The Therapeutic Imagination
The Therapeutic imagination is patiently attentive: it encourages us to take time to attend to what is taking place in order to take careful and caring action with respect to what is taking place.
The Therapeutic imagination knows no superheroes but the most under-appreciated healers of the victims and vehicles of evil.
The Ruling Class & the Radical Resistance
A radical resistance seeks to abolish the need for a ruling class, not to reform a ruling class.
For the Ancestors
The progressive capitalist says it is imperative that we reduce the dead to the eliminated in order to accelerate and innovate, but the fact is this: all liberating social transformations involve taking time to commune with the dead.
A revolution that does not liberate the dead from oppressive forces cannot liberate the living from oppressive forces.
Planning to Flee from Profiling
Once upon a time it was the paid administrator’s task to profile subjects under administration. In today’s deathly world of suffering, subjects under administration are tasked with profiling themselves without pay.
We are all becoming unpaid administrators, engaged in compiling and reviewing profiles about ourselves and others, and desperately trying to find ways to advantage ourselves in administrative rat races by exploiting the (mal)functioning of automated and networked systems that record, sort, filter, and match profiles.
Beyond Disciplines
Many, if not most, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary projects take the existence of so many organs without bodies for granted and try to construct “complex systems” from these various separate organs. These projects do not recognize that the organs they take for granted were parted from bodies that preceded and exceeded them. These projects do not recognize that these bodies may survive and suffer the organs that have been parted from them. Ay, and these projects do not recognize that these surviving and suffering bodies deserve far greater attention than the organs that have been parted from them.