Sunday, October 29, 2006
Oaxaca
Things are heating up. http://laluchita.blogspot.com/2006/10/oaxaca-burns-pfp-invasion-right-now.html , www.narconews.com.
Latest:http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/29/162836/67
France
On Friday, France marked the anniversary of the October 2005 riots, set off by the electorcution death of two youths after being chased by two police. It ignited the anger of France's, largely Muslim, Africanand Middle-Eastern populations, concentrated in ghettos like Clichy-sous-Bois. It is a classic example of immigration-based ethnic conflict between immigrant and homelander.
The most prescient example that can be applied here is the Brixton Riots (I highly reccomend Urban75's excellent narrative account). The narrative is the same: impoverished, non-white immigrants, largely from former colonies move into the land of their former colonizer, often into the same neighbourhoods. They are socioeconomically and ethnically sidelined, and conflicts with the white establishment (police, government), is inevitable. Desperation breeds crime, mixes with police brutality and the smallest incident will cause massive civil unrest.
Though characterized by xenophobic public officials (Nicolas Sarkozy's "scum" comment) and newspapers are destructive nihilism and youth rioting because they stupid and hate the world, it is a legitimate form of resitance against centuries of agression and repression--it's latest incarnation being police beating (whether Brixton or Clichy-sous-Bois), and physical, cultural and economic sidelining into ghettos.
Che-like guerilla revolution is no longer applicable in such situations, I am told by me eco-anarchist friend Chasuble Bane, but Revolution by Riot (the destruction and overthrow of capitalist control-cops and corporations, and from the ashes will rise the new society) IS. It is true that snowball effect like the one we saw in France last year could effectively shut down the state and its business cohorts, like '68 only bigger.
Burt returning to Brixton: what lessons can we learn? Things might just get worse before they get better. There were two subsequent riots in Brixton and Handsworth, the lesson there being things might get worse before they get better. The main thing we can gather from 1980's Britian (under Thatcher) and 00's France (under Chirac) is that knee-jerk xenophobia is one of the easist and biggest roots to cut to stop this sort of thing.
Immigrants are misunderstood and feared, something fed off of by right-wing nationalistic politicians like Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front, or the National Front in England in the 80's.
Once this is stopped, through cultural understanding intiatives and work against xenophobic bottom feeders, we can start to work on the economic problems and cause fear, distrust, and even violence on both sides.
My main point: Racism has many sides--Economic racism, cultural, post-colonial, anti-immigrant, and we must attack it on all sides. When this is done, the barriers of those ghettos start to come down, and with it the discontent they breed. This is how the ethnic immigrant minorites can effectively morph into mainline society, rather then outright war.
But, one must consider, if this is not done by mainline society (in conjunction with strong local, communitarian solidarity movements), then riots are inevitable, if not justifiable.
In fact, its already happening, with news out of France looking worse by the moment.
ETM theory certainly says that it will.
The most prescient example that can be applied here is the Brixton Riots (I highly reccomend Urban75's excellent narrative account). The narrative is the same: impoverished, non-white immigrants, largely from former colonies move into the land of their former colonizer, often into the same neighbourhoods. They are socioeconomically and ethnically sidelined, and conflicts with the white establishment (police, government), is inevitable. Desperation breeds crime, mixes with police brutality and the smallest incident will cause massive civil unrest.
Though characterized by xenophobic public officials (Nicolas Sarkozy's "scum" comment) and newspapers are destructive nihilism and youth rioting because they stupid and hate the world, it is a legitimate form of resitance against centuries of agression and repression--it's latest incarnation being police beating (whether Brixton or Clichy-sous-Bois), and physical, cultural and economic sidelining into ghettos.
Che-like guerilla revolution is no longer applicable in such situations, I am told by me eco-anarchist friend Chasuble Bane, but Revolution by Riot (the destruction and overthrow of capitalist control-cops and corporations, and from the ashes will rise the new society) IS. It is true that snowball effect like the one we saw in France last year could effectively shut down the state and its business cohorts, like '68 only bigger.
Burt returning to Brixton: what lessons can we learn? Things might just get worse before they get better. There were two subsequent riots in Brixton and Handsworth, the lesson there being things might get worse before they get better. The main thing we can gather from 1980's Britian (under Thatcher) and 00's France (under Chirac) is that knee-jerk xenophobia is one of the easist and biggest roots to cut to stop this sort of thing.
Immigrants are misunderstood and feared, something fed off of by right-wing nationalistic politicians like Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front, or the National Front in England in the 80's.
Once this is stopped, through cultural understanding intiatives and work against xenophobic bottom feeders, we can start to work on the economic problems and cause fear, distrust, and even violence on both sides.
My main point: Racism has many sides--Economic racism, cultural, post-colonial, anti-immigrant, and we must attack it on all sides. When this is done, the barriers of those ghettos start to come down, and with it the discontent they breed. This is how the ethnic immigrant minorites can effectively morph into mainline society, rather then outright war.
But, one must consider, if this is not done by mainline society (in conjunction with strong local, communitarian solidarity movements), then riots are inevitable, if not justifiable.
In fact, its already happening, with news out of France looking worse by the moment.
ETM theory certainly says that it will.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Iraq
My colleague Professor Merriam Jones-Sanchez, who teaches Higher Mathematics at the University of Victoria at Large, and I had a very interesting conversation about ethnomorphology and the Iraq war.
In Iraq, we see a crucible of three distinct ethno-cultural/religous groups (Kurds, Sunnis and Shia), divided by geography, belief, ethnicity and thousands of years of interaction but put into one country due to the post-WWI division of the Mid East by the whims of the victorious allies. Under the rule of Saddam Hussien, the minority Sunnis held sway and power over the more populous Shia and the fiercely independent Kurds, with a partially autonomous state and political structure before the 2003 American Invasion.
The course of the war has not only opened old wounds, but ethnomorphologically changed and raised the stakes of their interaction. As they grind up against each other we see increasing conflict arising, and the divisions growing deeper. Mixed suburbs are slowly disapearing as religous affialiates seek reprieve from dangers like death squads by moving into areas highly populated by their own religous brethren.
The long-term effects of this can only be predicted, but increasing ethnic isolation has almost always lead to long-term economic and political segregation, a result of heavy ghetto-ization. Under such conditions, mutual distrust and misunderstanding flower, creating giant barriers to recconciliation.
Ultimatly, reconcilitation is what is needed to avert civil war or death-squad lawlessness (there is even talk of coups of the weak government), and this will make it very hard.
The solution? No one can know for sure, but reconciliation must start at the local, community level. Solutions don't come from a weak central government, who has a very close relationship with the death squads, they come at the level that the common people are at. The Insurgency, or the Americans depending on your view, won't be defeated until the rug is pulled from under them. End Ghetto-ization, establish strong community rule stemming from strong, semi-autonomous regional groups of provinces (see Kurdistan), only then will a measure of peace be restored, and ethnomorphological phenomena be routed to further stability and life.
These phenomena are two-way roads, and ones like reconciliation through association can be used to benefit all.
In Iraq, we see a crucible of three distinct ethno-cultural/religous groups (Kurds, Sunnis and Shia), divided by geography, belief, ethnicity and thousands of years of interaction but put into one country due to the post-WWI division of the Mid East by the whims of the victorious allies. Under the rule of Saddam Hussien, the minority Sunnis held sway and power over the more populous Shia and the fiercely independent Kurds, with a partially autonomous state and political structure before the 2003 American Invasion.
The course of the war has not only opened old wounds, but ethnomorphologically changed and raised the stakes of their interaction. As they grind up against each other we see increasing conflict arising, and the divisions growing deeper. Mixed suburbs are slowly disapearing as religous affialiates seek reprieve from dangers like death squads by moving into areas highly populated by their own religous brethren.
The long-term effects of this can only be predicted, but increasing ethnic isolation has almost always lead to long-term economic and political segregation, a result of heavy ghetto-ization. Under such conditions, mutual distrust and misunderstanding flower, creating giant barriers to recconciliation.
Ultimatly, reconcilitation is what is needed to avert civil war or death-squad lawlessness (there is even talk of coups of the weak government), and this will make it very hard.
The solution? No one can know for sure, but reconciliation must start at the local, community level. Solutions don't come from a weak central government, who has a very close relationship with the death squads, they come at the level that the common people are at. The Insurgency, or the Americans depending on your view, won't be defeated until the rug is pulled from under them. End Ghetto-ization, establish strong community rule stemming from strong, semi-autonomous regional groups of provinces (see Kurdistan), only then will a measure of peace be restored, and ethnomorphological phenomena be routed to further stability and life.
These phenomena are two-way roads, and ones like reconciliation through association can be used to benefit all.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Ethnomorph
First, I just wanted to promote my video of the 2006 Crankworx Mountain Bike Festival in Whistler.
Second, I wanted to explain the definition of ethnomorph. An ethnomorph (plural ethnomorphs) is someone effected by the processes and actions studied by ethnomorphology (see first post). A popular example in ethnomorphology 101 at the University of Victoria at Large is Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz aka Jon Stewart aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At least in theory. Some argue it is over a strained relationship with his father, but nevertheless it is a good example under the assumption he changed it due to cultural influences.
Under such an assumption, we can view his move to change his name for showbiz as reflective of the attitude (widely held but not often considered anti-semitism) that Hollywood is controlled by Jews. Therefore, it could be inferred that a very jewish sounding name could sound aloof, or 'too hollywood.' As such, Jonathan Leibowitz was affected by ethno-cultural attitudes to change his name.
More in this later
Second, I wanted to explain the definition of ethnomorph. An ethnomorph (plural ethnomorphs) is someone effected by the processes and actions studied by ethnomorphology (see first post). A popular example in ethnomorphology 101 at the University of Victoria at Large is Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz aka Jon Stewart aka The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At least in theory. Some argue it is over a strained relationship with his father, but nevertheless it is a good example under the assumption he changed it due to cultural influences.
Under such an assumption, we can view his move to change his name for showbiz as reflective of the attitude (widely held but not often considered anti-semitism) that Hollywood is controlled by Jews. Therefore, it could be inferred that a very jewish sounding name could sound aloof, or 'too hollywood.' As such, Jonathan Leibowitz was affected by ethno-cultural attitudes to change his name.
More in this later
Sunday, October 22, 2006
ETM Theory
First, I've got to promote Rob Lafoille's new video project, Hella Pixelated. Lafoille is majoring in art and minoring in ethnomorphology at UVIC, and this new video combines the two in a expiremental piece that is also an ethnomorphology case study. See it at Google and Youtube--though they are one company at this point.
Lafoille"stretched the boundaries of digital art, tearing it to its rawest, undiluted form", reveling the pixels, the most basic unit of our digital world. What seperated Kim Jong-Il from Guantanamo? What seperates the different ethnicites of our world?
Anyway, I wanted to give you a sneak preview of my upcoming article "Ethno-Threat Matrix Theory" as part of the 'New Frontiers' series in the Canadian Futurism Journal. Ethno-Threat Matrix theory started American and Canada around 2003, as Ethnomorphologist became interested in the ethnomorphological aspects of the Arab-American conflict, specifically the view of Americans that Arabs were an imminent threat. ETM Theory not only studies the past of these phenomena, but seek to predict the trajectory emergence of new "threats", real or imagined, invented or spontaneous.
America therefore represents a plethora of cases, not just Mexican and Arab, but throughout its history (German, Irish, Chinese, etc.). The history is also concise, so cause and effect are closer together and therefore easier to see and correlate. Look for more information on this exciting new field soon, and a class in the coming semesters.
Lafoille"stretched the boundaries of digital art, tearing it to its rawest, undiluted form", reveling the pixels, the most basic unit of our digital world. What seperated Kim Jong-Il from Guantanamo? What seperates the different ethnicites of our world?
Anyway, I wanted to give you a sneak preview of my upcoming article "Ethno-Threat Matrix Theory" as part of the 'New Frontiers' series in the Canadian Futurism Journal. Ethno-Threat Matrix theory started American and Canada around 2003, as Ethnomorphologist became interested in the ethnomorphological aspects of the Arab-American conflict, specifically the view of Americans that Arabs were an imminent threat. ETM Theory not only studies the past of these phenomena, but seek to predict the trajectory emergence of new "threats", real or imagined, invented or spontaneous.
America therefore represents a plethora of cases, not just Mexican and Arab, but throughout its history (German, Irish, Chinese, etc.). The history is also concise, so cause and effect are closer together and therefore easier to see and correlate. Look for more information on this exciting new field soon, and a class in the coming semesters.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
ON NOTICE!
I've created a "Called Out" Board and an "On Notice" Board to keep tabs on everything that is on notice. The called out board will put a shout out to offenders of me and the field of ethnomorphology, giving them time to make amends and redeem themselves. If they do not, they may be put on the On Notice Board, signifiying their lives of luxury may soon mysteriously come to an end.
Called Out:
William Pitt the Elder: Prime Minister of Great Britian, from 1766-1768, Whig Party. Total Asshat.
Fast Colocation
Fast Colocation is giving networks to the people at dedicated.thehideout.net, and cheap domains is giving a domain. They have been contacted and asked to investigate the problem.
American Pageant, 11th edition
For horribly obscuring American History, tantamount to fraud perpetraded on all readers, specificially United States Board of Education Mandated Advanced Placement United States History Course. Also, defamation against anarchism in misrepresentation, perpetuation of stereotypes by prejudice and connotation.
Read Professor Bruce I. Kinley's Review on Amazon.com:
""While this text is factual, it reads like a novel - sensational and wordy. I love history, but this book was flat and irritating. I can't believe high-schoolers are reading this. I'm over 30 and have a PhD, and struggled through parts of it. I should note my struggles in this book came from confusing text. I felt the authors were trying so hard to "sound" intelligent that they ended up saying nothing. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY on this. It's a shame that authors like this continue to write such trash, destroying history and publishing. If you are forced to or want to read this be warned: it is written in overly formal English."
ON NOTICE:
Milk
It had it coming.
Ask Stephen Colbert
Dedicated.thehideout.net & Company
Punch of hackers portscanning me and and some other people. I'm coming for your, and all you friends at Sandy.thehideout.net, Sandy2.thehideout.net, and Dedicated19.hideout.net, and all other numbers. Its on. You're on notice.
Called Out:
William Pitt the Elder: Prime Minister of Great Britian, from 1766-1768, Whig Party. Total Asshat.
Fast Colocation
Fast Colocation is giving networks to the people at dedicated.thehideout.net, and cheap domains is giving a domain. They have been contacted and asked to investigate the problem.
American Pageant, 11th edition
For horribly obscuring American History, tantamount to fraud perpetraded on all readers, specificially United States Board of Education Mandated Advanced Placement United States History Course. Also, defamation against anarchism in misrepresentation, perpetuation of stereotypes by prejudice and connotation.
Read Professor Bruce I. Kinley's Review on Amazon.com:
""While this text is factual, it reads like a novel - sensational and wordy. I love history, but this book was flat and irritating. I can't believe high-schoolers are reading this. I'm over 30 and have a PhD, and struggled through parts of it. I should note my struggles in this book came from confusing text. I felt the authors were trying so hard to "sound" intelligent that they ended up saying nothing. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY on this. It's a shame that authors like this continue to write such trash, destroying history and publishing. If you are forced to or want to read this be warned: it is written in overly formal English."
ON NOTICE:
Milk
It had it coming.
Ask Stephen Colbert
Dedicated.thehideout.net & Company
Punch of hackers portscanning me and and some other people. I'm coming for your, and all you friends at Sandy.thehideout.net, Sandy2.thehideout.net, and Dedicated19.hideout.net, and all other numbers. Its on. You're on notice.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
Recent Researchy by Ilie Badescu
World Renowned Ethnomorpholigograher Ilie Bădescu recently publish a paper at http://www.cee-socialscience.net/archive/sociology/romania/report1.html. Here is a great excerpt, also the subject of my upcoming class at UVAT
"Ethnicity as collective inhabiting
[38] Dorel Abraham, Septimiu Chelcea, and Ilie Bădescu specify their constructivist approach in terms of ethnomorphology, treating cohabition as a phenomenon of ethnic interaction, in contrast to the old cliches of ethnic monads. Backed by such analytical instruments as Bogardus’ scale of social distance and Tajfel's theory of social comparison, the authors have delineated four different patterns of cohabiting specific to the various cultural areas of Romania: cosmopolite, intercultural, cantonal, and ethnocentric (1995)."
Also see him at http://www.unibuc.ro/en/cc_cgsv_en
"Ethnicity as collective inhabiting
[38] Dorel Abraham, Septimiu Chelcea, and Ilie Bădescu specify their constructivist approach in terms of ethnomorphology, treating cohabition as a phenomenon of ethnic interaction, in contrast to the old cliches of ethnic monads. Backed by such analytical instruments as Bogardus’ scale of social distance and Tajfel's theory of social comparison, the authors have delineated four different patterns of cohabiting specific to the various cultural areas of Romania: cosmopolite, intercultural, cantonal, and ethnocentric (1995)."
Also see him at http://www.unibuc.ro/en/cc_cgsv_en
Ethnomorphology
Ethnomorphology is the study of the transmutation of ethnic and racial boundaries. I am professor Jose Chavez, and I teach ethnomorphology at the Univerisity of Victoria(At Large).
Today's Quick Fact: Squirrels are purple and brown and live underground. Squares are oblique and brown and live in town.
Today's Quick Fact: Squirrels are purple and brown and live underground. Squares are oblique and brown and live in town.
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