Philosophy @ Graduate Center CUNY, James Kent Scholar @ ColumbiaLaw, Ghanaian drumming @ CalArts -- Partner/Director @ Weitz & Luxenberg
Alani Golanski
Hannah Arendt criticized this 1929 work for its view that thinking derives from one's social and economic conditions, summoning Augustine for the idea that a transcendent thought, eg neighborly love, could guide action hence change conditions.
HLA Hart derived the term "open texture" from Vienna Circle philosopher Friedrich Waismann, who called it "the possibility of vagueness."
What they mean by capitalism's internal contradictions?
Although governing élites find rules of law a nuisance, to be bent & manipulated, I do not conclude that the rule of law itself is humbug. On the contrary, regulating conflicts through law's procedures seems to me a cultural achievement of universal significance.
-- EP Thompson
US artist Nicole Eisenman, Another Green World, 2015 #womensart
Pertinent to anti-(non-white)immigrant animus and shifting legal grounds for ensuring that most movements come out, indeed, "illegal," Joseph Raz (1977) commented that "the rule of law is designed to minimize the danger created by the law itself."
Launching a spontaneous mass movement
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The unfortunately infrequent novel, Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, p. 7, a sense of foreboding, this will lead to something no doubt
Allen Ginsberg’s centennial is imminent -- June 3, 2026
We see the need for a new principle of life, but some attempt an artificial intensification of the very principle that has led to decay -- the nationalist outburst, which is nothing but a mania, all these nationalisms being so many blind alleys.
-- José Ortega y Gasset (1930)
