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An Overview of Nation States and their Constitution
Beginning here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnogenesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_constitutions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_nation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state Defining the Nation State Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country’s “formation” cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great Britain in 1707), while France is a Republic founded in 1870 (though the term France generally refers to the current French Fifth Republicgovernment, formed in 1958). An unambiguous measure is the date of national constitutions; but as constitutions are an almost entirely modern concept, all formation dates by
Don Carveth Interview
Professor Carveth teaches Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University, Glendon College, in Toronto. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA) and a member Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. He serves on the faculties of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Toronto Child Psychotherapy Programme, and the Advanced Training Programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society (of which he is a former Director). He is past Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse and a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalysis &
American Identity Crisis Episode Script Ideas
American Identity Crisis – Episode 1 Intro Welcome back, Dandies! Now sit down, cause we need to talk… You’re allllll familiar with the words: cancel culture, wokeness, priviledge. Perhaps you’ve even heard the term “IdPol”. I know that I can’t seem to find a safe space away from these buzzwords! I could be on an Alaskan glacier tour, shivering in the midsts of an ocean blizzard, watching mounds of ice crash into the water through binoculars and somehow, somewhere within earshot, I’ll hear some BOOMER complaining about their freedom of speech or the way that people want to use the
Benjamin Studebaker Interview Notes
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American Identity Crisis
Introduction Man, an abridgment of the universe, sums up and syncretizes in his person all the potentialities of being, all the sections of the absolute; he is the summit at which these potentialities, which exist only by their divergence, meet in a group, but without penetrating or becoming confounded with each other. Man, therefore, by this aggregation, is at once spirit and matter, spontaneity and reflection, mechanism and life, angel and brute. He is venomous like the viper, sanguinary like the tiger, gluttonous like the hog, obscene like the ape; and devoted like the dog, generous like the horse, industrious
Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development
To launch into my series on Identity (Politics), I am going to rely heavily on Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. At the heart of anarchism there is a claim about the developmental psychology of human beings. It concerns the universal potential for human creativity to flourish if developed without fetters. This is the positive liberty described by numerous anarchists and it is the basis of all hopes that anarchist society can achieve. Google Search for Erikson on C Georges Boeree’s Websitr https://cyberdandy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Erik-H.-Erikson-Childhood-and-Society-1993.pdf [Wikipedia] Erik Erikson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson [Wikipedia] Erikson Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson_Institute Biography of Erik Erikson (1902-1994) https://www.verywellmind.com/erik-erikson-biography-1902-1994-2795538 “Erik Erikson was
Joshua S. Goldstein – War and Gender (2001)
https://www.warandgender.com/ 1 A puzzle: the cross-cultural consistency of gender roles in war Introduction There has been much scholarship on women in war, but hardly any on gender in war. The sex-gender discourse – that sex is biological and fixed, while gender is cultural and flexible – is flawed because biology and culture are highly interdependent and both biology and culture are flexible. War will be defined in this text as lethal intergroup violence. War system will be defined in this text as the interrelated ways that societies organize themselves to participate in potential and actual wars. In understanding gendered war
Project Priorities
I feel overwhelmed by the number of projects that I have lined up for myself. None of them have deadlines and they are all fairly demanding. This post is just an attempt to come up with a plan to complete at least some of them… Introduction At the beginning of the year, I thought that I would focus on psychology and put other things to the side. Instead, I haven’t focused at all on psychology. I have written about morality, been a guest on shows to talk about the I.W.W., Herbert Marcuse, and Post-Anarchism. I have told Julian Langer that
What is Morality?
A lot of the more mainstream political discourse on YouTube includes a heavy dose of debate about morality. I haven’t fleshed out my own thoughts on it in a while, so here are some… In the simplest sense, morality is merely the judgement of right and wrong. But upon examination, it isn’t so simple. There is a lot of debate about what is right and what is wrong, which suggests that morality isn’t reducible to the capacities we are born with. Moral philosophers have used a number of different approaches in attempts to figure this out and they are only
Notes for a Discussion with Duane Rousselle
Jesse Cohn and Shawn Wilbur – What’s Wrong With Postanarchism? https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/postanarchism/cohn-and-wilbur-whats-wrong-with-postanarchism/ From 2007 This text is where I am going to begin. I probably wasn’t aware of post-anarchism when this was written and if I was, I certainly wasn’t familiar with Shawn Wilbur, Jesse Cohn, or any of the writers they are discussing. It’s possible that I had already interacted with Duane, but anyway… It’s clear that the intervention that post-anarchism was making at the time was fresh. The protective sentiment at the outset of the text makes me nostalgic for some things about this period of time in US
Israel
While I have always strongly identified with my Jewish heritage and have maintained more-or-less the same opinions about it, that is not the case with Israel. Throughout my life, the significance of Israel has shifted dramatically from an object of indifference, to one of profound discomfort, and now to one of increasingly frequent pain. Some of that has been self-directed and self-inflicted, but like most people in the United States, my familiarity with Israel has increased with an increase in the discussion of Israel in mainstream and leftwing discourses. And like most people on the Left today – a category
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[Ben Burgis Class] Proudhon’s System of Economic Contradictions: Chapter VII. Fifth Period. — Police, Or Taxation. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty.pdf Chapter begins with an idealistic notion of historical teleology… Proudhon considers state functionaries to be their own sort of economic class, the class of non-producers. He claims that this class must be distinguished from the capitalist and proletariate because their ability to exist depends on an income that can not be acquired through (market) exchanges and must be supplied through taxation. He also mentions a further division of the non-productive class into a class of monarchists and a class of democrats. This division
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Bryan Tucker – Authoritarian Character Structure https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bryan-tucker-authoritarian-character-structure This essay from 2018 that was published in Fifth Estate covers the views of Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm on authoritarian character and/or personality. I am more familiar with Fromm’s views than Reich’s, but neither are new to me. The basic idea is that some people are more authoritarian than others and that this can be explained by the way that society is organized. It is difficult to deny that some people are more consistently authoritarian than others, but I think that the notion of an authoritarian type of person is much less
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I seriously need to catch up on my open tabs and saved news articles. That’s what this GI:GO will be dedicated to… Anarchy Alive / Uri Gordon talks with Tasos Sagris https://voidnetwork.gr/2023/06/09/anarchy-alive-uri-gordon-talks-with-tasos-sagris/ A short but sweet interview between two anarchists of my epoch. Mitchell Cowen Verter – The Anarchism of the Other Person https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-the-anarchism-of-the-other-person I really want to work with Mitchell Verter extensively regarding philosophical anarchism. I define the fundamental value of anarchist ethics as “freedom of the Other,” but I have never read Levinas and came to that conclusion through the study of existentialism. Responding to this text, it
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More I.W.W. Research Ian Hacking Ian Hacking was recommended to me, so I found some of his work and I am skimming it for now… Historical Ontology https://cyberdandy.org/wp-content/uploads/Ian%20Hacking%20-%20Historical%20Ontology-Harvard%20University%20Press%20(2004).pdf This seems like the place for me to start with Hacking, considering my focus on this topic with other thinkers. I have only flipped through the index and read (most of) the introduction so far. I am surprised at how little Sartre seems to be referenced. Perhaps the author just wasn’t aware of Sartre’s later works. Besides that, it looks really interesting! Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All Rewriting the
Notes for Varn Vlog Episode on the I.W.W.
Preliminary questions to answer: How have the I.W.W.’s tactics shifted over the past century? At the outset, there were three tactical approaches that were not always compatible. There were the reformist Socialists, who believed in a tactic that had been called “boring from within”: this was a tactic of trying to convert members of existing unions to the socialist cause. There were Marxists who did not believe in “boring from within,” favoring instead the creation of new unions. Then there were the so-called “direct actionists” who we would today associate with anarchism. The I.W.W. inherited many of its tactics from
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Watching a lot of YouTube shit today! [Video] Athlean-X – Joe Lindner’s Death: My Big Concern Jeff Cavaliere is my #1 fitness icon. Yeah… I have fitness icons. Anyway, I knew nothing about the death of Joe Lindner and I was curious about Jeff’s big concern. It isn’t a concern for me at all, so there wasn’t much for me to get out of this. Performance Enhancing Drugs – P.E.D.s – aren’t something I’m interested in. [Video] Democracy at Work – Alternative Family Structures are Not New Despite the title of this video, it is more an overview of the
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The System of Economic Contradictions – Chapter VI: Monopoly (Ben Burges’ Proudhon vs Marx Class) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-system-of-economical-contradictions-or-the-philosophy-of-poverty Nothing to note yet… but who the fuck is M. Rossi??? Ok, he’s talking about Pellegrino Rossi. “May my communistic friends forgive me! I should be less severe upon their ideas if I were not irreversibly convinced, in my reason and in my heart, that communism, republicanism, and all the social, political, and religious utopias which disdain facts and criticism, are the greatest obstacle which progress has now to conquer. Why will they never understand that fraternity can be established only by justice; that