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we shall not live by bread alone.

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Romero got married on the fifth of July In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn. Could have got married in the revival man's tent, But there ain't no reviving what's gone.

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Phenomenology Friday “Language functions as a kind of transformer.” Habermas. Legitimation Crisis.

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me, shirtless, standing in the smoke of the grill, staring off across the yard, adjusting my hat, turning to my children: that smell. i love that smell. me: them: me: them: me: one day this holiday is gonna end. them: dad. are you ok?

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grill marks, bud.

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this independence day all the cool kids are asking about my hip, new t-shirt: ᴅᴇᴍʏᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴢᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ

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that’s all very well put, said candide. but we must cultivate our garden.

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The executive may do what is necessary to expand freedom from restraint, but shall do nothing to constrain the invisible hand of the market.

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“If the media are so important in modern democracies, this is the case not only bc they enable the control and government of public opinion, but also and above all bc they manage and dispense Glory, the acclamative and doxological aspect of power that seemed to have disappeared in modernity.”

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“the political theology of neoliberalism is grounded in freedom as its ultimate concern. … it sets up participation in economic competition as the highest expression of human personhood, which leads directly to its account of what is permissible in the political realm.”

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“In theological terms we could say that political theology deals with what Paul Tillich calls ‘the ultimate concern,’ a phrase that designates the reality that is most meaningful and grants meaning to everything else.”

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“If we comprehend a social system as a life-world, then the steering aspect is screened out. If we understand a society as a system, then the fact that social reality consists in the facticity of recognized, often counterfactual, validity claims is not taken into consideration.”

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“In historiography, a rupture in tradition, through which the interpretive systems that guarantee identity lose their social integrative power, serves as an indicator of the collapse of social systems.“

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“Disturbances of system integration endanger continued existence only to the extent that *social integration* is at stake, that is, when the consensual foundations of normative structures are so much impaired that the society becomes anomic.”

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“According to this systems approach, crises arise when the structure of a social system allows fewer possibilities for problem solving than are necessary to the continued existence of the system. In this case, crises are seen as persistent disturbances of system integration.”

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“To use the expression ‘late capitalism’ is to put forward the hypothesis that, even in state-regulated capitalism, social developments involve ‘contradictions’ or crises.”

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The immunity ruling is a perfect expression of Wilhoit’s Law, Crooked Timber’s most lasting and most accidental gift to political theory.

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you: ok, i’ll bite. what is the pastoral? me: the place beyond place where one is at home with the world, both in one’s public face and one’s inward person. you: me: you: me: you: i want to feel at home. me: welcome.

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you, through tears: not everything is about the pastoral! me, pointing at the faves on this post from my longtime online neighbors: pastoral.

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me: i don’t want to think about the political. i want to think about the pastoral. also me: the pastoral, properly differentiated from both a totalizing nostalgia and a naive futurity, is the political par excellence.

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“Both the libertarian and the communitarian disqualify themselves from any understanding of the actualities of structure and authority intrinsic to any conceivable social constitution and which their opposed stances still leave intact.“

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“Liberals defend the autonomy and independence of the individual as conceived in the legal notion of human and civic ‘rights’ … while communitarians draw attention to the embeddedness of individuals in networks of shared meanings and social norms.”

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“It is strange to live in a time when philosophy has found so many ways to damage if not destroy itself.”

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“The only truly political action, however, is that which severs the nexus between violence and law.”

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“Life and law, anomie and nomos, auctoritas and potestas, result from the fracture of something to which we have no other access than through the fiction of their articulation and the patient work that, by unmasking this fiction, separates what it claimed to unite.”

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“The state of exception is the device that must ultimately articulate and hold together the two aspects of the juridical-political machine by instituting a threshold of undecidability between anomie and nomos, between life and law, between *auctoritas* and *potestas*.”

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“It is significant that modern scholars have been so ready to uphold the claim that *auctoritas* inheres immediately in the living person of the *pater* or *princeps*.”

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“There is no return from the camps to classical politics.”

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“The state of exception is thus not the chaos that precedes order but rather the situation that results from its suspension.”

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“The paradox of sovereignty consists in the fact the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order.”

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It’s one hell of a borromean knot out there. May as well sit yourself down and do the reading.

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mad that all my screenshots of Agamben are on the old site.

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For me, he is still the absolute master of late twentieth century style.

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Coming down off the Cumberland Plateau on I-24 out into valley of these last low hills, and even the meanest of them sparkle in the sunshine. Patty Griffin on the radio. Blow your wounded heart wide open.

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Please consider joining my foundation, Gadamerians International. We are committed to placing a copy of Truth and Method in every hotel and hospital room in the country.

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walked over to the gas station across the way for a cup of coffee and somebody gave me the once over and asked me if i rodeo. buddy, i’ll take that all day.

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Liturgy within the Liturgy: would that he would speak his calming word to the whirlwind that is my children.

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καὶ διεγερθεὶς ἐπετίμησεν τῷ ἀνέμῳ καὶ εἶπεν τῇ θαλάσσῃ Σιώπα, πεφίμωσο.

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Phenomenology Friday “Consciousness of being affected by history (wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewußtsein) is primarily consciousness of the hermeneutical situation. To acquire an awareness of a situation is, however, always a task of peculiar difficulty.” Gadamer. Truth and Method.

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The Crucified God was translated by R.A. Wilson and John Bowden. I have been able to track down Bowden, but I can not confirm the identify of R.A. Wilson. Any assistance would be appreciated.

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I find his term for this understanding of our situatedness particularly helpful: wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewußtsein, "historically-effected consciousness."

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