the philosopher as troll
Positionality is the gathering of the drive’s plundering of the constancy of the orderable, which itself is solely imposed upon such that it would stand in place and at the ready. Positionality is the collected requisitioning of the orderable that circulates in itself. Positionality is in itself the reaping, impulsive circulation of the requisitioning of the orderable in the ordering. Positionality imposes this equality of the orderable upon everything, that everything constantly position itself again in equivalent form and indeed in the equality of orderability.Fool me once, Martin, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
self-portrait
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Do you suppose ...
… (I wonder as I read this) First Things would ever run an interview with a former Catholic who had become an Episcopalian? Actually, I don’t wonder.
When I wrote regularly for First Things it was a genuinely ecumenical journal, but for some years now it has been a Catholic magazine that occasionally allows other voices, in precisely the same way that the New York Times is a liberal newspaper that occasionally allows other voices. The problem with both periodicals is not that they are what they are, but that they so regularly pretend to be something else.
unlikely bedfellows
It’s interesting — and, to me, encouraging — to note how much overlap there is between the critiques of the existing order embodied in the platform of the American Solidarity Party (who are basically a bunch of conservative Catholic subsidiarists) and in this op-ed by Cornel West (who is, you know, Cornel West). Put these two documents together and you basically have my politics. If all the people who share these concerns were to find one another, America could be in for a pretty cool shake-up.
I think I’ll be voting Solidarity this election.
Parents fear that religion will make their children outcasts
If you decline to pass your religious beliefs on to your children because you think such beliefs could hurt them socially then there is no meaningful sense in which you actually hold any religious beliefs. No one who actually believes that Jesus is Lord, or that there is one God and Mohammed is his Prophet, would decline to explain that to their children for fear that the children would be made fun of. What such parents are actually saying is that they were raised within certain social practices, some of which happened to be religious, that they see no advantage in their children continuing.
no need for explanations
As I’ve been saying for months now, I plan on Election Day to do what I’ve done since 1992: vote for an independent Presidential candidate — possibly a write-in vote. (Evan McMullin seems like a good guy but he’s basically a bald George Bush.) I could explain to you why I’m doing this — but it turns out that people already know!
For instance, Roger Simon knows that I’m refusing to vote for Trump out of “self-regard,” because I “want to have ‘clean hands,’” and because I have “professional media affiliations and/or public profiles [I wish] to protect.”
Meanwhile, my friend John Stackhouse knows that I’m refusing to vote for Hillary because I want to “maintain [my] purity” and “protect [my] virtue”; moreover, I believe that the election is “about [me] and [my] self-esteem.”
So since everyone already knows that my decision is driven not by rational political judgment but by profound character flaws, there wouldn’t be much point in my trying to give my own account, would there?
Dylan paints
I tried to create the two dimensional image using a mathematical system. At times, the background and foreground converge. Natural scenery is always the main feature. These are not crowded compositions. They are using basic structures to express feelings and ideas. Perfect proportion and logic instead of emotion. The nature of beauty, the lines, forms, shape, and texture that emphasize the recognizable create harmony where natural scenery is the main feature.
