politics
The Blame Game: How About a Nice Game of Global Industrial Capital Class Warfare?
Shortly following the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico in early April, Fidel Castro made a statement concerning the situation, which was spread quickly in the U.S. press but then was quickly forgotten. His opinion on this matter has stuck with me ever since he wrote it, and I think it ought [...]
Conspiracy Theorists, Non-Linear History, and James Bond
It is a new season of television on American networks. Honestly, it is a yearly period of time I could give two shits about, but something new has been brought to my attention that has gotten me thinking.
Now, don’t mistake me. The show in question is utter fucking trash. V, as the [...]
Horton Hears A Who
A while back I watched the old animated version of Horton Hears a Who with Laurel. I remember being particularly moved by the story and Laurel even cried a little. The Whos’ struggle to be heard and Horton’s efforts to save them from a doom brought on by their obscurity really highlighted a myriad of [...]
Detrimental Delineations of the Digital Dream Machine
“Without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being. What is sacred to it is only illusion. More than that, the sacred grows in its eyes to the extent that truth diminishes and illusion increases, to such an [...]
The Tao of Hip
“They do not know it, but they are doing it.”
Karl Marx
I was speaking with an old friend this evening, and as we have always been wont to do, we began speaking of why we do the things that we do. He began to lament the fact that he does not know the core of [...]
Partying like its 2008, 1999, 1987, 1929, 1873
in a way all this is a relief.
in a way, this is a way for change.
the change that is an inevitable reaction to the failing of the international market created by the globalization of the last two decades may or may not be good for our ilk.
those who follow the these of illogical post operationalization.
perhaps, [...]
The Supervillain as Ubertheorist
“Like modern society itself, the spectacle is at once united and divided. In both, unity is grounded in a split. As it emerges in the spectacle, however, this contradiction is itself contradicted by virtue of a reversal of its meaning: division is presented as unity, and unity as division.” — Thesis 54, The Society of [...]
The Intellectual Laziness of Rejecting “Theory”
Suppose you legitimately wanted to grasp the writings of an intellectual, but they proved to be difficult for you to understand. What course of action could you take? Would you try your best to do a close reading? Would you consult secondary sources to see if they could shed some light on the topic? Would [...]
Short Term Profits of Dunbar’s Number
When considering the strategies of the two competing national parties in America during the last eight years of discourse, its good to recall Dunbar’s Number to help explain many of the actions taken, while they seem out of context.
Pre-dating this tumultuous period following 9/11, the Democrats had seemed like a group who actually had strategic [...]
2008 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 