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Interests: anarchism, puritanism, destruction of the existing putrid social order
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I'll figure this thing out eventually
The Oscars and the Illusion of Perfect Representation I've spent much of my career on this question of the various relations of representations and reality. It was the topic of my dissertation, which was an attack on the claim that... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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[my pre-emptive apology for all this] more on the...
[my pre-emptive apology for all this] more on the gettysburg trustee situation and the sense of community that we have on campus these days. Yes, I am absorbing slightly-veiled and not-at-all-veiled accusations of anti-semitism in the email, etc. Can I... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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MMA: philosophy vs physics
I do see signs that physics is coming to its senses, or sort of trying to scrutinize its own Hegelian Idealism critically. It doesn't really have the tools, though. Man it's been a long sad tale of bald logical contradictions... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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Hogan's Heroes claims another victim
Posted Feb 23, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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Self-Reliance, Servility, and Mental Health By...
Self-Reliance, Servility, and Mental Health By Crispin Sartwell Ralph Waldo Emerson's incandescent essay "Self-Reliance" of 1841 has long been regarded as a fundamental statement of American values, a manifesto picking up where the Declaration of Independence left off. Perhaps you've... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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The Truth About Truth
Dan Kaufman and I talk about the nature of truth as understood in philosophy and then about the nature of philosophy, among other matters, on his Sophia show on meaningoflife.tv. I like the way he frames it: from very similar... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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What May I Hope?
Posted Feb 9, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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The Washington Post Opinion Page and the CIA: No distance
One of the most disturbing contemporary media zones is the Washington Post opinion page. It is just very very close to the "intelligence community," as Jeff Bezos is building the information infrastructure for American intelligence agencies; the initial contract seems... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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Lule of Raw
Posted Feb 1, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips: They Both Did Well
Posted Jan 24, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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recent items
splicetoday: Fukuyama described the fictional end of a fictional history. This one is real. (also a quick precis of my political orientation) wsj: Who do you want controlling your internet, Mark Zuckerberg or Xi Jinping? (or here) splice: copyright is... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2019 at cheese it, the cops!
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sartwelliana, 2018
Some of my writing this year, especially for splicetoday: Music: on my stereo and in my head, a lot of the year was occupied by classic gospel, say 1940-80; gospel music as women's liberation, 80th birthday tribute to the great... Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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History as Loop Spiral(tm)
Posted Nov 20, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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NYTimes: How Would You Draw History? SpliceToday: How Much Distance? Why They Suck: Richard Serra, Tear Down This Wall (and the why they suck hall of fame) Fuck Me, I'm Going to Vote Democrat Tomorrow America, There is Hope (for... Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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i just want trump to hold me while i cry
Posted Oct 31, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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splicetoday: okay. for real. i'll shut up now. (on old men and #metoo) stoner country (new riders of the purple sage, asleep at the wheel, grateful dead, commander cody) apocalypse in the theatrocracry the fight for the soul of america... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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Crispin Sartwell James C. Scott AGAINST THE GRAIN...
Crispin Sartwell James C. Scott AGAINST THE GRAIN A deep history of the earliest states 312 pp. Yale University Press James C. Scott, whose work straddles many disciplines, including sociology, political philosophy, agrarian studies, economics, linguistics, anthropology, aesthetics, and historiography,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 18, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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recent hits
wsj: george lakoff and the pseudo-science of neuropropaganda* splice: we're all the same damn thing how to be original (for real) two (or three) kinds of honesty Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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Self-Esteem and Bauxite By Crispin Sartwell...
Self-Esteem and Bauxite By Crispin Sartwell Political and economic realism - the sort associated with figures such as Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and even Karl Marx - was once common wisdom. Realism of this sort holds that, whatever their... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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Politics and Geography By Crispin Sartwell...
Politics and Geography By Crispin Sartwell There’s recently been a revival of an argument that goes back to the 18th century: that the form of government prescribed by the Constitution gives more representation to rural than to urban people, and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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recent material
An Apology to the American People Keep your hands off my . . . gender The Roth Obituaries: a Tribute Why I am an Anti-Authoritarian Original Sin, You've Got Yourself a Case Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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original sin and rebellion
nytimes: what's good about original sin splice: why i'm an anti-authoritarian Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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Stop buying some ideology off the shelf and start...
Stop buying some ideology off the shelf and start thinking independently. Why I'm Not on the Left Why I'm Not on the Right (No, I'm not in the middle.) Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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Philosophy v Science
Got an assertion for you: philosophy since the 17th century, even as it screams 'science science science' is completely incompatible with science and is fighting a rearguard action for spirit. I mean rationalists, empiricists, idealists, phenomenologists, positivists, etc. Enlightenment philosophy... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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But I'm Not On The Right
I'm still trying to destroy the left-right spectrum, and I'm going to do a three-part series: Why I Am Not a Leftist, Why I'm Not on the Right, and Why I'm an Anarchist, and what that means in this case.... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2018 at cheese it, the cops!
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