The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Future Political Trends: A Study For roughly the past six months, I have been repeatedly mentioning, in my posts on this blog, my intention ...

Real Politics: A Manifesto for the 2024 Election (Or Any Other Election) I recently posted an essay declaring (somewhat exaggeratively) tha...

The Millennial Sovereign, the Real Story of Star Trek, and the Problem of Charisma What is it that makes a human person more than just anoth...

Food, Conspiracy, and the Homo Imperialis: A Theoretical Look at the Political Crises of Modernity Over the last few months, years, and/or d...

The Trial of Donald J. Trump [Given the strong interest in the media right now about the possibility of a trial of former President Donald J...

  The AI Revolution Already Took Place The most interesting thing about modernity is the degree to which it depends, for its basic functioni...

Why Star Trek Generations is the Best Next Generation Movie: Or, Against the Art of Simulation Before I begin this week's post, I would ...

Pornographic Politics They whip him through the streets and alleys, there, the gormless and the baying crowd, right there: They can't ge...

[ Please note that none of the below events have ever actually occurred.] I met Elon Musk at Waffle House recently. Given the stature of Waf...

"The reabsorption of critical negativity is echoed by an even more radical form of denial: the denial of reality. In simulation, you mo...

"First International Bank. Crocker Bank. Bank of America. Pentecostal Savings (or is that one a church?). All bunched together in the h...

"In order to grasp how globalization and global antagonism works, we should distinguish carefully between domination and hegemony. One ...

"Oh, dear. What is this...some kind of sing-off?" -Mary Worth

  "The top of the Bonaventure Hotel. Its metal structure and its plate-glass windows rotate slowly around the cocktail bar. The movemen...

"Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests. It is in this be...

"Tocqueville's central idea is that the spirit of America is to be found in its mode of life, in the revolution of mores, the moral...

  "Compiling inventories of everything, stocking everything, memorizing everything. Hence the elephants enveloped in liquid bitumen, wh...

"The only question in this journey is: how far can we go in the extermination of meaning, how far can we go in the non-referential dese...