Re: <nettime> Market Populism: Interview with Thomas Frank

In a message dated 5/21/2002 8:58:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
geert@xs4all.nl writes:


> Market Populism after 911
> Interview with Thomas Frank
> By Geert Lovink
>
> During the nineties I only vaguely heard about a zine called The Baffler,
> a cool and rigorously critical theory magazine, coming out of Chicago.


I've been a fan of Thomas Frank since way back, even made a JPG to prove I'd
read it, people never listen to the kid:

http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/baffler9.JPG

I know that is not a picture of Baffler 9, which I read in 99-2000, and is a
relevant influence on my Genius 2000 ideas.

KwikLink at
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0105/msg00176.html

Max Herman
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0105/msg00176.html

Max Herman May 21 2002 01:00Reply

In a message dated 5/21/2002 8:58:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
geert@xs4all.nl writes:


> TF: I would very much like to see a new generation of intellectuals who
> aren 't strictly creatures of academia. By this I don't mean celebrity
> thinkers; I mean people who write for audiences larger than simply their
> fellow PhDs. And maybe such a generation is coming:


Great to see Geert interviewing Thomas Frank, a very interesting writer.

I'm busy right now creating a media kit with video and music, plus bio and
resume, to send out to everyone including Geert and Thomas!

But why wish for a new generation of intellectuals, who work outside of
academia; why utopianize that kind of antinomianism? I think it's a serious
question.

Max Herman

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