Re: <nettime> Constitutioanl radicalism

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 10/13/2017 05:09 AM, Patrick Lichty wrote:
> Has the United states, and a large part of Western thought become so warped by populism and anti intellectualism (which is a complex and stack in itself) that individuals seeking a humane, objective society driven by reason, logic and empirical science look like some sort of freak show? If so, count me as a freak, and perhaps a political theory of constitutional fundamentalism as revolutionary force is a notion which time has come.

I agree with this but I think the "fundamentalism" of any constitutional 
process is evolutionary, it's not about Newton (immutable laws) but 
instead, Darwin and Whitehead (processes). Similarly, tradtional 
objectivity is giving way, in the best contemporary science, to notions 
of interlinked feedback processes that alter the observer along with the 
observed (quantum physics has taken that approach to the heart of 
Newtonian determinism; and earth science has an even more relevant 
biogeochenical take on it).

These things are not fundamentalist in any way, but I totally agree, 
they ae a revolutionary force whose time has come! Cause how else are we 
gonna deal with runaway climate change????

best, BH
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