[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] [WSF-Discuss] Human Use of Human Beings by SS. Wiener (1989)

Wed Aug 19 11:21:13 CEST 2015

Looks like someone is working it on library genesis:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=101466e094b2a80e41ac04474808b20f

"Concluding the acclaimed and award-winning trilogy on 'Modes of
Foreign Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial
historical sociology of International Relations theory.

In The Discipline of Western Supremacy Kees van der Pijl argues that,
from the late European Middle Ages, Anglophone thinkers articulated an
imperial world-view which was adopted by aspirant elites elsewhere.
Nation-state formation under the auspices of the English-speaking West
has henceforth informed thinking about international affairs. After
decolonisation the study of comparative politics continued to develop
under those same auspices as part of a comprehensive framework.

This book, the first of its kind, aims to provide a complete overview
of mainstream International Relations as a set of theories which
translate Western supremacy into intellectual hegemony."

N.B.: it does so also for the other 'disciplines' that were put into
dicipline to maintain the dicsipline favouring the Western/Capital's
supremacy over all the oppressed peoples and classes.

On 18 August 2015 at 19:59, Orsan <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Boston Dynamics & Google co. Presents - Atlas: a Human use of Humanoid :
> http://youtu.be/NwrjAa1SgjQ
>
> Was thinking of Wiener-Bohr-Einstein-Heisenberg-Hayek-Wittgenstien-Popper
> nexus and the point you raised Fabian about the relationship between
> thoughts and movements, and / or classes. Then remembered a book suppose to
> finish some months ago: the Discipline of Western Supremacy by Kees van der
> Pijl's. The book makes extremely clear what was the relationships between
> historically developed capital fractions and bourgeois scientist, and what
> stream of thinking has served -willingly or unwillingly- what hegemonic
> project (comprehensive concepts of control):
> https://www.academia.edu/5970987/Preface_to_The_Discipline_of_Western_Supremacy
> While case of Bogdanov and many others already shows the direction for
> emancipatory thinking could take instead, when it is applied to today's
> Google-Microsoft-Amazon-Internet of Everything -sharing economy (capitalist
> commons)-NSA-Prism context it is serves as torch.
>
> best, orsan
>
>
> On 17 aug. 2015, at 22:23, Orsan <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Working on the bomb? Did they understand? Maybe with hindsight. I think they
> were seduced by Anti-fascism, thanks to being petrified by the Nazis.
>
>
> And may be we are watching the same movie again, or may be the worse:
>
> 'Google’s Artificial Intelligence Speaks, and She’s a Woman'
>
> http://tech.co/stephen-hawking-ai-danger-2015-07