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Forum Post Roblin: Postmodern Generator

Forum Post, March, 22 2012 Stephen Roblin
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A friend referred me to the "postmodern generator." Here's the wiki description: The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces imitations of postmodernist writing, especially that of critical theory...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Scarey stuff

Forum Post, March, 22 2012 Michael Albert
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Nursing? Seriously? This would be even worse than I thought.

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Thanks for passing along. Interesting. To add force, it would help to apply the test to other scholars. Imagine disfiguring a basic Chomsky quote about linguistics. Anyone familiar with his thought would be able to spot the fraudulent quote a mile...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Hi Mäkinen. Interestingly, what you describe is not all that different from my "imposter test" described prior to your follow-up remarks. Your professor's comments about writing that "feels professional" seems...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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One more thought. Perhaps one could perform an "imposter test." Here's what it would entail: 1) Start with an individual who is entirely unfamiliar with all the typical jargon associated with the post-modern style. 2) Take a...

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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*reduce (not "reduct")

Forum Post Roblin: Re: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Stephen Roblin
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My view is that to "frame" parecon in such nonsense is to reduct it to just that.  Imagine what it would take to transform a passage on parecon in order for it to conform with such an approach. You'd have to peform the f...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Familiar style

Forum Post, March, 21 2012 Michael Albert
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Hi... Can you give me some kind of indication of what it means to frame parecon or parsoc properly in the academic context....maybe an example of doing so?

Blog Post Albert: Grad School Knowledge - Or Posturing?

Blog Post, March, 20 2012 Michael Albert
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Useful knowledge or rhetorical posturing...which is it?

Znet Article Podur: Help that hurts

Znet Article, March, 18 2012 Justin Podur
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Interview with Tim Schwartz on the nature and problems of the ways nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Haiti

Forum Post Guimond: Re: Re: Hold up there, folks...

Forum Post, March, 17 2012 Andre Guimond
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Sorry, Haris, but it's not irrelevant--the point is that this particular article isn't one of the "articles attaching so much to the American public opinion" that you're taking issue with. It's a useful summary of US publ...

Blog Post Roblin: Stop Kony, Arm Uganda!

Blog Post, March, 15 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Stop Kony, Arm Uganda! Sounds like a good way to deal with a murderous thug, except for one problem: Uganda is controlled by a murderous thug, Yoweri Museveni, whom we already arm to the teeth. Thus, before dousing ourselves with the waters of rig...

Forum Post Roblin: Much needed sense

Forum Post, March, 15 2012 Stephen Roblin
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Hi Michael, Glad you wrote this blog. You may be interested in a piece I wrote last May about the virtual dictator's (Museveni) handling of the  February 2011 elections and the democracy protests in the spring (http://www.zco...

Forum Post Guimond: Hold up there, folks...

Forum Post, March, 15 2012 Andre Guimond
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I think there's a bit of confusion here I can hopefully clear up. This article wasn't written by Norman Finkelstein, but is re-post by Finkelstein (on his own website and here on ZNet) of the article announcing the poll, as far as I can te...

Forum Post Isaacs: I agree

Forum Post, March, 12 2012 Joel Isaacs
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Hi Joe, I agree with your perspective and can add something to the comparison of the death rates in China and India. Some years ago, when the deaths in China were being bandied about, it was also reported that China's barefoot doctor program, ...

Forum Post Isaacs: I like the punishment

Forum Post, March, 12 2012 Joel Isaacs
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I agree that this is a question of morality. And I like the punishment you prescribe. I will also talk to the muses and see that they refrain from visiting the artists in question.

Znet Article Albert: Porous Borders of Anarchist Vision and Strategy

Znet Article, March, 11 2012 Michael Albert
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This essay is an afterward in the book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics

Forum Post Albert: Re: Global Square

Forum Post, March, 11 2012 Michael Albert
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Hi... I read about Global Square just like you. I honestly don't know anything more about it. No, we have been getting this ready for quite sometime, not knowing about that at all - and I guess vice versa, too...not sure. How alike or differ...

Forum Post Kurkulos: Global Square

Forum Post, March, 11 2012 Maryellen Kurkulos
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Michael - So glad to hear your update on ZSocial. I have been curious about whether ZSocial (or FaceLeft - these are interchangeable terms?) is being designed coordinately with or separately from Global Square, a huge decentralized social network&...

Forum Post Jauhiainen: Re: Facebeast

Forum Post, March, 09 2012 Antti Jauhiainen
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I agree fully with Paul's assessment, the problems with these social networks are not to be taken lightly and Michael has done superb work with laying out some of the central ones. ZSocial (and IOPS) are much needed alternatives, looking stro...

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