Outer Edges (Session 3)

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• 00:00:00

  In a moment. Following our sort of two-track scheme, I think particularly this week we're going to be challenged not to be diverted a little bit by the excitement of catabolic geopolitics which has gone a bit over the cliff in the last week. And I think it's possible to really try to do something interesting with…

• 00:29:49

  It's interesting as well, because... I mean, they were almost all for remaining. And... Especially with this backlash, you know, against... Sort of, you know, really working-class British people and the views that they hold, you know. I'm sure that when England play Iceland tomorrow in the Euros, that there are going…

• 00:52:46

  And it's exactly the same cybernetic diagram in both cases. So it's like just a threshold thing. I'm not trying to say minimize it. But you don't have to change the dynamics is what I'm saying. The dynamics are great, but you just haven't got to ignition. And once you get to ignition point, the same depressing…

• 01:15:22

  But it's, I mean you could read it. You could read it either way. So they don't really have a great answer to it. But on the other hand, if someone goes well that suits really well actually, then that could crack it open. But it's that sort of industrial and you know, service provision that it doesn't quite…

• 01:37:05

  Absolutely. I mean, even... It's even more so than that because it's all about the... You know, it's about the tax rates and corporation tax rates. And, you know, you'll hear some people on the right saying, well, you know, they're just out competing you. And the solution is suppression of competition. Right. There's…

• 02:01:29

  It's true. But the, certainly modern states all, they all have rules that they play by. You know, we don't, Britain and America don't stockpile chemical weapons. And if they find it that anyone else is... Right. ...that it's a reason to... Yeah. ...to sort of go in and do something about it. Well, I'm not sure what…

• 02:28:39

  So you're… it's… so part of this whole question of spatial meta-politics is what is the actual spatial meta-politics in force in any particular… in any particular domain, you know? And there's just an analytical question about it. It's… it's obviously… because Friedman's thing is he has a project and he really wants…

• 02:53:00

  What do you think, guys? Are we done? Yeah, I can leave it here. I have to work tomorrow, too. Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks guys. That was really good. Have a good week. Thanks. Thanks for showing up. Okay, bye. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye, guys. Thank you.