Weekly Pose Ponder No. 8
Summarizing the week's posts -- complexity, citizens assemblies, science and politics, the search for an anthropology
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Two posts this week focus on political realities surrounding complexity. I very much like the possibility of democratic reform through citizens assemblies. (Go subscribe to
. A third post ended up a quasi- little rant on the difficulty of finding an “adequate anthropology for the Anthropocene.”I’m off next week, so Friday’s post is a new Index, this time gathering posts on “Leviathan.”
(There were only four posts this week.)
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"I Don't Know"
There are a range of topics I haven’t been able to write on yet for The Daily Inchoate — now Pose Ponder — over the last few months. For those brave souls who have read my commentaries on Hannah Arendt, John Gray, the Climate Leviathan book, and more recently the Cass vs. Slade debate, you know I’m interested in political philosophy, or how to think abo…
"Let's Investigate"
Yesterday I promoted DemocracyNext’s work towards citizens assemblies based on the idea that politicians are poorly incentivized to admit when they don’t know, consult the science, and take responsibility for separating facts from values in a reasonable way. A diverse group of citizens assembled especially for the purpose of advising on policy for controversial issu…
Good Human
I missed publishing yesterday! I was hard at work on this post, and it turned out to be much more difficult than I thought, as explained below. An ongoing project is going to be necessary here to do justice. I hope you don’t mind hearing my cogitations along the way!
Index No. 2 ("Leviathan")
Next week I’m off, according Pose Ponder’s new publishing cadence of 3 weeks on, 1 week off. I’ll be working on Pondercraft and some immersive reading. Before leaving you alone this break, I’ve indexed a few things. Today’s index collects a number of posts I worked on in January - February (2024) having to do with “Leviathan,” whether John Gray’s book,