Category: state-terror

• Tongues of Fire: Articulations of and against Terror (Part I of IV)

  Jul 31

  In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name… more ›

• A Sense of Community: Political Implications of Nietzsche’s Aesthetics

  Jun 12

  “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people.’” – Zarathustra Most… more ›

• May Day

  May 1

  May Day, or May 1, is the traditional celebration of springtime in the Northern Hemisphere and more recently the international public holiday to commemorate the achievements of labor and to… 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 ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: There’s nothing casual …

  Aug 19

  … about being a casualty. Listening to these songs in the parking lot this afternoon made me feel a bit antisocial and embarrassed. I was sitting in the car with… more ›

• Roll Call, or Lax Americana

  Jul 9

  Welcome to Amerika, where everything is so easy … So easy. So easy for a democracy to vote itself out of existence. So easy for self-righteousness to point toward terror.… more ›

• Tiananmen

  Jun 4

  I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

• Found in Translation

  Mar 26

  Below is a snippet of a poem from Soviet dissident poet Igor Guberman that was mentioned on one of the Belarusian blogs I’ve been visiting over the past few days.… more ›

• Apr 12

  Today I held my breath for such a very long time. Monday–a morning of extreme yin followed by an afternoon of extreme yang.  I remain indecisive about whether my life… more ›

• Apr 8

  Tomorrow is Good Friday, but today isn’t so bad either.  If all goes well with this entry (and the subsequent few), then I’ll use this new platform (for which I… more ›