Weekly Inchoate No. 4

Summarizing the week's posts -- banks, liberalism, emergencies, American political culture, YouTube physics

Feb 17, 2024

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This week covered problems with banks, liberalism, and emergencies, and I shared three thoughtful articles from

Discourse

on American political culture. I’m still working on Levithan; more on that eventually. What can I say? I can’t resist sharing other things. Also, a YouTuber-physicist you really need to meet.

Have a good weekend!

Funny Money

Tracy Gustilo

Feb 12

I’ve always hated banks — and insurance companies (it’s a toss-up). I realize how important the financial industry is to the world’s economy, and as a very middle-class person (increasingly lower middle class, given our single income household, inflation, etc.), the amount of wealth that gets thrown around by irresponsible people, and the economic inequ…

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Liberalism and its Discontents

Tracy Gustilo

Feb 13

Lots going on behind the scenes here as I continue to think and fret about what to say re: “Leviathan” — going back to Hobbes’ original, playing off John Gray’s postliberal pessimism, and wading into the Climate Leviathan book, which envisions one option to deal with climate crisis (not the authors’ preferred) as the imposition of a global governmental …

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States of Emergency

Tracy Gustilo

Feb 14

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. ~ Carl Schmitt Back in the day, when I was studying theology, I took a seminar on Political Theology during which I was introduced to the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who was writing on “states of exception” or “states of emergency” among many things. For Agamben,

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American Political Culture

Tracy Gustilo

Feb 15

I was planning, finally, to start unpacking the Climate Leviathan book for you, at least its central speculation about four possible futures. This is what I’ve been working to set up over so many days! But I came across some articles at Discourse Magazine

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Oh My Sabine

Tracy Gustilo

Feb 16

Resource Friday, folks! In which I share cool sites, channels, publications — whatever I’ve come across and have found instructive, insightful, entertaining, or all of the above. This week I’m recommending a brilliantly gifted YouTuber-scientist who teaches deep, controversial, and pertinent subjects with droll pizazz.

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