…I’d like to write a post carrying forward the speculative theodicy of Trumpism, now in relation to the pandemic, the latter as a perfect supplying of the absence, a unification of isolated atomized individuals as and within the whole and universal state, the deepest state, and the only available protector and sustainer of life, but… Continue reading …lost the habit
The Video of Our Moment – This is America
Watch this video on YouTube “Call me maybe,” this isn’t. Or is it?
Customizing the Intercom Launcher for WordPress
Intercom is a relatively recently created cross-platform messaging tool, in use at around 25,000 sites, whose “Inbox” app or sub-app can work as a slick customer support/interaction alternative to older systems like ZenDesk. It will work out of the virtual box in WordPress, and some aspects of its appearance and other features can be managed… Continue reading Customizing the Intercom Launcher for WordPress
The Scholar’s Stage: You Do Not Have the People
[T]he Korea issue is but an extreme expression of a tendency that blights the entire field. We are uncomfortable with democratic accountability, unwilling to subject ourselves to public debate, and uninterested in the constraints public opinion and popular politics place on the policies we craft. This complacency is not excusable. It is not sustainable. We… Continue reading The Scholar’s Stage: You Do Not Have the People
(so: “the stationary state”) (oag #13)
What a colossal missed opportunity.
— Peel (@RHPeel) July 18, 2017
Well what's colossal about the missed opportunity is that it circumscribes the entire era, not just this moment of broad GOP pseudo-control.
— CK MacLeod (@CK_MacLeod) July 18, 2017
(It always had to be pseudo-control, since the anti-government party is constrained from coherently exploiting formal "control" of govt)
— CK MacLeod (@CK_MacLeod) July 18, 2017
(meanwhile the culturally ascendant, formally out-of-power party of govt can exploit system paralysis itself against dismantlement of govt)
— CK MacLeod (@CK_MacLeod) July 18, 2017
(so: the stationary state, eroding entropically, searching for the crisis that may demand or allow for true "progress" – or mayn't)
— CK MacLeod (@CK_MacLeod) July 18, 2017