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Fiction

 * Squeeze Play (1984) (written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin. Note: unpublished in English until it was later included in the volume Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
 * Leviathan (1992) ISBN
 * Mr. Vertigo (1994) ISBN
 * Timbuktu (1999) ISBN
 * The Book of Illusions (2002) ISBN
 * Oracle Night (2003) ISBN
 * The Brooklyn Follies (2005) ISBN
 * Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) ISBN
 * Man in the Dark (2008) ISBN
 * Invisible (2009) ISBN
 * Sunset Park (2010) ISBN
 * Day/Night (2013) ISBN
 * 4 3 2 1 (2017) ISBN
 * Baumgartner (2023) ISBN 0802161448

Nonfiction

 * The Invention of Solitude (1982) ISBN
 * The Art of Hunger (1992) ISBN
 * The Red Notebook (1995) (originally printed in Granta (44)) (1993) ISBN
 * Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (1997) ISBN 9780805054064
 * Collected Prose (contains The Invention of Solitude, The Art of Hunger, The Red Notebook, and Hand to Mouth as well as various other previously uncollected pieces) (first edition, 2005; expanded second edition, 2010) ISBN
 * Winter Journal (2012)— memoir ISBN
 * Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 (2013) A collection of letters exchanged with J. M. Coetzee; ISBN
 * Report from the Interior (2013) ISBN
 * A Life in Words: In Conversation with I. B. Siegumfeldt (2017) ISBN
 * Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967–2017 (2019) ISBN
 * Groundwork: Autobiographical Writings, 1979–2012 (2020) ISBN
 * Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021) ISBN
 * Bloodbath Nation [with photographs by Spencer Ostrander] (2023) ISBN 9780802160454

Poetry

 * Unearth (1974)
 * Wall Writing (1976)
 * Fragments from the Cold (1977)
 * Facing the Music (1980)
 * Disappearances: Selected Poems (1988)
 * Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970–1979 (1990) ISBN
 * Collected Poems (2007) ISBN
 * White Spaces: Selected Poems and Early Prose (2020) ISBN

Screenplays

 * Smoke (1995)
 * Blue in the Face (1995)
 * Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
 * The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007)

Edited collections

 * The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (1982) ISBN
 * True Tales of American Life (first published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project) (2001) ISBN

Translations

 * Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, translated by Paul Auster, Living Hand Editions, 1974
 * "The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet" (1976) ISBN
 * Life/Situations, by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1977 (in collaboration with Lydia Davis)
 * A Tomb for Anatole, by Stéphane Mallarmé (1983) ISBN
 * Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1998) (translation of Pierre Clastres' ethnography Chronique des indiens Guayaki) ISBN
 * Vicious Circles: Two fictions & "After the Fact", by Maurice Blanchot, 1999 ISBN
 * The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (2005) ISBN

Miscellaneous

 * Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990)
 * The Story of My Typewriter with paintings by Sam Messer (2002)
 * "The Accidental Rebel" (April 23, 2008: article in The New York Times)
 * "ALONE" (2015) – Prose piece from 1969 published in six copies along with "Becoming the Other in Translation" (2014) by Siri Hustvedt. Published by Danish small press Ark Editions.

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Tom Raworth

 * http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/meshworks/archive/Miami/Raworth-Tom/index.html
 * https://www.mhpbooks.com/british-poet-tom-raworth-is-dying/
 * http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the-lyrical-genius-of-tom-raworth
 * https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/tom-raworth
 * http://cuneiformpress.com/?p=2846
 * http://davidcaddy.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-11.html

Torrent
The words pour out in a torrent. Occasionally, I interject a question, but it’s like throwing a rock into a fast current: it may divert the flow for a second, but then it rushes inexorably on in its own direction http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7543866/Courtney-Love-damage-limitation.html

File these
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental-health-political-issue?CMP=share_btn_fb

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/11/rip-benjamin-hollander/

Comment

 * This forum is called In the News, and Raworth's death was first "in the news" on February 9-10, not on the day he died. According to sources I've cited in the article (but are not quoted in the article) Raworth's death was reported on February 8 via Facebook when Raworth's wife, Val, sent an email to poet Charles Bernstein, informing him of her husband's death. In turn, Bernstein posted this info on his Facebook page. Well, Facebook is not an acceptable source here on Wikipedia (obviously), so no way to post this to RD/ITN. Next, Raworth's death was reported on by The Poetry Foundation website with only this info: Tom Raworth (1938-2017), but nothing about the specific day of his death, (ie. Feb 8th). Again, not acceptable by Wikipedia standards (and btw, is the Poetry Foundation considered an acceptable source for reporting a death?). Finally, the Poetry Foundation did update its reporting, along with The Telegraph, and both did their obituaries late in the day on February 9. And these, along with other obit notices, were not showing up in web searches until February 10. So finally, that's my point: in my opinion, I've provided a reasonable and verifiable explanation for posting this RD when I did. Let me make an important point here, too. We do not necessarily (there are exceptions) figure in a notability criteria in our determination re: which RD candidate is, ultimately, posted to the main page. However, those media sources deemed acceptable and reliable according to Wikipedia do, in fact, use a notability criteria when they post their obituary. That means that these same notable figures, who have their deaths reported almost immediately, have a considerable head start in the nomination process here at ITN. As an example, let's use the deaths of Arnold Palmer (d. 24 Sept 2016) and Bill Mollison (d. 25 Sept 2016). Palmer was posted within 48 hrs, but my nomination of Mollison, which I placed under the section for Sept 25, was deemed stale by the time the article's quality standard was met. Mollison's death was not even reported until late in the day of Sept 26, by a website in Australia (The Mercury). The Guardian didn't do an obituary until October 10, by the way. And The New York Times still hasn't done an obituary. Shameful. Anyhow, I did ultimately get Mollison's RD posted, after much wrangling, with the help of another editor who suggested that I did not need to be tied down to the specific date of death if their was a significant lag-time in the reporting of his death by a reliable news source. This is just one example of many I can offer. Don't get me started on the cases of James Alan McPherson, or Yves Bonnefoy.

Proposal

 * Executions in Cuba under Fidel: 276; Killed by Police in US, 2016 YTD: 875


 * Executions under Castro: 276; Lynchings in US since 1886: 4,742.


 * Executions under Castro: 216; Political Murders under Batista: 20,000 +

Continuity in Govt., Bush, Obama and Homeless Children: In 2002 there were 1 million homeless children in America. By 2006 there were 1.6 million homeless children and by 2014 the number had risen to 2.5 million children.

Sources: http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2016/11/29/glen-newey/the-clean-hands-problem/

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Articles I created or started

 * A
 * Helen Adam
 * Ammiel Alcalay
 * Donald Allen
 * American Poetry Since 1950
 * The Angel on the Roof
 * Avenue of Mysteries


 * B
 * Daniel Berrigan bibliography


 * C
 * Cahiers pour l’Analyse
 * Susana Chávez
 * Tom Clark (poet)
 * Justin Clemens
 * Norma Cole
 * The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
 * Collected Stories of William Faulkner
 * Clark Coolidge
 * William Corbett (composer)
 * William Corbett (poet)
 * A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories


 * D
 * Beverly Dahlen
 * Jean Daive
 * Michael Davidson (poet)
 * Alan Davies (poet)
 * Death of the Liberal Class
 * Ray DiPalma
 * Andrew Duncan (poet)
 * Rachel Blau DuPlessis


 * E
 * Jerry Estrin

F
 * Father and Son (Brown novel)
 * Oliver Feltham
 * From the Other Side of the Century


 * G
 * Robert Grenier (poet)


 * H
 * Michał Heller
 * Michael Heller (poet) (twice! before it stuck)
 * Michael Heller (law professor)
 * Emmanuel Hocquard


 * I
 * P. Inman


 * L
 * Let Me Be Frank With You


 * M
 * Lewis MacAdams
 * Jerome McGann
 * Henri Meschonnic
 * Jean-Claude Milner
 * Laura Moriarty (novelist)
 * Morte d'Urban
 * Stephen Motika


 * N
 * Leonard Nathan
 * National Poetry Foundation


 * O
 * Hans-Ulrich Obrist bibliography
 * Douglas Oliver
 * Mary Oppen


 * P
 * Papa Wemba discography
 * Alexei Parshchikov
 * Irving Petlin


 * R
 * John Raimondi
 * Claudia Rankine
 * Stephen Ratcliffe
 * Liam Rector
 * François Regnault
 * Report from the Interior
 * Joan Retallack
 * Peter Riley
 * Claude Royet-Journoud


 * S
 * Aram Saroyan
 * Peter Seaton
 * Sharky's Machine (film)
 * Aaron Shurin
 * Richard Sieburth
 * William Gardner Smith
 * Rod Smith (poet)


 * T
 * Template:NBA for Fiction
 * The Tenants
 * Timeline of Occupy Wall Street
 * Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
 * Alberto Toscano


 * W
 * Diane Ward
 * The Waters of Kronos
 * Barrett Watten
 * Eliot Weinberger
 * Elliot Welles
 * Anthony Wilden
 * Jonathan Williams (poet)
 * Elizabeth Willis
 * David Wills (writer)
 * Winter Journal


 * Other
 * 4 3 2 1 (novel)
 * 1908 in poetry
 * 2010 in poetry
 * 2011 in poetry
 * 2012 in poetry
 * 2013 in poetry
 * 2017 in poetry
 * 2015 in literature
 * 2016 in philosophy
 * 2017 in philosophy
 * 2016 in archaeology

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 * http://www.globalresearch.ca/theology-of-liberation-radical-pacifist-jesuit-priest-daniel-berrigan-dies-at-94/5523094
 * “Theology of Liberation”: Radical Pacifist Jesuit Priest Daniel Berrigan Dies at 94 | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

In 1968, six months after The Baltimore Four protest, after his release on bail, Berrigan decided to repeat the protest in a modified form. A local high school physics teacher, Dean Pappas, helped to concoct homemade napalm. Nine activists, including Berrigan's Jesuit brother Philip, later became known as the Catonsville Nine. They walked into the offices of the local draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, removed 600 draft records, doused them in napalm and burnt them in a lot outside of the building. The Catonsville Nine, who were all Catholics, issued a statement: We confront the Roman Catholic Church, other Christian bodies, and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes. We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor.
 * http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/3/a_democracy_now_special_on_the
 * "A Moral Giant": A Democracy Now! Special on the Life &amp; Legacy of Father Daniel Berrigan | Democracy Now!

Berrigan was convicted of conspiracy and destruction of government property on November 8, 1968, but was bailed for 16 months while the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court rejected the appeal and Berrigan and three others went into hiding. 12 days later Berrigan was arrested by the FBI and jailed in Lewisburg. All nine were sentenced to three years in prison. =My page=

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 * http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2017/01/why-paul-celan-was-rejected-for-the-nobel-prize.html



Celan links
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/17/poets-bachmann-celan-love-letters-critically-acclaimed-film-die-getraumten
 * Poets' unlikely love letters are turned into critically acclaimed film | World news | The Guardian

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When a deal was struck on 5 October 2015, more than a dozen environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, NRDC, Greenpeace, 350.org, and Food & Water Watch raised warnings against the deal.

National Translation Awards
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Acquelin-AbsoluteThe Absolute Is a Round Die by Jose Acquelin (Canada) Translated from the French by Hugh Hazelton

Attanasio-AmnesiaAmnesia of the Movement of Clouds & Of Red and Black Verse by Maria Attanasio (Italy) Translated from the Italian by Carla Billitteri

Celan-BreathturnBreathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan (Romania) Translated from the German by Pierre Joris

Darwish-Nothing-More-to-Lose_1024x1024Nothing More to Lose by Najwan Darwish (Palestine) Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Dopplet-LazySuzie_cover_WEB_FINAL-1Lazy Suzie by Suzanne Doppelt (France) Translated from the French by Cole Swensen

Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding by Gunnar Harding (Sweden) Translated from the Swedish by Roger Greenwald

MandelstamPoems of Osip Mandelstam by Osip Mandelstam (Russia) Translated from the Russian by Peter France

.Wallless Space by Ernst Meister (Germany) Translated from the German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

Merle-ElsewhereElsewhere on Earth by Emmanuel Merle (France) Translated from the French by Peter Brown

Ovid-OffenseThe Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2 by Ovid (Rome) Translated from the Latin by Julia Dyson

Ruebner Dust Jacket.inddIn the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner by Tuvia Ruebner (Slovakia) Translated from the Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back

Tappy-ShedsSheds/Hangars by José-Flore Tappy (Switzerland) Translated from the French by John Taylor

https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/2015-national-translation-award-longlist/

Cultural Marxism

 * 'Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim | Jason Wilson | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/cultural-marxism-a-uniting-theory-for-rightwingers-who-love-to-play-the-victim


 * Debunking William S. Lind & “Cultural Marxism” BY THE RED PHOENIX on AUGUST 26, 2011

http://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/26/debunking-william-s-lind-cultural-marxism/

The Stone Face
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Timeline of OWS
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 * Protests dwindle in attempt to Occupy Wall Street | Toronto Star

Debt Crisis
[http://cadtm.org/What-is-to-be-Done-with-the-Banks,13315 CADTM - What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes]

sandbox william gaddis
Contents APPENDIX : PROJECT SUMMARY AND WORKING PAPERS FOR “AGAPE AGAPE : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PLAYER PIANO" INDEX”
 * 1) “STOP PLAYER. JOKE NO. 4”
 * 2) AGAPĒ AGAPE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PLAYER PIANO
 * 3) TREATMENT FOR A MOTION PICTURE ON “SOFTWARE”
 * 4) COVER ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE CORPORATE WRITINGS (A SELECTION)
 * 5) IN THE ZONE
 * 6) THE RUSH FOR SECOND PLACE
 * 7) J R UP TO DATE
 * 8) AN INSTINCT FOR THE DANGEROUS WIFE
 * 9) EREWHON AND THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
 * 10) OLD FOES WITH NEW FACES
 * 11) OCCASIONAL WRITINGS
 * 12) SPEECHES
 * 13) TRIBUTES

“Stop Player. Joke No. 4” first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly; “In the Zone” in The New York Times; “The Rush for Second Place” in Harper’s; “J R Up to Date” (in different form), “An Instinct for the Dangerous Wife,” and “Erewhon and the Contract with America” in The New York Times Book Review; “Old Foes with New Faces” in The Yale Review; “J. Danforth Quayle” in Esquire; and tributes to Dostoevski and Mothers in Frankfurter Allgemenine Zeitung.”

Excerpt From: Gaddis, William. “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings.” Penguin Books, 2002-10-02T04:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Excerpt From: Gaddis, William. “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings.” Penguin Books, 2002

A few articles to which I've made substantial contributions

 * Michael Palmer
 * Alain Badiou
 * Language poets
 * George Oppen
 * William Styron
 * Norma Cole
 * Thomas Williams (writer)
 * Carolyn Rodgers
 * Walter Van Tilburg Clark
 * Larry Eigner
 * Leslie Scalapino
 * Barbara Guest
 * Valery Oisteanu
 * Rosmarie Waldrop
 * Sylvain Lazarus.

Notes to Use for future articles ONE
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 * Lisa Robertson

http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/4th-annual-napomo-303030-day-7-alex-crowley-on-lisa-robertson/

Police killings USA
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32950383
 * US police kill more than two people a day, report suggests - BBC News

Notes to use for future articles TWO
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 * 'A level of racist violence I have never seen': UCLA professor Robin Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/24/vida-count-men-outnumber-women-literary-journals http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/03/female-poets-have-earned-laurels?CMP=twt_gu Did the Deaths of 50 Million Indians Cause Climate Change? - ICTMN.com
 * Notes for events section of literture 2014:
 * and events section of 2014 in poetry
 * notes for Death of the Liberal Class:
 * Progress is made in incremental changes; we need to look to our own history for models, the Abolitionist, the Populist, the New Deal, Civil Rights, and Anti-War movements all achieved partial success but left many things unresolved. All successful movements involve wide coalitions and long term determined actions. The fate of the world depends on successful resistance to late stage Finance Capitalism here in the U.S.,
 * The rise of corporate-backed organizations and think tanks designed to veer every public institution away from traditional liberal democratic values has dismantled our civil society, she said
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/pessimism-porn-chris-hedges_b_788504.html
 * WP:NB
 * http://www.salon.com/2008/03/13/chris_hedges/
 * Chris Hedges: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West -
 * http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_prophets_like_cornel_west_make_liberal_sell-outs_attack_20110523
 * Chris Hedges: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic
 * http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516
 * http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516


 * http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/03/13/did-deaths-50-million-indians-cause-climate-change-159589

Future articles poetry
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 * Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet to Hitler - The New York Times
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http://www.artforum.com/passages/id=62318
 * Kate Sutton on Bill Berkson (1939–2016) - artforum.com / passages


 * In the early hours of July 24, 1966, poet Frank O'Hara was hit by a Jeep on the beach at Fire Island. He died on July 25, fifty years ago--a great loss to USAmerican poetry. This is a painting of the accident by Alfred Leslie.


 * Poetry: The Kinetics—Black Mountain College's Literary Descendants on Livestream

http://www.bustle.com/articles/171622-18-contemporary-women-poets-you-should-be-reading
 * 18 Contemporary Women Poets You Should Be Reading | Bustle

https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/announcing-the-nta-award-shortlists-in-poetry-and-prose/
 * Announcing the NTA Award Shortlists in Poetry and Prose | ALTA Blog

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/national-poetry-day-2015-ten-must-read-contemporary-poets-1523030
 * National Poetry Day 2015: Ten must-read contemporary poets


 * http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam

http://bombmagazine.org/article/4331827/alice-notley
 * Alice Notley:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11910033/Feminists-abused-my-mothers-suicide-says-Sylvia-Plaths-poet-daughter.html
 * Feminists abused my mother's suicide, says Sylvia Plath's poet daughter - Telegraph

PEN & Charlie Hebdo
 * https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-pen-and-charlie-hebdo/

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/03/19/living/richard-russo-literary-series-protects-the-writing-life/ What do we know about her?: When her groundbreaking novel This is My Body, a lacerating roman à clef about her affair with leftist poet and noir novelist Kenneth Fearing, was published in 1930, readers carried their copies in plain brown wrappers. Startling, brilliant, and almost unknown today, leftist-feminist-modernist Margery Latimer (1899-1932) published her work in the same avant-garde little journals where Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and William Faulkner appeared, but her career –two novels and two collections of short stories– was cut short when her marriage to Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer ended with her death in childbirth at the age of 33. Nimble, fluid, muscular, and shocking, her work is gorgeous and audacious and political and smart.
 * Richard Russo literary series protects the writing life — Living — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
 * http://www.praccrit.com/interviews/accordingly-interview-by-aaron-kunin/
 * Do Black Lives Matter?: Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten in Conversation on Vimeo
 * Barrett Watten:
 * http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/9744
 * Yassin al-Haj Saleh: Remembering Long Nights Locked Up
 * http://www.peterstreckfus.com/uncategorized/2014-poetry-book-award-submission-schedule/
 * http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jul/10/glenn-greenwald-partial-disclosure/?insrc=hpss

Goldsmith | Place | Ron Silliman
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 * Kenneth Goldsmith’s Controversial Conceptual Poetry - The New Yorker

http://www.culturalweekly.com/the-silence-of-kenneth-goldsmith-is-overrated/
 * The Silence of Kenneth Goldsmith is Overrated - Cultural Weekly

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/05/the-whitest-boy-alive-witnessing-kenneth-goldsmith/
 * The Whitest Boy Alive: Witnessing Kenneth Goldsmith : Lillian-Yvonne Bertram : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

http://jacquelinevalencia.com/2015/05/20/on-the-state-of-poetry/
 * Venepoetics: El escándalo del sujeto-concepto: Kenneth Goldsmith / Heriberto Yépez
 * http://venepoetics.blogspot.com/2015/03/el-escandalo-del-sujeto-concepto.html
 * http://venepoetics.blogspot.com/2013/09/goldsmith-y-el-imperio-retro-conceptual.html
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/kenneth-goldsmith-michael-brown_n_6880996.html
 * On the state of poetry. | jacqueline valencia

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/19/writing-group-kicks-poet-committee-because-her-tweets-gone-wind
 * Writing group kicks poet off committee because of her tweets on 'Gone With the Wind' | InsideHigherEd


 * http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-a-twitter-art-racism-20150519-story.html


 * https://slowpoetryinamerica.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/je-suis-huh/

https://phillybooksblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/white-conceptual-poets-and-race-and-white-poets/
 * White Conceptual Poets and Race and White Poets | Philly Books and Culture


 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HS3AjdhBjiJdDoZqIWTyGJngH378_q3-VK-h8cQL8Go/mobilebasic?pli=1

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/06/kenneth-goldsmith-says-he-is-an-outlaw/
 * Kenneth Goldsmith Says He Is an Outlaw : Caconrad : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

http://possumego.blogspot.ca/2009/07/con-po.html
 * Con-Po | Dale Smith

http://aaww.org/authenticity-obsession/#auth
 * Asian American Writers' Workshop - Authenticity Obsession, or Conceptualism as Minstrel Show

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-denunciation-of-vanessa-place
 * The Denunciation of Vanessa Place - The Los Angeles Review of Books

Poetry books 2014
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DFW the Pale King
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 * The literature of boredom | Queen's Gazette | Queen's University

BAP controversy with Sherman Alexie
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Why A White Poet Posed As Asian To Get Published, And What's Wrong With That : Code Switch : NPR

White Guy Michael Derrick Hudson Dons Yellowface, Tricks Sherman Alexie, Gets Published in Best American Poetry - Slog - The Stranger

A White Poet Borrows a Chinese Name and Sets Off Fireworks

Michael Derrick Hudson Posed as a ‘Yi-Fen Chou’: Did the Name Sell His Poem?

Letters to Best American Poetry | Craig Santos Perez

Sherman Alexie Speaks Out on The Best American Poetry 2015

White poet's use of Chinese pen name too personal for Fort Wayne family - Fort Wayne, IN News-Sentinel.com

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/08/a-white-guy-named-michael-couldnt-get-his-poem-published-then-he-became-yi-fen-chou A white guy named Michael couldn’t get his poem published. Then he became Yi-Fen Chou. - The Washington Post]

Yi-Fen Chou is Michael Derrick Hudson: The Best American Poetry from 2015 published a writer in yellowface.

White poet used Chinese pen name to gain entry into Best American Poetry | Books | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/08/white-poet-chinese-pen-name-best-american-poetry-2015

'Real Asian poets' fight back in Best American Poetry race row | Books | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/14/real-actual-asian-poets-best-american-poetry-michael-derrick-hudson?CMP=share_btn_tw

White poet who wrote as 'Yi-Fen Chou' reportedly took classmate's name | Books | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/10/white-poet-chinese-pseudonym-yi-fen-chou-former-classmate

Asian American Writers' Workshop - After Yi-Fen Chou: A Forum http://aaww.org/after-yi-fen-chou/#amy-king

http://bostonreview.net/blog/stephen-burt-sherman-alexie-best-american-poetry

[http://bostonreview.net/blog/stephen-burt-sherman-alexie-best-american-poetry Ten Poems and One Contributor’s Note You Should Strongly Consider Reading. . . ] Boston Review

Miscellaneous
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 * Gilbert, James. "Literature and Revolution in the United States: The Partisan Review." Journal of Contemporary History 2.2(1967): 161-176.

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 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Heider

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Nicole Brossard wrote a poem of objectivity in which the poet does not refer to anything about himself. It is the antithesis of lyricism. After 1980, subjectivity is redevelopment, focusing on claims and revolt.

The Archives Nicole Brossard is kept in the archives of Montreal downtown Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec [1].

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Biographical sketch / Administrative history Nicole Brossard was born in Montreal on November 27, 1943. Bachelor of Arts (1965), Bachelor of Arts from the University of Montreal (1968) and a BA in education from the University of Quebec in Montreal, she does not expect the end of his studies to undertake a literary career by participating in vanguard movements and founding "The Bar x Day (1965) which she is the director. She began a teaching career (1969-1970), it interrupts to devote to other women in the filming of a movie, "Some American Feminists" to prepare "The Ship of witches" in 1976, the foundation of a feminist magazine, "The pickaxe heads" in 1976 as well, and the direction of the "Delirium" collection with Bias Editions. Poet and novelist, she participated in numerous conferences, shows and festivals and deserves for his book "Mechanics juggler," the Governor General's Award in 1975. Co-Director of the collection "Reliable" Éditions Fifteen since 1979, she worked on several journals, including "Freedom", "Literature and Writing," "Witches", "Cross Country" and "Fireweed". She was a member of the first executive of the Union of Quebec writers. Source: "Dictionary of Literary Quebec." - Montreal: Fides, 1984. History of preservation / Immediate source of acquisition The fund was acquired directly from Nicole Brossard in 1977. Scope and content The collection contains manuscripts of "Mechanics juggler" followed by "grammatical Male", "Sold-out", "French-kiss", "Ship of socières" etc.

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Liberation Theology
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articles of interest from February 2016
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http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/nov/07/radical-new-economic-system-will-emerge-from-collapse-of-capitalism
 * Radical new economic system will emerge from collapse of capitalism | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-south-koreans-call-their-country-hell-and-look-for-ways-out/2016/01/30/34737c06-b967-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html
 * Young South Koreans call their country ‘hell’ and look for ways out - The Washington Post

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34555-how-two-party-political-systems-bolster-capitalism
 * How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism

Liberal Pundits Aren’t Amused By Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Anymore—They’re Terrified - In These Times http://inthesetimes.com/article/18798/liberals-election2016-Sanders-Chait-Leftism

Flawed Arrangement Turns Haitian Restaveks Into Slaves - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/flawed-arrangement-turns-haitian-restaveks-into-slaves-2014-8

10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in January, 2016 | Critical-Theory.com http://www.critical-theory.com/10-critical-theory-books-that-came-out-in-january-2016/

The $10 Trillion US Tax Giveaway – $10 Trillion More Proposed http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/02/the-10-trillion-us-tax-giveaway-10-trillion-more-proposed/

Chris Lehmann | The Loudest Voice Not in the Room http://thebaffler.com/blog/trump-no-show

'An alternative exists': the US citizens who vowed to flee to Canada – and did | US news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/01/us-citizens-move-to-canada-presidential-election

Donald Trump and the Aesthetics of Fascism - In These Times http://inthesetimes.com/article/18807/donald-trump-and-the-aesthetics-of-fascism

What Makes Scandinavia Different? | Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/national-review-williamson-bernie-sanders-sweden/

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

Philosophy Student Arrested in Turkey (updated) - Daily Nous http://dailynous.com/2016/01/31/philosophy-student-arrested-in-turkey/

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 * Étienne Balibar | Étienne Balibar and Peter Osborne | Interview | Radical Philosophy 097 (Sep/Oct 1999)
 * On Poetry: How One Poet Came to His Craft | Valley News
 * The Most Profoundly Evil Crime Committed by ExxonMobil to Date

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-paul-kingsnorth-20150927-story.html
 * Review: 'The Wake' bracingly conjures a devastated 11th century England - LA Times

http://hyperallergic.com/206802/rats-build-their-labyrinth-oulipo-in-the-21st-century/
 * Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article36967686.html
 * CMPD considers no-go areas for criminals | The Charlotte Observer

http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/mark-fisher-interviewed/
 * Do you miss the future? Mark Fisher interviewed | Crack Magazine

https://deepgreenresistancenewyork.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/sustainability-is-destroying-the-earth/
 * Sustainability is destroying the Earth | Deep Green Resistance New York

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/10/shock-new-books-were-ahead-their-time
 * Shock of the new: the books that were ahead of their time

http://www.newstatesman.com/node/155830
 * NS Essay - Globalisation: now the good news

http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/print-issue-7-contents/delusions
 * Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde - Lana Turner Journal

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/19/8807851/mass-shootings-gun-control-charleston
 * This is the best paragraph I've ever read on gun control and mass shootings - Vox

https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/twelve-hour-shifts
 * Twelve-Hour Shifts | Academy of American Poets

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/devil-made-obamas-foreign-policy-141602608.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=fb
 * 'The devil made me do it': Obama's foreign policy just reached a new low - Yahoo Finance

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/realestate/communities/robert-e-simon-jr-founder-of-reston-va-dies-at-101.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2
 * Robert E. Simon Jr., Who Created a Town, Reston, Va., Dies at 101 - The New York Times

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 * Gabriel Kolko and future article on political capitalism
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 * http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/06/14_28.html?m=0 (allen grossman)


 * John Hennessy:
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 * ] Just to recap (and to make the point as clear as possible): it will not work to put Hedges' so-called political beliefs into the first sentence of the lede. That's because it would be necessary to define how these terms are being used (ie., 'liberal', 'socialist', 'anti-capitalist' at the very beginning of the article (and certainly in the main body of this page). This is according to the Wikipedia style sheet. The lede introduces what will be restated in the main body of the article. However, the last sentence of the lede states that Hedges describes himself as a socialist. This is documented here with a citation. He really does describe himself as having that particular political affiliation. Once again: those editors who are concerned about stating Hedges political affiliations in the first sentence of the lede are giving this page a bias and slant that will not work here, at least if it is put into the first sentence. There are no political parties in the US called the  'Liberal' party or the "anti-capitalist" party. Hedges is a US journalist who lives and works in the US. Therefore, if we introduce Hedges political affiliations we have to talk about 'viable' political parties that exist in the US and are part of the mainstream. The mainstream political parties are Democrats, Republican, & Independents. And then Libertarians or Tea Party affiliations are below that in influence and power. Finally, there are marginalized political parties, such as Socialist Party, the Green Party. These have no real, sustained political influence. In fact, these marginal political affiliations amd parties have never (*never*) assumed, nationally', the formal mechanisms of mainstream political power in the United States.etc.. (I'm not unaware of Eugene Debs, which is an "exception" that proves the rule). So then why the insistence on giving a label that is inconsequential to mainstream (ie., liberal, socialist, Green, anti-capitlist) US political discourse? That being the case, it has no plac here on Wikipedia. And yet these editors want to make the claim that this is 'not' bias or is NPOV when including this bit of esoteric information (socialist? Who cares? What is that?) that most readers won't recognize or understand? And yet this article is still keeping 'socialist' in the lede here, in the concluding sentence Why the insistence to put his affiliation into the first sentence of a wikipedia biography of a living person?Christian Roess (talk) 17:10, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * Future Robert Stone article updates.

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 * Lisa Jacobson. South in the World. Perth: UWAP
 * Susan Bradley Smith. Beds for all who Come. Parkville: Five Islands Press

Wallerstein

 * “My master's thesis in 1954 was entitled "McCarthyism and the Conservative." My Ph.D. dissertation in 1959 was entitled "The Role of Voluntary Associations in the Nationalist Movements in Ghana and the Ivory Coast." It was later published as The Road to Independence: Ghana and the Ivory Coast (1964). At the first ISA meeting that I attended in Stresa, Italy, in 1959, 1 spent my time at the meetings of the Committee on Political Sociology. Later I attended one of the conferences of the SSRC Committee in Frascati, Italy, in 1964, and contributed a paper to the volume resulting from the conference: "The Decline of the Party in Single-Party African States" (1966).”

Excerpt From: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. “The Uncertainties of Knowledge.” Temple University Press, 2004-02-28

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2012
1. On Winner-Take-All Politics On Winner-Take-All Politics: Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered. January 15, 2012 56 minutes

2. Crony Capitalism Crony Capitalism: Bill Moyers and former White House budget director David Stockman on the all-too-cozy relationship between Washington and Wall Street. January 22, 2012 56 minutes

3. How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of our Economy How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of our Economy: Former Citigroup CEO John Reed on unmitigated corporate influence and his own regrets.

January 29, 2012 56 minutes

4. Moyers & Company: How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World? Our country is more politically polarized than ever. Is it possible to agree to disagree and still move on to solve our massive problems? Moyers and moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture.

February 3, 2012 56 minutes

5. Moyers & Company: Economic Malpractice and the Millennials How economic inequality destroys opportunity for the millennial generation.

February 10, 2012 56 minutes

6. Moyers & Company: Decoding the Campaigns Decoding the languages of politics and poetry.

February 17, 2012 56 minutes 7. Moyers & Company: Where Do Movies End and Politics Begin? Where do movies end and politics begin -- does it matter?

February 24, 2012 8. Moyers & Company: Moving Beyond War Moving beyond war: A new vision for America's global role

March 23, 2012 56 minutes

9. Moyers & Company: Social Activism 2.0 - How citizens are standing up for democracy American history is rich with stories of social change inspired by the actions of motivated individuals and organized groups. Today's activists are no different -- facing long odds against powerful and systemic special interests.

TV-NR March 30, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 10. Moyers & Company: Gambling with Your Money You'd think after such a calamitous economic fall, there'd be a consensus on reinforcing the protections that keep us safe. But the opposite is happening. Business and political forces, including mercenary lobbyists, are trying to destroy these safeguards.

TV-NR April 6, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 11. Moyers & Company: An Optimist for Our Times Angela Blackwell advocates practical ways to achieve "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality growing, the CEO of PolicyLink finds reasons for hope in these hard realities

TV-NR April 13, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 12. Moyers & Company: The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics Two movements once at the vital center of our society, liberal politics and American Christianity have gone astray, says Eric Alterman (left-wing) and Ross Douthat (right-wing). Each discusses the implications of this wayward course on U.S. Democracy.

TV-NR April 20, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 13. Moyers & Company: Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble Moyers talks with Marty Kaplan, director of USC's Norman Lear Center, about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box hurts democracy and allows special interest groups to manipulate the system.

TV-NR April 27, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 14. Moyers & Company: Between Two Worlds: Life on the Border Understanding the border culture between Mexico and the United States with storyteller Luis Alberto Urrea.

TV-NR May 4, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 15. Moyers & Company: Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes Bill and media decoder Kathleen Hall Jamieson take a closer look at the role media misinformation will play in the Obama vs. Romney TV ad slugfest. Bill also talks to RoseAnn DeMoro about the Robin Hood Tax.

TV-NR May 11, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 16. Moyers & Company: Tom Morello: A Troubadour for Justice Tom Morello is the Harvard-educated guitarist who played for Rage Against the Machine, and then for Audioslave. Rolling Stone chose his album "World Wide Rebel Songs" as one of the best of 2011, and named him one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time

TV-NR May 18, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 17. Moyers & Company: Reckoning with Torture Larry Siems and Doug Liman join Bill Moyers to talk about what we should be learning from and doing about U.S. torture tactics.

TV-NR May 25, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 18. Moyers & Company: Dark Money in Politics Shining light on the dark money corrupting elections and democracy.

TV-NR June 15, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 19. Moyers & Company: How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy For how long and in how many ways are average Americans going to pay the price for big bank hubris, with our own government acting as accomplice?

TV-NR June 22, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 20. Moyers & Company: Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past.

TV-NR June 29, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 21. Moyers & Company: Is Labor A Lost Cause? With a sharp decline in union membership, a legion of new enemies, and a series of legal and legislative setbacks, can unions rebound and once again act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers?

TV-NR July 6, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 22. Moyers & Company: Banking on Greed The uphill fight to make banks honest and accountable.

TV-NR July 13, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 23. Moyers & Company: America's 'Sacrifice Zones' Calling attention to America's 'sacrifice zones' with journalist Chris Hedges.

TV-NR July 20, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 24. Moyers & Company: What It's Like to Go to War America has been at war for over a decade now, with millions of soldiers having seen death and dying up close in Afghanistan and Iraq. But most Americans, watching comfortably on their TVs and computers, witness mostly to statistics, stump speeches, and "expert" rhetoric, don't get what's really going on there.

TV-NR July 27, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 25. Moyers & Company: Suppressing the Vote How voter ID laws are suppressing the vote.

TV-NR August 3, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 26. Moyers & Company: Nuns, Faith, and Politics Nuns hit the highway on a controversial road trip of faith and politics.

TV-NR August 24, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 27. Moyers & Company: The Resurrection of Ralph Reed The resurrection of Ralph Reed: revolution or racket?

TV-NR August 31, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 28. Moyers & Company: Challenging Power, Changing Politics Challenging power and changing politics.

TV-NR September 7, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 29. The One-Percent Court The unchecked power of the one-percent court.

TV-NR September 14, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 30. Elections for Sale How American elections are bought and sold, who covers the cost, and how the rest of us pay the price.

CC TV-NR  September 21, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 31. United States of ALEC Revealing the hidden world of ALEC -- the scheme to remake America, one state house at a time.

CC TV-NR  September 28, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 32. Hispanic America's Turn Univision's Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on Hispanic influence and power in America.

CC TV-NR  October 5, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 33. Justice Not Politics Protecting our courts from predatory politics, and watching climate change in action.

CC TV-NR  October 12, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 34. Plutocracy Rising How far America's mega-wealthy will go to keep the One Percent in charge.

CC TV-NR  October 19, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 35. What Did the Debates Tell Us? Reality-checking the debates and banking reform.

CC TV-NR  October 26, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 36. The Election is Over -- Now What? The election is over. What's next for America?

CC TV-NR  November 9, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 37. Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy Naomi Klein explains how Hurricane Sandy can spur economic and political transformation in America.

CC TV-NR  November 16, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 38. Big Media's Power Play How the FCC is poised to help Big Media seize more control over your airwaves.

CC TV-NR  December 7, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 39. Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities Why the fiscal cliff is merely a phantom menace -- and what we should be talking about instead.

CC TV-NR  December 14, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 40. What We Can Learn from Lincoln Tony Kushner on what we still can learn from Lincoln.

CC TV-NR  December 21, 2012  56 minutes Buy SD $1.99 41. Rewriting the Story of America Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz straddles two cultures while telling the story of America's past and future.

CC TV-NR  December 28, 2012  56 minutes

42. Ending the Silence on Climate Change Why climate change gets the silent treatment. January 4, 2013 56 minutes

2014 Season

 * December 19, 2014
 * "The New Robber Barons"   (No. #)
 * Steve Fraser
 * Steve Fraser

The New Robber Barons December 19, 2014 | Moyers & Company Washington continues to reward wealthy donors and Wall St but what about everyday Americans? Author and historian Steve Fraser has answers.

Democrats Bow Down to Wall Street December 12, 2014 | Moyers & Company John R. MacArthur of Harper’s Magazine says that Republicans and Democrats alike are abandoning the republic in pursuit of big bucks.

The United States of Ferguson December 5, 2014 | Moyers & Company In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy.

The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy November 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company From luxury skyscrapers -- taller, more expensive and exclusive than ever before -- the dark shadows of plutocracy are spreading across the commons of democracy.

How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats November 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout return to talk about the corrupting influence of money in politics, and their push to change the system.

The Bare Knuckle Fight Against Money in Politics November 14, 2014 | Moyers & Company Two college professors leave academia for the rough-and-tumble world of electoral politics. What did they learn?

Facing Down Corporate Election Greed November 7, 2014 | Moyers & Company On Election Day, a small California city took on one of the biggest corporations in America… and declared victory.

Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections October 31, 2014 | Moyers & Company The only independent member of the US Senate tells Bill big money’s purchase of political power is a grave threat, and shares his plan to put government back in voters' control.

CIVIL LIBERTIES The Fight — and the Right — to Vote October 24, 2014 | Moyers & Company Two experts on American elections talk to Bill about the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.

Keeping Faith in Democracy October 17, 2014 | Moyers & Company Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America.

Restoring an America That Has Lost Its Way October 9, 2014 | Moyers & Company Reporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.

Too Big to Jail? October 3, 2014 | Moyers & Company A veteran bank regulator lays bare how Washington and Wall Street are joined in a culture of corruption.

WAR & PEACE America’s New War in the Middle East September 26, 2014 | Moyers & Company Two experts on American foreign policy talk to Bill about our deepening engagement in the fight against jihadists in Iraq and Syria.

Climate Change -- The Next Generation September 19, 2014 | Moyers & Company Kelsey Juliana, an 18-year-old activist, is fighting climate change in the courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global warming.

Climate Change: Faith and Fact September 12, 2014 | Moyers & Company Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bill about ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith.

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. September 5, 2014 | Moyers & Company The Massachusetts senator talks to Bill about taking on the entrenched political and Wall Street interests that have rigged the game against the rest of us.

Encore: How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class August 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company Joseph E. Stiglitz says corporate abuse of our tax system has helped make America unequal and undemocratic. But the Nobel Prize-winning economist has a plan to change that.

Joseph E. Stiglitz Calls for Fair Taxes for All August 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company In part one of his interview with Bill, the Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why America’s future prosperity depends on tax reform today.

Maya Angelou on Facing Evil August 14, 2014 | Moyers & Company In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.

ARTS & CULTURE Going Home With Maya Angelou August 7, 2014 | Moyers & Company Revisit an episode from over 30 years ago, in which Bill joined the legendary writer on her return to the small Arkansas town where she grew up.

Why 'King Lear' Rules Our Uncertain World August 1, 2014 | Moyers & Company John Lithgow joins Bill to talk about the challenges and triumphs of playing Shakespeare's greatest role, and why we are so drawn to the tale of this flawed, contradictory leader at this moment.

Arthur Brooks on Compassionate Conservatism July 25, 2014 | Moyers & Company Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, says free enterprise is good for the poor – and good for the soul.

The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights July 18, 2014 | Moyers & Company With new state laws and Supreme Court rulings, the battle over women’s reproductive rights is being fought more fiercely than ever. Roe v. Wade itself may be in peril. Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards joins Bill this week.

JUSTICE Is the Supreme Court Out of Order? July 11, 2014 | Moyers & Company Following several controversial decisions, Bill speaks to NY Times columnist Linda Greenhouse and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick about the agenda of the Roberts court.

Grass Roots Grow Against Greed July 2, 2014 | Moyers & Company This week on Moyers & Company, organized people versus organized money: the battle continues.

The Lies That Lead to War June 27, 2014 | Moyers & Company This week Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis about why facts, logic and reason are often missing in the rush to war.

Andrew Bacevich on the Chaos in Iraq June 20, 2014 | Moyers & Company While armchair warriors in Washington cry “back to Iraq,” former combat veteran and military historian Andrew Bacevich says no way. Watch the show.

ECONOMY & WORK The Woman Who Terrifies Wall Street June 13, 2014 | Moyers & Company Our banks are larger than before the 2008 crash and they're still living dangerously, economist Anat Admati tells Bill.

Public Schools for Sale? March 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company Preeminent education historian and public school advocate Diane Ravitch talks to Bill this week about the private sellout of public schools.

Who's Buying our Midterm Elections? March 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company Two investigative journalists talk to Bill about the role of dark money -- and the wealthy donors behind it -- in this year's midterm elections.

No Escaping Dragnet Nation March 14, 2014 | Moyers & Company A year ago, Edward Snowden leaked classified documents on America's mass surveillance program. Investigative reporter Julia Angwin tells Bill what surprised her most about the revelations.

The Dog Whistle Politics of Race, Part II March 7, 2014 | Moyers & Company Bill continues his conversation with author and legal scholar Ian Haney López about how politicians use strategic racism to win votes.

The Dog Whistle Politics of Race February 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company Ian Haney López tells Bill that dog whistle politics is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.

The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight February 21, 2014 | Moyers & Company In this week's show, Mike Lofgren joins Bill to talk about the Deep State, a hybrid of corporate America and the national security state, which is "out of control" and "unconstrained."

Putting Political Corruption on Ice February 14, 2014 | Moyers & Company This week we feature two Americans fighting against corruption: David Simon, creator of The Wire and activist Lawrence Lessig, who has taken an unconventional approach to highlight the need to get money out of politics.

McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil February 7, 2014 | Moyers & Company Environmentalist Bill McKibben says it’s time for President Obama to stand up to oil companies and just say no.

David Simon: America Is a "Horror Show" January 31, 2014 | Moyers & Company Journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy (Part Three) January 24, 2014 | Moyers & Company In the conclusion of Bill's conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist talks about why science literacy is critical to the future of our democracy, economy and standing in the world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe (Part Two) January 17, 2014 | Moyers & Company In part two of their conversation, Bill talks with the astrophysicist about the nature of our mysterious universe and whether faith and science can be reconciled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New 'Cosmos' (Part One) January 10, 2014 | Moyers & Company Bill speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his redux of the famous Carl Sagan series Cosmos, premiering this weekend.

State of Conflict: North Carolina January 3, 2014 | Moyers & Company North Carolina, long considered the South's most moderate state, has taken a hard right turn, but Moral Mondays protesters are fighting back. Is this where American politics is heading? Also on the show, the paint industry is ordered to clean up its mess.

2013 season
The Pope, Poverty and Poetry December 27, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms, and to Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

Incarceration Nation December 20, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill Moyers speaks with activist Michelle Alexander about the key to unlocking our dehumanizing system of incarceration, and shares a clip from a film about an ex-convict who helps women get back on their feet after prison.

Gunfighter Nation December 13, 2013 | Moyers & Company As the anniversary of the Newtown tragedy approaches, Bill speaks with cultural historian Richard Slotkin about violence in America. Plus, a Moyers essay on our gun culture.

America's Gilded Capital December 6, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill talks with New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about This Town, his book on how money rules Washington, DC.

Wendell Berry, Poet & Prophet November 29, 2013 | Moyers & Company In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation.

Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism November 22, 2013 | Moyers & Company This week on Moyers & Company, scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots between our politics and "casino capitalism," Bill previews a new documentary and a tribute to writer Doris Lessing.

The Path of Positive Resistance November 15, 2013 | Moyers & Company Two Green Shadow Cabinet members talk about their fight against dysfunctional government policies. Plus, a preview of Following the Ninth, a new film about Beethoven's masterpiece and viewer mail.

How Dollarocracy is Destroying America November 8, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill examines two major threats to democracy: the money and media election complex destroying our politics and the extraordinary surveillance invading our privacy.

The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About November 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company Secrets… The innocent lives lost in drone wars and the trade deal Washington and big business are trying to hide.

Saving Democracy is Up to Citizen Activists October 25, 2013 | Moyers & Company Historian Peter Dreier talks about outraged citizens fighting corruption and financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson on why JPMorgan may be getting off easily.

America’s Political Breakdown October 18, 2013 | Moyers & Company Financial Time's commentator Martin Wolf talks about the debt ceiling crisis and psychologist Sherry Turkle explains our addiction to tech devices.

Citizens United -- The Sequel October 11, 2013 | Moyers & Company What's the potential fallout from McCutcheon v. FEC, the campaign finance case currently before the Supreme Court?

Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet October 4, 2013 | Moyers & Company In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation with Bill.

Saving the Earth from Ourselves September 27, 2013 | Moyers & Company Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo joins Moyers & Company to discuss the politics of global warming and the urgency of environmental activism.

'Inequality for All' September 20, 2013 | Moyers & Company The star of Inequality for All, a new documentary on the growing problem of income inequality, talks with Bill about America's shrinking middle class.

The Collision of Sports and Politics September 13, 2013 | Moyers & Company Dave Zirin, The Nation magazine’s first ever sports writer, joins Bill to discuss the collision of sports with politics and why it’s not only inevitable but newsworthy, and an essay from Bill on Syria.

What Are We Doing in Syria? September 6, 2013 | Moyers & Company Guest host Phil Donahue examines the consequences of an American intervention in Syria with guests Deborah Amos and Andrew Bacevich.

John Lewis Marches On August 30, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis revisit the 1963 March on Washington. How did it transform America? Watch the full show.

America's Gilded Capital August 23, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill talks with author and New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich about his latest book, This Town, in which he writes that money rules D.C., and status is determined by who you know and what they can do for you.

How People Power Generates Change August 15, 2013 | Moyers & Company Activists Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis share how organized people can successfully fight organized money.

Taming Capitalism Run Wild August 9, 2013 | Moyers & Company Economist Richard Wolff talks about battling rampant capitalism and fighting for economic justice.

The Faces of America’s Hungry July 31, 2013 | Moyers & Company Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton reveal tragic truths about hunger and food insecurity in America.

John Lewis Marches On July 26, 2013 | Updated August 4, 2015 | Moyers & Company Fifty years ago, Rep. John Lewis looked on as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In this video, he reflects on how the March on Washington led to key civil rights laws.

Fighting for Farmworkers July 19, 2013 | Moyers & Company Baldemar Velásquez discusses the struggle to ensure fairness for American farmworkers, and Tom Diaz describes how self-defense and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.

Distracted from Democracy July 12, 2013 | Moyers & Company Marty Kaplan discusses media distractions that keep us from focusing on inequality, and Gary May puts American voting rights in historical context.

Surviving the New American Economy July 5, 2013 | Moyers & Company Two decades in the making, the intimate story of two American families struggling to find their places in the new economy.

The Faces of America’s Hungry June 28, 2013 | Moyers & Company The tragic truth about hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.

United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up June 21, 2013 | Moyers & Company Get updated on the secretive scheme to remake America by changing its laws, one state house at a time.

Big Brother’s Prying Eyes June 14, 2013 | Moyers & Company Lawrence Lessig and Bill explore how we can protect our privacy when Big Government and Big Business morph into Big Brother.

Taming Capitalism Run Wild June 7, 2013 | Moyers & Company Economist Richard Wolff talks about battling rampant capitalism and fighting for economic justice.

Living Outside Tribal Lines May 31, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty in California’s Silicon Valley, and writer Sherman Alexie discusses the influence of his Native American heritage.

Going to Jail for Justice May 24, 2013 | Moyers & Company This weekend, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher on civil disobedience, and Gretchen Morgenson describes how banks are still too big to fail.

The Toxic Politics of Science May 13, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill explores why lead and other toxins continue to threaten America. Also, how money still secretly rules Washington.

How People Power Generates Change May 10, 2013 | Moyers & Company Activists Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis share how organized people can successfully fight organized money.

The Sandy Hook Promise May 3, 2013 | Moyers & Company Newtown parents and a legendary folk singer lift their voices to end gun violence.

Trading Democracy for ‘National Security’ April 26, 2013 | Moyers & Company Glenn Greenwald talks about the Boston bombings and government secrecy, and two political scholars explain who's to blame for Congressional dysfunction.

The Toxic Assault on Our Children April 19, 2013 | Moyers & Company Biologist, mother and activist Sandra Steingraber discusses her fight against fracking and toxins contaminating our air, water and food.

Living Outside Tribal Lines April 12, 2013 | Moyers & Company A hard look at the state of American economic inequality, and writer Sherman Alexie on living in two different cultures at the same time.

MLK’s Dream of Economic Justice April 5, 2013 | Moyers & Company Theologian James Cone and historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. King’s other dream: economic justice.

And Justice for Some March 29, 2013 | Moyers & Company Fifty years after a landmark decision to give the poor their day in court, they still can’t afford justice.

What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately? March 22, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill takes a close look at avarice, banks, and capitalism -- the ABCs of economic inequality -- with insight from Sheila Bair and Richard Wolff.

Ending the Silence on Climate Change March 15, 2013 | Moyers & Company Why climate change gets the silent treatment, and what we should do about it.

What We Can Learn From Lincoln March 7, 2013 | Moyers & Company Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for Lincoln, talks about America's 16th president and "the history lesson of politics."

Fighting Creeping Creationism March 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company Zack Kopplin on fighting the onslaught of creationism and Susan Jacoby on the challenges of free thinking in America.

Taming Capitalism Run Wild February 22, 2013 | Moyers & Company Economist Richard Wolff and Restaurant Worker Advocate Saru Jayaraman talk about battling rampant capitalism, and fighting for economic justice.

The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive February 15, 2013 | Moyers & Company Exploring the virus of money in our politics, and how we need to combat it.

Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide? February 8, 2013 | Moyers & Company Telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explains how media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest, and author Nick Turse shares what we never knew about the Vietnam War.

Are Drones Destroying our Democracy? February 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies. Also, Matt Taibbi on big bank privileges.

Foul Play in the Senate, and Today's Abortion Debate January 25, 2013 | Moyers & Company Bill explores Senate favoritism for the world's largest biotech firm, and takes a deeper look at modern abortion rights activism.

Fighting for Filibuster Reform January 18, 2013 | Moyers & Company Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, joins Bill to make the case for common-sense reform that would bring the Senate back to serving democracy.

Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First January 11, 2013 | Moyers & Company The New York Times columnist explains why our top priority should be getting America back to work – if only Washington would stop throwing distractions in the way.

Full Show: Ending the Silence on Climate Change January 4, 2013 | Moyers & Company Climate change communication expert Anthony Leiserowitz explains why climate change gets the silent treatment, and what we should do about it.

Alain Badiou

 * "Time is nothing other than intervention"— By Jacques Rancière / 01 April 2016 / provides a critical analysis of Alain Badiou's classic work Being and Event.
 * http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2579-time-is-nothing-other-than-intervention-jacques-ranciere-on-alain-badiou-s-being-and-event
 * Alain Badiou: ‘People cling onto identities… it is a world opposed to the encounter’
 * http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1557-alain-badiou-people-cling-onto-identities-it-is-a-world-opposed-to-the-encounter

Mallarme
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/stephane-mallarme-prophet-of-modernism
 * Encrypted Translators confront the supreme enigma of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry. - The New Yorker

Paul Kingsnorth

 * http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/06/constant-gardener

Jim Harrison
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/07/the-legend-of-brown-dog-a-great-american-hero-gets-his-due.html
 * David Masciotra - The Legend of Brown Dog: A Great American Hero Gets His Due - The Daily Beast

Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams was one of the left's great thinkers - he deserves to be rediscovered http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/03/raymond-williams-was-one-lefts-great-thinkers-he-deserves-be-rediscovered

Eugene Burdick

 * http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,805139,00.html
 * http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1960/12/15/a-nation-of-sheep-ppeople-who/

James Alan McPherson
http://lithub.com/obama-america-and-the-legacy-of-james-alan-mcpherson/
 * Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson | Literary Hub

Ted Greenwald
http://barrettwatten.net/events/event-64-i-met-greenwald-memorial/2016/09/
 * Event 64: I Met (Greenwald Memorial) « barrettwatten.net

Lionel Shriver

 * Lionel Shriver | Books | The Guardian
 * https://www.theguardian.com/books/lionel-shriver
 * As Lionel Shriver made light of identity, I had no choice but to walk out on her | Yassmin Abdel-Magied | Opinion | The Guardian
 * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/10/as-lionel-shriver-made-light-of-identity-i-had-no-choice-but-to-walk-out-on-her

Louis Hartz
Nobody Here but Us Liberals By ALAN WOLFE – JULY 3, 2005

CONSERVATIVES dominate American politics because there is no conservative tradition in American political thought. Liberals are powerless because all Americans are liberals. Americans argue with each other so virulently because there is so little about which they disagree. They elect presidents from distinguished families because they detest aristocracies. Their society is so secure that they feel constantly under attack. The more isolationist their instincts, the more likely they are to view themselves as saviors of the world.

It takes a love of paradox to appreciate the work of Louis Hartz, whose pathbreaking book, "The Liberal Tradition in America," is celebrating its 50th birthday. An Ohio-born and Nebraska-raised Jew who spent his entire professional life at Harvard, Hartz received instant recognition for his book, which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Prize in 1956. Hartz influenced scholarship dealing with national identity, the role of the United States in the world and the idea of "American exceptionalism."

Before him, American political thought was viewed through the lens of conflict: Jefferson versus Hamilton, the North against the South, progressives in tension with standpatters. But for Hartz, all such disagreements took place within a broad consensus about American values. His lesson was simple: no ideology outside that consensus -- in particular, not that European import called Marxism -- could flourish on these shores.

The American consensus, Hartz argued, stemmed from the ideas of the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). For Locke, equality is natural to human beings because at a minimum all people own the same property: their labor. Freedom is preferable to authoritarianism because the best governments are those that win the consent of the people. Religious toleration is a good idea because faiths that are free will be stronger than those that are coerced. Hartz argued that Locke's liberalism had morphed into the American way of life, creating a consensus around property rights, social mobility, individual freedom and popular democracy so powerful that no one could escape it.

The power of Locke's ideas in America was best demonstrated by the fate of those who might have been inclined to challenge them. Upper-class Federalists and Whigs, unable to justify rule by an elite, turned around and claimed that there was no such thing as class. Southerners like John C. Calhoun argued in favor of slavery, not through divine right or natural law, but by self-defeating appeals to contract and reason. And, Hartz said, because the United States lacked a conservative tradition, it could not have a socialist one. In Europe, feudalism and socialism both appealed to an organic vision of society and fed off each other, but in America, where individualism ruled, neither could take root.

Reading Hartz is not an easy chore. "Needless to say," he writes at one point, "Hobhouse, even if he had wanted to, could not have used the same technique to discredit the modern disciples of Brougham, since to the right of Brougham there had always been Wellington, which changed the iconoclastic picture entirely." I love that "needless to say," which prepares the reader for the obvious, only to deliver the obscure. And, lest one wonder what exactly is the technique that Hobhouse used, Hartz describes it this way: "In an age when Hamilton had flowered into McKinley it did the latter little good to expose the fact that he had once been Hamilton."

But Hartz earned his right to drop names. His is not the kind of book academics generally write these days. Despite his prodigious learning, he has only eight pages of footnotes. In a work dealing with American history, remarkably few facts, dates, events and people (other than political thinkers and doers) are mentioned. And since Hartz believed that the liberal tradition in America unlocked the secret of everything that had ever taken place in American politics, his generalizations can be breathtaking. Some academics continue to write ambitiously synthetic books in the Hartzian vein -- Robert Bellah, Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama, to name a few -- but most social science books these days narrow the range as they expand the documentation; it is an open question whether "The Liberal Tradition in America" would qualify its author for tenure in today's university.

Yet Hartz got the large picture astonishingly right. It is not just that Republicans praise the sanctity of property rights; Democrats, they claim, represent the elite, while they stand for the common man. Trying to roll back the egalitarian reforms of the New Deal, Republicans describe their goal, with perfect Lockean pitch, as "an ownership society." Not for them such feudal legacies as the filibuster; they demand up or down votes on judicial nominees so that the voice of the people can be heard.

Not all contemporary conservatives are followers of Locke. Adherents of the Christian right, among others, are not likely to be avid readers of Locke's letter on religious toleration (even if Locke justified toleration, not on secular grounds, but on Christian principle). But the fate of today's religious right may well have been foreshadowed by what Hartz called "the reactionary Enlightenment," the effort by Southern thinkers before the Civil War to find a justification for slavery. Because of the lack of a conservative tradition, the opposite of liberalism was fantasy, and so Southern thinkers invented a feudal past of honor and chivalry that never existed.

Similarly, despite the deism of Jefferson and Madison, today's religious right claims that the United States was founded as a Christian republic. Separation of church and state, they contend, is contrary to American ideals -- when it is in fact the perfect expression of them. Like a Southern slaveholder captivated by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, America's Christian conservatives live in a world of their own imagining. Hartz would have understood them perfectly.

However prescient "The Liberal Tradition in America" may have been, it has not lacked for critics. If the South was given over to fantasy, the political scientist Rogers Smith has written, why was the Civil War necessary, and how did Reconstruction defeat the dream of racial equality for so long? Political philosophers have devoted themselves to discovering a republican tradition that emphasizes the common good over individual rights to counter Hartz's claim that there was nothing outside of liberalism

Nonetheless, "The Liberal Tradition in America" deserves its status as a classic. (It is still in print and sells surprisingly well on Amazon.com.) For Hartz, America's consensual liberalism stood in sharp contrast to Europe, where ideologies like fascism and Communism had poisoned political life. Hartz never feared that his country would adopt those alien systems; our Lockeanism would not allow us to do so. But he did worry that Lockeanism itself could turn into what he called "a colossal liberal absolutism" that "hampers creative action abroad by identifying the alien with the unintelligible and . . . inspires hysteria at home by generating the anxiety that unintelligible things produce." Joe McCarthy was a major political figure in the year the book appeared, and Hartz, always the ironist, identified those most insistent on their genuine Americanism as the most vulnerable to the disease of political extremism. It was all so unnecessary in his view: "What must be accounted one of the tamest, mildest and most unimaginative majorities in modern political history has been bound down by a set of restrictions that betray fanatical terror."

The "largest challenge the liberal world has faced," Hartz concluded, borrowing a term from the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks, was whether the United States could come of age. To do so, Americans would have to accept that they were beneficiaries of a liberal political philosophy with responsibilities to the frequently illiberal world they dominated, and stop their illusory attempt to stand outside their own history and traditions.

For all his ironic sensibility, Hartz was something of an optimist. He believed in 1955 that if America was ever going to come of age, "it will begin happening now." That hope, in this era of partisan screeching and fundamentalist preaching, seems to be one of his predictions that has not panned out.

ESSAY Alan Wolfe, the author of "One Nation, After All," is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is working on a book about whether American democracy still works.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/books/review/nobody-here-but-us-liberals.html?_r=1

Lamarck
James Allen 4:05 PM Are the conversations and interactions--among Americans, wherever they occur--banal and superficial because this is no more than we should expect of the them? In other words, it's because they're actually intellectually incapable of anything more substantive? Or is it because discussion on a substantive level about anything truly important is too demanding? Too time-consuming? Because it requires command of too much information to get a discussion going? Too much dispute over what represents a baseline of accepted facts to permit talk to move forward?

Or are the techno distractions so distracting for these folks that achieving focus is impossible, even if the spirit (to engage in meaningful conversation) exists on some level among some of them? It can't be because they're mentally deficient to a debilitating degree, can it? All of them?

Vincent in Auvers 5:19 PM My own experiences sadly confirm Dr. Berman’s description. I’ve been on the receiving end of racism from American women just as often as I have from the men. Feminists are the one exception, but even they still seem to be firmly enmeshed within America’s anti-culture and are very limited in their outlook. I’ve found foreigners to be far more worldly and interesting than any American I’ve conversed with. I think the movement isn’t so much about creating a matriarchy as it is the women simply clinging to what they know. Rather than looking beyond their borders for a sense of identity and cultivating actual human values, they model themselves after the men in their lives: Frivolous, brash, obsessed with power.

The rise of the alt-right and the global resurgence of nativist fervor is rather terrifying, but the feminists haven’t the ability to seriously resist because they never made that psychological break from the existing social structure. Their aim was always to make the system a little more malleable rather than alter it in any fundamental way. The movement’s devolution into spectacle I think demonstrates the failures of reformism. There are many exceptions to this, of course. Working women—those who don’t come from privilege and have no delusions about ever reaching such a position—tend to be more grounded and realistic about what’s going on in this country and are far more likely to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to forging solidarity with the oppressed. I think they’d all do well to watch something like Ken Loach’s “Land and Freedom” for some pointers on how to move forward:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsZJbg8N0s&list=PL96570C61F175314A

Morris Berman 5:26 PM

James-

This wd require a long discussion--very long. Some time ago I came to the conclusion that Americans weren't merely ignorant; they were also stupid. I believe the cause is screens. There is a gd bit of research now on the impact of screens on the brain--including lengthening synapses and other physiological changes. Americans were the 1st to have TV, late 40s, and the phenomenon skyrocketed after that. Now, all they seem to be doing is staring into screens. I know this data contradicts evolutionary 'laws'--the Weismann barrier, soma vs. germ plasm, etc., and sounds like Lamarck; but I always thought this was the weakest part of the Darwinian edifice. J.Z. Young, British biologist, began exploring the plasticity of the brain in 1948, and much research has been done since then. I believe in the possibility of what has been called neo-Lamarckian mimicry, and/or epigenesis; and that the usual examples used to discredit Lamarck are weird ones (if I'm a weight lifter, my son shd be born w/big muscles, etc.). Of course environmental factors are critical: Americans live in a dumbed-down culture and shape themselves accordingly. But this wd acct for ignorance, not actual stupidity, and the data on brain-change wd point to stupidity. Finally, there was a direct refutation of anti-Lamarckian scientific dogma last yr at Sinai Hospital: it turns out that a depressive outlook, generated by external circumstances, can be inherited. I forget the details--look it up on Google--but something like Holocaust survivors' grandchildren were depressed. So much of this is speculation, but some of it is born out by 'respectable' scientific research. But thanks for asking, these are very impt questions. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/political-establishment-momentum-jeremy-corbyn
 * The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I’ll tell you why | David Graeber | Opinion | The Guardian
 * 1) The real battle is not over the personality of one man

http://est.sagepub.com/content/19/3/431.abstract?etoc
 * Adorno reading and writing sociology
 * 1) misunderstanding regarding his methodology of critique and composition, which prioritizes the content of Adorno’s claims regarding sociology and social theory, over their rhetorical and performative character.

http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/735_-_Thinking_Outside_The_Bucks_(The_Authenticity_of_A_Life_Beyond_Money) http://www.alternet.org/story/154453/why_the_american_empire_was_destined_to_collapse In Persian
 * Cameron, Slavery, History and the Enlightenment tradition
 * Interview with Judith Regan
 * Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse | Nomi Prins interview
 * Resistance Radio – Morris Berman – 03.13.16 - Progressive Radio Network
 * http://wn.com/Morris_Berman
 * http://www.owscorvallis.com/mainstreet/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Berman2.pdf
 * http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/404060/Why-America-Failed-appears-in-Iranian-bookstores

In Spanish

 * Mira, mis libros estan (son?) disponibles. Para comprar "El reencantamiento del mundo," "Cuerpo y espiritu," y "Historia de la conciencia," escribe Cuatro Vientos Editorial en Santiago de Chile: 4vientos@netline.cl. Para comprar "El crepusculo de la cultura americana," escribe Sexto Piso Editorial en Mexico: erabasa@sextopiso.com. La secuencia de "El crepusculo," "La edad oscura americana," sera disponible de Sexto Piso en agosto o septiembre 2007.
 * El reencantamiento del mundo" is published by Cuatro Vientos Editorial in Santiago de Chile.
 * http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/2016/07/276.html?m=1#comment-form
 * http://sextopiso.mx/
 * Item Description: State University of New York Press, 2000. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: "This immensely fecund work gives us a sweeping overview of significant aspects of human evolution, shedding light on how we have imprisoned ourselves socially, culturally, and intellectually . [and] how we might find a way out of the bottleneck . I can heartily recommend this work . as an antidote to sluggish intellectualism." -- Georg Feuerstein, Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive "This is the best book in Morris Berman's trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness. Wandering God offers a thought-provoking thesis thoroughly grounded in first-class research and thinking in a dazzling array of fields. He persuasively shows how our search for a non-destructive path through the future will be enhanced if we choose 'nomadic thinking' and 'mature ambiguity' over ideological fundamentalism." -- David H. Spain, University of Washington "Berman represents one of the rare species of American multilingual intellectuals with a grasp of a wide historical and anthropological literature. His knowledge is truly encyclopaedic and catholic in its breadth, extremely rich and suggestive of new ideas. The book combines psychoanalysis and structural forces in a rare synthesis." -- Heribert Adam, Simon Fraser University. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_0791444414
 * ps: For those of you who read Spanish, the following is from La Jornada, 5 days ago, in which the author says that I in effect predicted the emergence of someone like Trump in DAA (Edad oscura americana, in Spanish):

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2016/11/18/opinion/024a2pol Berman, Morris Published by Editorial Sexto Piso (2011) ISBN 10: 607778110X ISBN 13: 9786077781103 Malaga, Editorial Sexto Piso, 2011. Berman traza una nítida línea entre los principios fundacionales de la gran superpotencia, los Estados Unidos, y su acelerada trayectoria descendente; demuestra con contundencia que el deseo expansionista estaba contenido desde sus orígenes en la visión de la incipiente nación como pueblo elegido, llamado a guiar al mundo entero hacia un estilo de vida superior: el suyo. Al mismo tiempo, Berman cuestiona la universalidad de la idea de progreso material, considerando que es siempre una respuesta al vacío inherente a la condición humana, que no hace sino ensancharse conforme trata de ser llenado con juguetes tecnológicos. Bookseller Inventory # 11918283
 * Most historians would be content to have written one deeply researched and interpretively wide-ranging trilogy on a large and important subject. Berman has written two: one on alternative forms of consciousness and spirituality (The Re-enchantment of the World, Coming to Our Senses, Wandering God) and one on the decline of American civilization (The Twilight of American Culture, Dark Ages America, Why America Failed). The second trilogy, a grimly fascinating inventory of the pathologies of contemporary America and an unsparing portrait of American history and national character, is a masterpiece.
 * Cuestión de valores

Berman, Morris Published by Sexto Piso Editorial, 2008 ISBN 10: 8496867188 / ISBN 13: 9788496867185 Item Description: Sexto Piso, México, D.F., 2007. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. No Jacket. Edad oscura americana es una sombría mirada a la situación actual de Estados Unidos, que de manera acelerada y vertiginosa ha entrado en lo que Morris Berman llama la fase final del imperio americano. Basándose en un minucioso análisis histórico que muestra cómo desde sus orígenes esta nación albergaba las semillas individualista, imperialista y maniquea, plasmadas en un pensamiento y discurso binarios que catalogan al mundo en términos de «buenos» (los estadounidenses) y «malos» (los que son distintos), el autor se extiende y profundiza en las ideas abordadas en El crepúsculo de la cultura americana para demostrar que la masacre cultural, social, urbana, política y económica es el colofón de un proyecto imperial americano empeñado en exportar su visión y su modo de vida a todos los rincones del planeta. Berman sostiene que el 11 de septiembre fue un «regalo del cielo» para un añejo proyecto imperial que encontró en el «Terrorismo» un enemigo perfecto para que desempeñara el papel que otrora tuviera el «Comunismo» como amenaza ubicua ante cuyo combate se deben supeditar los demás fines y valores de la sociedad americana. Asimismo, traza una línea indiscutible y directa entre las atrocidades de la política exterior de Estados Unidos en Oriente Medio, en particular en lo que denomina el «Eje de resentimiento», originado por sus acciones en Irán, Irak e Israel, y el implacable odio que ha incubado en el mundo árabe, que deriva en la inmolación como única vía para infligir un daño equivalente al «Gran Satán». Al analizar la respuesta del gobierno de Estados Unidos ante los atentados terroristas, que incluyeron la restricción de las libertades civiles y garantías individuales, así como la legalización de la tortura y otras prácticas vejatorias hacia los prisioneros enemigos, Berman concluye que es posible que su país se encuentre a un ataque terrorista más de la aparición de un Estado policiaco abierto y sin tapujos. En un país de ciudadanos ignorantes y cínicos, para quienes los centros comerciales son los nuevos templos en los que practican su religión civil, y la libertad consiste en poder ir de compras a donde se deseé, Berman no sólo descarta la posibilidad de una transformación, sino que considera que la misma estupidez, arrogancia y prepotencia Published by SEXTOPISO (2012) ISBN 10: 8415601026 ISBN 13: 9788415601029 Tras escribir una brillante trilogía sobre la evolución de la conciencia humana, Morris Berman enfocó su energía al análisis de lo que advertía como un declive económico, político, social y moral de Estados Unidos. Cuando publicó El crepúsculo de la cultura americana (Sexto Piso), en el año 2000, sus compatriotas rebosaban de abundancia y orgullo. Poco más de una terrible década después, las cosas son muy distintas. Las raíces del fracaso americano cierra su «trilogía americana». La crisis americana actual, lejos de ser coyuntural o pasajera, estaba inscrita entonces en los principios que hicieron de Estados Unidos el país más pujante y emulado del mundo entero. - Berman, Morris
 * Edad oscura americana: La fase final del imperio (Ensayo Sexto Piso) (Spanish Edition)
 * Basándose en un minucioso análisis histórico que muestra cómo desde sus orígenes los Estados Unidos albergaba las semillas individualista e imperialista, el autor alega que la masacre cultural, social, política y económica es el colofón de un proyecto imperial americano empeñado en exportar su visión y su modo de vida a todos los rincones del planeta.
 * Based on a detailed historical analysis showing how, from its very beginnings, the United States harbored the seeds of individualism and imperialism, the author argues that cultural, social, political, and economic massacre is the trademark of an America imperialistic project dead set on exporting its vision and way of life to all corners of the world.
 * RAICES DEL FRACASO AMERICANO LAS
 * El crepúsculo de la cultura americana

Published by Sexto Piso, México, D.F. (2007) ISBN 10: 9685679665 ISBN 13: 9789685679664 4th Edition. Desde las entrañas mismas del imperio yanqui surge una voz que arremete sin piedad contra la autocomplacencia y la estupidez que, día a día, se apoderan inexorablemente de los ciudadanos estadounidenses. Morris Berman es quien profiere esta devastadora crítica. Sin embargo, El crepúsculo de la cultura americana representa también un lamento por los buenos tiempos pasados, cuando Estados Unidos mantenía una cultura de calidad, cultura que hoy en día es una atroz caricatura de lo que fue. Berman hace la analogía con el Imperio Romano del «pan y circo», sólo que en el caso de Estados Unidos, la estulticia se encarna en la glorificación de los valores corporativos, en el consumismo y entretenimiento masivos, en pocas palabras, en todo lo que proyecta la llamada cultura «McWorld». Parece imperceptible, pero la erosión de los verdaderos valores humanistas pasa frente a nosotros mientras nos atragantamos de productos chatarra, ya sean comestibles o espirituales. Morris Berman, como el buen humanista que es, decide hacer una denuncia al respecto, pero también propone una posible salida a este infierno cultural que se apodera de todos: la emergencia del nuevo individuo monástico (NIM), aquél que está dispuesto a rechazar la cultura chatarra en nombre de la verdadera civilización. Ésta es una lectura obligada para todos aquellos que compartan los valores del humanismo.

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 * OCTAEDRO EDITORIAL. Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Book Condition: Nuevo. El crepúsculo de la cultura americana, profundo diagnóstico y crítica del declive cultural de los Estados Unidos, plasma una visión interna del estado actual de la cultura estadounidense y los diferentes escenarios a los que puede enfrentarse en un futuro. El propio Berman describe este libro así: ¿Es una especie de libro guía para el siglo veintiuno en adelante. Busca darle al lector un sentido de dónde estamos, en términos históricos, y lo que esto significa; un modo tanto para orientarse a sí mismo en los eventos contemporáneos, como para ser capaz de hallar significado en una cultura que se desintegra, y tal vez contribuir de algún modo a la eventual reconstrucción de esa cultura sobre una base muy distinta [.] estoy convencido de que permanece un núcleo vital dentro de nosotros que anhela la realidad, que conoce la diferencia entre el mundo de algodones de la nación Bostock y el denso, opaco mundo de pensamiento dificultoso y vida desafiante. Si esta distinción tiene sentido intuitivamente para ti; si al fin estás harto de CNN y Hollywood y John Grisham y la ¿espiritualidad¿ New Age, entonces coge una silla, desconecta tu teléfono (beeper, TV, fax, ordenador, etcétera), y dame unas cuantas horas de tu tiempo.¿. Bookseller Inven

WAF
Hustling', as it was defined by historian Walter McDougall in his book "Freedom Just Around the Corner" (2004), is a concept that author Morris Berman borrowed and utilized as a central theme in his 2011 book "Why America Failed." Writes Berman: "“The principal goal of North American civilization, and of its inhabitants, is and always has been an ever-expanding economy—affluence—and endless technological innovation—”progress.” A nation of hustlers, writes McDougall; a people relentlessly on the make." Ultimately, Berman attributes the ongoing social, cultural, and moral decline of North American civilization in general, and of the United States in particular, to a "hustling" ethos. According to Berman, 'husting' has consistently marginalized (for the past 400+years) other competing & alternative notions and traditions of what constitutes "a good life." "Hustling" has crowded out these other traditions all the way up until today, when now it's pretty obvious that it "won out" and, somewhere along the way, became the dominant tradition. About America, Berman says that: “The disintegration of this country is an ongoing daily event, a factor in all our lives. We are witnessing the suicide of a nation, a nation that hustled its way into the grave.” Personally, I'm very uncomfortable with Berman's harsh assessment and don't know enough about US & North American history to determine if it is true, in some sense, that we (the US in particular) have been 'blind from birth' in just the way Berman is saying it has been. But I can't just dismiss, out of hand, what Berman and McDougall are saying, either.

Quotes

 * "To experience this land is to understand on a fundamental and visceral level that the confrontation taking place here at the edge of the Missouri is more than a struggle between protesters and authorities; more even than test of limits of tribal sovereignty or even claims of violations of sacred land. This is a struggle for the very health of the planet itself.


 * It is a wager between the belief that technology, in the service of progress, will allow us to adapt and adjust and change the earth to fit our human needs, and the belief that the earth has immutable truths that we cannot violate without irreparable damage. It is a wager we cannot afford to get wrong."
 * Berman: "Himan- Great quote, thanks. Yes, that's exactly the struggle. We will push the 1st belief as far as we can, until the whole system implodes. At that pt, the 2nd belief will finally start to make sense to more than just a tiny fragment of the population."

Lectures

 * 1) Finally got links for my Germany lectures. The following is the one on Dual Process, which I gave on Nov. 4. It starts out w/a few mins of ambient noise; then my host(ess) introduced me; then I gave a short intro in German; and then the rest is in English:


 * https://www.dropbox.com/s/7wj3i9o3qooipjf/MorrisBermanLectureUniversityofMainz4Nov2016.MP3?dl=0


 * The class on the election was on Nov. 11. Please excuse my stupid error, of dating end of WW2 to 1944. I must have unknowingly been on drugs:


 * https://www.dropbox.com/s/pj7a7z5mpx5mxa0/MorrisBermaninclass11Nov2016.MP3?dl=0


 * Source: http://morrisberman.blogspot.com/2016/11/goodbye-botox-plus-my-german-adventure_14.html?m=1

Galeano
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/24/galeano-died/

Wolsak
http://web.archive.org/web/20080719121151/http://www.hubcapart.com/h-ngm-n/441.htm
 * H_NGM_N #4. poetry, poetics &c.

Cornel West

 * Party Leader’s Resignation a Sign of Bernie Sanders’s Influence, His Backers Say - The New York Times

4 things NOT on the Democratic Party platform: 1) a ban on fracking, 2) a push for Medicare for all, 3) a change in the country’s stance on Israeli-Palestinian politics, or 4) condemnation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. All were important to Mr. Sander's campaign. We still have some work to do.


 * http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-dnc-reaction.html?_r=0

& Ta-Nehisi Coates

 * Cornel West Delivers Blistering Takedown of Ta-Nehisi Coates—Michael Eric Dyson Responds | | Observer


 * Race Without Class: the “Bougie” Sensibility of Ta Nehesi Coates

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/cornel-west-wake-up-bernie-sanders-is-the-candidate-of-the-s#.qjrxWV9Mg
 * Cornel West: Wake Up, Bernie Sanders Is The Candidate Of The Student Protest Movement - BuzzFeed News

Charles Bowden
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/remembrance-charles-bowden-writer
 * "I Still Live": A Remembrance of Charles Bowden | Mother Jones

MLK
http://www.bostonreview.net/blog/mlk-simon-waxman
 * Americans Love King Because They Don't Understand Him | Boston Review

Jonathan Franzen
Interview: Jonathan Franzen, Author Of 'Purity'

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/06/stop-sending-jonathan-franzen-novels/
 * Stop Sending Me Jonathan Franzen Novels

Richard Wolff
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34555-how-two-party-political-systems-bolster-capitalism
 * How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism

http://rdwolff.com/content/prof-wolff-smart-talk-andrew-mazzone
 * Prof. Wolff on Smart Talk with Andrew Mazzone | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Ursula LeGuinn
Novelist Obliterates The Bundy Militia -- And Oregon’s Largest Newspaper -- In 194 Words | ThinkProgress

John Irving

 * http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/05/avenue-of-mysteries-john-irving-review

Scialabba
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2014/10/28/the-baffler-uses-doctors-notes-tell-george-scialabba-story/hz6PwSsqtlRjPdP3f2etkO/story.html

Rachel Carson
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-fracking-of-rachel-carson/

Thomas McGuane
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/captain-berserko-writes-a-better-ending-19691231
 * Captain Berserko Writes a Better Ending - Men's Journal

Billy Marshall Stoneking

 * http://stonekingpages.webs.com/cv.htm


 * is a dual national (Australian/American) writer/producer, poet & playwright, script consultant, teacher and author of seven books, including the modern-day Australian classic


 * http://screen.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/film/david-tiley/billy-marshall-stoneking-these-were-the-good-times-251762

Ben Lerner
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/06/12/seeing-failure-unfurling-the-hatred-poetry/Oi967hOrfHrA7jw0uRgs6O/story.html
 * Seeing failure unfurling in ‘The Hatred of Poetry’ - The Boston Globe

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/480478110/the-hatred-of-poetry-feels-personal
 * 'The Hatred Of Poetry' Feels Personal : NPR

https://www.vice.com/read/reviews-v23n4
 * June's Best Television, Art, and Literature | VICE | United States

Rosmarie Waldrop
Mind the Gap - The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/gap-gardening-by-rosmarie-waldrop

Fredric Jameson
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Fredric-Jameson-s-laments-5499
 * Fredric Jameson’s laments by Roger Kimball - The New Criterion

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/15/modernist-papers-fredric-jameson-review
 * The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson review – weighty essays on literature and art | Books | The Guardian

Ralph Nader
http://disinfo.com/2010/11/debunked-the-myth-that-ralph-nader-cost-al-gore-the-2000-election/
 * Debunked: The Myth That Ralph Nader Cost Al Gore the 2000 Election - disinformation

Kissinger
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/does-henry-kissinger-have-a-conscience
 * Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience? - The New Yorker

Robert Stone

 * http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/75022/jerusalem-stone

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dog-soldiers-review-a-bullet-for-the-summer-of-love-1.2303477
 * Dog Soldiers review: a bullet for the Summer of Love

http://www.pen.org/blog/remembering-robert-stone-1937%E2%80%932015/
 * Remembering Robert Stone (1937–2015) | PEN American Center

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/two-readings-robert-stone
 * Two Readings with Robert Stone - The New Yorker

http://www.biography.com/people/robert-stone-9496047
 * Robert Stone - Biography - Author, Journalist - Biography.com


 * http://tomsancton.blogspot.com/2015/01/remembering-robert-stone.html


 * http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Robert_Stone.aspx

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/robert-stone-death-of-the-black-haired-girl#slideshow_58642.2
 * The Total Anti-Totalist Robert Stone - Page - Interview Magazine


 * http://news.wgcu.org/post/fresh-air-remembers-national-book-award-winner-robert-stone

http://arcade.stanford.edu/blogs/robert-stone-1937-2015-exploring-countercultures-limits
 * Robert Stone 1937-2015: exploring the counterculture's limits | Literature, the Humanities, & the World

http://www.missourireview.com/tmr-blog/2015/04/a-farewell-to-robert-stone/
 * A Farewell to Robert Stone | TMR Blog

http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/outdoor/a-guide-to-robert-stone-s-best-books-20150112
 * A Guide to Robert Stone's Best Books - MensJournal.com

http://observer.com/2013/11/twilight-of-a-merry-prankster-robert-stone-returns-with-first-novel-in-a-decade/
 * Robert Stone Returns With First Novel in a Decade | Observer

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120981/remembrance-robert-stone
 * A Remembrance of Robert Stone | The New Republic

http://www.propellermag.com/Oct2015/McGintyStoneOct15.html
 * Robert Stone Opened Novels Like No One Else

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

 * "Walter Clark Resigns Job At University in Protest." Nevada State Journal (June 5, 1953), p. 10. See: http://guides.library.unr.edu/nvwriters-hall-of-fame/clark-1988
 * http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/the-oxbow-incident/critical-essay/a-definition-of-western-regional-literature

sarah kofman
Remembering, acting out, working-through: The case of Sarah Kofman

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/2003/kofman.html

Norman Pollack
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/12/america-on-the-cusp-of-fascism/
 * Whatsupic - Norman Pollack: "If One had to Choose between Clinton and Trump, Americans would be Best Advised to Move to Canada".
 * http://whatsupic.com/special-usa/norman-pollack125343.html
 * America on the Cusp of Fascism

Chomsky

 * How Noam Chomsky Betrayed the Syrian People
 * http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article71659992.html
 * UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet | The Sacramento Bee
 * An Interview with Noam Chomsky | The Colossus
 * https://thecolossus.co/2016/06/01/an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/
 * Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Communism and Revolutions
 * http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36819-noam-chomsky-on-anarchism-communism-and-revolutions

& Erdogan

 * Chomsky Hits Back At Erdogan, Accuses Him Of Aiding Terrorists

David Markson
The_Scofield_Issue_1.1_David_Markson_and_Solitude.pdf http://s55615.gridserver.com/The_Scofield_Issue_1.1_David_Markson_and_Solitude.pdf

Aaron Kunin on Vanessa Place
http://nonsite.org/article/would-vanessa-place-be-a-better-poet-if-she-had-better-opinions
 * Would Vanessa Place Be a Better Poet If She Had Better Opinions? | nonsite.org

Elizabeth Kolbert vs. Naomi Klein
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism/
 * Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism? by Elizabeth Kolbert | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jan/08/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism-exchange/
 * ‘Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?’: An Exchange by Naomi Klein & Elizabeth Kolbert| The New York Review of Books

Putin
Putin’s long game has been revealed, and the omens are bad for Europe | Natalie Nougayrède | Opinion | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/putin-long-game-omens-europe-russia?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook

Paz
Non-fiction, essays. This is *not* a memoir. Rather, these are Paz's own investigations on India’s history, religions, philosophy, and Sanskrit erotic poetry: collected under the title "Vislumbres de la India" (1995), translated as "In Light of India" by Eliot Weinberger (in 1997). Like I said, not a memoir, even if it is a book that weaves together various images that are autobiographical and anecdotal (Paz lived in India for a time, and was part of Mexico's diplomatic corps that worked there). Instead, I"d say that Paz's essays here (as elsewhere) are a constant melding of the polical and the aesthetic, but they do utilize personal impressions as focal points to discuss political topics and philosophical/aesthetic concepts. It's been some years since I read through Paz's book, but I'd say the various "foci" that I just mentioned don't fall into the purview of a 'southern India' perspective, which seems to be what you're looking for. Anyhow, Paz made two vists to India while working for the Mexican government. His first visit was in 1951 (as a lower level attaché for the Mexican embassy). His second visit (in 1962) was as Mexico's Ambassador. Paz quit his post in 1968 (and left India) having renounced his diplomatic position in protest against the Mexican government’s role in the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. Anyhow, this book's dozen or so essays are grouped into four sections. The first section is more allusive and 'autobiographical', relating to his initial introduction to India (1951-2) and how shaped his subsequent experiences and reflections. Paz's first year in India was less than 5 years after the "partition" (in August 1947?) that led to the creation of Pakistan and "India." The remaining three sections are not as 'impressionistic' as the first part. Very quickly I'd say the remaining essays discuss how India was shaped by two different religions and cultures (Hindu and Islam) and the caste system. The third group of essays focus on the influence of the British empire along with western notions of the "nation" and the "state." The fourth (and final) grouping of essays concentrates on philosophical issues and Sanskrit poetry. Personally, I'd like to re-read the book. In my opinion, Paz is a terrific essay writer and the book is well worth your time.

Well, like it or not, Paz is "one of the canonical intellectuals of twentieth-century Mexico," acccepted as one of the "mediators of the memory of future generations."

Angela Davis
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-davis-20140507-column.html
 * Angela Y. Davis on what's radical in the 21st century - LA Times

Gary Lutz
http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/gary_lutz_my_hero/
 * http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/2013/08/endings-that-hover/
 * The Valve - A Literary Organ | Gary Lutz, My Hero

http://www.thestranger.com/search?q=Gary+Lutz
 * The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/lutziana/Content?oid=12361
 * Lutziana - Books - The Stranger

Ernest Becker

 * Marie H. Becker - Home


 * https://www.sfu.ca/fass/news/stories/ernest-becker-at-sfu--1969-1974-.html


 * http://ernestbecker.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Becker-at-SFU-10.1177_0022167813479672.pdf


 * http://www.ernestbeckerlegacy.org


 * http://www.ernestbeckerlegacy.org/sites/default/files/images/chatard.pdf

https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/questions/HumanGuilt.html
 * The Problem of Human Guilt

Derrick Jensen
Shannon LeBlanc Plenty of ways to live without industrial electricity. Any thoughts on John A. Livingston's writings?

Derrick Jensen His work was incredibly important to me. I know One Cosmic Instant is the favorite for a lot of people, but the one that really blew me away was The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation. That was probably the second most important environmental philosophy book for me, after The Natural Alien. John was the one who introduced me to the notion of evolution being based on cooperation. I met and interviewed him. I loved interviewing him.

Shannon LeBlanc Derrick Jensen That's very lucky. He must have been happy to meet you. Did you discuss the ideas around indigenous peoples and extinctions? Is the interview on your webpage?

Derrick Jensen The interview is in Listening to the Land. It's not online to my knowledge. We mainly followed the arc of his books and thought.

Garcia-Lorca
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/11558315/Spanish-poet-Lorca-was-killed-on-official-orders-after-the-outbreak-of-Spanish-civil-war.html
 * Spanish poet Lorca was 'killed on official orders' after the outbreak of Spanish civil war - Telegraph

David Harvey

 * David Harvey: “The left has to rethink its theoretical and tactical apparatus.”   Consolidating Power  ROAR Magazine
 * "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that, it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Margaret Zuccarini
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/jobs/a-caregiver-for-new-books-about-nursing.html
 * A Caregiver for New Books About Nursing - The New York Times

E. L. Doctorow
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-brothers-rosenberg-cold-war-spying/
 * '[Doctorow] is at once a radical historian, a cultural anthropologist, a troubadour, a private eye, and a cost-benefit analyst of assimilation and upward mobility in the great American multiculture', John Leonard, New York Review of Books Read more at:
 * https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57495/the-book-of-daniel/#YwCt5rhgDObuzpjA.99
 * https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57495/the-book-of-daniel/
 * The Bravery of E. L. Doctorow - by George Saunders - The New Yorker
 * http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bravery-of-e-l-doctorow
 * E.L. Doctorow on the Role of Writers in Society | BillMoyers.com
 * http://billmoyers.com/content/e-l-doctorow-best-writers/
 * The Brothers Rosenberg - CBS News

Benjamin Hollander, 1952–2016

 * https://jacket2.org/commentary/benjamin-hollander-1952%E2%80%932016

Hedges

 * A political campaign raises consciousness, but it’s not a movement. And what we are seeing now is furious spin—I listened to Ben Jealous just do it—from the self-identified liberal class. And they are tolerated within a capitalist system, because, in a moment like this, they are used to speak to people to get them to betray their own interests in the name of fear. And I admire Robert and have read much of his stuff and like his stuff, but if you listen to what he’s been saying, the message is the same message of the Trump campaign, and that his fear. And that is all the Democrats have to offer now and all the Republicans have to offer now.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/4/as_green_party_convention_opens_watch

The 100 best novels written in English
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/17/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list
 * The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian

Bill Mollison
http://www.greenwarriorpermacultureaid.org/steve-cran-green-warrior-permaculture-aid/bill-mollison-lives/
 * https://skepteco.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/r-i-p-bill-mollison-father-of-permaculture/
 * Bill Mollison Lives!

ITN candidate

 * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental-health-political-issue?CMP=share_btn_fb

Miscellaneous

 * Andrew Daily Yes, but he's succumbed to the elite disease of "knowing things" rather than "thinking about things

Levis

 * Michael Thomsen on Larry Levis - Berfrois
 * http://www.berfrois.com/2017/04/michael-thomsen-larry-levis/
 * http://www.news.vcu.edu/article/Conference_Celebrates_Larry_Levis_Late_Poet_and_VCU_Professor
 * https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/5519
 * http://kvpr.org/post/new-film-celebrates-poetry-fresno-state-alumnus-larry-levis
 * https://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/tag/larry-levis-shiloh/
 * http://www.indiewire.com/2012/03/project-of-the-day-profile-of-poet-larry-levis-my-story-in-a-late-style-of-fire-48914/
 * http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/books/three-american-poets.html
 * http://johannesgoransson.com/2016/03/wrecking-crew-cause-suc/
 * https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/second-acts-a-second-look-at-second-books-of-poetry-by-larry-levis-and-anna-journey/
 * http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/24930/9421/Larry-Levis
 * http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/06/larry-levis-passion-matters.html
 * http://www.npr.org/2016/02/16/466974589/book-review-the-darkening-trapeze-larry-lewis
 * https://emiliaphillips.com/tag/larry-levis/

remark
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/pablo-nerudas-lost-poems-music-of-another-mind/news-story/df2b45d19476c81b75155482802a43f8
 * Pablo Neruda’s ‘lost’ poems: music of another mind

Future
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 * https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/03/16/identity-crisis/


 * http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/eastern-origins-capitalism


 * http://quarterlyconversation.com/let-me-make-a-snowman-john-gardner-william-gass-and-the-pedersen-kid


 * https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/ecuador-after-correa/


 * https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/if-progressives-dont-wake-up-to-how-awful-obama-was-their-movement-will-fail-291fc214325f


 * http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem


 * https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-be-silenced.html?mc_cid=f01379e157&mc_eid=6e6089926b

DAA
What's shakin' DAA bloggers? I came here to post this fascinating article that I read yesterday on Angkor Wat, of which I knew nothing before, except in the movies. And yo, I learned a new word while reading it, "conurbation"---

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170309-the-mystery-of-angkor-wat

And how 'bout this as it relates to the recent false consciousness discussion here at the DAA?:

http://iwallerstein.com/the-falsity-of-false-consciousness/

Smart guy, that Wallerstein, wouldn't ya'll say? Maybe another GSOTWH?

Hey, but how goes this Chris Hedges issue? Man that dude surely has got some memory problems as it relates to PTSD. No kiddin', ya'll. I know because my wife has PTSD. And I'm NOT talking memory loss here, Wafers. Not precisely. We're talkin' 'bout the "inability to make new memories," a rarely discussed issue that effects some--maybe not all-- who have PTSD. Yeah, a kind of damaged brain. Unfortunately, all that aside, Hedges seems to be an arrogant prick, or kind of an asshole, and that's not caused by PTSD (!!), but maybe adds to his problems. But who knows? More to say about this little understood aspect of PTSD, but the half-page rule means that's for another day...holler..check..

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/10/the-ghosts-within-a-journalists-struggle-with-ptsd/

Yo whad up DAA bloggers! Ok here's a block of instruction for ya'll on searching this blog site, because obviously some of you don't know how to. Ok here we go: let's say you want to find out if this blog has ever had a discussion about Pitirim Sorokin. Enter the following into your favorite search engine, EXACTLY like this:

site:http://morrisberman.blogspot.com Pitirim Sorokin

Again you type the word "site" followed by the colon mark, but pay attention because there's NO SPACE between site, the colon, and the web address. Then a single space followed by the search term. Does it work? Let's see: how many search results does this method yield using the search term "Pitirim Sorokin"? Let's look at three search engines: the Blogger search engine (in the upper left hand corner of this page) yields only a pathetic two (2) "hits." Google yields eleven (11) results. Yahoo yields nine (9). However, my favorite search engine is DuckDuckGo, which yields twenty-nine (29) results. Questions? Ok, thank me another time. Well, I'm bored, so now I'm going to search for info on this site re: the publication of the 5 vol. "Cornerstones of the Mittnaic Philosophy" which apparently Kiss Tuchis Press has dropped. Mmm...I wonder when the term douche bag was first used here? Wheeeee....

Comment
<!-- These 3 icons knew that a terrible mistake had Benin made going all the way back through the founding (foundering) corridors of the Republic Yo, check out these 2 quotes I found, They're both used as epigraphs in Charles Bowden's book "Blood Orchid". I immediately thought of y'all, 'cause probably only Wafers would truly "get it":

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasury of the earth...could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years...If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." (—Abraham Lincoln, 1838)

"Gold was discovered there, a railroad is built, and beautiful forests are being swept away, and the virgin lakes & streams robbed of their trout and I am forced to choose this great city, for the final act of my drama and life. I feel like apologizing but on the whole it is the best I can do. (—General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1888, explaining why he retired to New York City instead of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)

What ya'll think? Uncanny in their prescience, if I can put it that way, eh?!!

Greg Grandin
The Strange Career of American Exceptionalism

Michel Butor

 * http://www.france24.com/en/20160825-french-writer-michel-butor-dies-aged-89-family


 * Michel Butor, born in Mons-en-Barœul the September 14, 1926 and death August 24, 2016 in Contamine-sur-Arve, was poet, novelist , essayist , art critic and translator French

He is famous for his novel La Modification ( 1957 ), a major work of the New novel for the part of his work devoted to art books, and his academic work on French literature.

Michel Butor was French language teacher abroad (particularly in Egypt ) and professor of philosophy at the International School of Geneva in the 1950s after his failures in the aggregation of philosophy. He began an academic career as a professor of literature, first the US, then in France at the University of Nice and finally to Geneva University until his retirement in 1991.

It is known to the public [3] as a novelist, particularly as the author of The Change [5], a novel written almost entirely in the second person plural ( "you"). This image of the author is probably unfair, in the sense that Michel Butor has definitively broken with novel writing after Degrees in 1960 with the publication of Mobile in 1962.

After trying in his first books to balance both a certain detachment from the traditional form of the novel and a desire to represent the contemporary world, and relating to the group New Roman ( Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet , Claude Simon ) he chose new experimental forms, from Mobile, great work done by various collages (American encyclopedias, car descriptions, newspaper articles, etc.) to try to account for the astonishing reality of the contemporary United States.

This willingness to experiment to represent the world is found in all his works, whether travelogues (series The Genius of the Place), dreams of accounts (dreams of material), or its numerous collaborations with painters and contemporary artists (collected in the series of Illustrations). This work with painters gradually came to constitute a new plan of his literary interventions by its "on" approach "with" and "in" the painting. The critical text of the early (for the record his first art critic dedicated to Max Ernst in 1945) eventually be replaced by a myriad of more or less limited edition books that question the notion of cross works.

He collaborated with a large number of artists to produce book-objects and artist books.

From the late 1950s, Michel Butor wrote texts for musical parts Henri Pousseur (Your Faust (1960-1968), Répons (1960-1965) The trial of the young dog (1974-1978) the voices rose (1982), storms Declarations (1989), lessons from hell (1991), the Hourglass of the Phoenix (1993), etc.).

He abandoned the genre of the novel itself since the 1960s Besides numerous tests writing, he practices various kinds akin to poetry.

In 2006 begins the publication of his complete works in thirteen volumes by the Editions of the difference under the direction of Mireille Calle-Gruber.

In 2013, he received the Grand French Academy Prize for Literature for his body of work.

He lived in Lucinges, a village in Haute-Savoie near Geneva.

August 24, 2016, he died at the hospital of Contamine-sur-Arve in Haute-Savoie, not far from his residence [4]

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<!-- Yo, DAA fellow travelers. Wha's up? Hey did ya'll post this essay already by Bernhard Guenther? Saying that Trump is America's shadow that's never been deeply acknowledged? Sorry, haven't read MB's CTOS, 'cause it looks like he's been talkin' 'bout these things for a long time:

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/01/17/a-completely-different-perspective-on-trumps-presidency-this-will-make-you-think/

Yo, Patrick Fitzgerald! - just now saw your note. Yeah, that writer-Yonatan Zunger- of 'Trial Ballon for a Coup?' overplays his analysis in the end when he concludes that we may be witnessing a coup. Maybe Guenther would say that Zunger's conclusion is merely a reactive projection. Or Waferinos might say his analysis completely misses the mark, b/c Zunger comes at the problem from the wrong direction. B/c any analysis of this kind, if it's worth it's salt, must begin--at least tacitly-- with the recognition that "America failed" already (past tense), before proceeding with the diagnosis and prescription. Instead, Zunger concludes that maybe Trump's people are floating up a trial balloon and so watch out, b/c maybe a coup is coming next? Waferinos might point out or ask: isn't this how America has always conducted its business? Doesn't WAF show how we've always marginalized alternative voices & traditions, and therefore that supposed "trial balloon" took off long ago? And so yo, listen up Zunger: this ain't no coup... baby this is karma! Or what about the corporate state? Is Zunger talking about the "corporate coups d'état in slow motion" that's already happened, according to Chris Hedges? The latter says the coup is over now, and they won, and so all we have left is rebellion. Would Guenther say that is more reactive projection, or that Hedges has some shadow work to do. Zunger is confused, it would seem, about how all this is happening, so yeah, "overplayed."

This WP article has been following along with the viral readership of the piece and it makes two crucial points:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/02/01/the-cult-of-the-paranoid-medium-post/

feel you are investigating what escapes official history—what’s beneath the level of perception or above it—too micro or macro.

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<!-- "Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. They guide adaptive behaviors. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be."(John Michael Greer) Baruch Spinoza: “Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
 * Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
 * Mark Mason: Here come the attacks on the Washington outsider, Jill Stein. These attacks are coming from the LIBERAL PRESS, not the right wing. Make note: The ENEMY of the PEOPLE is not the far right Trumpism. The enemy is the educated liberal professional class. The enemy of the people is the educated class. I will say it again, the enemy of the people is the class of highly-educated LIBERALS.The educated class protect the power and wealth of the ruling class. Why? Because the educated class are given some minor privileges of money and social status which the educated class do not want to lose.
 * radical changes in perception as to what the nature of reality is, for instance in the changing outlook from magic to science.
 * Henry Giroux: When you can't translate private troubles into larger public issues, you have no way of understanding the forces of oppression in which you find yourself. One of the great successes of neoliberalism has been to eliminate all questions of the structural, the social - and how they work against people in ways that suggest that they should not be involved in collective action. It represents a form of organized powerlessness at the heart of neoliberalism.”
 * https://thisishell.com/interviews/915-henry-giroux
 * As I've tried to give some signal and coherence to my reading/writing. The streets are busy, I will not find you there.
 * Mark Mason: If people don't understand what you're saying, keep saying it, and saying it differently, but don't stop saying it. I had to read some essays by Howard Zinn, Chomsky, Hedges, Arundhati Roy, and good ole' Molly Ivins several times over, or think about a week later. Americans simply cannot understand normal information about the world. They have lost the language of liberation, or never knew it. Keep saying it. The message, if dumbed down, watered down, made to seem less scary than it is, will only confuse people.
 * Jeffrey St. Clair: "Same pay-to-play press corps that has badgered Trump for booting out reporters from events is silent on Obama administration's gagging of Julian Assange."
 * Noam Chomsky: "Well I think we should start from a principle which derives from the enlightenment and classical liberalism. The principle that any form of authority, domination, and hierarchy must be assumed initially to be illegitimate. It carries a burden of proof. The burden of proof is on the structure of authority. It has to demonstrate that it has legitimacy in specific circumstances… and sometimes… it should be a pretty high burden."
 * "Because it thinks by music and image, by story and passion and voice, poetry can do what other forms of thinking cannot: approximate the actual flavor of life"—Chancellor Jane Hirshfield in her essay collection "Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry."
 * Erich Fromm: “Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume."
 * Edward Abbey: “Democracy has always been a rare and fragile institution in human history. As social conflict tends to become more severe in this country, there will inevitably be a tendency on the part of the authoritarian element- always present in our history- to suppress individual freedoms, to utilize the refined techniques of police surveillance (not excluding torture of course) in order to preserve- not wilderness!- but the status quo, the privileged positions of those who so largely control the economic and governmental institutions of the United States.”
 * Noam Chomsky:"There are, I think, by now four Latin American countries that offer Asylum to Snowden, not one European country – in fact they won’t even let him cross their borders. Why? Because the master in Washington tells them “we don’t want him to”. And Snowden, it’s important to recall, performed an enormous service, a patriotic service in fact, to the people of the United States and the world. He revealed to the population, what your government is doing to you. That’s just what he should have done. That’s the responsibility of a decent citizen. The idea that you should be punished for this is really grotesque, and that Europe participates in it is even worse. Same is true for Assange."
 * Giorgio Agamben: "The Trobar clus of the Provencal troubadours is itself, in a certain way, the transformation of the language d'oc into a secret jargon (in a way not so different from that of Villon when he wrote some of his ballads in the argot of the coquillards). But what this jargon speaks of is nothing more than another figure of language, marked as the place and the object of a love experience. From this point of view, it is not surprising that, in more recent debates, the experience of the pure existence of language (that is, the experience of the factum loquendi) could coincide, according to Wittgenstein, with ethics: nor is it surprising that Benjamin could entrust the the figure of a redeemed humanity to a "pure anguage" that was irreducible to a grammar or to a particular language."– Giorgio Agamben, Languages and Peoples
 * (Jeffrey St. Clair: "A useful read this morning?) Sartre: "When I vote, I abdicate my power — that is, the possibility everyone has of joining others to form a sovereign group, which would have no need of representatives. By voting I confirm the fact that we, the voters, are always other than ourselves and that none of us can ever desert the seriality in favor of the group, except through intermediaries. For the serialized citizen, to vote is undoubtedly to give his support to a party. But it is even more to vote for voting, as Kravetz says; that is, to vote for the political institution that keeps us in a state of powerless serialization."
 * Morris Berman: "The real crux of it all is class war, and giving the finger to a neoliberal pattern that has been in place since the fall of the USSR. This includes Washington, Wall St., the NYT, and the whole world of the intellectual/financial elite--clearly represented by Hillary. These white, uneducated folks who have been screwed by the neoliberal economy believe they have been betrayed by that establishment--and they're rt!"
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
 * Walter Benjamin: “Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves.”
 * Marc Bernstein: John Michael Greer came to more or less the same conclusion, using simple reasoning. Our modes of perception are fine-tuned in an evolutionary sense to allow us to survive and to pass on our genes, but not necessarily to have anything close to an objective view of the world around us.
 * Paul Craig Roberts: “Before I give an explanation, let’s be sure we all know what an explanation is. An explanation is not a justification. The collapse of education in the US is so severe that many Americans, especially younger ones, cannot tell the difference between an explanation and a defense, justification, or apology for what they regard as a guilty person or party. If an explanation is not damning or sufficiently damning of what they want damned, the explanation is interpreted as an excuse for the object of their scorn. In America, reason and objective analysis have taken a backseat to emotion.”
 * Phil Rockstroh: "A writer, or simply an individual in possession of an intrepid heart, must proceed to and navigate the psychical terrain of dangerous places within. It is imperative that he/she descend into the danger zone known as the soul. The soul is not a realm inhabited by weightless beings radiating beatific light backed by a soundscape of tinkling New Age musical treacle. Rather, it is a place of broken, wounded wanderers; inchoate longing; searing lamentation; the confabulations of imperfect memory; of rutting and rage; transgression, arias of decay, melancholia, fragmented language, and devouring darkness." Image: Dog], Francisco Goya
 * Charles Bowden: "I’ve lived with vultures. Vultures live in family groups, and are extremely benign. It’s like knowing a bunch of Quakers. They get this awful reputation because they share a trait with human beings — they eat dead things after they get warm."
 * John Berger: “The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place."
 * "In the absence of other sources of meaning, Americans are left with meritocracy, a game of status and success, along with the often ruthless competition it engenders."
 * Robert Archambeau: "Didn't John Stuart Mill describe his prominence among English philosophers as an illusion created by the flatness of the surrounding terrain?"
 * John le Carré: “Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived."
 * Bill McKibben: "The virtues of digital turn out to be the vices as well. Having all the music on earth at your instant disposal turns out to be almost the same as having none; Spotify’s playlists show people picking the same tunes over and over. Digital life’s too self-absorbed—either we evolve quickly away from the social primates we have always been or else we will quietly suffer from the solipsism inherent in staring at ourselves reflected in a screen. It’s too jumpy; concentration, from which all that is worthwhile emerges, is the great loss."
 * Quit bombing people & stealing their oil & there won't be a refugee crisis.
 * Jeff St. Clair subscribes to the mook theory:"Donald Trump is not some strange new political specimen. There are hundreds of DAs, county sheriffs and mayors across the country cut from the same bellicose mould. That’s one of the things the Beltway press just can’t understand. The Trump-style of politics is intimately familiar to most Americans. Trump is exceptional only in his extreme functional limitations as a leader of the Imperium, debilities for which we must all be grateful. Trump’s ineptitude is what makes him a real threat to the “Deep State,” not his bro-crush on Putin. The president’s daily screw-ups have paralyzed the government, stalling the savage dreams of Paul Ryan’s wrecking crew. Gridlock is good. Long may it endure."
 * Derrick Jensen: "Trauma Makes amnesiacs of us all."
 * Henry David Thoreau: 21 hrs · "We only truly see, he said, when we look. “The scarlet oak must, in a sense, be in your eye when you go forth,” he wrote in “Autumnal Tints.” “We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads.”"
 * Anthony Ryder: "Identity Politics are the crumbs swept off the table, after capital gets what it wants. Important but not foundational, a booby prize from the neoliberals in lieu of actual economic or social justice." (Facebook comment from Anthony Ryder).
 * George Monbiot: "In the UK, the BBC this month again invited the climate-change denier Nigel Lawson on to the Today programme, in the mistaken belief that impartiality requires a balance between correct facts and false ones. The broadcaster seldom makes such a mess of other topics, because it takes them more seriously."
 * Suzy Hansens: "That is largely because the United States’ Cold War architects deliberately constructed an empire that concealed its existence through language. As critics such as Nils Gilman have chronicled, academics working for the U.S. government in the mid-century knew not to use the word “Westernization” to describe their economic or political interventions abroad, for fear they might be compared to their European imperialist predecessors. Americans were taught to view the United States as simply the ideal modern nation — the shining city on a hill, as Ronald Reagan put it (echoing the early Puritans who settled in Massachusetts), that all foreign countries should aspire to emulate. Even if the United States “made mistakes” abroad, Americans were people with uniquely good intentions who wanted to help foreigners along to a better, freer life."
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson: "“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
 * Marshall McLuhan: "We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."
 * Thomas De Quincey: “The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted: and yet the great majority trust to nothing else.”
 * Albert Einstein: “What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
 * Morris Berman: "Since I'm not a strict believer in the Weismann barrier (soma vs. germ plasm), and think Lamarck was partly correct, I suspect that the meme of cruelty goes back a long ways in American history and ultimately seeped into our DNA. Over time, it got reinforced, became more vicious. By now, the factor of nature vs. nurture is a moot pt. When you spend time outside the US, you begin to realize how profoundly nasty Americans are, both personally and institutionally. A sadder way of life, I can't imagine."


 * Morris Berman: "There are countries, as in Europe, where it is understood that people do have various disabilities and require support. The American philosophy is a zero-sum game, sink or swim; and if you are hurting, too bad 4u. The US pretty much amounts to institutionalized cruelty."

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 * But reading hrough some of the DAA archives, I think I now realize that our fellow DAA travelers might not agree with the 'false consciousness' characterization that the author here, Norman Pollack, is putting forth. Not sure how Pollack is using that concept. It's not 'false consciousness', because we know that Americans authored this disaster quite deliberately, from the very beginning of its history, over and over again, in a kind of frenzied joyous suicidal mania, the consequences be damned. They wouldn't have ever changed their behavior, really, even if they knew better: We weren't put on this earth for an awakening, damn it. That's what it means to be an American! But whoever this author is, he's otherwise hitting the marks, I think.

"Two decades ago now a long-time activist said to me that Walmart and its cheap plastic crap was the only thing standing between the United States and a fascist revolution."

http://www.sevenstories.com/blogs/35-one-does-not-hate-when-one-can-despise-derrick-jensen-on-donald-trump-and-how-we-got-here

Excellent essay and right up your DAA alley. But yo, I wonder if y'all will find the author's ideas re: organizing and resistance problematic and unconvincing. Reading thru the archives, DAA bloggers don't buy Into this kinda thing, or find it kinda dumb or naive. Take for example Chris Hedges statement that he doesn't fight fascism because he thinks he's going to win. No. He fight fascism because it's fascism. Seems like many Wafers find that kind of stance to be laughable, or naive, or dangerous. Meanwhile it seems as if this other author, linked to above, is positing this same kind of Hedgian "wages of rebellion" argument with a different twist. But yo, what do I know!!