There's another quote " This idea was obviously seductive: why invest in the slow work of organising when you could reach millions through television?" Does anybody think that Laclau's work suggest this?

. . . who argued that populist movements could bypass traditional party structures through the canny use of media." Where does Laclau say this? Sure he thought political symbols were empty signifiers that could be used to build new populist coalitions, but using media to eschew organization?

If you are into trash and activism, boy do I have the book for you.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

The horrible thing is that New School has had money problems ever since I went there ages ago. Plan after plan to deal with the real problems made by smart faculty and students have been ignored by horrible admins.

Many good plans by smart faculty and students to shore up the always shaky financing have been ignored. They ignored our plans in the 90s when I was there, and they ignore good plans now.

What they lack in scientific sophistication, they MORE than make up for in their politics.

much more, like for example they have genuin emotions, genuin opinions, there's no other person who is exactly like another person. Humans have emotions & independent thought. Really in my opinion there's no relationship like a human one and that can't be mimicked or changed.

Sorry about this, but I'm old and I've fallen and I can't get up and more importantly I can't find the fricken conference program. Do you know exactly when you are speaking? I found the general where.

This piece explains it--especially the section " so why do cops hate giant puppets?" www.davidgraeber.org/wp-content/u...

The line comes at 2:30ish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3py...

If they wanted to organize a forum called "University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on the Next President" fine, be biased toward AA. But if they want to adequately represent the reality of the University of Michigan, they need to include more voices from our campuses.