Here’s something I’m working on…. There are many languages of reason, but perhaps the most powerful and insidious one is the unconscious logic that emerges during political, ethnic, and religious conflict. What may at first seem madness, is, if looked at with the right lens, a very cool calculus of justice aimed at righting past… Continue reading Politics & the Work of Mourning
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Connecting New Media and the Political Unconscious
In two podcasts this week I have had the delightful opportunity to talk with colleagues from two distinct worlds about themes ranging from the political unconscious to new media. Early this week Brad Rourke, whom I know through our mutual association with the Kettering Foundation, engaged me in a conversation on the subject of his… Continue reading Connecting New Media and the Political Unconscious
March 11
All day yesterday I kept looking at the date, March 11, March 11, March 11, and thinking: why does this date mean something to me? Is it a friend’s birthday? 3/11. March 11. A blank. Today it just hit me, March 11, 2004, the day of the Madrid train bombings, the day I heard the… Continue reading March 11
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