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From the New Deal to the Great Leader
TEXTS, GRAPHIC MATERIALS, & DATA SETS
(including Timelines and Maps)

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"In this longue durée perspective . . . "

Robert C. Gordon, “Race,” in R. J. B. Bosworth, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Fascism
(Oxford, 2009), p. 315

In this longue durée perspective, the problems of moving from the specifics of race within single fascist regimes to a ‘fascist common denominator’ may fade in comparison with the possibility that racism lies at the core of the modern nation and modernity itself.

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

from "It’s Just Too Much: A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane," New York Times, 1-7-19.

I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” an employee of the Federal prison in the Florida Panhandle said. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

from Maryanne Wolf, Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Harper Collins, 2018), p. 179

The seriousness of the current reality means that at the present rate, the majority of eighth-grade children could be classified as functionally illiterate in a few years' time.

Nietzsche, Will to Power, preface:

What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differerently: the advent of nihilism.

The Arc of Literacy (On Reading as a Transformative Process)
Hegel, Bildung, and the Biocultural Niche of Modernity

Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing In the Western World (PalgraveMacmillan, 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.”)

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.")

comments on the above quotes in the context of Figure 0

Gordon suggests that the phenomenological bundle that “fascism” adduces may be subgroups of phenomenological bundles of greater scope and depth (Zaretsky).

Roper gets at the deep structure of today’s conspiracy theories, such as QAnon: the genetic ontology—the “standard structure and a similar set of primary themes”—of what I am calling the sado-sexual eigenvector of GOP cognitive-discursive performativitiy ( Nietzsche's problemmatic of eternal recurrence).

The New York Times article shows us just how primordial the mentalité of the base is.

Wolf, while speaking about the disintegration of literacy among American children, exposes a striking omission in discussions of iliteracy in America: we have yet to tke seriously the significance of the Great Leader’s cog disc performativity (FDR and the Great Leader's cognitive-discursive performativity compared).

Nietzsche's problemmatic of nihilism (1. dissolution of biocultural niche of modernity. See below.)

Figure 0. The Great Leader and the Adventures of Dasein:
From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States

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Fig 0 and the question of nihilism

Figure 0. From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States, places "The Great Leader" in its biocultual and evolutionary context. Figure 0 developed as a result of my encounter with The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014). This work is of singular importance, so much so that I have assembled three sets of excerpts: a compressed summary; brief excerpts; and extended excerpts.¹ Its key concept--biocultural niche--is fundamental to this site.

Even before the 2016 election evidence abounded in the public arena of a widespread dissolution of language and cognition. Because the media performs this cognitive decline, the decay of the performativities of modernity is invisible within the cognitively decaying media 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 is the nihilism that Nietzsche anticipated.

The Social Origins of Language helps to situate this existential catastrophe of which "The Great Leader" is an index. The concept of biocultural niche enables us to see this catastrophe. It is the intention of this site to incorporate discussions of “intelligence”² within the broader framework of SOOL. Here intelligence means cognitive-discursive performatiity (Ceci, On Intelligence, Harvard, 1996). See Biocultural Niche: Language, Thinking, Education. Vygotsky

1. Figure 0 is the irreducible minimum if one is to understand the New Deal,The Great Leader, and the historical path connecting them. This is because The Great Leader forces us to face the question of our primate heritage (and its corrolary, patrimonialism), on the one hand, and the fragility of civilization, on the other. (See excerpts from Dor et. al. and de Waal at the lower right.) The catastrophe now unfolding is nothing less than the disintegration of the biocultural niche of modernity.^{3

This is the result of an evaluation of the cognitive-discurive performativity of the Great Leader.

Viewed through lens the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth}

statement on nihilism

The triumph of nihilism (and globalization) as the socio-cultural engineering project of global corporate networks of unimaginable reach and power, generating an entropic process of disindividuation. Mass consumption as a mode of absorption and transformation of the organism. The fiction of freedom, the subversion of individuation (bildung), the inner logic of addiction, the commodification of distress, the infantilization of public discourse (Two-Party System) . . . in short, the dissipation of the species homo sapiens into a proliferation of effects.

DSM-5: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as the operating manual of the post-human ontology (and the drug industry and all that it entangles). Homo sapiens is now becoming a collection of hapless blobs of protoplasm gulping down vast quantities of salt, fat, and sugar; of psychoactive drugs both legal and otherwise; of ego-boosting and self-forming fashion statements; of life experiences (Viking River Cruises), all the while wallowing in media-provided concoctions of all kinds, from Downton Abbey and Housewives of Beverly Hills to the Jerry Springer Show and Duck Dynasty. This ever-expanding free-wheeling exercise of corporate power in the creation of the subjectivities of disindividuation becomes an "issue" unlike any other that homo sapiens has ever faced before. This infinite differentiability of this uniquely bio-cultural historical species is what gives capitalism its "vitality." It is what Marxists, with their obsession with the crisis of capitalism and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, characteristically fail to grasp.* (sapient paradox; Kagan; Dupre; Simondon)

fascism

2. Fascism is, fundamentally, about our primate heritage and patrimonialism. Both the violence and the Fuhrer principle are the first order "principles" of fascism. The particular historical forms this takes depend upon circumstances. Thus, racism’s evolve, and vary in intensity and scope, as do expressions of violence. Lynchings, pogroms, holocausts and tweets are therefore second-order phenomena. Even the impact of globalization on the populations concentrated in the central cities, inner suburbs, small towns, and the rural heartland in the United States, which is critical to understanding the success of the Great Leader, is a second-order phenomenon (Fascism/racism may be two concepts crying out for aufheben. (Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race))
MARX: 18th Brumaire, Seigel, Jones

Fasism as we have come to know it occurs within the institutional-cultural environment of modernity: urbanization, industrialization, nationalism, mass literacy, global markets

I have assembled excerpts from key texts dealing with fascism. The question of our primate heritage (and its corollary, patrimonialism) is brought in under the sign of Aufhebung⁴, both preserving and expanding upon the concept of fascism found in the current literature.

3. A close look at the January 6 arrestees reveals that, contrary to the respectable media and the Chicago Study, which claimed that "the angry crowd at the Capitol . . . seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but from white picket-fence Main Street backgrounds^,"5 what is found instead is 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 classifications⁶ 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 if any of the arrestees were connected to mainstream occupations and industries: none in manufacturing, none in the building trades, none in the modern corporate sector. They could be better characterized as grifters, the grifter-in-chief being of course The Great Leader. (See Some Arrestees from the January 6th Assault on the Capitol.) This a direct challenge not only to marxism but to any attempt at imputing any kind of functional rationality to this rabble of would-be entrepreneurs.

“Fascism”: the n-fold problematic

1. ressentiment and the mechanisms of defense: Nietzsche-Freud-Klein

2. Wrangham-de Waal (SOOL)

3. Weitz-Smith (historians)

4. the question of bildung

5. “Trump”: the world-historical significance of

6. Thermidor reconceptualized

big/deep history’s fatal flaw:
Mithen’s review re. the local vs. the deep
Big History, Deep History, and the Problem of Scale (Weldon)

SOOL

Fascism Reconsidered: Chimpanzee Politics¹

from Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape (pp. 128-9)

Since debates about human aggressiveness invariably revolve around warfare, the command structures of armies should make us think twice before drawing parallels with animal aggression. . . . Are wars born from anger? Leaders often have economic motives, internal political reasons, or act out of self-defense. . . . With supreme cynicism, Napoleon observed, "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that the majority of people in the majority of wars have been driven by something other than aggression. Human warfare is systematic and cold-blooded, making it an almost new phenomenon.

The critical word is "almost." Tendencies toward group identification, xenophobia, and lethal combat--all of which do occur in nature--have combined with our highly developed planning capacities to "elevate" human violence to its inhuman level. The study of animal behavior may not be much help when it comes to things like genocide, but if we move away from nation-states, looking instead at human behavior in small-scale societies, the differences are not that great anymore. (emphasis added)

from The Social Origins of Language (Cambridge, 2014)

. . . 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

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.

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).

¹ Frans de Waal, Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes (Harper & Roe, 1982)

Prelude to The Great Leader

Detroit News, May 2, 1937 click here for full text

Fascism at the Rouge, circa 1941

from Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit:
Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Basic Books, 1995), p. 82

the KKK in Packard, circa 1942

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 at 6100 Mt. Elliott Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan.
April 3rd, 1942, at 7:30 P.M.

"Lynching" in Fisher Body press room, June 10, 1937, Pontiac
"Tar-dipping is Laid to Five" Detroit News 12-10-37

The Harry Elder Report, September 2, 1939 (Detroit Regional Office, NLRB, in Smith Committee Files,
National Archives, Washington D.C.)
FDR vs. the Slave Power: MEMO July 10, 1935

Figure 1a. The Action Networks of Dasein
The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal state:
Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind

Source: "Membership List, May 1927," in the Morris L. Cooke Papers, box 66, FDR Library,
and The United States Government Manual 1937. Also: the Papers of John M. Carmody

The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal State: Career Matrix

"Liberal Businessmen," Office of the Secretary of Agriculture,
Record Group 16, "Businessmen" file, in Ezekiel papers.

This site is a rhizome. Its principle of production is transcendental empiricism.

This site is a rhizome. Its principle of production is transcendental empiricism. It uses figurative elements, including graphs, tables, charts, and maps, originally to advance an analysis of the historical trajectory: the New Deal to The Great Leader, 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.

Figure 1a. The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal state: Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind, and

Figure 1b. A Geography of Dasein. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943: Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind (Bildungs-proletarians and Plebeian Upstarts),

enable a systematic reappraisal of that which is called the New Deal. Without this reappraisal, it is impossible to understand The Great Leader. The Great Leader refers to the phenomenological bundles that are intrinsic to the object—The Great Leader—under investigation, not to the person named ****** *****. For example, the Lacan-Atwater Signifying Chain, and Some Arrestees from the January 6th Assault on the Capitol.

Figures 1a and 1b represent the phenomenological bundles of the New Deal state and the UAW, respectively. The significance of this characterization is discussed below and elsewhere.

CAUTION: thinking must 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.

figure 1b. A Geography of Dasein
The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943:
Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality, and the Extended Mind
Bildungsproletarians and Plebeian Upstarts

the UAW, 1933-1943: a working notebook

placing The Great Leader in its biocultural and evolutionary context

Figure 0.

2. Fascism is, fundamentally, about our primate heritage and patrimonialism. Both the violence and the Fuhrer principle are the first order "principles" of fascism. The particular historical forms this takes depend upon circumstances. Thus, racism’s evolve, and vary in intensity and scope, as do expressions of violence. Lynchings, pogroms, holocausts and tweets are therefore second-order phenomena. Even the impact of globalization on the populations concentrated in the central cities, inner suburbs, small towns, and the rural heartland in the United States, which is critical to understanding the success of the Great Leader, is a second-order phenomenon (Fascism/racism may be two concepts crying out for aufheben. (Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race))

I have assembled excerpts from key texts dealing with fascism. The question of our primate heritage (and its corollary, patrimonialism) is brought in under the sign of Aufhebung⁴, both preserving and expanding upon the concept of fascism found in the current literature.

3. A close look at the January 6 arrestees reveals that, contrary to the respectable media and the Chicago Study, which claimed that "the angry crowd at the Capitol . . . seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but from white picket-fence Main Street backgrounds^,"5 what is found instead is 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 classifications⁶ 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 if any of the arrestees were connected to mainstream occupations and industries: none in manufacturing, none in the building trades, none in the modern corporate sector. They could be better characterized as grifters, the grifter-in-chief being of course The Great Leader. (See Some Arrestees from the January 6th Assault on the Capitol.) This a direct challenge not only to marxism but to any attempt at imputing any kind of functional rationality to this rabble of would-be entrepreneurs.

1. To bring us up to date: Sinha, C. (2021). Artefacts, symbols, and the socio-cultural dynamics of niche construction, in The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (Oxford, 2021), and
Shilton, D; Breski, M; Dor, D; Jablonka, E (February 14, 2020). "Human Social Evolution: Self-Domestication or Self-Control?". Frontiers in Psychology. 11: 134
2. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture by Krimsky, Sloan and Hammonds (Columbia, 2011). See review by Rob DeSalle in The Quarterly Review of Biology , Vol. 87, No. 2 (June 2012), p. 160. Also: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race, by Patrick Wolfe (Verso, 2016 )
3. from Maryanne Wolf, Reader Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Harper Collins, 2018), p. 179
"The seriousness of the current reality means that at the present rate, the majority of eighth-grade children could be classified as functionally illiterate in a few years' time."
4. from Wikipedia: In Hegel, the term Aufhebung has the apparently contradictory implications of both preserving and changing, and eventually advancement (the German verb aufheben means "to cancel", "to keep" and "to pick up"). The tension between these senses suits what Hegel is trying to talk about. In sublation, a term or concept is both preserved and changed through its dialectical interplay with another term or concept. Sublation is the motor by which the dialectic functions.
5. 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."
6. North American Industry Classification System (U.S. Census Bureau)
Standard Occupational Classification System (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
******* Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism, esp. ch. chapter 6, “The Long Term: Radicalization or Entropy”

Figure 0. The Great Leader and the Adventures of Dasein:
From the Origins of Language to the End of Print Literacy in the United States

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Successive layers in the evolution of human cognition and culture
Table 7.1 from Merlin Donald, A mind so Rare (Norton, 2001), p. 260

Stage	Species/Period	Novel Forms	Manifest Change	Governance
EPISODIC	Primate	Episodic event perceptions	Self-awareness and event sensitivity	Episodic and reactive
MIMETIC (first transition)	Early homids, peaking in H. erectus 2M-0.4 Mya	Action metaphor	Skill, gesture, mime, and imitation	Mimetic style and archetypes
MYTHIC (second transition)	Sapient humans, peaking in H. sapiens sapiens 0.5-present	Language, symbolic representation	Oral traditions, mimetic ritual,narrative thought	Mythic framework of governance
THEORETIC (third transition)	Modern culture	External symbolic universe	Formalisms, large-scale theoretic artifiacts, massive external storage	Institutionalized paradigmatic thought and invention

Cognitive dimension of fascism

the first order "principles" of fascism

Daniel Dor, Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis, The Social Origins of Language (Oxford, 2014), p.4

. . . in the case of many nonhuman primates, dominance asserted through violence or threat is the internal principle of social organization . . . [Among humans] . . . primate-style dominance is periodically overthrown and then restored, only to be overthrown and restored again and again.

Franz de Waal, Our Inner Ape (Riverhead, 2005) (p. 135)

Tendencies toward group identification, xenophobia, and lethal combat--all of which do occur in nature--have combined with our highly developed planning capacities to "elevate" human violence to its inhuman level. The study of animal behavior may not be much help when it comes to things like genocide, but if we move away from nation-states, looking instead at human behavior in small-scale societies, the differences are not that great anymore.

We are now engulfed in is the implosion of neo-liberal "society." The term "society" is bracketed because, in the conventional use of the term, an ontological stability is implied, whereas in reality this society is in the process of blowing its brains out, and that along four axes of ontological catastrophe.

•First, the disintegration of the cognitive performativities of modernity itself: the "human" side of "capital." (decognification, disindividuation; Trump's rhetorical performances seen from the standpoint of literacy and cognition as contingent not normative). This is a catastrophe of the first order.

•Second, the explosion of fascist performativities within the orbit of the GOP (Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism: "The legitimation of violence against a demonized internal enemy brings us close to the heart of fascism."). This is a catastrophe of the second order. The post-war development of West Germany is evidence that the biocultural niche of modernity can survive fascism. Fascism in the United States, however, feeds off the disintegration of the biocultural niche of modernity and also accelerates it.

•Third, the patrimonial assault on rational-bureaucratic institutions, an assault on the very idea of science-based professionalism and public service. Why does Trump get along so well with the alpha males of other patrimonial regimes, especially Putin? Not simply because he is one of them. The inner logic of such regimes--especially in the case of Trump--is the objective necessity to destroy the entire culture of science-based administration in agency after agency as an existential imperative. This is the significance of the demonic shibboleth: "the deep state". This is a catastrophe of the second order that feeds off the disintegration of the biocultural niche of modernity and also accelerates it.

•Fourth, the triumph of nihilism (or as it is known today, neoliberal subjectivity). Nihilism is the inner logic of the Democratic Party’s praxis, which is twofold.the driving force of the disintegration of the cognitive performativities of modernity. This nihilism is manifest in the victim culture that the dems manipulate to orgaize their herd of the Democratic Party's appeal, which defines "self" not as citizen but as consumer and victim. The New Deal's civic republicanism is dead. According to Nietzsche, this is a catastrophe of the first order

Modernity as a Mode of Cognitive-Discursive Performativity
(Reminder: It is the intention of this site to incorporate discussions of “intelligence” within
the broader framework of SOOL. Here intelligence means cognitive-discursive performatiity.)

By modernity I mean the biocultural niche of modernity: modernity as a mode of cognitive-discursive performativity.

Britannica on modernity:

modernity was associated with individual subjectivity, scientific explanation and rationalization; with the emergence of bureaucracy; The rationalization of processes (TS); and scientific methods. some scholars will even go so far as to locate modernity with the advent of the printing press and the mass circulation of print information that brought about expanded literacy in a middle class during the 15th century.

Merlin Donald on modernity, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (2001) (Ong, Paper)

Literacy skills change the functional organization of the brain and deeply influence how individuals and communities of literate individuals perform cognitive work.

To become fully literate, the individual must acquire a host of neural demons that are completely absent from anyone who lacks literacy training. This involves massive restructuring. 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. These are unnatural. They have to be hammered in by decades of intensive schooling, which changes the functional uses of certain brain circuits and rewire the functional architecture of thought.

Flynn on modernity: see XXXXXXX

Piaget on modernity: formal operational performativity

I refer the reader to Orton and Genovese regarding the continuing viability of Piaget's description of cognitive-discursive performativities at different level of development. Following Ceci, I emphasize a pragmatic-hermeneutical account of actual cognitive-discursive behavior over the positivist notion of general inteligence, or “g.” I also, with Ceci, I emphasize the context dependency of cognitive-discursive performativities. Thus the abstract question of The Great Leader’s intelligence becomes the concrete (here meaning hermeneutically rich) descriptions of The Great Leader's performances in a variety of contexts. How, for example, did The Great Leader perform in the critical national security meeting with the Joint Chiefs, the infamous meeting in the tank?. (For reporting on the tank meeting see the FDR-The Great Leader page.)

Sarah Maza on modernity: NETWORKS discursive-cognitive: Schiller in Barnow; Vivian Gornick
Maza describes the biocultural niche of modernity as networks of power-discourse central to what has become known as the French Revolution.

Schiller Hall in Detroit in the 1930s should be viewed as a radical salon,
a node in the discursive field/biocultural niche of modernity

republicanism (Stanford) and modernity: Mah on civic republicanism

Bildung and modernity (Alcorn, Berman, Brooke)

the hidden dimension of the biocultural niche of modernity is Bildung

1. cvic republicanism is pro-Bildung
2. commercial republicanism (liberalism/consumerism) is anti-Bildung

The republican ethos out of which the ideas of "free speech" emerged presupposed the existence of the biocultural niche of modernity (the hidden dimension of which is Bildung). The massive restructuring that Donald describes is at the heart of the making of modernity. Donald is describing the formal operational mode of cognitive discursive performativity. (see figure Piaget's 4 stages at the right)

Dasein: The Arc of Literacy (On Reading as a Transformative Process)
Hegel, Bildung, and the Biocultural Niche of Modernity

John L. Brooke, "There is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation
in the Coming of the Civil War (U. Mass. Press, 2019)

John L. Brooke, Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to
the Age of Jackson (U. of North Carolina Press, 2010)

Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
from The Development of Children by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, and Sheila R. Cole (Sixth Edition, 2009)

Age	Stage	Description
Birth to 2	Sensorimotor	Infants' achievements consist largely of coordinating their sensory perceptions and simple motor behaviors. As they move through the six substages of this period, infants come to recognize the existence of a world outside themselves and begin to interact with it in deliberate ways.
2 to 6	Preoperational	Young children can represent reality to themselves through the use of symbols, including mental images, words, and gestures. Still, children often fail to distinguish their point of view from that of others, become easily captured by surface appearances, and are often confused about causal relations.
6 to 12	Concrete operational	As they enter middle childhood, children become capable of mental operations, internalized actions that fit into a logical system. Operational thinking allows children to mentally combine, separate, order and transform objects and actions. Such operations are considered concrete because they are carried out in the presence of the objects and events being thought about.
12 to 19	Formal operational	In adolescence, the developing person acquires the ability to think systematically about all logical relationswithin a problem. Adolescents display keen interest in abstract ideas and in the process of thinking itself.

"Woodward book: [The Great Leader] says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans, Washington Post 9-9-20

In a separate conversation recounted by Woodward, Mattis told Coats, “The president has no moral compass,” to which the director of national intelligence replied: “True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”

three levels of cognitive performtivity:
preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational

The covid crisis provides a context for evaluating the cognitive-discursive performances of a variety of

actors. Recent revelations in the UK reveal the scientific incompetence of Boris Johnson and associates.¹ They could not comprehend the concept of exponential growth, and, like the Great Leader, undermined the authority of those officials and advisors who did understand this cornerstone of epidemiology and public health policy. But this is part of the high school math curriculum. In Piagetian terms, they lacked formal operational competence.

Another opportunity to examine the cognitive-discursive performativity of political actors is provided by the Congressional debate on the auto industry bailout. Democrats refered to the input-output matrix of auto production² in the United States, and expressed concerns about the systems impact of an auto industry collapse. Their cognitive operations were focused on facts and concepts appropriate to a discussion of economic policy.

On the other hand, the GOP confined iself to primarily moralistic arguments and accusations about rewarding the bad behavior of auto executives. Of course the attacks on Detroit, as the iconic symbol of blacks and unions, were just one more performance of a r*c*st semiotic. Absent from the set of GOP rhetorical elements were economic data and economic concepts--a striking omission in a debate on economic policy. Instead it is the shibboleths of a provincial Protestantism that were repeatedly deployed.

Indeed, GOP economic policy statements are nothing more than the shibboleths of a provincial Protestantism, and ought not be taken as real conceptualizations of things economic. These statements are easily debunked by real economists (Zombie Economics, see Paul Krugman, Brad de Long on the Ryan kill Medicare "plan" krugman). However, by taking them seriously (that is what Krugman does when he addressed these statements as economic) the critics inadvertently lend credibiity to the pre-scientific cognitive performativity of the right. The specific performative domain of today's rightwing politics is primarily preoperational and gestural.

Sometimes the form of concrete operational cog-dis performativity is deployed, but only as a rhetorical device. There are psuedo-factual statements on the right: Jon Kyl says abortion services are “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does” is an example. But this is actually a demonic accusation cloaked in a factical expressive modality, what I call a psuedo-concrete-operational expressive modality. Of course, one might say John Kyl simply lied . . . but that would 1) be too simplistic, and 2) miss the whole point of this kind of analysis, which focuses on the audience and the audience reaction to statements made by political actors. To argue over the "facts", as liberals do, is to lend credibility to the operations of the sado-sexual eigenvector of GOP performativity.

1. Former British PM Boris Johnson was 'bamboozled' by COVID stats, inquiry hears (ABCMon 20 Nov 2023)
2. See the Chicago Fed's map of US parts plants)
*** see minutes murray body for example of highly competent concrete operarational performativity

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the French Revolution and the Biocultural Niche of Modernity

from Sarah Maza, "The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution" in Peter McPhee, A Companion to the French Revolution (Wiley 2013), pp. 45-47

Religion is another case in point. In the traditional view, eighteenth-century progressive ideologies were anti-religious; few of the philosophes were outright atheists but most of them were harshly critical of the church as an instititution and eager to relegate religion to the margins of human affairs. The Revolution, in this older view, was the outcome of secularizing forces. More recent work has shown, however, that religion was a central component of oppositional activity and ideas in the pre-revolutionary decades. In the early eighteenth century, the groups most conspicuously persecuted by the French monarchy were Protestants (whose right to worship was outlawed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685), and followers of Jansenism, a Catholic heresy with Augustinian roots which became popular among some segments of the French noble and commoner elites and eventually among broad segments of the urban population in the first half of the eighteenth century. While exile and brutal repression mostly silenced the Huguenot community, recent research has shown that Jansenists and their supporters played a pivotal role in undermining the ideological alliance of church and throne, and indeed the very justification for traditional monarchy.

As Dale Van Kley has argued in a series of classic studies, the church, the First Estate of the realm, had less to fear from Voltaire and company’s rather traditional caricatures of lascivious monks, debauched nuns, and power hungry popes than from a high-minded Catholic movement with powerful supporters which proposed a coherent alternative view of the nature of both religious and secular power (Van Kley 1996). Jansenism, a movement resembling Protestantism but which professed loyalty to the Catholic Church, took shape in the mid-seventeenth century, and by the reign of Louis XIV the heresy had a committed following among the magistrates of the Parlement of Paris and the capital’s parish clergy. . . . The Parlement of Paris, home to a number of prominent Jansenist magistrates and smarting from Louis XIV attack on its traditional “right of remonstrance,” took it upon itself to defend Jansenist priests from persecution, thereby setting the stage for some fifty years of conflict between itself and the monarchy over religious affairs. . . . In sum, it now seems that religion was a far more powerful force than Voltairean skepticism in undermining the ideological status quo. It was, for instance, not the philosophes but a phalanx of determined Jansenist magistrates in the Paris Parlement who engineered the expulsion of the Jesusit order from France in 1764.

Most of the central political concepts of the Revolution were first articulated, then, not in the writings of canonical philosophes but in the fractious zone, primarily centered on the Parlement of Paris, where religion met politics. (Rousseau’s overly radical and abstract Social Contract was virtually ignored before the 1790s.) The most serious political crisis of the pre-revolutionary decades unfolded from 1771 to 1774 when Louis XV’s minister Chancellor René de Maupeou forcibly “reformed” the Parlement of Paris, radically curtailing its jurisdiction, severely restricting its right to to opine on national affairs, and summarily dismissing those many magistrates who refused to go along with his project. The so-called “Maupeou crisis” touched off an avalanche of political commentary, with hundreds of pamphlets hammering out concepts and slogans that would become ubiquitous again in the late 1780s.

from Trevor Burnard, Britain in the Wider World: 1603–1800 (Routledge, 2020)

Certainly, empirical research does not support a class-based interpretation of the conflict that emerged in England in the 1640s. If there was a difference between which side to support in the first English Civil War from 1642 to 1647, it was less based on class or even region but on religion. The king's firm supporters were generally committed to the form of Anglicanism that Charles I supported while his opponents tended to be Puritans of some sort." p.49

Jennifer A. Herdt, Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition (Chicago, 2019). Esp. re. the role of Pietists in American Civil War (pp. 21, 59-60) england, netherlands, germany

also: Thee is a north
Flint Fisher Body Roscoe Van Zandt

The Biocultural Niche of modernity: the Keynesian Elite and the Unity Caucus

biocultural niche, the New Deal, and the UAW

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. In the early 1970s we had many discussions and exchanged many letters.

Then, In the mid-1970s I had further discussions with the bildungsproletarians and plebeian upstarts who led the efforts to unionize the auto industry in the 1930s. Figure 1a. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943, emerged out of these discussions with veterans of the formative years of the UAW (59 of whom are listed here). This map was only constructed in the time of The Great Leader, 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 bildungs-proletarians 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.

What made this whole site possible is the literary and cognitive capabilities of the bildungs-proletarians and plebeian upstarts whom I interviewed. These bildungs-proletarians inhabited the biocultural niche of modernity. In this regard they had more in common with the New Deal vanguard of Figure 1a than they had with the “masses” of their fellow workers in the plants. For this reason it was possible to co-construct a discursive web incorporating all the interviews that, in another context, could be referred to as the extended mind of the Unity caucus.

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 embodiment of civic republicanism.

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.

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 linguistic and cognitive performativity.

*Bildungs-proletarians. Highly literate workers who participated in the public sphere, embedded especially in the biocultural niche of Progressivism. See Kraus interview of Wyndham Mortimer. Read Mortimer's letter to Chas on the factional situation in the UAW in the spring of 1938 for an example of what Kraus is talking about. (Also interviews of Adams, Lock, Wellman, Williams).
**Mah pp. 7-

Reformation Roots

from Trevor Burnard, Britain in the Wider World: 1603–1800 (Routledge, 2020)

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Interrogating Dasein: bildungsproletarians and plebeian upstarts

Figure 1a. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943

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
4. the Cliff Williams ratio:     7.1% (Pontiac Motors) PF

b. bildungsproletarians: about one in thousand

Dodge Main: 2 ratios (21,894 members in Fall 1939)

n=34. (0.16%): Emergency Meeting of Chrysler Executive Boards and Shop Committees, October 8, 1939

n=13 (0.06%): Meeting of the Chrysler Executive Boards and shop committees, November 7, 1939

Bildungsproletarians' encounters with the "world"

1. encounters with "the grey 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": AAIA, KKK, Bl. Legion
c. Kluck on skilled trades: Homer Martin
d. Kord on the colonization of the tool room UNITY

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
e. Frank Fagan on the welders in his department/body-
in-white

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
c. Cliff Williams vs. Bert Harris
d. Packard
e. Maurice Sugar in the elevator
f. Lindahl on 1938 meeting (letter to Lewis)

* see Fascism: texts

Networks of Power

Reformation "Roots"

The Republican Dasein
Schiller Hall in Detroit in the 1930s should be viewed as a radical salon,
a node in the discursive field/biocultural niche of modernity

1. from S.A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (Cambridge University 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.

2. Schiller Hall in Detroit should be viewed as a radical salon, a node in the discursive field of modernity, a meeting place of the bildungsproletarians. At the right Ed Lock (proud grandson of a Civil War veteran) provides an account of the intellectual life of the bildungs-proletarians who gathered in Schiller Hall. Saul Wellman (communist, Detroit and Flint), provides an account of intellectual aspirations of new recruits to the Party in Flint in the immediate post-war period. Joe Adams (socialist, Dodge Main) provides an account of such modernist sensibilities on Detroit's east side, and more generally among the socialists he knew back in the day. Excerpts from the Wellman and Adams interviews can be found here.

3. comment on Margaret Jacob's The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850 (Cambridge, 2014:

Jacob's emphasis on the socio-cultural networks, circles, meeting houses of these first "industrialists"; her emphasis on the role of books as emotionally charged world-opening objects--one sees here both Vygotsky's notion of zone of proximal development broadened and historicized, and Alcorn's understanding of the development of self that can result from an an engagement with a text. In this way Jacob expands our concept of the Enlightenment.

This requires a reconceptualization of what is called the Enlightenment--the Enlightenment as a cultural-historical developmental leap--an ontological leap, a cognitive revolution, a new Symbolic Order. The superorganisism of the enlightenment . . . from the 18th century to the New Deal. Scientific reasoning is not merely about knowledge. It is about functioning on the formal-operational level. In the adventure of it, the jouissance of developmental transgression and becoming, lies the secret of the bildungs-proletarians and plebian upstarts who gave us so many Nietzschean spectacles . . .

4. from my interview with Ed Lock (CP, UAW Local 600)

I was very active in MESA --- Ford in USSR petered out in March of 1933, and I was laid off. Several months later I found employment in a job shop as a milling machine operator. I got signed up in the MESA, that was a unionized plant. The job didn't last long.

In that period I would hang out at the MESA hall, Schiller Hall* on Gratiot Ave. . . It was very much a Left hall. I became very interested in union . . . I was very young, 20 yrs old. My father was AFL, a ship carpenter, but I didn't assimilate much from him. But I became very interested in the MESA, and one of the characteristics of the time was that large numbers of radicals of all descriptions IWW, Communist, Socialist . . . would come to this hall, and we would sort of sit around and have big bull discussions with the old timers from the IWW and the Communists and whoever was there . . . We would all participate in these discussions, each of them would bring their literature round . . . I got involved so to speak, I was unemployed, but I would still go because I found these meetings fascinating, and I would participate in the distribution of leaflets.

I would go out with some of the leaders, and go with John Anderson or John Mack, who was a leader at that time. I went to--not so often to Fords--but I went to the Cadillac plant, Ternstedt, places like this, and GM, and would distribute organizational . . . I got involved in the Detroit Stoveworks strike . . . The MESA had undertaken the organization there and had a bitter strike there. A matter of fact I had guns put in my ribs in this strike threatening to kill us. But this was part of my education in the trade union movement.

5. Karl Emil Franzos, "Schiller in Barnow" (1876), in The German Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993, Ritchie Robertson, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1999)

6. on cogntive and cultural "awakening" in Flint immediate post-war years

Saul Wellman Michigan State Chairman of the Communist Party

Wellman: Flint is what I consider to be the asshole of the world; it's the roughest place to be. Now we recruited dozens of people to the Party in Flint, and they came out of indigenous folk. And those are the best ones. But we couldn't keep them in Flint very long, once they joined the Party. Because once they came to the Party a whole new world opened up. New cultural concepts, new people, new ideas. And they were like a sponge, you know. And Flint couldn't give it to them. The only thing that Flint could give you was whorehouses and bowling alleys, you see. So they would sneak down here to Detroit on weekends--Saturday and Sunday--where they might see a Russian film or they might . . . hear their first opera in their lives or a symphony or talk to people that they never met with in their lives. . . .

On the other hand the reality of joining a movement of this type is that the guy who is in the indigenous area looks around and says this is idiocy, I can't survive here.

7. Modernist Sensibilities on Detroit's East Side, circa 1930s

Joe Adams (Dodge Main Local 3, socialist) interview conducted around 1975-76

My background on unionism. Mostly it was like on my dad with the newspaper socialism. He believed in socialism. He used to sit there and talk. I had seven brothers, and hell, the old man used to sit down. He was a pretty intelligent guy, like the Reuther boys we used to listen to the old man.”

Religion was a bunch of bullshit. As a statesman Reuther got to be where he went to some church and just went there once in a while just to make it look good, but shit when he died he [they] let nobody near him—any of them—godddamn rabbis or preists or ministers, he felt the same way about all of them there like [Roy] and him, up your bunhole, just burn it and get the hell over with it. That’s the way I feel about it.

“There are a nucleus of people in any organization that make all organizations function. I don’t care what you say. You can have a million members and there can be fifty of them that makes the UAW function, which is what happened there for the last thirty five years. The Reuthers, the Woodcocks, myself. You know when a guy like me brings in 250,000 members into this goddamn union he has to have a semblance of some intelligence. he just can’t go out and say ‘I’m an organizer’. In Patterson NJ there was 32,000 people in Wright Aeronautical, and I got 23,000 votes out of them people for the UAW.

UAW Interviews

Interviews (Skeels, Friedlander, Leighton): Lower Great Lakes Industrial Region

Detroit-east side		interviewees

Murray Body	UAW Local 2	Pody, Fagan, Jones
Dodge Main	UAW Local 3	Frankensteen, Watson, Ross, Harris, Adams, Ptazynski, Reynolds, Zaremba
Plymouth	UAW Local 51	NLRB, Sweet, bus.hist.,
Packard	UAW Local 190	McDaniel, Kujawski, Matthews, Poplewski,Lindahl
Michigan Steel Tube	UAW Local 238	Klue
Detroit Steel Products	UAW Local 351	Silver
Midland Steel	UAW Local 410	N=24
Chrysler Highland Park	UAW Local 490	Jenkins

Detroit-Connor Ave		interviewees
Chrysler-Jefferson	UAW Local 7	Zeller, Carey
Hudson	UAW Local 154	Anderson, Moore, Pody
Briggs	UAW Local 212	Bill Mazey, Ernie Mazey, Morris, Vega
Budd Wheel	UAW 306	Bauer

Detroit-west side and Dearborn		interviewees
Ford	UAW Local 600	Lock, Llewelyn, Tappes
Fleetwood	UAW Local 15	Anderson
Ternstedt	UAW Local 174
	UAW Local 157

Flint
Fisher Body 1		Genski, Simons
Chevrolet		Jones
Buick		Bully, Case
A.C. Spark Plug

Pontiac
GM Truck & Bus		Williams et. al.
Fisher Body		Williams et. al.
Pontiac Motors		Williams et. al.

Toledo
Auto-Lite
Chevrolet		Ditzel, Roland
Willys-Overland		Addes
Spicer Mfg.
City Auto Stamping
Logan Gear Co
Bingham Stamping and Tool

South Bend
Bendix
Studebaker		Rightly

Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers		BOOK
Seaman Body		speth

Cleveland
Fisher Body
White Motor		Mortimer

Midland Steel, UAW Local 410
The AFL Faction: the Non-Production Craft and Service Sector

name	nationality	religion	year of birth	classification	department

Oran Snyder	German	Catholic		repair weld	assembly
Glen Snyder	German	Catholic		repair weld	assembly
Anton Boll	German/Kashub?	Catholic		die maker	tool room
Frrank Carr	Irish	Catholic		crib clerk	tool room
Joseph Bergeron	French-Canadian	Catholic		tool welder	tool room

F. Bieske	German	Catholic		plumber	maintenance
Fred Kraus	German	Catholic		pipefitter	maintenance
F. Mathews	Irish	Catholic		millwright	maintenance
A. Dumais	French-Canadian	Catholic		electrician	maintenace
Carl Brendel	German	Catholic		plumber	maintenace

J. Killala	Irish	Catholic	1899	crane operator	transportation
William Babcock	German	Catholic		crane operator	transportation
Junius Pruitt	Black			tractor driver	transportation

Pete Olshove	Kashub	Catholic	1898	hyd. press die set	press room
Agnes Baaranski	Kashub	Catholic	1900	press operator	press room
Marie Budna	Czech	Catholic		press operator	press room

H. L. Harris	Black		1891	Hannifin op.	assembly
A. M. Smith	Irish	Catholic	1910	arc welder	assembly

Midland Steel, UAW Local 410
The CIO Milieu: Bildungsproletarians and Plebeian Upstarts

name	nationality	religion	year of birth	classification	department

North European

Thomas Dyer	Ky. Mason			die maker	tool room
Sam Brear	Scot//Czech			machine hand	tool room
A. Barton	Indiana WASP			diie maker	tool room

Ben Wainwright	Pa. English			arc welder	assembly
Bud English	WASP RR Okla		1906	arc welder	assembly
Norm Green	French-Canadian	Catholic	1912	arc welder	assembly
Bud Berkey	Pa. WASP		1904	arc welder	assembly
John Fisher	Scotch		1897	spot welder	assembly

G. Watson				press operator	press room
Mac Mackelvey	Scot			press operator	press room
A. Fritche	German		1899	large press op.	press room

THE LEFT

Bill Sumak	Russian		1897	press operator	press room
George Borovich	Serb		1913	press operator	press room
Fred Cini	Maltese		1905	press operator	press room
James Dinkle	Germ/Kashub		1910	press operator	press room

John Kazmierski	Polish		1912	Proj. welder	assembly
Peter Borovich	Serbian		1914	arc welder	assembly

Peter Kotenko	Russian		1915	labor	transportation

THE SECOND GENERATION

John Kazmierski	Polish		1915	arc welder	assembly
Ed Grabowski	Polish		1915	arc welder	assembly
Ted Maciag	Polish		1915	arc welder	assembly
Frank Kusz	Polish		1896	arc welder	assembly
Chester Podorski	Polish		1917	Hannifin op	assembly

Oscar Oden	Black		1909	assembler	assembly
Henry Warfield	Black		1896	assembler	assembly
Nelson Merrill	Black		1909	assembler	assembly
Henry Patterson	Black		1902	assembler	assembly
Edgar Hicks	Black		1891	hannifin op	assembly

figure 1b. Michigan Steel Tube, 1937

Some Arrestees from the January 6th Assault on the Capitol

New Jersey: N=9 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

NAME
Abual-Ragheb, Rasha N.	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.	cosmetologist
Baranyi, Thomas	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.	went into basic training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged. BTR
Fairlamb, Scott	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.	gym owner martial artist
Guthrie, Leonard	(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 The Great Leader and the whole movement.”	a street preacher
Hale-Cusanelli, Timothy Lewis	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.	VIOLENCE Military PDLV
Hazelton, Stephanie	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.	POLITICO
Stedman, Patrick Alonzo	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 The Great Leader.	GRIFTER
Suarez, Marissa A.	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	correctional police officer
Todisco, Patricia	the performative domain of “legitimate” violence pdlv PDO"L"V PDLV	correctional police officer

Tennessee: N=10 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

name
Matthew Bledsoe	•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.	grifter violence
Jack Jesse Griffith	“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 The Great Leader video game. “Have an exuberant evening,” he said, as he hopped in a car to leave.	grifter
Eric Munchel	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	grifter
Blake Austin Reed	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	grifter
Ronald L. Sandlin	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. How To Write Copy That Turns Into Cash - AWOL Elite Conference 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” The Great Leader. 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.	grifter
Eric Chase Torrens	Torrens appeared in an Instagram video with Matthew Bledsoe and Jack Jesse Griffith (GRIFTER network)	grifter
Padilla, Joseph Lino	a company spokesperson for Wacker Chemie plant told us that Padilla worked at their Bradley County plant until 2016.	subproletariat? former worker?
Michael Lee Roche	He works as a server at Farmers Family Restaurant in Murfreesboro	working poor?
Ronnie B. Presley	looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!	BTR
Bryan Wayne Ivey	looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!	BTR

Minnesota: n=3 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

NAME
Victoria White	Larvita McFarquhar, a friend of White. McFarquhar owns Havens Garden cafe, in Lynd, Minn., where White has worked. Attorney: Video shows police attacking The Great Leader supporter Victoria White on Jan. 6	marginal working class?
Jonah Westbury	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.	BTR
Jordan K. Stotts	works in nurseries and greenhouses during the summer and travels in his van during the winter.	marginal working class

Florida: N=19 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

NAME		FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
Adams, Howard Berton	Edgewater
Anderson, John Steven	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.
Biggs, Joseph Randall	Proud Boys, Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child
Camargo, Samuel	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.
Counsil, Matthew	A Tampa Bay resident
Curzio, Michael	spent time in prison for attempted murder.VIOLENCE	VIOLENCE
Garcia, Gabriel Augustin	ran as a Republican in District 116 in Miami-Dade a former U.S. Army captain, ran for Florida House District 116 as a The Great Leader backer.	STORMTROOPER GOP
Gossjankowski, Vitali	a student at Gallaudet University Katherine Jankowski, his mother, was formerly an administrator at Gallaudet.
Honeycutt, Adam Avery, 39	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.	police
Johnson, Adam	Johnson Is a Stay at Home Father Who Makes Furniture	marginal
Maldonado, Steven Omar	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.
Mariotto, Anthony R. (aka, Tony Mariotto)	fort pierce
PERT, Rachael Lynn	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.”
RIVERA, Jesus (aka, JD Rivera, Jesus Delmora Rivera)	U.S. Marines (Former)
STEPAKOFF, Michael	Stepakoff leads Temple New Jerusalem, a Messianic synagogue in Palm Harbor. He is also a former attorney. Palm Harbor, Florida, rabbi
Sweet, Douglas	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 The Great Leader Rioter Arrested At The Capitol Says She Is "Ashamed And Disgusted”” Douglas Sweet from Hudgins and Cobbs Creek resident Cindy Fitchett
Weeks, Bradley W., 43	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!”
WILLIAMS, Andrew	firefighter paramedic
WINN, Dana Joe	A Lemon Bay High School graduate see Pert.

Oathkeepers N=14 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

NAME		FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
Kelly Meggs	general manager at a car dealership
Connie Meggs
Kenneth Harrelson	Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson
Donovan Crowl	Marine veteran, militia a self-employed carpenter Prosecutors said he does not have a stable address
Jessica Watkins	bartender who runs a self-identified militia, joined by three others in her unit, drove to Washington D.C. last week
Joshua James	window washer
Robert Minuta	tatoo parlor owner; High School graduate
Stewart Rhodes	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
Tanios, George Pierre 39	a West Virginia sandwich shop owner GROUP OF 8 PHOTO
Grayden Young	an Army and Navy reserve veteran; a brother, husband and a small business owner; brother of Steele; Manager at Young Children's Academy
Laura Steele	a former High Point police officer; sister of Young
Sandra Parker
Bennie Parker*

Proud Boys: N=13 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol

NAME		FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
Enrique Tarrio	"Arested Proud Boys chairman has history of business failure, apparently lives with mom" (WAPO JANUARY 8, 2021)
Joseph Biggs	Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child. This Wikipedia entry is a must-read: Joe Biggs.
Ethan Nordean	•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.
Zachary Rehl	Zach Rehl biography: 13 things about Proud Boys member from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Donohoe	presidents of his local Proud Boys chapter
Ashlock, Ryan	Gardner, Kansas. Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys
Chrestman, William
DECARLO, Nicholas	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	posible Grifter
GARCIA, Gabriel Augustin	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 The Great Leader backer
GOODWYN, Daniel	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.
Greeson, Kevin	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.
KELLY, Christopher M.	works for a fixed wireless company in Cedar Rapids
Pezzola, Dominic	“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.

Semiotic Regimes

Connecticut Murder Case: Selected Comments: rabids

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 | #

Connecticut Murder Case: Selected Comments

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 | #

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION: FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/engoron-gag-order-The Great Leader.pdf)

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C. Resign now, you dirty, treasonous piece of trash snake. We are going to get you and anyone of you dirty, backstabbing, lying, cheating American. You are nothing but a bunch of communists. We are coming to remove you permanently.

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A. Here are the sources for the psychological-emotional conceptualization of the Two-Party System: Semiotic Regimes:

Simon Clarke, Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave Macmillan; 2003), pp. 134-41
Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
Eli Zarestsky, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis (Vintage, 2005)
Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightement: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001)

B. and for the cognitive developmental conceptualization of the Two-Party System: Semiotic Regimes:

The Development of Children (Sixth Edition) by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, and Sheila R. Cole (2009)
Laura E. Berk, Development Through the Lifespan, (1998)
Piaget, Genetic Epistemology
Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Harvard, 1996)
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (Routledge, 2002)
A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations (Harvard, 1976)

The two-party System: Semiotic Regimes

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.

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 Imanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)

Thoughts without intuitions are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.

from F. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)

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.

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

To see how I arrived at Cognitive Performativities and Emotional Configurations, click here.

*"moral judgement" in the original
**"morality" in the original

1. Cognitive Performativities and Emotional Configurations

	LEFT*	RIGHT
Topology	depressive	paranoid-schizoid
Political style	progressive	proto-Dorian
Cognitive mode	concrete & pre-op	pre-op and gestural
Regime type	rational-bureaucratic	patrimonial

Elites: Strategic and Otherwise

2. Elites and their Masses

MSNBC/CNN New York Times and

Washington Post

NIHILISM (Liberalism) BILDUNG (Progressivism)

Commercial republicanism    Civic republicanism
concrete-operational and          formal-operational and
pre-operational                          concrete operational

Fox News

RESSENTIMENT (SSE of GOP performativity)

Patrimonialism

Fascism

pre-operational and gestural

rentier sectors; provincial capitals; patrimonial
and predatory businesses and racist political ecologies

The Making of Agency

Ontologically speaking, Figure figure 2. The UAW-Unity Caucus, 1933-1943,
Detroit; the factory's intersection with the community. The shopfloor was ontologically insignificant, in that when we recognize the decisive role of the Unity caucus qua new kind of network of power/social formation in the making of the New Deal, circa 1935-7. The shoploor is not the incubator of some kind of rmanticaccly imagined proletrian formtion. It is where the major currnts of modernnity greew as a wweb of relations, signfication, archive, etc. At its core were white men of northwester and southest european geneologies

Dasein: the grey masses (Kanichikov), Steinberg, Zelden,
Dasein: the plebeian upstarts
Dasein: the bildungs proletarians

White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era (Univ Tennessee Press 2009)

The Slave Power (and eternal return) in Michigan, 1938: shopfloor and neighborhood

Frank Fagan on "the Americans"
Chester Pa/NRA hearing