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Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve

These are just a few short notes that I already made elsewhere. Given time I will elaborate on them more completely, perhaps even individually, but I thought I should post this memo here as well. In the Star Trek universe we learn in the Voyager episode, “Future’s End” (part 1), that most of Los Angeles …

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Memo: Desensitization to Violence in Fiction May Be a (Contemporary) “Evolutionary” Trait

“Evolution is blind and drink. It stumbles along through trial and error and emerges with a barely adequate excuse of a being.” – Dinal, from The Orville episode, “Mortality Paradox” I realize violence has always existed in fictional tales. This is nothing new. However, I would argue that physical violence of our current era in …

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Notes and rough drafts: When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice

I. Mishnah Qiddushin 3 outlines that a mamzer may achieve his freedom if his parents are sold into slavery and are then freed, freeing him into normalized relations with Jewish society with all the rights and privileges thereto. Here, through ancient subjugation one finds a pathway into privileged society. Emily A. Owens, in her article, …

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Memo: Rethinking Degrowth as Resistance to Capitalism

I have had some time to rethink what Koch & Elmore wrote about Baudrillard’s elaboration on Marxist ideas and the pervasiveness of capitalism. I have two or three Baudrillard texts, but it has been so long since I have read them, I could not tell you if they discussed these issues, so keep in mind …

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Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism

Koch & Elmore (2006) argue that contrary to popular opinion Baudrillard’s later work did not abandon Marxist theory. He elaborated on it. Baudrillard expanded on the “macro-molecular code” of Marxist thought (see 561). Baudrillard showed that the sign and the signifier, the code and representation, didn’t puff out Marx’s ideas with the failure of the …

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Memo: Will the Fall of the United States Break Capitalism

This is a loose thought that I am not going to develop. Though I could imagine myself getting deep into research to prove my argument, I do not think such a project would be safe to proceed with given the current climate in the United States. However, I did want to introduce this idea. This …

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Romantic Empathy as a Gateway to Ontological Empathy

The singular source that rejects empathy is possessiveness. The trajectory of selfhood that seeks the lure of possession is without stability or the confines or frail togetherness that bonds the absence of self into the chemistry of romantic interludes of selflessness and denial of form. When romantic empathy reaches formlessness it is prepared to embrace …

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Romantic Awe and the Traces of Deleterious Dispensation

Romantic awe is like stroking your fingers along the inner traces of a sobole clock, so close to recess, so moved as to recoil. Romantic awe is lambast in sheep skin, too close to forging tidings; too far from our god-mother’s solstice embrace. What I have spent time attempting to warn you about is the …

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The Lure of Awe and a Romantic Empathy Approach

Awe in our contemporary struggle is not without corporatism and digression from solitude. As we digress we feel closer to a social order and that feeling brings a sense of reward because we are social beings, intended to be together here in this space. However, awe and its lure has long been corrupted. It can …

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What are the Consequences of Romantic Empathy?

Characteristics central to the English Romantic era were beauty and consciousness. To know a thing is to become a thing whereas that idea magnifies and precludes one’s own value of presence. This is not unlike the great fall at the Garden, where the true crime of Adam and Eve was the tailoring of possessiveness. To …

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