The Society of the Spectacle - James Schneider - Our Bloc - How We Win
My friend Ranjan interviewed a chap called Schnieder a Corbynite policy wonk I guess, Ranjan and I recently had a couple of pints at the Red Lion on Whitehall, here we met a nice young guy who was a political researcher for some MP or other. Strangely both of these young men remind me of the other and call to mind people like Owen Jones, whose interview incidentally with Perter Hitchens remains a must-watch in the genre of How our Bloc will, can should, would winnism. More in the way of a counter factual, are there really any blocs?
AT 4 am this morning I woke up and as Ranjan had mentioned the Book Launch he planned on attending when we spoke on Monday, and then sent a message saying he had interviewed James, I thought I would watch.
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It all boils down to starting assumptions or the facts as we think we know them. Climate Breakdown and MRNA vaccinations are two open questions; which James and the young man Tom, that Ranjan and I had a pleasant chat with at the Red Lion, seem to take as settled, obvious beyond contradiction in other words disagree and you will be “othered” This does not only exist as a Syndrome of the “Left Bloc” it is across the whole spectrum and very much on the Spectrum, in our Autistic Political Raspberry Contest these days. My frustrations of the past few months is founded in this certainty of Starting assumptions, this absence of deliniation in certain matters, as its obvious isn’t it? Actually no it is not. I did a series of interviews with Roy Madron on his book, Super Competent Democracies, that was back in 2015 and I made a youtube chanell for the book for Roy. As Roy says to examine these questions we are going to have to do a little digging.
There is a list of liked videos in a playlist, How widely do they range across the spectrum of myy own political Autism, you be the judge dear reader.
My Jem Bendell coment above is explained in this blog here My new paper, a kind of ‘sequel’ to (it’s been published next in the same series as) Jem Bendell’s epochal and massively-influential paper on ‘Deep adaptation’, is out: https://iflas.blogspot.com/…/post-civilisation-iflas-occasi… Please read/circulate. Thanks. This is perhaps my most-significant yet contribution to the emerging discourse around preparing ourselves to face up to potential climate- and societal- collapse:
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10. Conclusion
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this is the context to the next two chats with Ranjan on Schneiders book and before that Palantir the NHS and Gillian Tett of the FT.
The Bloc-heads. How our Bloc will, can should, would winnism.
My friend Ranjan interviewed a chap called Schnieder a Corbynite policy wonk I guess, Ranjan and I recently had a couple of pints at the Red Lion on Whitehall, where we met a nice young guy who was a political researcher for some MP or other. Strangely both of these young men remind me of the other and call to mind people like Owen Jones, whose interview incidentally with Perter Hitchens remains a must-watch in the genre of How our Bloc will, can, should, would “winnism”. More in the way of a counterfactual, are there really any blocs?
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Morning Roger, are you busy? I will be going for a walk in a minute, if you’re free and happy to chat
Rendering the video from last night. I interviewed James Schneider about his new book. He dedicates it to David Graeber and Leo Panitch
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Hi Ranjan, yes I am around Taking Rasmus to his guitar lessoin at 3.15 and have a call at 4.15 pm my time 3.15 pm yours . So will be free around 5 pm my time.
Look forward to hearing all about the Schneider interview. Best
Rog
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