Category: ideology

• The Poet in His Labyrinth

  Nov 23

  “Criticism unfolds the possibility of freedom and is thus an invitation to action.” “Criticism tells us that we should learn to dissolve the idols, should learn to dissolve them within… more ›

• Electioneering

  Dec 22

  Note: I was working on this list-cum-manifesto during the recent elections in the U.S. and found it now in my draft folder. Because of the results of that election, I… more ›

• All Apologies

  Mar 13

  Any time an apology is issued, we need to ask why. Just who exactly is she apologizing to? Can you apologize to the dead?Or is this merely an exercise in… more ›

• Antimanifesto for a Simulated World

  Feb 26

  Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and Hypercommodity.” This short essay articulates the structure of the media… more ›

• Late Modern Sculpture

  Dec 22

  It seems that I’ve gotten several new visitors to this blog from the TOL article on Prague’s late communist public art. Here are two more works that I spent a… more ›

• Capitalism

  Nov 13

  Shopkeeper brandishes gun to prevent “looters”–otherwise known as desperate and traumatized survivors–from foraging for food and supplies. The only justice would be this fascist pig dying of starvation because he… more ›

• Strange Prisoners and the Ends of Mythology

  Aug 28

  “Individual responsibility” is code for the worst kind of social engineering: libertarian ideology. The only ideology that has no basis in reality, libertarianism attempts to enforce a dogma of selfishness… more ›