Re: <nettime> rage against the machine

[Joseph Rabie <joe@overmydeadbody.org>]

Dear all,

I find it noteworthy that the call to burn at the stake, opposed by Andreas, has been endorsed by male members of this list. Let us remember that it was invented as retribution against women accused of witchcraft, that is to say practises considered subversive by the male theocratic power structure of the time.

Burning at the stake was crude technology. The 20th century variant, crematoria and gas chambers, were far more efficient.

Language is never just language.

Joe.

Le 24 mars 2019 à 11:49, Menno Grootveld <rabotnik@xs4all.nl> a écrit :

Friends, I would say that to be caught in a plane that is nosediving (and apparently burning before it hit the ground) because of some outright criminal behaviour by some idiots that think they can get away with not fixing the bugs in their software and thereby putting the lives of their passengers at risk is about the closest thing nowadays to being burned at the stake, so no, I would not call it 'flippant rhetoric'. Actually I would say we need more of this 'flippant rhetoric' to counter the threat of the extreme right AND their puppet masters in the neo-liberal establishment. I'm afraid it's about time we become a little but less 'reasonable'...

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