A: TEXTS
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B: GRAPHIC MATERIALS & DATA SETS
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from the new deal to donald trump
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them
in the legs or something?"
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Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States
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This
site uses figurative elements, including graphs, tables,
charts,
and maps, originally to advance an analysis of the historical
trajectory: the New
Deal to Donald Trump, but the events of the second decade of the 21st
century, when viewed through the lens provided by The Social Origins of
Language,*
forced me to see that there was a bigger picture. This bigger picture
is represented by Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of
Print Literacy in the United States.
This site began fifty years ago as a project which at the time I called
an exercise in phenomenological marxism, and resulted in the
publication of my book The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939: a Study in Class and Culture
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975). Edmund
Kord, who was the key organizer in this plant, was one of the bildungs-proletarians who was part of the
Reuther circle at Wayne State University in the 1930s. (see the Bildung page).
The plant layout at the right was drawn by Kord in the course of our discussions.
Figure 2. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943, emerged out of my discussions with a number of veterans of the
formative years of the UAW (59 of whom are listed here).
This map was only constructed in the time of Trump, although the
interviews that produced it were conducted in the mid-1970s.
Thus, it is only recently that I realized that the Unity caucus was a
fusion of bildungs-proletarians and plebeian upstarts, was the vanguard
of modernity in the factories of southeastern Michigan, and was
organically related to the Keynesian elite in the New Deal state. The
faction fight between the Unity caucus and the forces of Homer Martin
was actually a specific manifestation of the fundamental battle lines
that emerged following the French Revolution, summarized by Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
(Oxford, 2001). This faction fight ran parallel to the emerging
reaction to the New Deal--indeed, it can be taken as the initial moment
in the unfolding of the historical vector: from the New Deal to Donald
Trump.
The bildungsproletarian component of that fusion was made up mostly of
communists and socialists.
It was these bildungs-proletarians around whom formed the action
networks of plebeian upstarts who created the modern
UAW in the late 1930s. When placed in the contexts of Figure 0 and the periodization of the History of Reading and Writing
provided by Lyons, the extended mind of the Unity caucus becomes a
cultural historical base camp from which observations can be made
regarding the historicity of language and cognition.
What made this whole site possible is the literary and cognitive
capabilities of the bildungsproletarians and plebeian upstarts whom I interviewed.
I had no idea at the time (the mid-1970s) that these interviews would
prove to be critical to a reconceptualization of
modernity as a mode of lingusitic and cognitive performativity, nor
that they would provide a framework necessary if not sufficient for
understanding all that we subsume under the term "trump".
All
of us historians who interviewed these workers back in the nineteen seventies
and eighties were not only struck by their powers of mind, but also by
what can only be described as their strength of character. They
were the very model of republican citizenship, the embodiment of civic republicanism.**
*Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014): Excerpts
Sinha, C. (2021). Artefacts, symbols, and the socio-cultural dynamics of niche construction, in The The The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (Oxford, 2021).
The Oxford Handbook of Languge and Race (Oxford, 2020)
Planer and Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language (MIT Press, 2021)
**Frederick C. Beiser, "The Concept of Bildung in Early German Romanticism," in Beiser, The Romantic Imperative (Harvard, 2003)
Frederick C. Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher: a Re-examination (Oxford, 2005), esp. “Schiller and the Republican Tradition,” pp. 123-6
Shilton, D; Breski, M; Dor, D; Jablonka, E (February 14, 2020). "Human Social Evolution: Self-Domestication or Self-Control?". Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 134.
Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before its Triumph (Princeton, 1977)
Harold Mah, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914 (Cornell, 2003)
Jerrold Seigel, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 301- 4
Philippe-Joseph Salazar, "Reconnaissances of Marx", Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2015
Jóhann Páll Árnsason and Björn Wittrock, eds., Nordic Paths to Modernity (Bergham Books, 2012)
S.A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2008)
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figure1. Layout of Michigan Steel Tube (UAW Local 238), circa 1937
figure 2. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943:
Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind
Bildungsproletarians and Plebeian Upstarts
the UAW, 1933-1943: a working notebook
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Before
I discuss the above citations, the reader should scroll down and look
at the lists of auto workers circa 1930s; the lists of arrestees from
the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol; and the lists of personnel
in the Roosevelt administration. The above citations all deal
with the problematic posed by these lists and the events and processes
they are associated with.
In addition, the reader should look at the table five genetic ontologies.
Finally, the reader should constantly bear in mind Fig. 0, upon which I
have superimposed the periodization of the history of reading by Lyons.
One last note: not only is this not a book. It is by its very
nature unfinished and unfinishable. I am writing this in Feburary
2023, and I am 81 years old. Therefore the question arises, is
this just an interesting way to while away my years of retirement, or should I "publish" it?
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Reading and Modernity
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Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing In the Western World (2010)
9. The Reading Fever, 1750-1830
("Everyone in Paris is reading . . . People read while riding in
carriages or taking walks . . . Women, children, journeymen
and apprentices read in shops. On Sundays people read while
seated at the front of their houses; lackeys read on their
back seats, coachmen up on their boxes, and soldiers keeping guard."
10. The Age of the Mass Reading Public (“Between the 1830s and the First World War . . . a mass reading public came into existence.”)
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11. New Readers and Reading Cultures ("The half century between the 1880s and the 1930s was the golden age of the book in the West.")
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major
themes
forms of life (genetic ontologies)
Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States,
is the framework for this entire site. It brings to the fore several
questions:
•the history of violence and domination
•the history of language and cognitive development, phylogenetically as well as ontogentically considered
•the history of the formation of character-culture (not character and culture)
•the history of nihilism
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Despotic regimes
ressentiment and the mechanisms of defense
Reading and literacy
emergence of the "individual"
Bildung and the will to power
(Bildungsproletarians and plebeian upstarts)
nihilism
the post-modern condition
regressive narcissism and the culture of consumption
repressive desublimation
disindividuation
the last man
entropy
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Analyzing Power Relations: Six Frameworks
Max Weber
Deleuze & Guattari
Vincent/McMahon
Piaget/Vygotsky
Michael Mann
This site
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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)
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"Critical Theory"
from F. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (p. 51 Penguin)
To this extent media
discourse* is never to be taken literally: as such, it never contains
anything but nonsense. But as semiotics it remains of incaculable
value: it reveals, to the informed man, at least, the most precious
realities of cultures and inner worlds** which did not know how to
"understand" themselves. Media discourse*** is merely sign-language,
merely sympomology . . .
from F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
A mobile army of
metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human
relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished
poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm,
canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which
one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn
out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures
and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
from Levi R. Bryant, Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Northwestern University Press, 2008)
. . . . so long as
philosophy assumes that thought has a natural affinity with the true .
. . a specific form of objectivity (natural common sense), and bases
itself on the model of recognition, thought cannot help but become
unconsciously trapped in its own implicit presuppositions which are
culturally, historically, and socially contingent. . . . Deleuze
thus begins with a critique of the transcendental subject as a
structure consisting of invariant categories. (17)
from Imanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (A 51/B 75) p. 107 in Hackett 1996
Thoughts without intuitions are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.
* "moral judgement" in the original
*** "Morality" in the origina
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**inner worlds
**from
Daniel Dor, "The instruction of imagination: language and its evolution
as a communication technology" in Daniel Dor, Chris Knight, and Jerome
Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014).
Current discourse on
human experiencing tends to ignore the privacy of experience for a very
good theoretical reason: much of the discourse has emerged as a
counter-reaction to the solipsistic view of human experiences based on
Cartesian philosophy, and has thus sytematically highlighted the intersubjective nature of human experiencing—the primacy of the interpersonal over the intrapersonal. p. 108
In order to understand language, then, I suggest
that we have to abandon both the Kantian dictum, the foundational
presupposition of the cognitive sciences, that all human experiences
comply with a universal interpretive scheme, and the neo-Kantian
conviction, the foundational presupposition of most of the social
sciences, that the members of every culture and
sub-culture experience the world in the same ways. We have to
begin with the acknowldgement that each human individual lives in a
private, experienctial world which is different from that of the
others, and is inaccessible to them. p. 109 Roper, Lacan
All languages are socially constructed technologies
for the instruction of imagination, but the actual dynamics of
exploration and stabilization in each and every language could be as
variable as their communities, their histories, their particular
communicative needs, their collective capacities, and the private
experiential worlds of their speakers. 124
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Republican interlude
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from S.A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2008)
We
have seen that for 'conscous' workers in Russia and, to a lesser
extent, in China, reading was an activity that was central to
self-fashioning, constitutive of what it meant to be a cultured and
autonomous individual. By contrast, the relation of the newly
literate and semi-literate readers of the lower urban classes to new
forms of commercially produced mass literature, produced with an eye to
entertainment rather than education, was far less earnest. . . . p. 100
Indeed, without denying the real potental for tension between
individual autonomy and class-based collectivism, we may conclude that
genuine forms of collectivism and cooperative action are possible only
where class solidarity is grounded in autonomous individuals capable of
demanding the recognition due to them as thinking, feeling
persons. Without that, new forms of group coercion based on weak
individuality are likely to be the result . . . 110
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the evolution of human cognition and culture:
(a reconceptualization of modernity as a mode of lingusitic and cognitive performativity)
Table 7.1, Successive layers in the evolution of human cognition and culture,
provides a framework for understanding the multifaceted dynamic
processes that give rise to the literacy.
from Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: the Evolution of Human Consciousness (W.W. Norton, 2001), pp. 301-2
Literacy skills change the functional organization of the brain and
deeply influence how individuals and communities of literate
individuals perform cognitive work. Mass literacy has triggered
two kinds of major cogitive reorganizations, one in individuals and the
other in groups.
There is no
equivalent in the preliterate mind to the circuits that hold the
complex neural components of a reading vocabulary or the elaborate
procedural habits of formal thinking. . . . Consider the impact of twenty or more years of schooling on
the brain of someone who has acquired full symbolic literacy in several
different
technical, mathematical, scientific, and musical fields. These
skills encumber neural resources on a vast scale and change how the
person's mind carries out its work.
James R. Flynn, What is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2009):
Our ancestors in 1900 were
not mentally retarded. . . . We differ from them in that we can
use abstractions and logic and the hypothetical to attack the formal
problems that arise when science liberates thought from concrete
situations. Since 1950 we have become more ingenious in going
beyond previously learned rules to solve problems on the spot.
pp. 10-11
The scientific ethos, with its vocabulary, taxonomies, and detachment
of logic and the hypothetical from concrete referents, has begun to
permeate the minds of post-industrial peoples. This has paved the
way for mass education on the university level and the emergence of an
intellectual cadre without whom our present civilization would be
inconceivable. p. 29
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Table 7.1 from A mind so Rare (p. 260)
Successive layers in the evolution of human cognition and culture
Each stage continues to occupy its cultural niche today, so that fully modern societies have
all four stages simultaneously present.
Stage
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Species/Period
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Novel Forms
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Manifest Change
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Governance
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EPISODIC
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Primate
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Episodic event perceptions
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Self-awareness and event sensitivity
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Episodic and reactive
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MIMETIC
(first transition)
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Early homids, peaking in
H. erectus 2M-0.4 Mya
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Action
metaphor
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Skill, gesture, mime, and imitation
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Mimetic style and archetypes
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MYTHIC
(second transition)
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Sapient humans, peaking in H. sapiens sapiens 0.5-present
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Language, symbolic representation
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Oral traditions, mimetic ritual,narrative thought
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Mythic framework of governance
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THEORETIC
(third transition)
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Modern culture
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External symbolic universe
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Formalisms, large-scale theoretic artifiacts, massive external storage
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Institutionalized paradigmatic thought and invention
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from
Merlin Donald, "The mind considered from a historical perspective:
human cognitive phylogenesis and the possibility of continuing
cognitive evolution." In D. Johnson & C. Ermeling (Eds.) The Future of the Cognitive Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 360-61
mimetic
representations are evident in human children before they acquire
language competence. . . . They continue to be important in
adults, taking the form of highly variable social customs, athletic
skills, and group expressive patterns (such as mass demonstrations of
aggression or rejection).
from Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), p. 262
. . . modern culture contains within it a trace of each of our
previous stages of cognitive evolution. It still rests on the same old
primate brain capacity for episodic or event knowledge. But it has
three additional, uniquely human layers: a mimetic layer, an
oral-linguistic layer, and an external-symbolic layer. The minds of
individuals reflect these three ways of representing reality.
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language (MIT, 2021), And Dor, Knight, and Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014), confirm and further develop Donald's early twenty first century insights.
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More
than mere literacy, and contra the Cartesian myth, it is the
embeddedness of organisms in the
networks, webs, practices, and fields of biocultural (semiotic)
activity that is primary (Dupré). Cognitive-discursive performativity and intellectual development is a function of this embeddedness.
Margaret Jacob, The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850
(Cambridge, 2014), emphasizes the socio-cultural networks,
circles, and meeting houses of these first industrialists, and the role of
books as emotionally charged world-opening objects.
John Dupré, "Causality and Human Nature in the Social Sciences," in Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Oxford, 2012): It is . . . clear that recognition of the variety of
factors involved in development makes possible a diversity of
individual outcomes within even quite narrowly defined populations. (285)
Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Harvard University Press, 1996): The possibility that there exists a more restless
relationship between intelligence and context, in which thinking
changes both its nature and its course as one moves from one situation
to another, is enough to cause shudders in some research quarters. It
represents a move toward a psychology of situations . . . xvi |
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From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States:
the view from the shopfloor
Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States,
is the framework for this entire site. It brings to the fore two
questions frequently ignored or at best given short shrift. The
first is the history of violence and domination:
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. . in the case of many nonhuman primates, dominance asserted through
violence or threat is the internal principle of social organization. .
. Primate-style dominance is periodically overthrown and then restored,
only to be overthrown and restored again and again. (The Social Origins of Language, pp. 4-5; Mazur, Biosociology of Dominance and Deference (2005))
The second is the history of language and cognitive development, phylogenetically as well as ontogentically considered:
The accelerated encephalization in Homo heidelbegensis,
both in Africa and Eurasia, from 700 kya, and especially from 300 kya,
suggests a runaway feedback process of selection for social
intelligence. (The Social Origins of Language, p. 201)
In this context, consider Richard Lachmann, "Coda: American Patrimonialism: The Return of the Repressed” in Patrimonial Power in the Modern World, Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad, eds. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011:
Patrimonialism,
until fairly recently, seemed an archaic social form, largely replaced
by bureaucratic rationalism. That confident view of modernity, in the
histories that Max Weber and his followers wrote, deserves to be
challenged as patrimonial regimes reappear in states and firms
throughout the world.
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
Ely Zaretsky, "The Mass Psychology of Trumpism" (London Review of Books, 18 September 2018). These 19 paragraphs should be read immediately.
Attention should be paid to the cognitive-discursive field that
Zaretsky deploys: "There is an older body of psychological thought,
however, that illuminates the kind of tight bond Trump has forged with
a significant minority of Americans. Inspired by Freud, this thought
arose following the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe . . . "
Evidence
abounds in the public arena of a widespread dissolution of language and
cognition. Because the media performs this cognitive decline, the
decay of reason is invisible within the cognitively decaying public
sphere. The historicity of language and cognition, their
biocultural embeddedness, and their contemporary disintegration, is one
of the fundamental questions posed by this site. This approach is necessary if one is to understand "trump".
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Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States
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Above: Joe Bidinger, Pete Olshove, and Chester Podgorsky in
front of one of the large presses that produced the siderails for the
frame. In this interview Joe Bidinger describes the step-by-step movement of metal
from raw input to finished output. Art Lamb, works manager at Midland
Steel, drew the layout of the plant. The red arrows show the flow of
material that Bidinger describes.
In order to address the issues posed by Figure 0, one must bear in mind that
History without philosophy
is only a screen on which to project the
shibboleths of our time. Thinking must first emancipate itself
from the Cartesian myth--the ontological
presupposition of the Cartesian self and its associated rhetorical
elements of consciousness, belief, motive, ideology and interest.
Failure to do so has the effect, a priori, of blocking
conceptualization of questions of ontology, agency, intentionality,
habitus, networks and contexts.*
Trump is only a moment in the
unfolding of the sado-sexual eigenvector of GOP rhetorical
performativity. Likewise, Trump is only an index of the
disintegration of the cognitive-discursive performativity that made
modernity.
*Daniel Dor, “The Instruction of Imagination,” in The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014)
Current
discourse on human experiencing tends to ignore the privacy of
experience for a very good theoretical reason: much of the discourse
has emerged as a counter-reaction to the solipsistic view of human
experiences based on Cartesian philosophy, and has thus systematically
highlighted the intersubjective nature of human experiencing—the
primacy of the interpersonal over the intrapersonal. p. 108
In order to understand language, then, I
suggest that we have to abandon both the Kantian dictum, the
foundational presupposition of the cognitive sciences, that all human
experiences comply with a universal interpretive scheme, and the
neo-Kantian conviction, the foundational presupposition of most of the
social sciences, that the members of every culture and sub-culture
experience the world in the same ways. We have to begin with the
acknowldgement that each human individual lives in a private,
experienctial world which is different from that of the others, and is
inaccessible to them. p. 109
see The Cartesian Presupposional Matrix and The President Who Doesn't Read
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Midland Steel (UAW local 410): Layout (drawn by Art Lamb, works manager)
the Last Frame (1959)
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Origins of the Civil War in the UAW
Bruce Laurie, Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists (U. of Mass. Press, 2015)
Bruce Laurie, Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform (Cambridge, 2005)
John L. Brooke, "There is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)
Zachary A. Fry, A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Republic (U. of N. Carolina Press, 2020)
Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Knopf, 2007)
Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford, 2017)
James L. Huston, The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Farmer: Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America (Louisiana State University Press, 2015)
Simon P. Newman, A New World of Labor: the Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
John Donoghue, Fire Under the Ashes: an Atlantic History of the English Revolution (Chicago, 2013)
1. Traditional (patrimonial) vs. Modern (republican)
Note the outstanding feature of the AFL faction: it was dominated by
skilled trades Catholics. This hegemony is illustrated by
the apparent exceptions to this generalization. There were three
workers on the AFL list from the transportation department; three from
the press room; and two from assembly. The two crane operators
from transportation were Irish and German Catholics; the tractor driver
was black. The three press operators were central European
Catholics; and the two workers from assembly were a black Hannifin
operator and an Irish Catholic welder.
Culture (patrimonial power) trumps class (Richard White, The Republic for Which it Stands . . .
Note the outstanding
feature of the CIO faction: leading up to the sitdown strike--
non-Catholic north Europeans of Reformation descent, in alliance with
non-Polish east Europeans; and after the sitdown strike, the addition
of 2nd generation Poles and 2nd generation blacks from Assembly.
These
configurations--"old" catholics on the one side, north Europeans of
Reformation descent on the other--are fundamental.
Yankees
(mostly if not entirely "free thinkers") on the other--continue the
pattern northern divisions over slavery and the civil was. Irish
and Geman Catholics associated with the Copperheads in the north, and
the CIO leadership of Yankee and German republicans.
the fction fight in the UAW, in other words, was a coninuation of the divisions over the civil war in the north.
I came to this realiation in th following long and tortuous rout.
*2nd generation blacks: born into or, as youngsters, assimilated into the urban industrial world.
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Critical theory: Foucault, Nietzsche and Marx; Henry George and Eugene V. Debs; the Unity caucus
Praxis of this site
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After the Sitdown Strike: the Second Generation
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There is no
equivalent in the preliterate mind to the circuits that hold the
complex neural components of a reading vocabulary or the elaborate
procedural habits of formal thinking. . . .
There
are 7 photos, tables and charts in this row, as well as a cryptic
statement (bildungsproletarians and plebeian upstarts: think Chartists).
In the row below a Detroit News story of May 2, 1937 about the Ku Klux Klan in Flint, and a Febuary 15, 1942 United Auto Worker (Packard Edition) story about the Ku Klux Klan in Packard,
and below that three tables of UAW local 410 members who either held or ran for
office.
The tables and charts provide an ontological sense
of the situation in the auto plants of southeast Michigan.
First, the flow chart of automobile production helps us to focus on the
socio-technical structure of production. The stronghold of
opposition to industrial unionism was the skilled trades (German,
Irish, Kashub, and French Canadian Catholics). The stronghold of
the Unity Caucus was in the trim and body-in-white departments.
The major occuptional classifications in body-in-white were metal
finishing and welding. These were the semi-skilled occupational
classifications.* (For more on this question of skill and
classification, click here.)
The “masses,” if I may use that politically charged but intellectually
vacuous term, were the unskilled laborers and production workers,
comprised of blacks, Poles, and hillbillies.
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I am just now (Jan 19-20, 2023) going over the Frank Fagan interviews
(welder, Murray Body). On tape 1, side B there is a detailed
discussion of metal finishing, and of the body-in-white more
generally. There is also an extraordinary, extremely detailed
account of the IWW "strike" at Murray Body in September 1933.
When read together with (!) the Leon Pody account of that strike, (2) the materials on the Edgewater strike, (3) the account given by Sidney Fine in the Automobile under the Blue Eagle,
and (4) the newspaper account of the tar-dipping party in Fisher Body
(event occured on June 10, 1937 Pontiac)--incident reported (clippings
in Joe Brown Collection): "Unionists Linked to Tar-Party" Detroit Times
6-11-37 (short article, (blurred). Results of hearing reported: "Tar-dipping is Laid to Five"
Detroit News, 12-10-37. Superficially read, these sources
contradict each other. Read dialectically, however, they provide
a picture of the elusive “white man” (or, as Frank Fagan referred
to them with disdain, the “Americans”).
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Strikers relax on car seats and read newspapers inside ofFisher Body Plant No. 1
during the Flint Sit Down Strike. (Reuther Archive).
Richard Frankensteen addresses the workers of Murray Body Co. during their
1937 sit-down strike Detroit, Michigan. (Reuther Archive)
U. A. W. -C. I. O. ; Det. ; Mass Meeting - Cadillac Square. Chrysler Rally Dispute
1939-11-15
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X
X
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bildungsproletarians
and
plebeian upstarts
think Chartists
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praxiological ratios
a. plebeian upstarts
1. the Joe Adams ratio: 10.6% (Dodge Main) PF
2. the Charlie Yaeger ratio: 7.2% (Buick) Skeels
3. the Bud Simons ratio: 7.5% (Fisher Body 1) Skeels p. 16
b. bildungsproletarians: 0.1%, or about one in
thousand
Dodge Main: 2 ratios (21,894 members in Fall 1939)
n=13 (0.06%): Meeting of the Chrysler Executive Boards and shop committees, November 7, 1939
n=34. (0.16%): Emergency Meeting of Chrysler Executive Boards and Shop Committees, October 8, 1939
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Bildungsproletarians' encounters with the "world"
1. encounters with "the masses"
a. patrimonial formations: gangs and grifters
b. Masons and K of C
c. the middle (hometownsmen): Elder, Wainwright
d. Polish women (Herman Burt)
e. workhorse uncle toms
f. Hillbillies
2. encounters with "the middling sort"
a. Ben Wainwright interview
b. the Elder report
3. encounters with the skilled trades
a. Mazey on the skilled trades in Briggs
b. Fagan on the "Americans"
c. Kluck on skilled trades
d. Kord on the colonization of the tool room
4. encounters with plebeian upstarts
a. Bud Simons on Toledo flying squadron
b. Edmund Kord on guys from front welding
c. Edmund Kord on the youth "gangs" in the press
rooms
d. Bill Mazey and Joe Adams on the Italians
5. encounters with management
a. Earl Reynolds
b. Bud Simons and Frank Fagan
c. Murray Body spring committee
6. encounters with fascism*
a. Bud Simons experience in Saginaw
b. Victor Reuther experience in Anderson
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timelines
SE Michigan
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Nativism and auto workers in SE Mich
b
Nativist speech by Dick Frankenstein (Dodge Main) aug 31, 1935
Murray 1933 nativist strike (Frank Fagan interview)
Pa. nativist strike Dec 1933
nativism in the press rooms of Fisher Body Flint and Fisher Body Pontiac
c
the KKK in Flint (Detroit News, May2, 1937)
the KKK in Packard: Preferment
of Charges against Frank Buehrle by Kurt
Murdock, President of PACKARD LOCAL U.A.W.-C.I.O. #190, held at the
local Headquarters of the Local at 6100 Mt. Elliott Avenue, in the
City of Detroit, Michigan. April 3rd, 1942, at 7:30 P.M.
Amann, Peter H. “Vigilante Fascism: The Black Legion as an American Hybrid.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 25, no. 3 (1983): 490–524.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/178625.
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Some Arrestees from the January 6th Assault on the Capitol |
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This page (and this site) cannot be read as you would read a book. It
is a rhizome.* Scroll down and look at the lists of Some Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol, and at the three lists of Midland Steel workers. The
ethos of transcendental empiricism requires that all "data" be treated
as "live". When data is subsumed under a concept and then
forgotten, the result is a profoundly and sometimes fatally flawed
product. Consider the following:
"From Navy
SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the
Capitol," the New York Times, January 26, 2021:
One striking aspect of the angry crowd at the Capitol was how many of its members
seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but from white
picket-fence Main Street backgrounds — firefighters and real estate
agents, a marketing executive and a Town Council member.
And The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists, (the Atlantic, Febuary 2, 2021), by Dr. Robert A. Pape, principal investigator, and Dr. Kevin Ruby,
senior research director of "The Face of American Insurrection"*
40 percent
are business owners or hold white-collar jobs. Unlike the
stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the
Capitol riot have a lot to lose. They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court
documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.
*The University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences, the Chicago Project on Security and Threats: The Face of American Insurrection: Right-Wing Organizations Evolving into a Violent Mass Movement (Update of 2=5=21).
Now things begin to get interesting. The industrial structure discussed above was associated with the golden age of the "working class", which ended roughly in the early 1970s (Stayin' Alive; Bully interview). In the tables to the right, Some Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol,
the concept of class is inapplicable, and the characterization of the
arrestees as “middle-class” by the two sources cited is fundamentally
mistaken, notwithstanding the sources (the New York Times, the
Atlantic, and the University of Chicago center for this and that
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New Jersey: N=9 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Abual-Ragheb, Rasha N.
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cosmetologist
In November 2020, a Facebook account with display name Rasha Abu
participated in Facebook and Telegram group chats involving the New
Jersey chapter of the American Patriot 3%. In the Facebook chat, user
Rasha Abu advised the revolution will start not by standing by but by
standing up. In addition, she advised civil war is coming and they need
to show support, and rise up and fight for our Constitution.
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cosmetologist
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Baranyi, Thomas
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graduated Trenton State College
In a Facebook post, Baranyi’s father said his son graduated from the
College of New Jersey, joined the Peace Corps, and also went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
From 2018 to 2020, he served in the Peace Corps in Albania.
On December 22, 2020, his father took to Facebook to say they have not seen each other in person since 2017.
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went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
BTR
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Fairlamb, Scott
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a
New Jersey gym owner, Fairlamb held a protest at his Pompton Lakes gym
in May in response to Gov. Murphy’s coronavirus restrictions.
Fairlamb, a mixed martial artist who
turned pro in 2000, owned and operated Fairlamb Fit in Pompton Lakes.
The gym's website has been taken down and the phone number is
disconnected. Social media accounts for both Fairlamb and his
co-workers have been removed.
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gym owner
martial artist
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Guthrie, Leonard
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(married with a daughter; identified himself as a street preacher.
His father told a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter that his son went to
the rally as the chaplain for a group that met in Washington to "pray
and support President Trump and the whole movement.”
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a street preacher
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Hale-Cusanelli, Timothy Lewis
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He is
an white supremacist and a Nazi sympathizer, according to an informant
who contacted Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special
agent Daniel J. Meyers on January 12, 2021. The informant
is enrolled as a confidential human source (CHS) with the NCIS.
He has served in the U.S. Army since 2009 but has never deployed.
In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was arrested after stabbing a man
he and his mother were living with in Pepperidge Court, Jackson, New
Jersey. With a wound to the abdomen, the victim underwent surgery in
the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New
Jersey.
As a contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, he maintains a secret
security clearance and has access to a variety of munitions. He is
enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves. He is a human resources specialist
with the 174th Infantry Brigade at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in
Trenton, New Jersey.
He was a regular poster on anti-Semitic social media groups Jackson Strong and Rise Up Ocean County.
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VIOLENCE
Military
PDLV
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aliases Ayla Wolf and Ayla Wolfe
a prominent right-wing activist from South Jersey, one of the loudest
supporters of Atilis Gym, that Bellmawr business that refused to follow
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s shutdown orders.
Hazelton has helped organize protests against New Jersey’s shutdown orders and is active in the anti-vaxxer movement.
Hazelton’s LinkedIn says she is the founder of New Jersey for Medical Freedom, the state chapter of an anti-vaccine network.
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POLITICO
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Stedman, Patrick Alonzo
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a self-described “dating [and] relationship strategist”
In addition to offering relationship advice and touting his $500 master
class—which he claims is the “fastest and most effective way to change
your outcomes with women”—Stedman frequently writes about political
topics and his affinity for Trump.
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GRIFTER
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Suarez, Marissa A.
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worked
as a correctional police officer in Monmouth County since 2019 but
resigned after her arrest. At the time, Suarez was a probationary
corrections officer at the Monmouth County Corrections Facility
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correctional police officer
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Todisco, Patricia
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the performative domain of “legitimate” violence
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correctional police officer
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This segment (part two) assembles online media accounts of those arrested for their participation in the
events of January 6, 2020. Attempts were made to ascertain
occupational status and history; education; and
family/household/network embeddedness. Limitations in the
reporting of local media made this extremely difficult; and these
limitations themselves became a discovery incidental to the once
straightforward process of searching online for biographical information.
In Fascism: Data,
we sorted the arrestees by state and organization. Among the
states and organizations we looked at, the Oathkeeepers were the most
"middle class." They are a general manager at a car dealership, a
self-employed
carpenter, a window washer, a tatoo parlor owner, the owner of a
marginal day-car facility, and a former police officer. The
outlier in this table--and that by a long-shot--is Stewart Rhodes, Yale
Law School, clerk for an Arizona Supreme Court Justice, and a staffer
for
Ron Paul.
What we found was a population in
the process of marginalization. The instability in their lives was
manifested in the difficulty of category formation. The standard
occupational and industry classifications* are inadequate, indeed
misleading.
Gyms, bars, tatoo parlors, restaurants, salons, and gun shops
occur regularly in the entire
dataset. To view the individual owners of these establishments
solely in terms of their role as "shop owners" is misleading.
What we are really dealing with is social networks, not Cartesian
selves.
Very few of the arrestees were connected to mainstrean occupations and industries: none
in manufacturing, none in the building trades, none in the modern
corporate sector.
The bottom line: out of the collapse of the economic basis for socialization
into adulthood within the psycho-cultural framework provided by white
supremacy, there results a prolongation of adolescent sadism (Goldberg
and Weitz).
Thus, about one third of the arrestees were employed in the
performative domain of "legitimate" violence: military, police,
security guards.
Another third were low-wage service workers in very small establishments.
Above all, many of the
arrestees come across as grifters. Indeed, the entire Trump
administration could be characterized as a swarm of grifters.** The GOP as a whole is a party dominated by grifters (although it still has within it honorable conservatives).
* North American Industry Classification System (U.S. Census Bureau)
Standard Occupational Classification System (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
**Herman Melville's The Confidence Man (1857). Karen Halttunen, Confidence men and painted women: a study of middle-class culture in America, 1830-1870 (Yale, 1982)
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A University of Chicago study found that
40
percent [of the arrestees] are business owners or hold white-collar jobs. Unlike the
stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the
Capitol riot have a lot to lose. They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court
documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.
And from the New York Times (January 26, 2021):
One
striking aspect of the angry crowd at the Capitol was how many of its
members seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but
from white picket-fence Main Street backgrounds — firefighters and real
estate agents, a marketing executive and a Town Council member.
This characterization is profoundly wrong. It fails
to comprehend the reality of a population in
the process of marginalization.
In fact, any concept implying middle-class stability cannot be used to
describe this dataset. What one really sees here is one of the
more monstrous effects of what is misleadingly called
globalization. The transformations of postmodern capitalism are
not only spatial. They are technological (automation),
occupational (gig workers on the one hand, exqusitely refined
high-income-oriented services and commodity-fetishes on the other) . .
. and cultural-psychological (nihilism) (Ehrenberg]
What would happen, we began to wonder in the 1980s, to the displaced
masses thus produced. We have our answer: they would become the
cannon-fodder of fascism American style*. And the two-party system
is the death spiral of a once great nation. Speaking now as a
21st century New Dealer, today's liberal democratic party is 1. an
agent of globalization without the necessary planning that was a
hallmark of the New Deal; 2. a collaborator with the GOP in its support
of no child left behind (and thus, the destruction of public education
in workering class America; and a cheerleader for nihilism . . .
* and the subject of of books like Deaths of Despair.
What School Shooters Have in Common: Data-driven pathways for preventing gun violence, By Jillian Peterson & James Densley (Education Week, October 08, 2019)
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At the left is a table of occupations of the six attendees interviewed by the Guardian reporter. This is real journalism.
This kind of reporting is almost entirely absent from local American news sources.
---the lifeworlds of the
arrestees, as well as the problems attendant on attempts to categorize
the arrestees in terms provided by the U.S. Census and standard
sociological theory (middle class, working class, small business . . . )
North American Industry Classification System (U.S. Census Bureau)
Standard Occupational Classification System (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
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Tennessee: N=10 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
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name
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fuzzy set categories
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Matthew Bledsoe
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•He is the owner of Primetime Movers
•BBB: the company's accreditation was suspended due to failure to
respond to one or more customer complaints filed with the BBB.
•He was accused of kicking in the front door of his home in Cordova,
chasing his wife Kathryn Bledsoe, picking her up by her throat and
slamming her onto the floor.
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grifter
violence
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Jack Jesse Griffith
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“I’m
not a domestic terrorist,” Griffith said. “For all the people
slandering, libeling, mislabeling my name, I’m a citizen I had nothing
to do with any violence, vandalism, and I love all my fellow citizens.”
Griffith
went on to promote his social media handles and Trump video game.
“Have an exuberant evening,” he said, as he hopped in a car to leave.
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grifter
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Eric Munchel
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Munchel
currently lives in Nashville most likely working at Kid Rock’s Big
Honky Tonk bar downtown. He was accused of assaulting a man and woman
in 2013. He lists his profession as a bartender but Kid Rock’s
doesn’t hire male bar staff. This means he is likely working in the
kitchen or security. With his connections to others in private
security, that could very well be his role there. No record of military
service has been found. . . . He spent his summer hanging out with
local Proud Boys* and Qanon conspiracy theorists
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grifter
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Blake Austin Reed
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From
2004 to 2009, he attended the University of Memphis in Memphis,
Tennessee where he earned his bachelor’s degree in organizational
leadership.
From 2012 to October 2013, he was the superintendent of Bluff City Operations‘ human resources management.
From February 2014 to November 2015, he was a superintendent at Regent Homes in Nolensville, Tennessee.
From November 2015 to September 2017, he was a project manager at Blalock Homes in Franklin, Tennessee.
From April 2018 to October 2019, he was a senior project manager at Vintage South Development in Nashville.
He owns Black Lion Brokers, which he established in November 2017 and is based in Nashville.
There is a Black Lion Realty in Nasvhille, NOT Black Lion Brokers
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grifter
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Ronald L. Sandlin
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Ronald
L. Sandlin, 33, a self-styled internet blogger and protest organizer
from Tennessee, sobbed loudly and at one point blurted out, “Judge,
have mercy on me,” during his videoconference detention hearing on
multiple charges arising from the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol.
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On December 31, 2020, he took to Facebook to announce that he was
“organizing a caravan of patriots” who were going to Washington D.C.,
USA to “stand behind” Trump. He shared a link of the GoFundMe page
asking for donations for him, Josiah Colt and Nathaniel J. DeGrave and
said the three of them had already booked and paid for their trip to
Washington, D.C. On January 3, 2020, he revealed on Facebook that their
GoFundMe page was deleted.
On January 2, 2021, he wrote on Facebook that in 2020, he had a
“huge financial blow,” “got dumped” by his fiancé, crashed his
motorcycle and lost his grandfather.
During a detention hearing in federal court in February 2021, the judge
told him he owes $500,000 in back taxes. In the same month, the
I-Team found that no community where he is known to have resided can
find a record of him voting in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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grifter
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Eric Chase Torrens
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Torrens appeared in an Instagram video with Matthew Bledsoe and Jack Jesse Griffith (GRIFTER network)
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grifter
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Padilla, Joseph Lino
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a company spokesperson for Wacker Chemie plant told us that Padilla worked at their Bradley County plant until 2016.
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subproletariat?
former worker?
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Michael Lee Roche
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He works as a server at Farmers Family Restaurant in Murfreesboro
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working poor?
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Ronnie B. Presley
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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BTR
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Bryan Wayne Ivey
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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BTR
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Minnesota: n=3 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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AGE
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Victoria White
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39
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Larvita McFarquhar, a friend of White. McFarquhar owns Havens Garden cafe, in Lynd, Minn., where White has worked.
Attorney: Video shows police attacking Trump supporter Victoria White on Jan. 6
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marginal working class?
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Jonah Westbury
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26
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Westbury is from the city of Lindstrom (University of Mary North Dakota)
a former wrestler for the University of Mary Marauders in Bismarck, N.D.
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BTR
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Jordan K. Stotts
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31
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works in nurseries and greenhouses during the summer and travels in his van during the winter.
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marginal working class
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Florida: N=19 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Adams, Howard Berton
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Edgewater
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Anderson, John Steven
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Courthouse
records on the Clerk of Court website show ANDERSON involved in
contentious divorce litigation alleging domestic violence, as
well as dismissed charges of assault, and fines paid for driving
without wearing a seatbelt, driving with an expired license tag.
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Biggs, Joseph Randall
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Proud Boys, Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child
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Camargo, Samuel
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Like
many of the MAGA fanatics who have been arrested in the two weeks since
the insurrection, Samuel Camargo implicated himself by bragging about
his participation on social media, authorities said.
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Counsil, Matthew
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A Tampa Bay resident
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Curzio, Michael
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spent time in prison for attempted murder.VIOLENCE |
VIOLENCE |
Garcia, Gabriel Augustin
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ran as a Republican in District 116 in Miami-Dade
a former U.S. Army captain, ran for Florida House District 116 as a Trump backer.
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STORMTROOPER
GOP
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GOSSJANKOWSKI,
Vitali
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a student at Gallaudet University
Katherine Jankowski, his mother, was formerly an administrator at Gallaudet.
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Honeycutt, Adam Avery, 39
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works as a bail bondsman in Northeast Florida
Honeycutt has three prior arrests on charges of drug possession,
domestic battery and breach of peace, but he was only found guilty of
that last charge.
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police
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Johnson, Adam
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Johnson Is a Stay at Home Father Who Makes Furniture
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marginal
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Maldonado, Steven Omar
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Maldonado
alias Emilio Maldonado is a Puerto Rico native and lives in Palm Bay,
Brevard County, Florida, according to Conan Daily. Previously, he was
arrested for a couple of misdemeanors in 1998 and is a real estate
sales associate. The site also listed him as a diver and he worked at
the Treasure Coast Dive Charters as a boat captain where he offered
diving and spearfishing trips on the Treasure Coast in Florida.
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MARIOTTO, Anthony R. (aka, Tony Mariotto)
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fort pierce
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PERT, Rachael Lynn
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Pert, who is the assistant manager of a Circle K convenience store in Middleberg, requested time off work to go D.C. with Winn.
“We’re on our way to DC because us as American patriots, we’re tired of
this shit,” Winn allegedly said in their live-stream. “It’s time to
make a stand. I never really knew how deep and corrupt all this crap
was and how far back it’s gone. But American needs to wake up. We’re on
the verge of fucking losing it.”
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RIVERA, Jesus (aka, JD Rivera, Jesus Delmora Rivera)
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U.S. Marines (Former)
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STEPAKOFF, Michael
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Stepakoff leads Temple New Jerusalem, a Messianic synagogue in Palm Harbor. He is also a former attorney.
Palm Harbor, Florida, rabbi
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Sweet, Douglas
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She
said Douglas was a self-employed man who does "handyman stuff" but
spends most of his time with his extremist groups. attended the
violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
see photo!
“The Daughter Of A Trump Rioter Arrested At The Capitol Says She Is "Ashamed And Disgusted””
Douglas Sweet from Hudgins and Cobbs Creek resident Cindy Fitchett
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Weeks, Bradley W., 43
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a Clay High School graduate who attended the University of North Florida
WEEKS then sets up his camera to show his face and launches into a
speech declaring both the actions he has taken and his intentions.
“We’ve reached the steps. We’ve had to climb scaffolding. We’ve had to
climb ladders. We’ve had to break things to get through, but we’ve
gotten through. We’ve gotten through, and we are going to take back the
Capitol! We’re taking back our country! This is our 1776! This is where
it’s gonna happen! This is where Tyranny will fall! This is where
America will rise! Look at this, America! Look at this!”
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WILLIAMS, Andrew
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firefighter paramedic
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WINN, Dana Joe
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A Lemon Bay High School graduate
see Pert.
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Oathkeepers N=14 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS PBs
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Kelly Meggs
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general manager at a car dealership
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Connie Meggs
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Kenneth Harrelson
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Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson
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Donovan Crowl
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Marine veteran, militia
a self-employed carpenter
Prosecutors said he does not have a stable address
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Jessica Watkins
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bartender who runs a self-identified militia, joined by three others in her unit, drove to Washington D.C. last week
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Joshua James
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window washer
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Robert Minuta
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tatoo parlor owner; High School graduate
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Stewart Rhodes
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Stewart
Rhodes grew up in the Southwest and joined the Army after finishing
high school. He became a paratrooper, receiving an honorable discharge
due to an injury in a night parachuting accident. Then Rhodes attended
college at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, graduating in 1998. Rhodes
has said that he taught street crime survival and rape prevention at
the college women’s center and also worked as a certified Nevada
concealed-carry firearms instructor.
After college, his first politically oriented job was supervising
interns in Washington, D.C., for libertarian Ron Paul, then a
Republican congressman from Texas. Rhodes subsequently attended Yale
Law School, graduating in 2004, and clerked for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice Michael D. Ryan. A trial lawyer and libertarian, he later
volunteered on Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign.
more: SPLC
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Tanios, George Pierre 39
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a West Virginia sandwich shop owner
GROUP OF 8 PHOTO
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Grayden Young
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an
Army and Navy reserve veteran; a brother, husband and a small business
owner; brother of Steele; Manager at Young Children's Academy
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Laura Steele
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a former High Point police officer; sister of Young
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Sandra Parker
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Bennie Parker*
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Proud Boys: N=13 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
Enrique Tarrio
| "Arested Proud Boys chairman has history of business failure, apparently lives with mom" (WAPO JANUARY 8, 2021)
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Joseph Biggs
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Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child. This Wikipedia entry is a must-read: Joe Biggs.
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Ethan Nordean
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•Auburn,
Washington.has been a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the
group’s national “Elders Council.” willing to stake the home
where his wife and child were living (?)
•Proud Boy activist who was fired by his father, Mike Nordean, over his
membership of the group. Mike Nordean owns Wall’s Chowder House and
Wally’s Drive-In in Des Moines, Washington.
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Zachary Rehl
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Zach Rehl biography: 13 things about Proud Boys member from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Charles Donohoe
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presidents of his local Proud Boys chapter
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Ashlock, Ryan
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Gardner, Kansas. Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys
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Chrestman, William
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DECARLO, Nicholas
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In
some photos, DeCarlo was seen with Nicholas Ochs, one of the founders
of Hawaii’s chapter of the Proud Boys, neofascist group.
In addition to his work for Murder the Media, DeCarlo said he also worked trading bitcoin online currency.
DeCarlo said he was not a member of the Proud Boys. But he said the Proud Boys had raised money for his defense
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GARCIA, Gabriel Augustin
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a
former U.S. Army captain, a 2020 candidate for the Florida State House
and a reported member of the Proud Boys / ran for Florida
House District 116 as a Trump backer
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GOODWYN, Daniel
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A
San Francisco freelance web developer who calls himself a Proud Boy and
has an extensive history of COVID denialism has been charged for his
alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Goodwyn has a large digital footprint. According to his personal
website, he attended City College of San Francisco and works as a
freelance web and app developer. He lists Jews for Jesus as one of his
clients and, strangely, posts links to everything from his Gab, Parler,
Venmo and Pandora accounts to his dating app profiles.
On his Twitter account Goodwyn claimed in September he was "arrested
and cited" for not wearing a mask on Muni. Afterward, he posted video
of himself on YouTube, maskless, reading a statement in front of the
Hall of Justice. In it, he repeats a number of lies about the
coronavirus pandemic, including denying it outright and falsely
claiming COVID vaccines will contain "a microchip.”
He used the citation to fundraise for himself on a Christian
crowd-funding site used by other far-right extremists like Stop the
Steal founder Ali Alexander. Goodwyn raised $1,689 of his $5,000 goal.
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Greeson, Kevin
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On Jan. 4, Kelly allegedly wrote, “I’ll be with ex NYPD and some proud boys. This will be the most historic event of my life.”
Read this: The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson.
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KELLY, Christopher M.
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works for a fixed wireless company in Cedar Rapids
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Pezzola, Dominic
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“The
Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former
Marine”
The Aquinas Institute in a suburb of Rochester, New
York.
One person who has known Pezzola for over 20 years described him as a
hardworking father of two daughters whose politics grew increasingly
extreme over the last two years. VICE News attempted to
contact Pezzola via phone numbers connected to his business
“Out of everyone in our class, I would have picked him out as a
domestic terrorist,” one classmate, who asked to remain anonymous for
her safety, told VICE News. “He was always a bit machismo,” remarked
another, who had the same request for anonymity.
Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., also has been named in state tax warrants
totaling more than $40,000 over the past five years, according to
public records. His attorney declined to comment.
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the Keynesian Elite in the new deal state
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Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind:
The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal state
Source: "Membership List, May 1927," in the Morris L. Cooke Papers, box 66, FDR Library
"The Origins of the "Welfare State": The Keynesian Elite and the Second New Deal, 1910-1936" (manuscript, 1987)
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U.S. Political Economy by Sector, 1910 to 1939
input-output matrices: capital formations and the two-party system
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The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal State: Career Matrix
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Progressivism: Rosenwald-Crane-Merriman/People's Progressive League
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John Burnham & Co./Holabird & Root Architects/Chicago Venetian
Blind Co. Coat & Gross Inc. Contractors(all preeding
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Ind Cleveland 1914-23/U.S. Coal Comm 1922/ed. Factory and Ind Mgmnt
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I. History and Philosophy
History without philosophy is only a screen on which to project the
shibboleths of our time. Thinking must first emancipate itself
from the Cartesian presuppositional generative matrix--the ontological
presupposition of the Cartesian self and its associated rhetorical
elements of consciousness, belief, motive, ideology and interest.
Failure to do so has the effect, a priori, of blocking
conceptualization of questions of ontology, agency, intentionality,
habitus, networks and contexts.*
II. the internet
The
site as a whole recognizes that the Internet is the
techno-cognitive axis of a praxiological revolution in thought, where
the extended mind is fused with philosophy as the critical
accompaniment to empirical practice. The links below suggest some
what can now be done. They are subsumed under the heading of The Sado-Sexual Eigenvector of GOP Performativity:
* Marcus Gabriel (I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century (2017); The Meaning of Thought (2021); "Why the world does not exist but unicorns do" (2015) interview)
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A key text
In many cases it is behavioural change that comes first, subsequently determing genetic change.
language’s evolutionary emergence would have required profound social
and political change, [and] more trusting, stable relationships
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. . in the case of many nonhuman primates, dominance asserted through
violence or threat is the internal principle of social organization . .
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. . . primate-style dominance is periodically overthrown and then restored, only to be overthrown and restored again and again
Language consitutes a ‘biocultural niche’, embedded within the entire
human semiosphere—everything in human culture, material and
non-material, that is symbolic in nature.
. . . the cultural technologies of reading and writing seem to have
extended human memory, enabled abstract chains of reasoning, and guided
new ways of scanning visual items, thus making human[s] even more
cognitively plastic.
Language . . . is a quasi-artefactual biocultural niche, and the
capacity to acquire and use it involves the evolution and replication
of a phenogenotypic biocultural complex.
intersubjectivity and shared intentionality . . . Whiten and
Erdal (2012) emphasize the socio-cognitive complex of cooperation,
egalitarianism, and mindreading alongside language and cultural
transmission in the evolution of humans as successful hunter-gatherers.
All languages are socially constructed technologies for the instruction
of imagination, but the actual dynamics of exploration and
stabilization in each and every language could be as variable as their
communities, their histories, their particular communicative needs,
their collective capacities, and the private experiential worlds of
their speakers.
‘conventional knowledge sits in a kind of “middle ground” between
objective and subjective knowledge about the world . . . it is neither
strictly objective, nor subjective—it is ‘intersubjective’
Only given social forces of counter-dominance—where individuals with
allies can resist being dominated—and reverse-dominance—where the
collective dominates any would-be dominant individual—is language
likely to emerge.
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IV. Two Rules (there is no truth; only methods and works)
1. The Cassirer inclusion rule: there is a set of authoritative
texts--authoritative in the sense of being highly respected state of
the art works--that must be taken into account, or good reason given
for not doing so. For example, the semiotic field constituted by the
set of texts on on slavery in the Atlantic world (click here).
An exception to the Cassirer inclusion rule is provided by the Margolies exclusion rule:
2. The Margolies exclusion rule: Texts that address cultural,
psychological, political, and historical questions through scientistic
reductionism are excluded for the following reasons:
they expel from the field of discourse all of post-Kantian, hermeneutical philosophy
they thereby also exclude literature as a relevant resource for thinking about the human
they exclude the psychoanalytically-inspired textual modalities (not theories) that,
together with literature, provide indespensible resources for
comprehending not only depth and complexity, but also the dark side of
our existence.
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modernity as a mode of lingusitic and cognitive performativity
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part four
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the two-party system
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from Friederich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, (I 2).
All
philosophers have the common failing of starting out from man as he is
now and thinking they can reach their goal through an analysis of
him. They involuntarily think of 'man' as an aeterna veritas, as
something that remains constant in the midst of all flux, as a sure
mesure of things. Everything the philosopher has declared about
man is, however, no more than a testimony as to the man of a very
limited period of time. Lack of historical sense is the family failing
of all philosophers
from Friederich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (p. 51, Penguin)
To this extent media
discourse* is never to be taken literally: as such, it never contains
anything but nonsense. But as semiotics it remains of incaculable
value: it reveals, to the informed man, at least, the most precious
realities of cultures and inner worlds which did not know how to
"understand" themselves. Media discourse** is merely sign-language,
merely sympomology.
from 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
* "moral judgement" in the original
** "morality" in the original
*** liberalism/nihilism
**** fascism (see Roper and Walzer)
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Elites should be studied in relation to their exercise of power
the exercise of power ufolds through the two party system
the pecularities of the two-party rhetorical performativities cannot be
understood excep through a dialectical analysis of elite-mas
interactions as mediated through several networks of power
old links are based on the metaphysic of "the book"
in this page a finally realized that the empiricities should be laid
out--not summarized or interpreted. These latter should be done,
but not in the manner of the u/c study!
CONCEPT OF GRIFTER!!! FOREGROUNDED
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The two-party System: Semiotic Regimes I
Cognitive Performativities and Emotional Configurations
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pre-op and gestural
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the big picture: 1mya to 2023
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From the origins of language to the end of print literacy in the United states
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