Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “[S]ocial media had provided a breeding ground for fanaticism, authoritarianism, and nihilism. It had also proved to be easily manipulated, not least... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “[L]anguage is traded and valued as performance. Effectiveness, not truth-value is the rule for language in the sphere of communication. Pragmatics,... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “I can’t tell you how many people are saying Trump’s saying what I’ve been thinking all my life.” “Most of them [Biden voters] are morons.” “That V.P... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org What’s globally known is that we are in check by the Coronavirus pandemic. Also globally known is that President Donald J. Trump holds nothing sacred... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Mussolini’s Italy in its undisciplined, messy totalitarianism couldn’t effectuate the kind of state and personal transformations that Hitler’s nation... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org While the sphere of finance is ruled by algorithms that connect fractals of precarious labor, the sphere of life is invaded by flows of chaos that pa... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one ‘episteme’ that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, wheth... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected.” – President Trump, Tweet President Trump is extending his narrative from Make Me Great... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “If anyone but me takes over… there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!” – Trump tweet You could say that this tweet... Read more
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Nothing Sacred
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org What’s globally known is that we are in check by the Coronavirus pand...