Seemingly, the best way to deal with it has been to ignore them. (They happen every Saturday, again this week August 3rd 2024). And the EU is the paragon of Democracy. Let's see?
I just found your substack from your post on Moon of Alabama.
A question: I understand your project as posting translations with a minimal amount of your own commentary. In this article, it is not clear to me if you are the author or if Ramin Mazaheri. (5,200 words) is the author. Or if you produced a composite around his text.
Specifically: after the first short paragraph, I don't know how much of the rest of the article is your work or others. I am assuming that in this article, most of the text is yours. Is that correct?
I am a fan of Bruno Latour. He wrote several columns on the yellow vest protests. The first one is probably the best one, but I am going to post a few more.
"The Search for Political HeteronomyNew Ledgers of Complaints
Hi Don Midwest, I am not an original researcher. You could say that I share things of interest that I find. My focus (my interest) is mostly on the library4conciliation premise, that if we become more familiar with our (supposed) adversaries, more world coexistence is possible. So you might say that I write about "the Axis of Evil". Of course I don't see it that way, but neither am I advocating any other system to be adopted by the west. Westerners have to develop their own system.
Mazahari is a reporter for Press TV and has been in France for maybe 9 years. He has been to all of the yellow-vest demonstrations, often the only TV reporter on the scene. Basically all of this text is his. (I don't much use block quotes, but maybe I should.)
I also found your Substack from Bernhard's Moon of Alabama site, recommending geopolitical analysis. And then quickly read the article on the Gilets Jaunes, which is more comprehensive than I've seen in published social science. Their movement and phenomenon is pitifully misunderstood - I have advocated and argued on their behalf, and they were misunderstood in Canada, of course, where I was until recently. and Also Don Midwest, I appreciate the Latour article in Critical Inquiry, I had not seen that. Its too late to marshal any French intellectuals now that Bruno has passed, I don't think Todt or Picketty care about the Yellow Vests. But personally, I had no idea they were still marching, and I have followed them from the beginning. Macron's insolence against the French people just proves everything that's wrong with liberalism and shows it is a dying an undeserving political philosophy.
Thank you for your acknowledgement. I have been enjoying this thread topic of "Contentious Regions". Of course Contentious is one point of view, that is told to us through our western narrative. "The Axis of Evil", our enemy list and all that. If we at least look at the opposing views, I think we can decide for ourselves. We don't have to believe what they first say.
The EU is also a place were we are fed a narrative; that it is a paragon of Democracy. So even that western rhetoric is a point of contention. I look at contention so that maybe it can defuse. Not overall, but first in your an my minds. So in a way, I have to find alternative writings on all the "hot spots". Those would be China, Russia, Iran, and other parts of the Middle East and Muslim cultures. Some might think that I am a revolutionary. Not at all; exactly the opposite. This site is dedicated to working-out differences, but not through aggression.
There is already plenty on this site about Russia. Still there is another comprehensive book on the History of Russia with the Mongols in Asia. This I want to start uploading, but without leaving the "Contentious Regions Threads". So I may be alternating between the topics, and the Russian history. I believe that this book will counter the standard narrative of who the Mongols were and what they did.
I just found your substack from your post on Moon of Alabama.
A question: I understand your project as posting translations with a minimal amount of your own commentary. In this article, it is not clear to me if you are the author or if Ramin Mazaheri. (5,200 words) is the author. Or if you produced a composite around his text.
Specifically: after the first short paragraph, I don't know how much of the rest of the article is your work or others. I am assuming that in this article, most of the text is yours. Is that correct?
I am a fan of Bruno Latour. He wrote several columns on the yellow vest protests. The first one is probably the best one, but I am going to post a few more.
"The Search for Political HeteronomyNew Ledgers of Complaints
Bruno Latour
A piece in EspritMarch 2019"
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/downloads/163-ESPRIT-HETERENOMY-GB_0.pdf
January 13, 2020 ·
Cosmology and Class: An Interview with Bruno Latour by Nikolaj Schultz
https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/cosmology-and-class-an-interview-with-bruno-latour-by-nikolaj-schultz/
Issues with Engendering
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/167-TROUBLES-Engendering-GB.pdf
Is This a Dress Rehearsal? 26 March 2020
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/711428
Hi Don Midwest, I am not an original researcher. You could say that I share things of interest that I find. My focus (my interest) is mostly on the library4conciliation premise, that if we become more familiar with our (supposed) adversaries, more world coexistence is possible. So you might say that I write about "the Axis of Evil". Of course I don't see it that way, but neither am I advocating any other system to be adopted by the west. Westerners have to develop their own system.
Mazahari is a reporter for Press TV and has been in France for maybe 9 years. He has been to all of the yellow-vest demonstrations, often the only TV reporter on the scene. Basically all of this text is his. (I don't much use block quotes, but maybe I should.)
Thanks for your input.
I also found your Substack from Bernhard's Moon of Alabama site, recommending geopolitical analysis. And then quickly read the article on the Gilets Jaunes, which is more comprehensive than I've seen in published social science. Their movement and phenomenon is pitifully misunderstood - I have advocated and argued on their behalf, and they were misunderstood in Canada, of course, where I was until recently. and Also Don Midwest, I appreciate the Latour article in Critical Inquiry, I had not seen that. Its too late to marshal any French intellectuals now that Bruno has passed, I don't think Todt or Picketty care about the Yellow Vests. But personally, I had no idea they were still marching, and I have followed them from the beginning. Macron's insolence against the French people just proves everything that's wrong with liberalism and shows it is a dying an undeserving political philosophy.
Yes there is a news blackout. The best way is to ignore them.
A comprehensive study.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for your acknowledgement. I have been enjoying this thread topic of "Contentious Regions". Of course Contentious is one point of view, that is told to us through our western narrative. "The Axis of Evil", our enemy list and all that. If we at least look at the opposing views, I think we can decide for ourselves. We don't have to believe what they first say.
The EU is also a place were we are fed a narrative; that it is a paragon of Democracy. So even that western rhetoric is a point of contention. I look at contention so that maybe it can defuse. Not overall, but first in your an my minds. So in a way, I have to find alternative writings on all the "hot spots". Those would be China, Russia, Iran, and other parts of the Middle East and Muslim cultures. Some might think that I am a revolutionary. Not at all; exactly the opposite. This site is dedicated to working-out differences, but not through aggression.
There is already plenty on this site about Russia. Still there is another comprehensive book on the History of Russia with the Mongols in Asia. This I want to start uploading, but without leaving the "Contentious Regions Threads". So I may be alternating between the topics, and the Russian history. I believe that this book will counter the standard narrative of who the Mongols were and what they did.
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