good meme.
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Structural Analysis
It’s the barrel not the apples.
manufacture
One way consent (hegemony) is manufactured and maintained is through particular uses of language. Here’s an example from the New York Times:
Note the use of passive verb construction when the police originate violence and the use of active verb construction when ordinary people do.
image
photo by Julio Cortez
the difference
objects don’t feel pain. they can’t die.
summertime
getting hotter
SPR20 (225/310/425/485)
Grades are uploaded. They’ll post on the 30th. Looking forward to the summer.
away from here
wow
Up Against
“What went wrong? Why now this regression? Why do the most atavistic forms of consciousness flourish in the midst of modernity? Why does reason appear powerless in the face of unreason? What should we have done differently? What is to be done now?”
–Osha Neumann
plans
plans
2020
analepsis 