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THIS YEAR’S WINNERS of the ERIC BLAIR MEMORIAL IMPERIAL HAIKU AWARDS

Steven Augustine

FIRST PRIZE WINNERS   affirmation without exception we’re all exceptional for exception’s the rule   affirmative acting they never lower the bar without then matching the ceilings, suckers   trigger #1 “her breasts” expose those words as unacceptable   authenticity #1 condition  those kids: polite, erudite, prepared: not their attributes   SECOND PRIZE WINNERS   witness the war criminal’s vagina resulted in many painless deaths   guidelines “morbidly obese” is a hurtful description use “relaxed-fit” graves   warning appropriation’s cross-culturality is often too playful   trigger#2 without permission regardless of intention erection is rape   THIRD PRIZE WINNERS   positivity … Continue reading THIS YEAR’S WINNERS of the ERIC BLAIR MEMORIAL IMPERIAL HAIKU AWARDS

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HEIDEGGER SCHMEIDEGGER

Steven Augustine

  By any objective standard this, in itself, is enough to place Heidegger’s entire, tortuously-padded, pile of work under suspicion (and I already saw, in college, that his vaunted “Dasein” was nothing but the cornerstone of eugenic apologia): “In the Black Notebooks Heidegger’s misplaced reverence for Being qua “destiny” occasionally reaches absurd proportions. For instance he attributes numinous power to names that begin with the letter H: Heraclitus, Hölderlin, and Hegel. But Hitler would also seem to belong to the list, as would, of course, Heidegger. Heidegger also indulges in baseless numerological prophesizing, conjecturing that a final “decision” (Entscheidung) on … Continue reading HEIDEGGER SCHMEIDEGGER