Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:56:35 -0400
From: hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: I'll never be your beast of burden


To all:

1) If there is interest in re-visiting this previous discussion, my comments
are at **.

2) There is a long but easy to read article on science and philosophy by
Steven Weinberg at:

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20010531047F#top

Regards,
Hugh

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> hugh and all:
>
> Seems like the signal to noise ratio is getting high relative to  the
> concept of infomation.

**Bio-information is not like Shannon information.**
>
> History is now like information - been there, done that, time to move
on.**In the language of politics, what has history done for us lately.  How
did constantly re-itereated history of the Holocaust influence our avoidance
of recent genocides?  How is  the history of medicine is rich countries
curing AIDS in Africa?  History is not a thing, or a force -  its an act of
human imagination based on the lifeless artifacts.**

**That explains the search for a new Marxism.**
>
> Atlas shrugged.  Why carry a useless thing like history around when we
have memory banks - the International Memory Fund!  Headed by John Galt!
**Memory banks are not ideological constructs that serve as mystic
God-substitutes.**
>
> I disagree with your comments about Marx when you say,
>
> > For Marx, it seems to have been a weapon of choice he used to bring a
>sort of religious conviction of inevitability to disciples who could no
>longer be assured of God's help.
>
> Marx has been interpreted this way, but not by me. My whole project is
> for a Marxism without Metanarratives, a postmodern Marxism, if you will,
> one which sees the differend and so-call class conflict as closely
> related, but doesn't stop there. Any heterogeneous divide will do.  Time
to do a rewrite on the end of history. My story doesn't stop there. **The
end of memory is the end of history.**
>
> I can't go on. I'll go on. **Don't we all?**
>
> Because it is not geared to the myths of emancipation, my politics also
has a strong anarchist bent to it - no gods, no masters - K-AT-RL M-AT-RX. no
capitalism, no state, no state capitalism of either brand.  **Politics  is
the allocation of power, and is mainly concerned with increasing the power
of the power-holders.**
>
> At least this is my experiment, my search for a contemporary politics
without rules, between genres, one that can still do honor to thought.
**What political acts do honor to thought.**
>
> I'll be away from my computer for at least a week, so I won't be able to
> respond.  Until then, take care.
>
> Keep up the dissensus!
>
>