & Francis of Iran.
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Oh, you mean, like a Tmefuckingsis!
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Please exfuckingsplain because I don't recall ever seeing that, or even confuckingceptualizing it in Latin or Greek.
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Definitely Arminianist, there. The Court moves in mysterious ways...
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I think of this more of a set of fantasies about how human will operates in History. Fascists have one fantasy; Marxists have another. So do Arminianists for that matter; and the majority of "progressive" Americans fall into that last category.
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BTW: Xavier Vigna, whom I otherwise hugely respect, was calling Mélenchon a "staliniste" even before the second round. A bit premature, no?
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"Violence is not a sausage you order--hot or cold--at the counter of History." (or words to that effect). V. I. Lenin.
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"The workers’ movement now threatened by fascism in other countries has been given a breathing space which, if correctly exploited, will determine if the decisive assault can be successfully repelled."
www.academia.edu/44412249/K%C...
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Best news yet (to some): Raphaël Arnault, an antifa organizer involved in a number of clashes with fascist militias, has been elected to represent the traditionally right-wing area of Vaucluse.
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Let's not forget also: on many levels this was a referendum on Gaza. Bibi's gotta be shitting his pants.
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"Half the success of the movement seems to have been due to the impression that its success was absolutely inevitable." Edgar Ansel Mowrer, "Germany Puts Back the Clock" [1933]
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C'est nous le droit, c'est nous le nombre : Nous qui n'étions rien, soyons tout. C’est la lutte finale Groupons-nous & demain L’Internationale Sera le genre humain. Il n’est pas de sauveur suprême, Ni Dieu, ni César, ni Tribun. Travailleurs, sauvons-nous nous-mêmes ; Travaillons au salut commun.
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More like this:
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According to l'Huma the NFP come in first and the fachos come in third. Je peux revenir maintenant?
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I wonder what Jane Morris saw in him...
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Years back after going through airport security I realized I'd left my backpack on the conveyor belt. Ran back to claim it. Naturally security asked, "What's inside?" -- "A book. Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit.'" I opened the bag and showed them. "Oh. Can you tell me what it's about?"
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You know all about defeating fascism: you just published an article in a peer-reviewed journal.
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All I know is my friend Holly carries a bag of tiny nibbles wherever she goes. Because that's what Remi cares about. It's all he cares about. Doesn't prevent him from being a wonderful dog. But he's still a dog.
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Dogs are very materialistic. A small treat at the right time every time drives the message home. It's the only thing they care about it anyhow.
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So-- do I give a fuck at this particular time when the Germans (and others I won't bother to name) have decided to pretend to be more more Jew than the Jews? You bet your ass I do.
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And of course, Max Weinreich, who was the guiding light of YIVO, transliterated Yiddish words so as to distance them as far as possible from German; I confess I'm only halfway to YIVO standards of dis-Germanization, but then that's pretty much my position in other areas of Yiddishkeit as well.
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So long as it's not German I'm down with it.
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ויף צולהכעיס, קיש מיר אין תחת
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1] "Mensch:" German. 2] "Mensh:" Yiddish. I think you meant 2].
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Actually it was Merleau-Ponty responding to Gide.
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This is what Sartre (and Trotsky the Horse) had to say about that:
theorangepress.com/woid/woid18/...
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I forget who it was that told Gide that he didn't vote because he hated the thought that the maid's vote carried as much weight as his own. To which Gide answered that this was the reason he did.
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IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!
A Democracy--if you're real nice to us!
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Paging Mr. Sloppy (from Dickens)...
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In this context it would have to be Yiddish. (It's complicated.)
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At least "Siþen þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye" is relevant to the topic at hand.
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One nice part of the Jewish philosophical tradition: they've been spared these dumb quarrels between the nominalists and the realists as to the primacy of meanings over words and vice-versa. (Then there's Derrida, of course...)
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BTW- The word used by those who align themselves with the the argument you lay out is not "Holocaust," let alone "Shoah," but "Churbn" [חורבן], which refers to the destruction of the First and Second Temple as historic, not metaphysical, events. חורבן was in use as early as 1945 in the DP camps.
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A Medieval T-Bone Slim.
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Langland?
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I'm really impressed. As you may know I've done a lot of work on "Red Vienna" (should use present tense), and he's never once let me down.
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Wow. I only know Hacohen for his brilliant book about Popper.
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[It's a pome by Prévert. « Et trois ratons laveurs » is shorthand for “and so forth and so on.” Not to be confused with « trois pêlés et un tondu ».
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un homard à l'américaine un jardin à la française deux pommes à l'anglaise un face-à-main un valet de pied un orphelin un poumon d'acier un jour de gloire une semaine de bonté un mois de marie une année terrible une minute de silence une seconde d'inattention et... cinq ou six ratons laveurs etc.
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une douzaine d’huîtres un citron un pain un rayon de soleil une lame de fond six musiciens une porte avec son paillasson un monsieur décoré de la légion d’honneur un autre raton laveur
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