Richard Chennault
Regina left this week to take care of her Dad who suffered a heart attack. She, along with her sisters and brothers, are ministering her father back to health. While she will only be gone a short week it seems like an eternity for me and the boys. All of us have become use to … Read More “Being a Dad and not quite a Mom” »
I’ve been reading a book of essays critiquing the Public Sphere by Jurgen Habermas. The essayists are critiquing the theory in order to improve on or identify the deficiencies of the theory of Public Sphere. This is my second time reading the book. The first was a decade ago and my internalization of the material … Read More “Revitalization of the Public Sphere on super-capitalist grounds” »
I’ve posted before on the wisdom of discoursing about the private in the public sphere. Specifically publicizing the internal machinations of an oligarchics private enterprise can be deleterious. There is much familiar between that of the bourgeois patriarch and the modern day oligarch. The modern day oligarch or super-capitalist has eminent domain over the production … Read More “Marginalizing the Super-Capitalist through egalitarian reciprocity” »
There has been of late an increased scrutiny of the internal matters of at a certain corporation and I will not engage in debate regarding the demagoguery of the participants. Instead I’d rather point to the work of Jurgen Habermas and others as a means to demonstrate the futility of engaging the super-capitalist as a … Read More “Of Corporations and the Public Sphere” »
The last few days I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m drawn to the ideas of postmodernism and how healthcare is delivered in a postmodern society. I’ve read and thought about the Tools of Conviviality and how that postulation applied in a postmodern society would emerge. While the works of Ivan Illich certainly have … Read More “Postmodernism, Culture Industry and Healthcare” »