The problem with disidentification is it "presupposes" identification. As cultural politics, it may even generate an identification that never existed.

Even the rules for the application of rules eventually run out. Even less are there rules for the discovery/creation of rules.

The student learns to do more and more; the expert knows how to do less and less.

What has been “internalized” cannot be “externalized.” It must be spiritually transformed.

The death of Habermas has been very revealing of how we judge the politics of political theorists.

Didn't care when they were mocking Asian shit. Don't care now that they're awarding it.

What the United States is undergoing, paradoxically, is a counter-revolution without ever having undergone a revolution.

There's more than one way to outsource thinking to an entity that cannot think. We could do this long before AI. AI just made it easier.

Money can’t buy a lot of things. Leave it to the monied to try.

So "immanent critique" is good, but what's better is finding (or even generating) another frame of reference. On frame work.

Student was roasting my jacket today as looking like a grandmother's table cloth. Extra credit granted lol

A life without regret is a life without decisions. Regret is the retrospective on decision.

"I don't have a horse in this race" guy... which race do you have a horse in and which horse are you even "betting on"?

It's particularly easy to "not judge" when you don't plan on doing anything (differently).

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Julia Chu (Chinese-US, b. 1941). Yosemite Fall (2006, watercolor on rice paper).

When all we have are guns, all we see are targets. Shoot.

I remember a fellow grad student once said: I read Kant to learn how to think. But reading Kant is only training in thinking like a German idealist. It is no special training for thinking as such because there is no such training.

The great advantage of "desire" as an explanation is that desires seem _determinate_: we can't help what we desire; what we desire identifies us.

The great disadvantage, though, is that desires seem _opaque_: we don't know what we desire; we might not even want to know.

Then you can add: concept is a metaphor and metaphor is a concept.

Wait... so concept is a concept. Is metaphor a metaphor?

Every attempt to use brutal violence to enforce USD hegemony over actual defectors increases the incentive of potential defectors to reduce their dependence on the USD.

We're talking Democrat vs Republican ("polarization") the same way one might ask which faction of eunichs is going to save the empire. What we actually need to confront and deal with is -system collapse- ("institutional decay").

Asian Americans don't want "representation." We want to build a culture, perspective, and "identity" of our own and some of us haven't figured out a better way to say it yet.

Khalil Fong (方大同) Twenty Three (才二十三) Official Music Video YouTube video by Khalil Fong 方大同

youtu.be/EPSH4fNYCeQ?...

The "academics are radical" myth is a right wing strategy for labeling progressive neoliberalism, the dominant academic ideology, as "radicalism." It's an excuse for destroying whatever "academic freedom" is left with the destruction of academic tenure.

"I trust you" means I've seen and heard how you act both in everyday conduct and extraordinary situations.

Being heard of..." is the basic constituent of reputation.
A good anonymized and widespread reputation is fame.
A good personalized and localized reputation is trustworthiness.
Better famous when it comes to "influencing."
Better trustworthy when it comes to action.

The resurgence of 100% Americanism, applied with special vigor against Chinese and Arab peoples, is a sign of anxiety and insecurity. A strong and confident culture is capable of learning from others; it is not afraid of interacting with anyone.

Historically, liberals have tried at various theories. Chalmers Johnson's "empire of bases" was probably the last major liberal attempt.