and the
Descent into Barbarism
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them
in the legs or something?"
| LEFT* |
RIGHT |
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| Topology |
depressive |
paranoid-schizoid |
| Political style |
progressive |
proto-Dorian |
| Cognitive mode |
concrete & pre-op |
pre-op and gestural |
| Regime type |
rational-bureaucratic |
patrimonial |
| The
original impetus for this kind of analysis emerged from a reading of
the comments published in The Connecticut Post of August 31, 2006 re.
the Jonathon Edington murder case (Rabids/Thoughtfuls).
I noticed the deep similarities between this set of comments and the
pro- and anti-war demonstrators' signs in a CNN newscast, 4:00 to 6:00
PM, 9-15-07. Figures 1 is what resulted from this line of thought. Note the distinction between the topology (where there is a structure on a set of elements) and the topography (which is simply descriptive) of the two-party system. By topologies I mean the following: take the set of all statements made in a well-defined bounded discursive space (the two-party space). First, the rhetorical elements form two disjoint sets. Second, there is a structure on each data set: a left structure and a right structure. Each data set has both a psychoanalytic and a cognitive dimension. These psychological-semiotic structures are provided by Simon Clarke, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). The Clarke text is deployed as interpretive grid. Without this psychoanalytic framework it is impossible to understand the rhetorical performances of right-wing political actors--and the responses of their right-wing audiences. The cognitive-semiotic structures are provided by standard developmental theory (page, bibliography). Pre-operational and gestural cognitive modalities dominate the right rhetorical set. More abstract (formal operational) and factual (concrete operational) dominate on the left. Indeed, the fundamental character of the left is its committment to science, explicitly, and bildung, implicityly. |
pro- and anti-war demonstrators' signs
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pro-war
demo signs: "Traitors Go to Hell!"
"Deport
Anti-war Protesters!"
"Treason!" anti-war
demo signs: "End
the War Now!"
"U.S. Out of
Iraq!"
"Support the Troops!
End the War!"
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Lyndal Roper on Q-Anon: Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale, 2004):
The hatred and terror that drove people to such
violence were shaped by social tensions and religious beliefs, but the
passions themselves derived from deeply rooted fantasies, extravagent
in their evocation of demonic lovers and Satanic revels. These
fantasies shared, for the most part, a standard structure and a similar set of primary themes. p. 7
(Click on Rabids vs. Thoughfuls to see all comments.)
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Rabid (n=3/10) 1. Put me down for 100.00$ for this guys defence. He was kind. In Texas they would have never found the body. I tored of all the nambepambe judges letting these monster room free. . . . 2. This father is hero. Hopefully, those of us who feel the same will continue to lobby the law makers to pass laws making any indecent contact with a child AND dealing in any way with kiddie-porn, a felony, carrying HEAVY jail sentences. The fact that this dad is an attorney and knows the watered-down, perp-favored laws, says volumes. He meted out justice, swiftly and fairly. God bless you, Mr. Edington! 3. About time someone takes the law in their own hands Thoughtful (n=3/8) 1. I heard the child was 2. Most 2 year olds barely talk and most not capable of making up a story. How did the child tell the mother about this incident? 2. So many are making comments without knowing the facts. What really did happen? Think about both families and how they are both feeling. In the USA we are supposed be to innocent until proven guilty. And does being convicted of driving under the influence make this an automatic assumption of guilt. Learn the facts before you judge............ 3. I find it extremely disturbing that a man can be tried, convicted and executed without one shred of evidence, in the court of public madness and extremism. Has our paranoia become so intesified that we are ready to commit cold blooded murder merely on speculation and rumor? The article stated: MacNamara said James did not have a criminal record and was not under "any investigation alleging inappropriate activity regarding children." On May 1, 2001, James pleaded guilty in Superior Court to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was sentenced to six months, suspended after two days, followed by 18 months probation. He was also fined $500. If people think the above charges warrant the death penalty by stabbing, then the real danger to society are the majority of the posters here. |
| Connecticut Murder Case: Selected Comments Rabid Put me down for 100.00$ for this guys defence. He was kind. In Texas they would have never found the body. I tored of all the nambepambe judges letting these monster room free. I tell my kids not to worry about whats on TV, worry about you neighbor! I don;t want to tramatize them but damn the world has just changed for the worst. Nothing new, its alwas been there, with media we haer more of it. You'd thing a good judge would use it to their advantage and really knock these type of creep down and lock them up and trow away the key. email me Jon, and Thanks Allen Allen Winn | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:09 pm | # This father is hero. Hopefully, those of us who feel the same will continue to lobby the law makers to pass laws making any indecent contact with a child AND dealing in any way with kiddie-porn, a felony, carrying HEAVY jail sentences. The fact that this dad is an attorney and knows the watered-down, perp-favored laws, says volumes. He meted out justice, swiftly and fairly. God bless you, Mr. Edington! c | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:07 pm | # About time someone takes the law in their own hands, So what did the FFLD PD do when they had the compliant about the perv standing naked in the window, FFLD PD get off your ASS and start working instead of worrying about traffic voilation..... I hope i am a jurer for this trial, FREE FREE FREE chris gallo | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:06 pm | # I've always thought I would do the same if any person harmed my son. Thank you Mr. Edington from fathers everywhere. I wish this happened everyday. Perverts would think twice. Anton | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 11:51 am | # This man should be lift on the shoulders of every father in this country and given three cheers. What he did to his neighbor is nothing compared to what that little girl will have to live with. We should all rally to let our voices be heard and help this man out. He is no danger to anyone except the man who harmed his daughter and that is very well taken care of. Chris | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 11:44 am | # Wow I was expecting to chime in with the exact comments expressed here. Earlier when the death was reported I said it was probably going to be over something silly since nothing was reported about the reason. videophotog | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 11:35 am | # This guy should be given the key to the city. The only thing the guy did wrong was that he should have just gotten rid of the body so the tax paying people of conn. wouldn't have to pick up the bill for the trial. This is the way it should be done until the laws on sexual predation are corrected. Joel | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 11:07 am | # I have heard many a father say that is exactly what they would do to any sick man who would dare....The tragedy is not that he killed a sick man the tragedy is what was done to that little girl and what their family will have to endure in the future. Diane | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 11:06 am | # I hope he gets off and doesn't serve one day in jail because he got rid of a low life useless person a pediphile pig! B | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 9:34 am | # Thoughtful I heard the child was 2. Most 2 yearolds barely talk and most not capable of making up a story. How did the child tell the mother about this incident? lisa | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 1:31 pm | # So many are making comments without knowing the facts. What really did happen?? Think about both families and how they are both feeling. In the USA we are supposed be to innocent until proven guilty. And does being convicted of driving under the influence make this an automatic assumption of guilt. Learn the facts before you judge............ Susan | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 1:07 pm | # I find it extremely disturbing that a man can be tried, convicted and executed without one shred of evidence, in the court of public madness and extremism. Has our paranoia become so intesified that we are reasy to commit cold blooded murder merely on speculation and rumor? The article stated: MacNamara said James did not have a criminal record and was not under "any investigation alleging inappropriate activity regarding children." On May 1, 2001, James pleaded guilty in Superior Court to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was sentenced to six months, suspended after two days, followed by 18 months probation. He was also fined $500. If people think the above charges warrant the death penalty by stabbing, then the real danger to society are the majority of the posters here. TL Myers | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:59 pm | # Im glad your all so quick to judge. Do you know the facts? To me something as important as molestation of a child should not been done by a phone call. Where was the parents when this 2 year old child was left alone? That just seems strange to me. people need to question that. anonymous | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:37 pm | # I am an empty nest father of two, a daughter and a son. I too would have the urge to hunt down and exterminate anyone who hurt either of my children or my wife. Crimes against children are the very worst and are why these types of people have to be protected from other lawbreakers. Nevertheless, it seems strange to me that he would take the action he did based on a phone call and not speaking with his daughter himself. I would have got myself to my daughter's side first to talk to and comfort her and my wife. There were already hard feelings with this neighbor and the phone conversation after a long day at work was the spark. This man is no hero to me regardless of the evidence that may come. Charlie | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:19 pm | # I am an empty nest father of two, a daughter and a son. I too would have the urge to hunt down and exterminate anyone who hurt either of my children or my wife. Crimes against children are the very worst and are why these types of people have to be protected from other lawbreakers. Nevertheless, it seems strange to me that he would take the action he did based on a phone call and not speaking with his daughter himself. I would have got myself to my daughter's side first to talk to and comfort her and my wife. There were already hard feelings with this neighbor and the phone conversation after a long day at work was the spark. This man is no hero to me regardless of the evidence that may come. Charlie | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:19 pm | # I am a bit dismayed at the comments here. If this guy did molest the little girl then I have no problem with the father walking away. However, every comment so far has convicted this man of molestation on the word of a 2 year old, and the phone call of a wife. Did the 2 year old just come out and say this to her mother? Did her mother bring this revelation out of the child? We don't know, yet you are ready to convict a man that you do not even know. The police have not confirmed anything. How can anyone condone killing of another person based on rumor, and at this point that is all that it is. Joe Duh | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:15 pm | # Being the mother of a murdered daughter, you might think I would approve of this but I dont..We have due process whether or not we think t he process is just or not..This man is innocent until proven guilty..A two year old child has to be questioned carefully..We cannot as a society take the law into our own hands..Change the laws pertaining to molestation, and violent crimes..Pay attention ,contact legislators because it could be you or someone you love one day..Put these people away, but do it in a legal manner. gail addenbrooke | Email | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 12:10 pm | # |
| *Progressivism and liberalism are opposites, not twins. The genetic ontology of progressivism is bildung and the will to power; The genetic ontology of liberalism is nihilism. Today's liberalism is referred to as the left, thus covering over the genetic-ontological transformation of the post-war years (see Hall et. al.) The New Deal is not represented in the above figure and table, The Two-Party System: Semiotic Regimes. Donald Trump is an effect of this genetic-ontological transformation of progressivism into nihilism. More on this later. |
Besitzburgertum and Bildungsburgertum
| from Franco Moretti, The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Verso, 2000) And yet, in novel after novel,
the protagonist of the Bildungroman, whose social origin is often in
what German historians call Bildungsburgertum, or bourgeoisie of culture, does not direct his steps toward the Besitzburgertum,
or bourgeoisie of property, but rather--think of the frequent episode
of the hero's 'farewell to his bourgeois friend'--toward an
aristocratic universe with which it feels a far deeper kinship." p.
viii-ix) ... " . . . outside of work, what is the bourgeois? what does
he do? how does he live? (p. viii-ix)
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| Psychometrics ("Q"): Flynn, Nisbett, Ceci; Hernstein and Murray
•IQ tests
•PISA •MEAP |
| Evolutionary: Donald, Mind: cognitive evolution Table 7.1 p. 260
•episodic (primate)
•mimetic (homo erectus, h. sapients) •oral-mythic (h. sapiens sapiens) •theoretic (required by modern capitalism*) •post-theoretic (Foucault, Sellars, Deleuze) |
| Developmental: Piaget et. al.
•pre-operational
•concrete operrational •formal operational •post-formal thought (Commons) |
| Psychoanalytic: Freud-Klein: mechanisms of defense
•projection
•displacement •reaction formation •denial •identification |
| Cultural-historical: Vygotsky, Luria, Ong, Bruner, Flynn, Tomasello. The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014)
• zone of proximal development
• joint intentionality • intersubjectivity • niche construction |
Four Stages of Piaget's Theory of Development
Cognitive-linguistic Cardinality (orders of magnitude/index of cognitive complexity)
the Quantum Heterogeneity of Dasein in the context of Merlin Donald, A Mind so Rare, Table 7.1, p. 260 (Apologies to George Cantor) אi index of cognitive complexity (Ceci) |
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| The Development of Children (Sixth Edition) by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, and Sheila R. Cole Development Through the Lifespan, Laura E. Berk Jerome Kagan, The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development 2013 Piaget, Genetic Epistemology Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Harvard, 1996) The term
intelligence is often used synonymously with "IQ", "g", or "general
intelligence", especially in some of the psychometric literature. .
. however, the ability to engage in cognitively complex behaviors
will be shown to be independent of IQ, g, or general intelligence . . .
cognitive complexity will be seen to be the more general of the two
notions and the one most theoretically important to keep in mind when
referring to intelligent behavior.22 f |
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The Quantum Heterogeneity of Dasein: Five Genetic Ontologies* (QHD-5) Five "principles of production of practices" (Bourdieu, In Other Words, 108)
*Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and genesis: philosophy as differential ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004) Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology |
I. primate II. paleolithic III. ressentiment & the mechanisms of defense IV. bildung & the will to power V. nihilism |
| I. Primate |
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Language and Literacy
•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) A. R. Luria, The Making of Mind (Harvard, 1979) Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Maryanne Wolf, Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (HarperCollins, 2018) •Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Pantheon, 2019) •Allan Mazur, Biosociology of Dominance and Deference (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) •Christopher Boesch, Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Juan Carlos Gomez, Apes, Monkees, Children and the Growth of Mind (Harvard, 2004) John C. Mitani et. al., eds., The Evolution of Primate Societies, (University of Chicago Press, 2012) William Calvin, A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond (Oxford, 2004) Patrimonialism
Franz de Waal, Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Harper & Row, 1982) Allan Mazur, Biosociology of Dominance and Deference (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) T. D. Price and G. M. Feinman, Chapter 1, “Social Inequality and the Evolution of Human Social Organization”, in Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality (Springer, 2010) Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad, Patrimonial Power in the Modern World (Sage, 2011) Allan Mazur, Biosociology of Dominance and Deference (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) J. Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition (Yale, 2013) J. Arch Getty, Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933 - 1938 (Cambridge, 1985) Boris N. Mironov, "Peasant Popular Culture and the Origins of Soviet Authoritarianism," in Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia, Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, eds. (Princeton University Press, 1994) Leonid Heretz, Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightement: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001) Michael Lynd, Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, (Basic Books, 2002) Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852) Philippe-Joseph Salazar, "Reconnaissances of Marx," Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 48, No. 4 Shalom Avineri, “Marxism and Nationalism,” Journal of Contemporary History Vol 26, No. 3/4, pp. 637-657 Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum, After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (2017) Richard M. Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism: foreign policy, domestic politics, and internal security, 1946-1948 (New York University Press, 1985) |
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Culture/Mind
Philip G. Chase, The Emergence of Culture. The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life (Springer, 2006) John F. Hoffecker, Landscapes of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archeology of Thought (Columbia, 2011) Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, and Kevin Laland, eds., Culture Evolves (Oxford University Press, 2012) Renfrew, Frith, and Malafouras, The Sapient Mind: Archeology meets Neuroscience (Oxford, 2009) Timothy R. Pauketat, An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America (Routledge, 2012) Michael Tomasello, Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014) Lambros Malafouris and Colin Renfrew, How Things Shape the Mind : A Theory of Material Engagement (MIT Press, 2013) Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett, eds., Social Brain, Distributed Mind (Oxford, 2010) Andrew Whiten and David Erdal, "The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2012) 367, 2119–212 Carel P. van Schaik and Judith M. Burkart, "Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2011) 366, 1008–1016 T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman, Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality (Springer, 2010) Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus, The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (Harvard, 2012) |
| from Franco Moretti, The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Verso, 2000) And yet, in novel
after novel, the protagonist of the Bildungroman, whose social origin
is often in what German historians call Bildungsburgertum, or bourgeoisie of culture, does not direct his steps toward the Besitzburgertum,
or bourgeoisie of property, but rather--think of the frequent episode
of the hero's 'farewell to his bourgeois friend'--toward an
aristocratic universe with which it feels a far deeper kinship." p.
viii-ix) ... " . . . outside of work, what is the bourgeois? what
does he do? how does he live? (p. viii-ix)
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| fascism in the context of co-evolutionary theory |
III. Ressentiment & the Mechanisms of Defense
(despotic regime, white supremacy, fascism)
(despotic regime, white supremacy, fascism)
| Nietzsche, Freud, Klein. Michael André Bernstein, Bitter Carnival : ressentiment and the abject hero (Princeton University Press, 1992) R. I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (Blackwell, 1987) ) R. I. Moore, The War on Heresy (Harvard, 2012) Frank John Ninivaggi, Envy Theory: Perspectives on the Psychology of Envy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) Simon Clarke, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) Eli Rozik, The roots of theatre: rethinking ritual and other theories of origin (University of Iowa Press, 2002) Fyodor Dostoevski, Notes from Underground Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Tara Westover, Educated "fascism" in Europe Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (Knopf, 2004) Aristotle Kallis, Genocide and Fascism: the Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe (Routledge, 2009) Arno J. Mayer, Dynamics of Counterrevolution in Europe, 1870—1956 (Harper Torchbooks, 1971) Arno J. Mayer, The Persistence Of The Old Regime: Europe To The Great War (Pantheon Books, 1981) R. J. B. Bosworth, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Oxford University Press, 2009) Helmut Walser Smith, The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (Oxford, 2011) Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (W.W. Norton & Co., 1998) Richard Evans, The Third Reich in History and Memory (Oxford, 2016) Franklin Hugh Adler, Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The political development of the industrial bourgeoisie, 1906-1934 (Cambridge, 1995) Mary Vincent, "The Spanish Church and the Popular Front: the experience of Salamanca province," in Martin S. Alexander and Helen Graham, eds., The French and Spanish Popular Fronts (Cambridge University Press, 1989) Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2008) Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (Norton, 2003) Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001) Macgregor Knox, To the Threshold of Power: 1922/33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socalist Dictatorshhips, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2007) "fascism" in the United States Susan Juster, Sacred Violence in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: the Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (2009) Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Chicago, 1983) Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: a Cultural History of Gender and Racein the United States, 1880-1917 (U. of Chicago, 1995) John Pettegrew, Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 (Johns Hopkins, 2007) Anatol Levien, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2005) Joseph E. Lowndes, From the New Deal to the New Right : race and the southern origins of modern conservatism (2008), Bruce Clayton, "No Ordinary History: W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South", in Charles W. Eagles, The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later (University Press of Mississippi, 1992) W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (Alfred A. Knopf, 1941) Dan T Carter, From George Wallace to New Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994 (Louisiana State University Press, 1996) Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Metropolitan Books, 2004) Don E. Carleton, Red scare! Right-wing hysteria, fifties fanaticism, and their legacy in Texas (Austin, Tex. : Texas Monthly Press, 1985) Thomas B. Edsall, Building Red America: the New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (Basic Books, 2006) Michael W. Miles, The Odyssey of the American Right (Oxford University Press, 1980) Richard M. Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism: foreign policy, domestic politics, and internal security, 1946-1948 (New York University Press, 1985) James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America (Hill and Wang, 1994) Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: the Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W. W. Norton, 2009) Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad, Patrimonial Power in the Modern World (Sage, 2011) |
| for the origins of this approach, see test The "Two-Party System": Semiotic Regimes, and The Imus Brouhaha and that which is called "racism" |
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Max Weber Deleuze & Guattari Vincent/McMahon Piaget/Vygotsky Michael Mann This site | Three regimes (charismatic, patrimonial, rational-bureaucratic) Three regimes (primitive, despotic, capitalist) Left vs. Right: (topologies of the two-party system) Cognitive modalities (topologies of the two-party system) Four networks of power Five genetic ontologies (topologies of the two-party system) |
| Nietzsche, Hegel, Vygotsky.
Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr., Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (New York University Press, 1994) Michael Tomasello, Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard, 2019) John Dupré, Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Oxford, 2012) Jerrold Seigal, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2005) Terry Pinkard, Hegel: A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 49-50; 269-275; 369-370; 486-487 Shlomo Avineri, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge University Press, 1972), pp. 77-78; 132-139; 144-147; 166) Franco Moretti, The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Verso, 2000) Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (University of California Press, 2012) Harold Mah, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914 Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air (Penguin, 1988) S.A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2008) Reginald E. Zelnick, ed., Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections (University of California,1998) Reginald E. Zelnick, ed., A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Sëmen Ivanovich Kanatchikov (Stanford, 1986) Adeeb Khalid, Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell, 2015) Mark von Hagen, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship:the Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 (Cornell, 1990) E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage, 1966) Jonathon Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale, 2001) Richard Schneirov, Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97 (University of Illinois Press, 1998) Charles Postel, The Populist Vision (Oxford, 2007) Steve Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (Free Press, 1991) *Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 2000) Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industriaal Democracy and the Origins of Modern America Labor Relations, 1912-1921 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997) |
| Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age ( (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) We are changing, of course,
but that does not necessarily mean we are progressing. Combined
with all the forces that today exhort us to look into our own private
lives, the “civilization of change” has stimulated a massive interest
in psychic disorders. It can be heard from all quarters, and it
takes form in the many marketplaces that offer inner balance and
tranquility. Today, many of our socials tensions have been
expressed in terms of implosion and depressive collapse or, in a
similar way, its flip side: explosions of violence, rage, the search
for new sensations. pp. 185-6
As addictive explosion reflects depressive implosion, so the drug-taker’s search for sensation reflects the depressed person’s lack of feeling. Depression, that crossroads of pathology, serves as a canvas upon which to sketch out the changes in modern subjectivity, the displacement of the hard task of being healthy. In a context in which choice is the norm and inner insecurity the price, these pathologies make up the dark side of contemporary private life. Such is the equation of the sovereign individual: psychic freedom and individual initiative = identity insecurities and the incapacity to act. p. 232 |
the last man
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