amor mundi

1. Politics is not morals. 2. Politics arises from the recognition that the people with whom we share the world are ineradicably different f...

St Petersburg Times : A foundation bankrolled by Libertarian businessman Charles G. Koch has pledged $1.5 million for positions in Florida S...

Some folks in the Moot and elsewhere are expressing surprise -- others, who've been around longer, are expressing amusement -- at the dr...

There are queerer things in heaven and earth, Gay-Ratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Here I've corralled together many pos...

Mobs of ecstatic weeping cheering flag-waving Americans are appearing spontaneously in front of the White House and at the World Trade Cente...

I'm teaching a graduate seminar on the political theory of design practice at the San Francisco Art Institute this term into which I...

Upgraded from an edifying exchange in the Moot with "Poor Richard" who proposes in a lengthy comment you should read for its own ...

As a queer teacher and practitioner of nonviolence who thinks marriage is mostly an invitation to unhealthy co-dependence and a patriarchal ...

Hal Foster's Design and Crime is so good, how I wish I had written it. In fact, I may have to re-write it and pretend that's not w...

Far From Leaderless, Spontaneous, Unplanned, Accidental, or Twitterific, Egypt Provides Resources of Hope for Activists Who Would Be As Reso...

I just posted this to the blog for students in my design as politics/design as anti-politics seminar at SFAI. It contains mostly material t...

When Ezra Klein wears his spectacles on the tee vee he looks a bit like Emma Goldman. One wishes he sounded a bit more like her. (I keed! I ...

Over at Salon, Alex Pareene points out that across the spectrum America's narcissism taints Egypt coverage .

Uninformed cheerleading at foreign insurrections seems to me exactly as unseemly as uninformed cheerleading at foreign invasions.

...since Congress holds the purse strings.

What could possibly go wrong?

If you look, let us say, at educational outcomes, levels of poverty, incarceration rates for people of color in the United States either you...

More clippings from the cutting room floor. In any sufficiently complex and spatially disseminated functional division of labor such that th...

Believe it or not, this post is from the cutting room floor, paragraphs I snipped from a longer post I am still working on but decided were ...

You will not go far wrong simply to treat pop futurology as a fandom of dupes doing unpaid crowdsourced marketing and promotional work for v...