Category Archives: Asides

Seed goes lab-goggle-eyed for Obama

I just called out the Seed editors over on Thick Culture.

The Outquisition

Slightly interesting things are happening over at my new web site.

Selfhood and statehood

A lot of people want to be both correct and powerful. Rational selfhood and sovereign statehood comprise, together, a highly seductive intellectual and political objective. This most perfect union, joining veracity to supremacy, is the most alluring of all fantasies: a self whose single voice (for a self can, it is supposed, only have one) [...]