Comments on: Extrastatecraft

By: nydwracu

nydwracu — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:18:27 +0000

Architects again?

By: Thales

Thales — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 06:27:03 +0000

Love the Progies in comments lamenting, “devoid of culture.” Oh, the irony…

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:51:18 +0000

Verso Books comes out with some good stuff. They have been publishing the works of a certain literary theory figure who has done a 180 from leftism to political realism and who has offered a serious challenge to literary and critical theory through his new work. He shall remain nameless, but the fact that his works are continuing to be published by Verso tells ms that there is an element at that publishing house that represents the generative nexus of Far Left and Far Right.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:20:40 +0000

The SEZs played a huge role in my political-economic education.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:30:19 +0000

Rather talent goes where the money is. Which is why we don’t have new symphonies or Broadway shows.

By: E. Antony Gray (@RiverC)

E. Antony Gray (@RiverC) — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:27 +0000

“Talent goes where it is needed”

By: Extrastatecraft | Reaction Times

Extrastatecraft | Reaction Times — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:43:11 +0000

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By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:16:34 +0000

Looks great … just bought it.

Is it just me or was this a horrible year for books? For the past 8 years I’ve done a “best books of the year” list for my clients. Usually I’ve had like 25 on it. This year … two. One on Beethoven and one on weightlifting. Perhaps I’m not trying, perhaps the book is a dying art form, or perhaps all the good ideas are flushed out in blogs better than they are in books. In most cases by the time somebody gets around to making a book about something the issue at hand is old hat. Good example being the 2014 book “Genes, Race & DNA, a troublesome inheritance.” Perhaps nobody gave a damn because the issue is being debated already on the net and the book brought nothing to the table among people who care. I bought it but never read it. There was no point. Dude was doing intellectual mop-up disguised as pathbreaking work.

Addendum: Same problem is occurring in movies, which are now worthless generally speaking. The action is in video games and long-form TV drama. Was watching the atrocious Redskins in a bar last Sunday and they were showing commercials for video games. Seemed odd but I guess that’s where the money is.

By: The Electric Philosopher

The Electric Philosopher — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:54:01 +0000

@Zimriel
‘merican ‘collapse’ doesn’t strike me as being particularly likely in the short-term, but that isn’t true of a substantial decline in influence and ability. But we’re straying from the point of this post a little: the point, rather, is that new powers are rising to undermine the long-standing de facto authority of the Western (American) powers.

By: Zimriel

Zimriel — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:37:20 +0000

The China model is sustainable until / unless China screws up first. Here’s one event that comes to mind: a catastrophic flood or other accident that affects relatives of critical army colonels. This would open fissures into which western NGOs could step.

It’s just that these days it seems more likely the US will collapse before that happens.