Blackwater Guards Charged With Manslaughter in Iraq Deaths

From the NYTimes 8 Dec. 2008: 

"Mark Hulkower, a lawyer for one of the defendants, said the men surrendered in Utah, a relatively conservative, pro-military area, because they hoped to find a jury pool where “people are more sympathetic to the experiences of coming under enemy fire.”"

... because Utah has a history of being attacked??

Is this a sly reference to government intrusion of polygamous Mormon communities?

The Garden

I just spent an afternoon digging up grass for a new patch of garden in my yard...  Tearing out rhizomes in order to introduce more hierarchical growth structures. The earliest days of agriculture, it would seem, initiated this snowballing process wherein a variety of root structures would be replaced with homogenous, linear, productive (and so consumable) growth.

Debord says:

"no one can be the enemy of what exists"

This he said in 1988, referring to the spectacle's (i.e. post-industrial capitalism's) instant absorption of all opposition, confirming Badiou's ontology/event schema--wherein an ontological situation (composed of all the knowledge, ideoleology, modes of production, relations, etc. that exist) can only be disrupted by a revolutionary event that forces a new knowledge, a new discourse, a new spirit, a new mode of production or social relation hitherto unthinkable... hitherto non-extant. 

What this means is that we can position ourselves as enemies of the capitalist spectacle only from a retrospective vantage point to  be determined on the heels of the revolutionary event.

Tired socialist utopian rhetoric of imagination hereby deemed entirely ineffective, we must tease out the void in the extant situation--that which has not been properly counted by the state (see: "the spectacle is merely the excess of the media")--in order to reveal its foundational shortcomings. Only then can we rightfully claim to know that we have indeed been enemies of the spectacle all along.