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…lost the habit

…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

Posted in notes

The Video of Our Moment – This is America

“Call me maybe,” this isn’t. Or is it?

Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Movies, Music, Operation American Greatness

Customizing the Intercom Launcher for WordPress

TrekFed Custom Intercom Launcher

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

Posted in Using WordPress, Web Design

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

Posted in History, Operation American Greatness, The Exception, War

(so: “the stationary state”) (oag #13)

(so: the stationary state, eroding entropically, searching for the crisis that may demand or allow for true “progress” – or mayn’t)

Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Operation American Greatness

Jacket X

Taylor - The Jacket

“The world of things calls for art, in which intellectual accession to being moves into enjoyment, in which the Infinity of the idea is idolized in the finite, but sufficient, image.” — Emmanuel Levinas

Posted in notes, Photography

Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress

Or at least that’s what some people seem to think about the new “page-builder” style editor with which WordPress.org seems to be planning to replace the current post editor…

Posted in notes, Using WordPress Tagged with: ,

For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)

It welcomed the tests of time/
Like an eternal friend,/
Our country is blessed,/
Our country is such!

Posted in Anismism, Music, Neo-Imperialism, Old Gone Over, Political Philosophy, Sports, US History, War, Yoga Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

While 2017 happens…

Man, Mower, Tornado

If not the very best picture of 2017 so far, the one below, which has been sweeping through Twitter, has to be in the running at least for best and most sympatico – “this man is all of us just

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Counter-Drizzle on the Hypothesis of the End of the American World-Historical Era (OAG #12c)

The counterargument vs Panic of the Fall of the US Order can still be made either independently or, perhaps more difficult, complementarily.

Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Operation American Greatness