I would like to propose a new conceptualization of ideology – that it is the inverse of addiction. If addiction is understood as a behavior used to relieve suffering in…
One has to be realistic. The chosen, fermatan refrain of those most energized by the cynical weariness of how things really are. Well of course it is true: things really…
When we hold the scope of human activity into view in order to categorize that which is good from that which is bad, that is, to separate that which is…
⊻ They say truth corresponds to, yet is unaffected by, reality; it transcends human relation. It is therefore ontologically uncertain. Meanwhile, opinion transcends human falsification and therefore remains uniquely grounded…
Its truth is never exhausted. Humanity, tireless, strives toward self understanding. The problems we face are indeterminate. Solutions of the day often cause crises in the future. Human agency stands…
The functional success of a system can appear to prove its lack of normative value, It does not mean, however, that the concept is wrong but that its mechanisms are…
The functional success of a system can appear to prove its lack of normative value, It does not mean, however, that the concept is wrong but that its mechanisms are…
To the Enlightened Ones A strong victim is still a victim and a damaged hero, still a hero. These modalities, blown into the clay characters of modern drama, have only…
The ideology of instrumental reason, interpreted as realism without ideology, valorizes the production of models. In the past, this meant limiting the power of belief, forbidding irrationality as formal constraints…
Like heaps, evaluation of ideologically framed social structures should belong to the analytical domain of vague predications. This probably seems obvious. Of course ideology is vague, why else would it…