tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post3937576857012717024..comments2023-11-05T03:05:16.380-08:00Comments on No Useless Leniency: Game Over ManBenjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-2603769106603729752008-07-16T03:03:00.000-07:002008-07-16T03:03:00.000-07:00thanks jasper for confirming my intuition. I think...thanks jasper for confirming my intuition. I think it is actually something about the divided nature of MD's work that produces this effect of desire. I was told Historical Materialism were trying to get something from him on his own method, and I'd be really fascinated to read that.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-36854712701873797122008-07-15T19:20:00.000-07:002008-07-15T19:20:00.000-07:00I've noted the same tendency in Davis myself (I'm ...I've noted the same tendency in Davis myself (I'm a fan), and because I spent my adolescence in the very Los Angeles of the 80s/90s where Davis cut his catastrophist teeth, I too have a taste for apocalypticism of the sort Davis dispenses. I listened to that G N'R album quite a bit during those years.<BR/><BR/>Still, you know, the curious thing about the earlier Davis books is that when they aren't being apocalyptic themselves they're critiquing apocalyptic thinking as a tool of the ruling class.UCOP Killerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593713553275884570noreply@blogger.com