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PeatSpeak: More like "Boresmopolitanism"...
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Friday, May 20, 2011. I have, until about a week ago, been reading an excellent book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri called Empire. And I was looking forward to writing a little on their association of theology with governmental sovereignty. Regrettably I have to put that off- I will hopefully remember to get to it- since I've been distracted by a book I just finished reading for seminar. I'd like to talk about this book for a moment in stead. The obvious answer- few would disagree- is yes; the life o...
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PeatSpeak: February 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010. Spoiling His Dark Materials. As is becoming my custom, I am now going to write something silly about something I just read/viewed that I don't get to use for school. This time the object is the His Dark Materials. Trilogy by Philip Pullman (thank you Mike; I'll bring them back to Spokane now that I'm done so they can be passed on to the next reader). As always, I will spoil some plot details. And why did neither side manage to score some A-10 Warthogs or something? So it turn...
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PeatSpeak: November 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009. A Healing Salve for my Temper. A website that you love as well as I prompted me to read up on the Salvation Army, courtesy of their own website. Here is what they have to say about homosexuality:. Scripture forbids sexual intimacy between members of the same sex. The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. There is no scriptural support for sam...Likew...
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PeatSpeak: Planned Hatred
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Monday, March 14, 2011. Being a conscientious participant in the American democratic process, I recently wrote to my congresswoman, Cathy McMorris Rogers. The purpose of my email was to express my dissatisfaction with Ms. McMorris Rogers concerning her decision to stand with the majority of her party in the House of Representatives in voting to eliminate government funding for Planned Parenthood. Ms McMorris Rogers replied to my email with a form letter, replicated below:. Now, one expects that she would...
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PeatSpeak: JesusLand
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Thursday, July 7, 2011. For a second I would like to leave aside the virtues of the campaign itself and marvel at the sort of person who is offended by atheism, and who would be sufficiently offended to be driven to violence. This is where Empire. In this sense, in an extreme, ethically and politically focused form, atheism cannot be patriotic, for the simple reason that the concept of patriotism relies on the sovereignty of the nation-state, which itself is a theocratic concept. I Blame the Patriarchy.
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PeatSpeak: owe-riginal sin
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. So I'm reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In preparation for a paper I'm writing (which will maybe be published! Drawing on Nietzsche, they argue for debt as a regulating mechanism in society. Debt is incurred whenever we benefit from society (always) and the cohesion of society depends on debt's enforcement. The purpose of debt is "to breed. Steven P. Black. November 12, 2010 at 5:36 PM. November 14, 2010 at 10:12 PM.
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PeatSpeak: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010. So I'm reading Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In preparation for a paper I'm writing (which will maybe be published! Drawing on Nietzsche, they argue for debt as a regulating mechanism in society. Debt is incurred whenever we benefit from society (always) and the cohesion of society depends on debt's enforcement. The purpose of debt is "to breed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I Blame the Patriarchy. Awesome title for a blog.
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PeatSpeak: More like "Borientalism" amiright?
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Thursday, January 27, 2011. More like "Borientalism" amiright? The seminar I'm attending is called "The Study of Western Civilization," and that is what it is about- that is, it is about the study, not about Western Civilization. We've been mostly reading texts that draw their argument out of the Western canon (especially by connecting the Greeks to the Romans to etc.) to address the problems of modernity. This fortnight, however, we read Said's Orientalism. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my co...
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PeatSpeak: July 2011
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Thursday, July 7, 2011. For a second I would like to leave aside the virtues of the campaign itself and marvel at the sort of person who is offended by atheism, and who would be sufficiently offended to be driven to violence. This is where Empire. In this sense, in an extreme, ethically and politically focused form, atheism cannot be patriotic, for the simple reason that the concept of patriotism relies on the sovereignty of the nation-state, which itself is a theocratic concept. I Blame the Patriarchy.
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PeatSpeak: Laboring over Anti-Oedipus again.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Laboring over Anti-Oedipus again. I'm going back through my notes on Anti-Oedipus. But quotations like the above remind us of Marx's continued importance, and of the importance of reading Marx and Marxists critically. Why do we call the gains of the capitalist by the same name as the wages earned by the laborer? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I Blame the Patriarchy. Awesome title for a blog. Laboring over Anti-Oedipus again. View my complete profile.
