The Adventures of Captain Peabody

 

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

"At the supreme moment of the crisis, the very instant when reciprocal violence is abruptly transformed into unanimous violence, the tw...

"The mechanism of reciprocal violence can be described as a vicious circle. Once a community enters the circle, it is unable to extrica...

"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 reader will have recognized in this tale a number of familiar themes. All the people in the myth either disfigure others, demand t...

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

"Contemporary thought is in chaos, as it must be when progress is real. Where it still survives, it displays pathological symptoms. Tho...

"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...

  "If the history of modern society is marked by the dissolution of differences, that clearly has something to do with the sacrificial ...

  A new series at The Adventures of Captain Peabody: "The rhythm of the action is faster and more abrupt; it is reflected in the tragic...