With a DCMS Minister urging publicans to challenge alcohol tax rises lobby the Government more effectively on the question of alcohol tax rises, may I present the Sutcliffe defense of : “My comments do not accurately reflect my views.“

“I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement“

I’m going to use that defense to cover any statements extracted from me using dubious/borderline interrogation techniques.

nettime - content-free writing in narrow standardized inter-bred vernacular.

“By slogan: in other words, by only learning the links, those keywords the grasp of which is anyway sufficient to spell out your allegiances to a certain ‘movement’ (I don’t wish to use the word ‘ideology’ here, which is too loaded with negative meaning). Keywords such as alterity, autonomy,biopower, bodies, communication, communism, corruption, desire, deterritorialization, discipline, desertion, empire, exodus, hybridization, immanence, multitude, etc. This listing is obviously not a complete one and its compiling – in alphabetical order, no less – is not of my making: the index at the end of the volume reflects a far from conventional choice, including names and keywords. As such, it is yet another tool for the hypertextual reading of the book (here’s a useful hint for all those who should choose to use Empire ‘by slogan’: in the index, the nested terms are in effect also all the strategic keywords you need).”

Perhaps a filter/indicator/predictor of tendency towards / allegiances to a certain movement?

Rob

(i)Maria Turchetto, The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri, Historical Materialism, volume 11:1 (23–36)
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2003, Also available online – www.brill.nl

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Spotted last weekend at the British Museum… Space Hijacking Santa’s Flash-mobbing the British Museum.

What Do We Want? CHRISTMAS! When Do We Want It? NOW!

I told you recently about the Civic Reporter application that I have been working on at Comwifinet. This coming week we are going to work on getting Brent Council to adopt this idea to support the Big Brent Clean-up campaign. Here’s hoping! Keep you all up to date…