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Comment on Interview with Brian Holmes: Steps Toward a Cultural Strategy by Mi

Mi — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:35:28 +0000

Probiotics for my digesting mind. This article fed me so much. I studied “development” as an undergraduate as a goal for “developing” countries. Those with radical viewpoints don’t possess the “master’s tools” (orthodox economic understanding) and those who study (neoliberal) economics as a “natural” system only gain access to ‘development frameworks’ at postgraduate levels. The field of development on a u.s. National and local level is largely reduced to low income housing developments and urban planning. I think we need grassroots enterprise to begin vindicating ” shock of continuous expropriation, economic dislocation, financial predation, and manipulative advertising” Community centers that address those issues are needed (e.g. Mercadolapaloma.com) instead of using those centers as youth incubators. An ecological movement alone is not enough, what about the “cultural commons!?” Few organizations deal with these issues in terms of “developed” countries – new economics foundation is one.

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[...] Steps Toward a Cultural Strategy: Michael Wilson interviews Brian Holmes We just went through the biggest financial crisis since 1929 and there has been no revision of the major tenets of neoliberal economics as put into practice by public officials. The whole recovery effort, including the Keynesian stimulus packages, has been conceived as a way to return the economy to its finance-driven, just-in-time production of hyper-consumerism. The models incarnated by Goldman Sachs and Wal-Mart — lightening fast computerized trading for the few, massive importation of cheap Chinese products for the many — remain the ideal figures of this society. As soon as the credit-card bottoms out it doesn’t work anymore, and obviously people are not going to get jobs out of that economy, just read the headlines. What I found impressive was the almost total absence of any expertise to support an opposing vision. Of course there are opposing visions, notably around the idea that the whole pattern of energy usage in our society needs to be reformulated through the production of basic tools and infrastructure: better insulated living spaces, more efficient transportation networks, multiple and decentralized energy production through solar and wind methods, healthier food production with less industrial inputs and so forth. There is also a growing recognition that these transformations involve basic changes in values and desires, therefore, there is an imaginary side to it, a need to rework “the imaginary institution of society,” as Castoriadis would say. But no one is able to act on these perceptions. [...]

Comment on Report Back: The US Social Forum Detroit 2010 by Detroit and the 2010 US Social Forum –

Detroit and the 2010 US Social Forum – — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:49:09 +0000

[...] contributors Dan S Wang, Brian Holmes, and Sarah Ross (download a PDF of the Public I newspaper containing the article) have written [...]

Comment on FAULT LINES & SUBDUCTION ZONES: The Slow-Motion Crisis of Global Capital by solomon

solomon — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:13:23 +0000

thank you brian for this extremely informative article. i’ve been hoping to see you expand on your four pathways model and get a little more into how we go beyond a descriptive analysis of the control society. i see here some specific areas of research that are worth pursuing. i really like the idea of a new science developed specifically out of the world of collaborative pedagogy.

Comment on COME ON, COGNITARIANS: One more effort if you want some equality by P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Explaining the paradox: why is the “information society” destroying universities and precarizing knowledge workers?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:59:28 +0000

[...] Brian Holmes reports: [...]

Comment on Report Back: The US Social Forum Detroit 2010 by P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Resurgent Detroit

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Resurgent Detroit — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:47:15 +0000

[...] late than never, this is a, brilliant as always since it’s from Brian Holmes, report and analysis of the U.S. Social Forum in [...]

Comment on Report Back: The US Social Forum Detroit 2010 by How about that USSF? « Sinuous Condition

How about that USSF? « Sinuous Condition — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:56:21 +0000

[...] Some folks from the group have already written lovely reports: Dan Wang’s report-back, and Brian Holmes. But that is not what this post is [...]

Comment on March 4 – GENERAL STRIKE! by College News and Articles » Swiftspeech!: Now's the time to act.

College News and Articles » Swiftspeech!: Now's the time to act. — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:22:09 +0000

[...] With whole academic departments and unions acting in solidarity with occupiers and strikers, the planned actions for tomorrow (March 4th) are gonna be interesting to say the least.google_ad_client = [...]

Comment on The Public School by todd ayoung

todd ayoung — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:11:17 +0000

Can this be also done online. Internet class rooms?

Comment on Statement of Solidarity with UCSD/UCR Faculty by todd ayoung

todd ayoung — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:09:25 +0000

Ricardo Dominguez is doing important work in one case, rising questions regarding our (USA) relationship as a wealthy country to it’s poorer neighbors. He is using art with politics in new ways ( the art of the impossible?), not only to save lives, but magnify global inequalities, historically promoted by richer countries, who have intentionally under-developed other cultures, continuing exploitation of their resources, and undermining traditional sustainability. Then we wonder why people want to cross our Capitalist borders, looking for a way to feed their families. UCOP and several UCSD senior administrators need to back off, and count themselves fortunate to have someone like Mr Dominguez, who is redefining what it means to be a “border-crosser”, where it counts most!