Posted in Capitalism, Politics, Simone Weil on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let us not forget that we want to make the individual, and not the collectivity, the supreme value. We want to form whole men by doing away with that specialization which cripples us all. We want to give to manual labour that dignity which belongs to it of right, by giving workmen the [...]
Posted in 9-11, Politics, Ron Paul on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just watched this montage of clips from the South Carolina debates featuring Ron Paul, who until now I did not know much about. He sounds like a classic neoliberal: laissez-faire economics, state’s-rights government involvement, and isolationist foreign policy… so why do the Republicans hate him? Well, it seems it’s because he is [...]
Posted in David Foster Wallace, Democracy, Politics on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the November issue of The Atlantic, David Foster Wallace posed the question, “Are some things still worth dying for?” In his sort editorial he submitted that we have forgone the necessary public debate about how we ought to balance liberty and security in our post 9/11 era. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s oft [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Politics, Socialism on December 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I came across this insightful passage in Herbert McCabe’s Law, Love & Language (thanks Halden!). For some reason I had never connected the fact/value split with production before:
Very roughly the bourgeois industrialised society is one in which men come into relationship, form a community, hence come to agreement and thus to ‘truth’, only in [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Hauerwas, McCarraher, Politics, Voting/Elections on December 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A rather cheeky post has recently appeared on Danny Jenkins’ “Musing on the Theo-Political,” entitled “What Stanley Hauerwas Does to Young Boys.” The post consisted entirely of a quote from Halden’s post about why he isn’t going to vote, wherein he argues that voting is merely a choice between two terrible options that have [...]
Posted in McCarraher, Politics on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
“I think of myself as religious but not spiritual. Partial to the sensuous, communal, and cerebral forms of ritual and text, I’ve always considered ‘spirituality’ too ethereal and invertebrate a way of being.”
Lately I’ve been reading as many articles and book reviews by Eugene McCarraher as possible. I find his work to offer [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Theory on June 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
necessitas legem non habet*
When the ideals of the law are suspended in order to reach the end of law (the common good) then you find yourself in what Giorgio Agamben calls the State of Exception.
[T]he state of exception separates the norm from its application in order to make its applicaiton possible. It introduces a [...]
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