[D-G] The list of European neocon shills

[Johnatan Petterson]

just feels like sharing this...
an example of subversive web art by Marine, always so refreshing, i love
her diet advises.
best,
Johnny


lun. 4 févr
. 2019 à 03:45,
Marine DaughterOfthePirate
<marine.daughter.of.pirate at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hya Johnny!!
>
> Thought you'd enjoy my fan art
> I wrote this tonight into nettime mailing-list.
>
> I have always been an admirer of your genius for mapping the geodesic
> terrain.
>
> Best,
>
> Marine daughter of a Pirate
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:39 AM Marine DaughterOfthePirate <
> marine.daughter.of.pirate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> How can you co-sign a defamation like that?
>>
>> And what would would be proven by such a "map"
>>
>> a "map" is done by the intellect, not by a computer mind
>>
>>
>> aligning facts. If you want to know what is a map see Deleuze and Guattari 's descriptions
>>
>> of Fernand Deligny's work with children.
>>
>>
>>
>> >>It would be interesting to map
>> author-publicist-publisher-distributor-grantor->>investor-etc. relationships,
>> and reveal the money/influence/reputation flows. Very >>few authors
>> operate in vacuum, none write for free.
>>
>> >>>>Of course I find it difficult to respect anyone who'd cosign as much as
>> >>>>a grocery list with a creep like BHL.
>>
>>
>> (conveniently compiled by Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/25/fight-europe-wreckers-patriots-nationalist )
>>
>> Fight for Europe – or the wreckers will destroy it
>>
>> Fri 25 Jan 2019
>>
>> Bernard-Henri Lévy, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan
>> Pamuk and 25 others
>>
>> The idea of Europe is in peril.
>>
>> From all sides there are criticisms, insults and desertions from the cause.
>>
>>
>> “Enough of ‘building Europe’!” is the cry. Let’s reconnect instead with our
>> “national soul”! Let’s rediscover our “lost identity”! This is the agenda
>> shared by the populist forces washing over the continent. Never mind
>> that abstractions such as “soul” and “identity” often exist only in the
>> imagination of demagogues.
>>
>> Europe is being attacked by false prophets who are drunk on resentment, and
>> delirious at their opportunity to seize the limelight. It has been abandoned
>> by the two great allies who in the previous century twice saved it from
>> suicide; one across the Channel and the other across the Atlantic. The
>> continent is vulnerable to the increasingly brazen meddling by the
>> occupant of the Kremlin. Europe as an idea is falling apart before our
>> eyes.
>>
>> This is the noxious climate in which Europe’s parliamentary elections will
>> take place in May. Unless something changes; unless something comes along
>> to turn back the rising, swelling, insistent tide; unless a new spirit
>> of resistance emerges, these elections promise to be the most calamitous
>> that we have known. They will give a victory to the wreckers. For those
>> who still believe in the legacy of Erasmus, Dante, Goethe and Comenius
>> there will be only ignominious defeat. A politics of disdain for
>> intelligence and culture will have triumphed. There will be explosions
>> of xenophobia and antisemitism. Disaster will have befallen us.
>>
>> We, the undersigned, are among those who refuse to resign themselves to this
>> looming catastrophe.
>>
>> We count ourselves among the European patriots (a group more numerous than
>> is commonly thought, but that is often too quiet and too resigned), who
>> understand what is at stake here. Three-quarters of a century after the
>> defeat of fascism and 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there
>> is a new battle for civilisation.
>>
>> Our faith is in the great idea that we inherited, which we believe to have
>> been the one force powerful enough to lift Europe’s peoples above themselves
>> and their warring past. We believe it remains the one force today
>> virtuous enough to ward off the new signs of totalitarianism that drag
>> in their wake the old miseries of the dark ages. What is at stake forbids
>> us from giving up.
>>
>> Hence this invitation to join in a new surge.
>>
>>
>> Hence this appeal to action on the eve of an election that we refuse to abandon
>> to the gravediggers of the European idea.
>>
>> Hence this exhortation to carry once more the torch of a Europe that, despite
>> its mistakes, its lapses, and its occasional acts of cowardice, remains
>> a beacon for every free man and woman on the planet.
>>
>> Our generation got it wrong. Like Garibaldi’s followers in the 19th century,
>> who repeated, like a mantra, “Italia se farà da sè” (Italy will make
>> herself by herself), we believed that the continent would come together
>> on its own, without our needing to fight for it, or to work for it.
>> This, we told ourselves, was “the direction of history”.
>>
>> We must make a clean break with that old conviction. We don’t have a choice.
>> We must now fight for the idea of Europe or see it perish beneath the
>> waves of populism.
>>
>> In response to the nationalist and identitarian onslaught, we must rediscover
>> the spirit of activism or accept that resentment and hatred will
>> surround and submerge us. Urgently, we need to sound the alarm against
>> these arsonists of soul and spirit who, from Paris to Rome, with stops
>> along the way in Barcelona, Budapest, Dresden, Vienna and Warsaw, want
>> to make a bonfire of our freedoms.
>>
>> In this strange defeat of “Europe” that looms on the horizon; this new crisis
>> of the European conscience that promises to tear down everything that
>> made our societies great, honourable, and prosperous, there is a challenge
>> greater than any since the 1930s: a challenge to liberal democracy and
>> its values.
>>
>> • Copyright: Libération/Bernard-Henri Lévy. Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie,
>> Elfriede Jelinek and Orhan Pamuk are novelists. Bernard-Henri Lévy is a
>> philosopher
>>
>> Other signatories: Vassilis Alexakis (Athens), Svetlana Alexievich (Minsk),
>> Anne Applebaum (Warsaw), Jens Christian Grøndahl (Copenhagen), David
>> Grossman (Jerusalem), Ágnes Heller (Budapest), Ismaïl Kadaré (Tirana),
>> György Konrád (Debrecen), António Lobo Antunes (Lisbon), Claudio Magris
>> (Trieste), Ian McEwan (London), Adam Michnik (Warsaw), Herta Müller
>> (Berlin), Ludmila Oulitskaïa (Moscow), Rob Riemen (Amsterdam), Fernando
>> Savater (San Sebastián), Roberto Saviano (Naples), Eugenio Scalfari
>> (Rome), Simon Schama (London), Peter Schneider (Berlin), Abdulah Sidran
>> (Sarajevo), Leïla Slimani (Paris), Colm Tóibín (Dublin), Mario Vargas
>> Llosa (Madrid), Adam Zagajewski (Cracow)
>>
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