Louis Rawlins via nettime-l on Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:02:19 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> Stealing the spotlight/Tell Me Who Profits


Mm. It *has *been feeling like the 1990s lately.

I'll let Souls of Mischief take it from here.

Tell Me Who Profits (1993)
https://youtu.be/XwzJXHLRC4E

Peace,  Louis

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM <nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

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Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Re: Stealing the spotlight (paul van der walt)
>    2. Re: Stealing the spotlight (GM - tedbyfield)
>    3. Re: Stealing the spotlight (GM - tedbyfield)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:16:36 +0930
> From: paul van der walt <paul@denknerd.org>
> To: nettime-l@lists.nettime.org
> Cc: Ted Byfield <tedbyfield@gmail.com>, David Garcia
>         <dgarcia@bournemouth.ac.uk>, nettime-l@lists.nettime.org
>

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>
> On 27 Feb 2025, at 8:46, paul van der walt wrote:
>

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> > I might be off base though.
>
> Not at all, Paul ? your question points toward empirical reality, not
> some imaginary phenomenological realm between a fascist?s ears.
> That?s why we say ?follow the money? not ?follow the greed,?
> or ask ?cui bono,? *who benefits?*, rather than speculating about
> how or why they experience something as beneficial.
>
> The impulse to psychologize everyone and everything is baked *really*
> deeply into the liberal imagination. It?s a key part of how we got to
> where we are, and making it go away will be a key to how we untangle
> this mess.
>
> Cheers,
> Ted
>

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