There’s a lot of keen insights in this, but Zizek still lumps things together that are rightfully separated and draws what I see as rather nihilistic conclusions. To the first point, he rightly (in my view) castigates people who believe that the only thing wrong with voracious American consumption patterns is that they are not [...]
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Anarcho-abolitionism?
A great deal of time was spent pondering how to begin this essay. Given the scope of the concepts at hand, there did not seem to be any way to properly introduce my ideas to the reader. So I decided to begin with the hackneyed postmodern device known as self-reference, thus absolving myself of the [...]
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Nothing can provide as much intellectual security as the conviction that one’s position is not only factually warranted but morally imperative. This position is evident in the writings of activist (I hesitate to actually confer on him the honor of being referred to as a “scholar”) Ward Churchill. His “history” is more polemic than anything [...]
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Friday, December 11, 2009
In the inter-war period, an American communist organizer decided for some reason to open his speech with the above. It’s a line so preposterous that if someone told me the speaker was actually a free market fundamentalist in disguise out to make Communism look ridiculous, I would have no trouble believing them. Such is the [...]
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Since I was a wee tot with Jurassic Park velcro shoes and a bowl haircut I’ve played SimCity in one incarnation or another. I don’t mean that I’ve played it consistently for that long, but the concept of SimCity is burned into my motor memory right between potty training and coloring inside the lines (which [...]
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Tagged central planning, corporatism, ethics, homesteading, I was the bad guy all along, labor theory of property, left-libertarianism, mixed-use zoning, Mr. Wright, nationalism, Proudhon, Rothbard, SimCity, Video Games
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