Category: post-politics

• Gaza

  Jul 25

  No, we do not have to accept the status quo. We do not have to accept the fact that our nation unqualifiedly supports Israel. We can hold our representatives accountable.… more ›

• Naïveté: The Theater of Outrage

  Oct 27

  German Chancellor Merkel is naive if she believes that the US is not spying on her. And she is naive if she believes that we Americans don’t already assume that… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part III of III)

  Jun 23

  Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part II of III)

  Jun 21

  At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new… more ›

• Utopian Time & Space: De/(Con)structions of Babel (Part I of III)

  Jun 19

  Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s… more ›

• Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part II)

  Jun 17

  In an attempt to keep the open dimension of language indeed open (à la Foucault), I offer this late, preliminary, and provisional commentary on “9/11.“ 9/11 is an American quasi-logo… more ›

• Naming the Unnamable: A Commentary on 9/11 (Part I)

  Jun 15

  The quintessential moment in the history of names, at least insofar as the Western/Judeo-Christian tradition goes, is perhaps the account in Genesis 2 of Adam giving names to the various… more ›

• Project Blog It: Certitude

  Aug 29

  I am certain that Barak Obama and his Obamanations are quite nice people. Senator Obama unquestioningly and with certitude will defend Israel’s right to exist. Yet certainly Palestinians, too, have… more ›

• A Valentine’s Day Revolution

  Feb 14

  So six alleged terrorists who have been incarcerated for the past several years in Guantánamo will finally have their day in court, albeit a military court, but a court nevertheless.… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Nov 24

  Today is Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan. After (only) two years in Japan I still have no idea what that means or what is celebrated. But I was always thankful… more ›