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Reflections on Politics, Society, and Subjectivity from an Arcadian Philosophical Perspective.

Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 10:41 pm in language, American Politics, arcadianism

And this was before post-structrualism… Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization i...
An Inescapable Modern Question: Arcadian or Utopian?

Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 12:58 am in progress, utopia, social evolution, kierkegaard, miguel de unamuno, auden, modernity, unamuno, arcadianism

For Auden and for me, there is something quite significant about the division of citizenry into the two camps of Arcadians and Utopians. It does beyond mere ideology to one’s very humanity. All humans are situated in time and space, thrown ...