Categories
Philosophy

Fear of Others

Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.

Categories
politics

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Goodbye Pax Americana

Trump reads alliances as costs to cut, missing that they are the distributed, Global infrastructure and constitutive precondition through which American power exists and persists at all.

Categories
communication

The Abstract Political Intoxication of Populist Symbolism

Populist symbolism travels by detaching feeling from place, consequence, and thought, then giving borrowed socio-psychological anxiety the dissimulating smoke and mirrors of a theatrical political and identity performance.

Categories
Philosophy

Bad Words With Weapons

Language does not contain the world; the world contains language, yet impoverished meaning becomes machinery, mythology, and moral fact precisely when language behaves as though its crude categories contain reality itself.