Technocratic Rationality
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Understanding Sovereignty in Modern Political Discourse
Sovereignty renewed appeal cannot be explained solely by shifts in global power or the breakdown of international institutions. Rather, sovereignty has become inspirational because it mirrors a deeper concern of our age: the struggle for authenticity, i.e. the desire to act from within one’s own values rather than as an instrument of external systems. In… Continue reading
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Technological Society Deprives
While it’s easy to appreciate the benefits of technology, we often struggle to identify what it has taken from us. Technology is part of us. Continue reading
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Bell Media: The Corporate Gutting of Democracy
We may feel sorry for the journalists – mostly local – who lost their jobs… and there is much to grieve in this respect. But, what happens to the services they provided? And what happens to the people whose services have now been cut by their corporate “restructuring”? Continue reading
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The Liberal Education of Freedom: A Critical Review of Matthew Rose’s “Liberal Education for Freedom”
The non-violent, but argumentative, ideal of liberal education is not the suddenly arrived-at point of a nonpolarized liberal society. Instead, the purpose of liberal education is the iterative practice of a non-violent but argumentative society. Continue reading
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A Corporate Agenda Part 4: 1958
Technocratic rationality, then, needs to be recognized as a feature of mass society and as a systemic threat to our freedom, and its oligarchic substitution of a human artifice for a real-world with unmarked graves; the original sin of assuming that man is the measure of all things, makes its appearance there. It makes its… Continue reading