On Sat, 31 May 2014, Josh Walker wrote:

> I'm forming somewhat of an idea of the landscape of this place, but
> I'm having trouble reconciling the two.

be welcome, also to dissent. I think this place is somewhat a campfire
and as long noone gets stubborn on prejudices - as long as noone gets
too judicial and we try to stick to facts - it can be a very important
place to keep in touch and value diversity of views and sources.

> Kind fellow denizens of this unSystem mailing list: What is the
> general feeling in here about The Counterforce?

FWIW and if you have time and interest to read, I recommend the good
prose of this thread
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/threads.html#00018

in particular Cramer's post
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/msg00032.html

Bard's insightful account
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/msg00024.html

John Young's caustic poetical tones
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/msg00079.html

Allan Siegel attempt to a "leftist analysis"
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/msg00086.html
(somewhat very much European in its concerns)

And my fav, Morlock Elloi's reply to Allan. I love his cynicism
http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1405/msg00089.html and he
gets the point, but again this is more about the dismanteling of
European cultural funding and subsequent re-organization of cognitive
labour we are going through.

ciao