Friday, February 24, 2012

New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

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OWS has recently published a statement on the “ 99% Declaration ,” an Occupy-inspired group that wants to convene a national general asse...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Rabbi, Where Dwellest Thou? Occupying Jesus around Dave's Birthday

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The following, nonsensical reading of the Gospel of John is motivated by a few factors. First, I’ve been going back over the hermeneutic t...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Emotechnics, Lachrymators & the Tears of the Occupiers

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I want to think today about the semiotics of tear gas. We know what the deployment of gas looks like: masses lined up against police, a ca...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

On the Statement, "Occupy has Changed the 'National Conversation'"

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It’s a refrain: Occupy has begun a national conversation about income inequality. Slight modifications are allowed: add or subtract someth...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Revolutionary Ex-orbitancy

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Pardon the silence; I’ve been sojourning in the land of the academic job market. I want to think today, quite bluntly, about political...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Why We Should Read Thomas Clarkson

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“For let us consider how many, both of the living and the dead, could be made to animate us.” So writes Thomas Clarkson in chapter eleven ...
Monday, January 2, 2012

Stuttering toward the Future

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  A new year, a planetary revolution completed: a good time to consider the hermeneutics of novelty, of revolution. If such a hermen...