Re: Cheap tix to DC/Baltimore (fwd)

Look, my point can be taken at the simplest, most 
elementary level as this:
If I were to post notices of cheap flights everywhere, 
everywhen, the list would become clogged and members would 
become pretty pissed-off. Why is info about cheap flights 
inside the US so privileged?
At another level, it may be worth thinking about whether 
thinking about world-systems always has to orient upon the 
hegemon. Even the recent contributions on Chinese 
dissidents are oriented on their attitude to US 
institutions.
Ask yourselves, what are the implications of this praxis, 
ie. of orientating critical thought on global relations to 
the US hegemon?
Mick

On Wed, 17 May 2000 05:43:39 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Wayne 
Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
> Mick,
> 
> You say this in a post responding to Mine who regularly informs the list
> of conferences outside the United States. (If I am not mistaken, she was
> criticized by somebody who wondered why it was useful to people on this
> list to be told about conferences they cannot attend - can't win for
> losing.) One of the things we academics do is travel to conferences and
> discuss matters of great intellectual importance (after all, most of us
> have diplomas in thinkology). The moderator of the list posts info on
> conferences almost every day. "US intellectuals" are certainly in for some
> criticism, but I don't think sharing cheap flight information should be
> one of the key points of attack.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mick Drake wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps we should rename the list? Does no-one ever stop to 
> >condider the extent to which the overwhelmingly US-vantage 
> >point of this list is itself a mode of hegemony within 
> >the critical theory of world-systems?
> >This has evidently become so much an accepted and unspoken 
> >background to this stream of thought that the list is 
> >now even used to exchange the commercio-cultural 
> >'cosmopolitan' chatter of the priveleged intellectual US 
> >hegemonic elite.
> >Mick Drake
> >
> >On Wed, 17 May 2000 02:45:21 -0400 (EDT) 
> >md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote:
> >> 
> >> Alan, thanks for sharing this info with us! 
> >> 
> >> I was in the midst of looking for a ticket to Chicago, so it was very
> >> helpful..
> >> 
> >> comradely,
> >> 
> >> Mine
> >> 
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:57:06
> >> -0500 From: Spectors <spectors@netnitco.net> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
> >> <wsn@csf.colorado.edu> Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> >> Subject: Cheap tix to DC/Baltimore I just came across some VERY cheap
> >> fares between Chicago and Baltimore.  Actually, I'll paste in the ad: 
> >> Baltimore/Washington $52 each way to/from Birmingham $50 each way 
>to/from
> >> Chicago Midway $34 each way to/from Cleveland $94 each way to/from 
>Houston
> >> Hobby $61 each way to/from Orlando $94 each way to/from San Antonio
> >> 
> >> It's on Southwest Airlines and is good from June 6 through October, 
>which
> >> includes the times of the SSSP and ASA in Washington. For those who 
>don't
> >> know, the Baltimore airport is only about 45 minutes to downtown 
>Washington.
> >> It's not much further than DC-Dulles airport in Virginia. Anyhow, I 
>know
> >> that most people who are reading this aren't into sociology for the 
>money
> >> and some might find that these low fares might make it possible for 
>them to
> >> get to the conventions this year.
> >> 
> >> You have to purchase this on the internet; check out the following 
>site:
> >> 
> >> Southwest Airlines Click 'n Save Internet Specials at
> >> http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/?src=click
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Good luck,
> >> 
> >> Alan Spector
> >> 
> >> (NOOOOO, this doesn't mean that Alan Spector is now going
> >> rivatized  ---doing commercials that is; it's just an attempt to apply
> >> comrade wally (vlady)'s dictum that the capitalist class will sell us 
>the
> >> rope that we will use to hang them (figuratively speaking, of course) )
> >> 
> >
>