[-empyre-] a week to go on the trump effect*

[Alan Sondheim]

We have a final week* on the trump effect topic; please consider sending 
comments/discussion points/rants, raves, and sundries/praxis and theory/ 
for the duration. For myself, I feel I've been skirting around some sort 
of inner core (of humanism? mindfulness? grace? gratitude?) that I more or 
less took for granted - charity and a basic belief in cultural expressions 
for example - an inner core that now seems as fragile as any other eco- 
system. Not only is the personal political; the political is also personal 
- and the personal as the residency and habitus of the political - not 
only how we function against and within such a regime, but also, how do we 
deal with our internal emotional fears, worlds, catastrophic thinking, if 
such is the case.. This isn't elitist or luxury - this is trying to figure 
out what it means to _be_ in the situation we're in, and what will be, if 
anything, communality and the commons in the future. And I keep hoping we 
can ground the discussion, not only in theory and resistance strategy, but 
in a world of caring as well. (I'm expressing myself poorly here; what I'd 
like is to hear from others on all of this, from resistance to sanctuary, 
from neoliberalism to organizing, not that any of these categories are 
isolated, any more than the order of things and processes.)

- Alan

* or weeks - i imagine the regime will constitute one of empyre's horizons 
for the foreseeable future.