At its core, the Trump campaign and similar brands of reactionary, neo-nationalist politics around the world are all about the denial of complexity. Trump and his followers
Author: clclark563
I am a lecturer in the English department at the University of Wisconsin--La Crosse.
Necessity and Contingency
In the West, we tend to believe that things like democracy, civil rights, and free markets are natural and inevitable, as if this is the
Only communication communicates
Society emerges out of communication (as a solution to double contingency); however, society is the communication, not the people who communicate (society doesn’t become smaller
Luhmann and the Body
Francis Halsall published a very interesting article in May 2012 in The New Bioethics titled “Niklas Luhmann and the Body: Irritating Social Systems.” Halsall argues, In
Urban Street Sketching/ May 6, 2016
Originally posted on Jacob Russell's Magic Names:
A quickie from my porch in West Philly. 5″ x 6″ Pen & ink, water color wash.…
Neoliberalism and De-Politicisation Through Economisation
Accordingly, the concept of the economic agent “as someone who pursues his own interest” and “who must be left alone” (270) became the grid on which governments began to organise social life. (Madra and Adaman 696)
