Because I worry that Haloscan may implode before blogger does, I feel compelled to preserve SteveG‘s comment on Patrick’s ode to his HDTV for digital posterity:
It may be a non-standard interpretation, but there are some scholars who consider “alienation from oneself as a species being” to be a mistranslation of “not getting decent reception on channel sechs oder acht.” Of course, Marx was writing back in the times when they had rabbit ears…
Happy independence day!
(I watched the fireworks via rabbit-ear powered NTSC)
(For five minutes)
(Then I played Katamari Damarcy)
(A Japanese game)
(About rolling everything in sight into a ball)
(There’s an ironic metaphor in their somewhere….)
Filed as: philosophy humor
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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