Le Monde Diplomatique's lead article Le Couteau sans-lame de social-liberalisme (Le Monde Diplo Avril 2009 sorry don't have the link) by Eveline Pieiller is the best thing I have read this month. She talks about the collapse of any and all of the old projects of the left and the right, including prosperity, equality, the market, redistribution, democracy and opportunity. And the emerging replacement: a kind of society in which the highest we aspire to is "l'affirmation positive de soi".
Pieiller says we are heading for a culture in which we will aim to celebrate (fetishise ?) our own individualties. We have the machinery to do it. Liberalism and socialism can only aspire to defend a "societe de la particularite" and an "economie de la particularite".
This really opens up a new line of thinking on online culture and networking.
I’ve blogged about the Twitter Diaspora, arguing that Twitter was a default
place for many in higher education. Alan suggests that the Town Hall was
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