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Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)

By nature people tend to see and hear and they want to see and hear. It really cannot be helped and isn’t going to be washed out of them in the space of a few social media messages. And yet, the all intellectual, justice-striving liberal left has no problem making fun of these very people …

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The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority

Authority comes in the form of peacekeeping and the art of conflict resolution, not in an individual who writes five volumes on a philosophy of snake-like symbolism – all while inserting themselves into the work: a self-referential master-pretense of autography. It is one thing to illustrate, to explicate, how oppression works. It is another to …

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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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