Weapons are masculine threat displays:
Thursday, August 6, 2015
The Orgasmic Whump - an excerpt for Hiroshima Day
Two bits from Borderline today, the anniversary of the first atomic bomb being used to kill tens of thousands of men, women, and children.
Weapons are masculine threat displays:
Weapons are masculine threat displays:
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Anti-Essentialism = The New Essentialism
Venturing into dangerous territory here. There is this term which has become embedded in a kind of academic dogma to such an extent that it can be used as an epithet.
"Essentialist."
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
142-45, Borderline
EXCERPT
Karl Polanyi described disembedding as the ready relocation of people away
from a network of nonmarket relationships and direct participation in the
community into un-familiar (sharing a word root with family) surround-
ings. The person is resituated in an impersonalized milieu determined by
money, market abstractions, and industrial monoculture. 9 Polanyi said we
are re-embedded in that more impersonal milieu, where the market rules
as the only form of economy, and where we are now captive to that mar-
ket—which leaves us metaphysically disembedded in the sense used by Ma-
cIntyre. Instead of being embedded in community, kinship, and tradition,
we become “resources,” which can be bought and sold on the market. We
live in a society where nearly everything has been converted into a com-
modity, including ourselves. Want, even hunger, now impels us from place
to place like interchangeable parts. 10
Karl Polanyi described disembedding as the ready relocation of people away
from a network of nonmarket relationships and direct participation in the
community into un-familiar (sharing a word root with family) surround-
ings. The person is resituated in an impersonalized milieu determined by
money, market abstractions, and industrial monoculture. 9 Polanyi said we
are re-embedded in that more impersonal milieu, where the market rules
as the only form of economy, and where we are now captive to that mar-
ket—which leaves us metaphysically disembedded in the sense used by Ma-
cIntyre. Instead of being embedded in community, kinship, and tradition,
we become “resources,” which can be bought and sold on the market. We
live in a society where nearly everything has been converted into a com-
modity, including ourselves. Want, even hunger, now impels us from place
to place like interchangeable parts. 10
Sunday, June 21, 2015
NCR's Colman McCarthy reviews BORDERLINE
from National Catholic Reporter, June 19-July 2, 2015
Pacifism, feminism - and Catholicism
Former soldier's essays reveal a truth-seeker
Reviewed by Colman McCarthy
Borderline - Reflections on War, Sex, and Church
by Stan Goff
Published by Cascade Books
In his pre-Christian past, which is most of his life, Stan Goff was a career soldier who stoutly carried out American foreign policy by obeying orders to inflict violence on human beings in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, and other combat zones. In two Army tours between 1970 and 1996, the San Diego native was a paratrooper who leapt from planes more than 400 times, a sniper; and a member of Airborne Ranger and Special forces groups.
Pacifism, feminism - and Catholicism
Reviewed by Colman McCarthy
Borderline - Reflections on War, Sex, and Church
by Stan Goff
Published by Cascade Books
In his pre-Christian past, which is most of his life, Stan Goff was a career soldier who stoutly carried out American foreign policy by obeying orders to inflict violence on human beings in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Somalia, Haiti, and other combat zones. In two Army tours between 1970 and 1996, the San Diego native was a paratrooper who leapt from planes more than 400 times, a sniper; and a member of Airborne Ranger and Special forces groups.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Rorschach
This morning I did an interview with WBAI at 6:30 AM. I will not to that again. I am not awfully bright about a lot of things at any time of the day; but I am pretty dim about most things at 6:30 AM.
The interview was about my book, Borderline, and I had some notes with which to summarize the book itself - a Good Thing - but when it came to answering questions, I was processing things pretty ... haltingly?
The interview was about my book, Borderline, and I had some notes with which to summarize the book itself - a Good Thing - but when it came to answering questions, I was processing things pretty ... haltingly?
Woodchuck
or groundhog... depends on where you were raised, I guess.
This is a brief post about an ear-worm. Backstory: I am building a community garden in an open field; and yesterday I saw a woodchuck - a teenager (yes, they are called that when the pups are about the size of a pug and begin to seek out their own spots to build burrows). The pup was no more than twenty feet from where I was working, laying in paths and mulching beds. The garden won't be open for business until about mid-June, but seeing a juvenile woodchuck - while charming (little, furry things are charming) - is not a good sign for a garden. These little charmers eat like pigs (ergo, the term ground-HOG), and they love the same things we like to grow in vegetable gardens.
This is a brief post about an ear-worm. Backstory: I am building a community garden in an open field; and yesterday I saw a woodchuck - a teenager (yes, they are called that when the pups are about the size of a pug and begin to seek out their own spots to build burrows). The pup was no more than twenty feet from where I was working, laying in paths and mulching beds. The garden won't be open for business until about mid-June, but seeing a juvenile woodchuck - while charming (little, furry things are charming) - is not a good sign for a garden. These little charmers eat like pigs (ergo, the term ground-HOG), and they love the same things we like to grow in vegetable gardens.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Top 20 & other uproots
Today my facebook feed sent me an article entitled, "Top 20 Places to Retire."
Based on what?
Statistics.
Based on what?
Statistics.
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