sorry for the slow blogging; i'm trying to index political aesthetics and gear up for the semester (teachin "politics and hip hop," "asian philosophy," and "political philosophy.") i do feel that somehow i will survive the republican victory in mass, though it might be hard to push through the dangling bodies of democrats hanging from the rafters. and i just want to say this, which i say on more or less every such occasion. the thing oscillates and there's plenty of time for the next oscillation before the mid-term election. a year ago the republican party was over: for some reason everyone mistakes the momentary spasmodic jerk for the permanent condition of humanity. prediction: obama will muddle through and muddle his way to re-election etc. in fact, i'm hoping for the shepard fairey "muddle through" poster. you'd think, wouldn't you, that no one would need to be chastened by reality yet again, but human beings are unteachable idiots, and we will kill everything in our pursuit of utopia.