notes and customs
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When de Saints: African American Historicity and the Pursuit of Justice (Notes and rough drafts)
I. Mishnah Qiddushin 3 outlines that a mamzer may achieve his freedom if his parents are sold into slavery and are then freed, freeing him into normalized relations with Jewish...
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Monetized Empathy and the Conditioning of Violence-Capitalism
Among the mass protests on the Easter weekend, there were only three in my red state. It was the most predictable three cities, the three largest cities. What was interesting...
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Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in...
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A Vision for a Culture of Emancipatory Human Rights
Ken Booth’s essay, “Three Tyrannies,” from the text, Human Rights in Global Politics (eds. Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler), posits a highly instructive foundation stone, a guide map, for...
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Capitalism and Violence-Customs
There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all...
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A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations
The world population wonders how people will continue to aspire to create great things and embark on great achievements without money. It is rather embarrassing to be a human when...