In the United States - with of course the United States serving as our primary focus given that the United States is where we live and have grown up and where we were born - one informal network replaced another at the helm of the state within the span of about half a century or … Continue reading Note to “Patrimonial States”
Tag: Democratic Socialism
Teaching Aesthetics and History
Thus, philosophy, education, the study of culture, and the dissemination of information are all conducted with the twin goals of the system in mind. But of course, the entire endeavor or enterprise is then conducted in an aesthetic manner. In a sense, the entire enterprise or endeavor becomes a pursuit of art. As Durkheim wrote: … Continue reading Teaching Aesthetics and History
Fifteenth Note to “Jew Hater”
As Foucault said, madness is the absence of an oeuvre. Normalcy and stability in civic and social life by assessing the basic pattern, master trend, episteme, and oeuvre after all the Pol Pot and Hitler-like atrocities and monstrosities of the neoconservative and neoliberal order and status quo of affairs. It was a daunting and formidable … Continue reading Fifteenth Note to “Jew Hater”