Category Archives: Deleuze
The Limits of Argumentative Reason: Rhetoric Advocating War with Iran
Last August my colleague Nicholas A. Russell at CSU Long Beach and I presented a paper at the 17th Biennial Conference on Argumentation held in Alta, Utah. That paper titled “Dangerous Desires: The Limits of Argumentative Reason in Public HIV/AIDS … Continue reading
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The Becoming-Nomad of the #Occupy Movement
This post is the second in a series of three using some concepts from the work of Deleuze and Guattari to chart some lines of flight through the #Occupy movement. I want to deal directly here with the tension between … Continue reading
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#OWS Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Things have gotten ugly; they have gotten ugly in Zuccotti Park, ugly in Oakland, ugly in Denver, and so on. The late night raid in New York led to a drastic reduction of protest abilities for members of the #Occupy … Continue reading
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#OccupyWallStreet Capitalism’s Death Drive, & Anti-Capitalism
#OccupyWallStreet reveals a number of propositions that need to be tested, challenges, debated, and problematized. This work cannot be done just by political pundits, but must be done by our political leaders. They need to deal seriously with the following: … Continue reading
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Postmodernism, Ethics, and Sex Trafficking
Progressive news blog Think Progress reported on the Family Research Council including postmodernism in its list of causes for sex-trafficking. The core of their claim is that: the post-modern view of morality that essentially says there is not right or … Continue reading
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