Future of the Party: Here is a new report making the case for a progressive Democratic party. The Left needs to battle for democracy as viciously as the fight fights for power: Joshua Holland interviews David Faris, author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. Progressivism as a brand: Beware candidates who have suddenly discovered that they support left-wing goals. De Leon vs Feinstein, Cuomo vs Nixon highlight a crossroads for labor and
…Ludwig Wittgenstein noted that in representational writing, “one thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature . . . and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.” In Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance journals”—The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) and the newly released Camp Marmalade—both the frame and the off-frame are folded into his trans-perspectival impressions.
…Howe has long been interested in distilling signs and symbols, whether “art objects” or words themselves, into something more revelatory. Considering riddles, lost languages, doubled surfaces, spells, magical thinking, and other elusive forms of expression, Howe sounds the depths.
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