Is Our Society “Secret?”
No. But it may be obscure. “Obscure” means “covered over,” as in scutum (shield), and sky. Something is there, but you can’t see it. It implies darkness, indistinctness. Yet it is not ambiguous, vague, invisible, necessarily malicious, or even secret. A seditious secret implies betrayal; something obscure can be merely not-known, or not-seen. The best [...]
A Designation Of One’s Own Limits: Arguments For (Auto-)Constraint
1. “The success of a revolution should not be measured by the sublime awe of its ecstatic moments, but by the changes the big Event leaves at the level of the everyday, the day after the insurrection.“ (Slavoj Žižek) This shift requires us to equip ourselves with a less simplistic notion of freedom as self-determination. [...]
Doggles
Constant threat of portmanteau: Standing aside an object long enough may result in its inclusion in the fabric of your being. A dog aside goggles becomes doggles, goggles shaped for a dog. A cat aside turkey becomes a tark, a turkey with a cat’s confused head, slavering over a turkey’s frightening thighs and flapping wings… [...]
