Archive for August, 2009

On Ideology II: The Limits of Abandonism

We are looking for new scientific recipes, new ideologies, new control systems, new institutions, new instruments to eliminate the dreadful consequences of our previous recipes, ideologies, control systems, institutions and instruments. We treat the fatal consequences of technology as though they were a technical defect that could be remedied by technology alone. We are looking […]

The rich get richer

Ain’t wrote in a week on account of working too much overtime. Gonna be getting back to the original style writings about ideology and social theory this week. For now, though, here’s a couple more poems for you to enjoy. Watch these videos back to back, and ponder wealth, hip hop, and identity:

Ploylessness

This is a goddam intense poem worth watching multiple times:

Thought Process

One of the reasons this blog went to sleep for many months is I wanted to escape my own pedantry and commit myself to working on a different brand of wordsmithing–poetry. That’s what I believed at the time, anyway, because after I made that choice I didn’t put energy into any wordsmithing of any sort, […]