Nonviolence Thoughtaction
Dated
5/15/2004
Important logic concerning right/left, Kerry and “need for clarity”…
8/9/05 use of audio feedback to
enhance efficacy of micro surgery (sounds can be variously learned, even if at
times more on the order of the difficulty of reading an MRI, and specific
techniques could be developed that depend on specific sounds (puncture in
suture, etc.)
Commentary
Thinking
the possible “success” of the war on Iraq
The enconsructive self: the necessity of the creation of a new
subjectivity…that really works
Peace
activists? And can “we”
be trusted? --- From a logic
at Znet concerning how we can’t expect American
troops to protect and serve Iraqis…can or should the same be said of peace
activists concerning peace, stopping war, etc.?
Activism/actions
should be done to defend Aristide---(See “Why They
Had to Crush Aristide”) The press
has too easily portrayed him as corrupt, violent, etc. something has to be done
about this image and false portrayal.
Blog: http://tomsnvta.blogspot.com
Projects
Old front page/projects/writings,
etc. Lots of projects, too many decent things (and associated
people/lives) to burn like so many books
New
project ideas/issues…including: Drunk driving,
Interactions… I take a text
and interact with it in a semi-dialogue. Hard to say what the writer will have
thought, unless she or he is invited to interact.
Logics... thoughts,
unorganized but arising and belonging where they belong
The
necessary hysteria of peace/nonviolence (vis a vis “success” in
Iraq): An antiwar commitment – and everyone already has this commitment to some
degree – has an “hysterical” element (hysteron)
of a kind of pulling away from substantive engagement; this is a parallel to
the very same element in violence, but violence seeks to do harm (for whatever
reason), while nonviolence seeks to prevent it (more…)