{"id":1183,"date":"2010-01-22T16:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/22\/exquisite-corpse\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:10:53","slug":"exquisite-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/22\/exquisite-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"exquisite corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9’s In praise of humility<\/a> is so good I can’t resist posting a link to it. Why, indeed, has the Obama revolution lost its steam? I think B\u00e9rub\u00e9 must be aiming for Andrei Codrescu<\/a>‘s job as NPR’s occasional commentator extraordinaire. Read it and weep (at least until you realize what’s going on).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, B\u00e9rub\u00e9’s latest book The Left at War<\/a> is well worth reading and discussing, even if one doesn’t agree with all of it. And, incidentally, the title of this post, which refers to a Surrealist method of collective anti-authorship, isn’t intended as a comment on B\u00e9rub\u00e9’s piece but rather about what he is describing. Politics as a stumbling around in the dark, a piecing-together from the bits left by the last guy, with no idea what will come of it. At least Codrescu<\/a> has the good sense to smell it and marvel at its texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9’s In praise of humility is so good I can’t resist posting a link to it. Why, indeed, has the Obama revolution lost its steam? I think B\u00e9rub\u00e9 must be aiming for Andrei Codrescu‘s job as NPR’s occasional commentator extraordinaire. Read it and weep (at least until you realize what’s going on). Incidentally, B\u00e9rub\u00e9’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691215],"tags":[123663],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_postpolitics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-j5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1615,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/12\/17\/categories\/","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":0},"title":"Categories","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The seven boxes above this post (below the \"immanence\" header at the top of the page) -- plus three others that open up when you scroll over them -- organize blog entries into topical \"Categories.\" (There are eleven, but \"Other\" doesn't contain any posts; it's just a place-holder.) 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Meanwhile, Climate Ground Zero reports on a fascinating case unfolding in West Virginia's coal country, where tree sitters have halted blasting of a mountaintop by Massey Coal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Eco-culture"","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-bMO66ajBN0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1024,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/24\/atheism-and-immanence\/","url_meta":{"origin":1183,"position":4},"title":"atheism and immanence","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an interesting conversation developing on nature and immanence on an atheist blog. Incidentally, I liked Obama's nod to non-Christians and \"non-believers\" in his inauguration speech. It felt like a refreshing breath of fresh air in the constricted atmosphere of American public religious discourse. 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