The open-ended quest to define LOVE has just ENDED my friends this is all*there is to say in fact total description of it as loose-form shit.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A reading of the final 2-pages of the book (a detail of the front-cover artwork of which is reproduced right there).xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On the significance of a transition from a condition of subsumed truth to one in which a truthful situation must be produced, as it is situated (metaphysically) in the current empirical context and reflected in the broader culture.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An absolutely impeccable film from start to finish. Aesthetically, artfully, meaningfully. And yet it draws a line where it shouldn't and refuses to look where it should.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Although generally understood to be a satire, a proper understanding of this film today should attempt to recover the historical context from which it arose and to which it ultimately owes its true meaning. Whether the director believes in it or not.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Rather than an apocalyptic End of Democracy, the present moment seems rather to present the potential for an expansive rethinking of the nature of our involvement in the world, both individually and collectively.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Conventionally, sanctions have targeted entire economies to penalize them for deviant behavior. In the case of Russia, a targeted approach has been taken against its oligarchs that is tied to a broader torrent of deplorable forces liberal nations should reckon with rather intensify.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The pandemic has made public a form of necessary punitive-justice-through-scission that has previously been pervasively experienced only in the private dimension of liberal society around liberals' careerism and moral sanctimony1.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After Djokovic was released from detention and his visa cancellation quashed, the entire conversation has become about the immigration minister's 'god-like powers'. It's never been more clear what the COVID world is becoming.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Although Djokovic may have lost the 2021 US Open, what happened that day will leave a lasting memory in anyone who experienced it. Much like Bernie's loss in 2020.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Or are the homeless of San Francisco a better reflection of the decency of the global liberal American? Towards a recovery of America's unique, becoming-forgotten solidarity. For the nation yet to come.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Politics masquerading as film. The spectacle and affective allure of cinema redefines the traditional (liberal) political operation of art: from coincidental serendipity to hysterical mass-mobilization. It highlights concerns with the current state of climate politics based on the COVID19 model.xxxx
An article in the NY Times argues for the legitimacy of forced compliance with vaccine mandates and, in so doing, seems to express a fundamental change in Western Liberalism's religious orientation.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On the one hand, the development of the Omicron narrative indicates concealment that points to important considerations for fighting the virus. On the other hand, its speed of change points to the need for a new (or old) praxis for action.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What began as a typical excuse to moralize about China's repressive response to the virus, has turned into the performative meaning of being for overly regulated and hopeless liberal societies that had lost their traditional political and moral authority.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Uprooted from the dense European social context from which it originates, post-structuralist philosophy becomes, in its transmission to North America, a stunted, impoverished ideology, made worse through its alloy to liberal culture.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
COVID-19 has accentuated the split among progressives that began with #ForceTheVote and highlights more fundamental disagreements whose consequences open-up a vast expanse of political ambiguity that requires actual thought rather than the continued application of ideology to respond to.xxxxxxxxxxxx
As COVID-19 endlessly drags on, an uncanny analogy has begun to take shape. And rather than being an extreme ideology restricted to neocons and neoliberals, it now counts a large segment of the progressive left as its most faithful adherents.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx