Figure 0. the Prehistory of Trump: from the origins of language to the end of print literacy in the United States
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| Fig. 0 can be illuminated by reference to what The Ages of American Capitalism omits, but which are the key coniderations of using a text constructively The Social Origins of Language Ages omits in a most thoroughgoing way any consideration of the development of homo sapiens' cognizing powers, simply taking for granted the availability of <the skill set> necessary for the activities of thought and language that are the sine qua non of modern human economic activity. It thus omits the central praxiological characteristic of progressivism, the New Deal, and the acitivities and contexts that resulted in the industrial organization of the workers in the auto industry, circa 1920s to 1940s. It also omits the history of violence, and thus the one of the major dimensions of the history of the united states and of the world. And while it addresses the world of desire and fantasy that is at the heart of modern consumption (the consumer dreamscape, pp. 502-509), it simply notes the existence and the importance of fantasy, rather than digging into such phenomena. For example, Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy |
Jonathan Levy, Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (Random House, 2021)
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Key Academic Texts: Bildung
Key Academic Texts: Framing Texts Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014) Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (Routledge, 2002) A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations (Harvard, 1976) Christian J. Emden, Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (University of Illinois Press, 2005) Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) the post-modern self Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010) Steve Hal, Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum, Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: crime, exclusion and the new culture of narcissism (Willan Publishing, 2008) Key Life Sermon on the Mount Luria Beiser Susan Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (2016) Robert Muchembled, A History of Violence Envy Theory Envy Theory Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy Envy: Theory and Research Richard Smith 1) from Hunt Hawkins, “Heart of Darkness and Racism” in Heart of Darkness: Authoritative Texts--Backgrounds, and Contexts--Criticism, Paul B. Armstrong, ed. (Norton Critical Editions) pp. 373-4. Emphasis added. 2) as distinct from the European other. 3) Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (2018); Siege: Trump Under Fire (2019); Landslide: the Final Days of the Trump White House (2021) 4) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's comment--"he's a fucking moron"--is only the most well-known. |
| Fig. 0 can be illuminated by reference to what The Ages of American Capitalism omits, but which are the key coniderations of The Social Origins of Language. Ages
omits in a most thoroughgoing way any consideration of the development
of homo sapiens' cognizing powers, simply taking for granted the
availability of <the skill set> necessary for the activities of
thought and language that are the sine qua non
of modern human economic activity. It thus omits the central
praxiological characteristic of progressivism, the New Deal, and the
acitivities and contexts that resulted in the industrial organization
of the workers in the auto industry, circa 1920s to 1940s. It also omits the history of violence, and thus the one of the major dimensions of the history of the united states and of the world. And while it addresses the world of desire and fantasy that is at the heart of modern consumption (the consumer dreamscape, pp. 502-509), it simply notes the existence and the importance of fantasy, rather than digging into such phenomena. For example, Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy |
Key Academic Texts
Framing Texts Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014) Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (Routledge, 2002) Jonathan Levy, Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (Random House, 2021) A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations (Harvard, 1976) Christian J. Emden, Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (University of Illinois Press, 2005) Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) |
| Implicit in Fig. 0 is a critique of what I call, with some trepidation, the Cartesian idiocy of modern discourse. |
link: cartesian |