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The JCRT Live Blog no longer seems interested in my posts, so I figured I’d post here the last one I wrote for them: Imperativity “He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers; because they [...] Continue reading Imperativity I have wanted to write an originary account of the health care debate for awhile, but perhaps this piece I wrote for the Zombie Contentions blog can stand in for it until I get arround to writing it: http://ckmac.com/thewholething/2010/03/29/pre-existing-conditions/ “It is not enough to say, as the French do, that their nation was taken unawares. Nations and women are not forgiven the unguarded hour in which the first adventurer who came along could violate them. Such turns of speech do not solve the riddle but only formulate it differently. It remains to be [...] Continue reading Some thoughts on the Democrats’ victory on health care (with Obama’s intifada against Israel in mind as well) Substituting the notion of “sovereign equality” for “equality of outcome” would complete the articulation of liberty and equality I argued for in “The Mistake of Liberal Democracy,” and clarify the implications of their severing by liberal democracy. An obvious question regarding my claim for the indivisibility of freedom and equality is, “Could you really [...] Continue reading A Brief Addendum to “The Mistake of Liberal Democracy” For anyone interested, I have a new blogging locale, on the Zombies Contentions blog (under Adam K). It’s more directly political, with only a hint of GA (but perhaps I’ll be able to thicken the hints as I go). Anyway, here’s the link, for anyone who’s interested: http://ckmac.com/thewholething/ Dear Colleagues, The deadline for paper submissions for the 4th Annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conference (GASC 2010) has been extended to March 15th. We still have room in the program, and we encourage all interested parties to submit an abstract or panel proposal. The theme this year is “The Anthropology of Modernity: the Sacred, [...] Continue reading GASC 2010 Update I fell a bit behind in my reading of the Chronicles of Love & Resentment, and so I just got to the extraordinarily interesting Chronicle # 388, “Ecriture from Barthes to GA,” and wanted to make this brief comment on one small part of the essay: The sacred is not a mysterious, otherworldly quality; [...] Continue reading Anti-humanism |
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