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We have a final week* on the trump effect topic; please consider sending
comments/discussion points/rants, raves, and sundries/praxis and theory/
for the duration. For myself, I feel I've been skirting around some sort
of inner core (of humanism? mindfulness? grace? gratitude?) that I more or
less took for granted - charity and a basic belief in cultural expressions
for example - an inner core that now seems as fragile as any other eco-
system. Not only is the personal political; the political is also personal
- and the personal as the residency and habitus of the political - not
only how we function against and within such a regime, but also, how do we
deal with our internal emotional fears, worlds, catastrophic thinking, if
such is the case.. This isn't elitist or luxury - this is trying to figure
out what it means to _be_ in the situation we're in, and what will be, if
anything, communality and the commons in the future. And I keep hoping we
can ground the discussion, not only in theory and resistance strategy, but
in a world of caring as well. (I'm expressing myself poorly here; what I'd
like is to hear from others on all of this, from resistance to sanctuary,
from neoliberalism to organizing, not that any of these categories are
isolated, any more than the order of things and processes.)
- Alan
* or weeks - i imagine the regime will constitute one of empyre's horizons
for the foreseeable future.
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