How does one move from a condition of rightless-ness to one of entitlement, from a condition of despair to one of empowerment? We are so fixated on representative institutions as the means by which we might effect change, that we forget to ask how one brings about that condition that enables certain[...]
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June 30th, 2009 - 4:19 pm § in Introductions
Where principles are illegal
Over the course of the past several years, my worldview has been shaken, transformed, and expanded, not only through the various newsworthy events that demanded my attention, but also through my interactions with those activists with whom I worked on campus at Cal. Two of these influential and inspi[...]
Right wing patriotism as synecdoche
A synecdoche is a figure of speech used to refer to something by using a name other than its own. Totum pro parte is a particular kind of synecdoche, whereby the name of the whole is used to refer to only a part. I might say, for example, “Beijing” when I really mean the Chinese [...][...]