Archive for the ‘ Politics ’ Category
Chavez has described Bush as “more dangerous than a monkey with a razor blade”. Beautiful. Meanwhile, Pelosi says, “he fancies himself as a modern day Simón BolÃvar, but all he is an everyday thug.” Somehow I think Chavez is more correct than Pelosi.(From the Guardian, not that other paper.) [ READ MORE ]
For Bob Beauregard’s colloquium today, we read Foucault’s Power/Knowledge Lecture 2. (Let me just say here how fortunate we are to have Bob. He’s a huge asset to the program.) Foucault, building on Althusser and, I think, Lefebvre, argues that power relations exist more or less visibly in our daily actions and interactions. Basically the [ READ MORE ]
The Chinese test that successfully destroyed an aging weather satellite has got the Americans bitching and moaning. I suppose they have to politically, but from the Chinese perspective, it seems to me a clearly intelligent move. First, the test, which was observed by–of all things–satellites, demonstrated that the Chinese now have the capacity to destroy [ READ MORE ]