Eric Scheske

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Counter-Conduct

Counter-Conduct

Modernity is molded by the left hemisphere. It could be argued that modernity is, by definition, the culture built by the left hemisphere. As a result, folks these days tend to have atrophied right hemispheres that need to be reinvigorated in order to flourish. Part of that effort requires a revolt against the presumptions of left-hemispheric culture. The revolt is "counter-conduct," a term borrowed from M. Foucault (but used slightly differently. Counter-conduct clears the path for flourishing.

Living Off the Grid

Living Off the Grid

If modernity is the left hemisphere's creation, then pursuits that appeal to the right hemisphere, or require us to give primacy to the right hemisphere, are acts of rebellion against modernity. Example 1: Prose is the left hemisphere's flex: the earliest written records are from bureaucrats.

Nature is Healing

Nature is Healing

Sam Kriss and The Lamp

Irritable Mental Gestures, Reconsidered

Irritable Mental Gestures, Reconsidered

James Patterson at Law & Liberty

The Power of Place: Northern Exposure and South Side

The Power of Place: Northern Exposure and South Side

Elizabeth Stice at Front Porch Republic

Paul Kingsnorth on the Collapse of the Left Hemisphere's Reign and the (Hopeful) Rise of the Tao

Paul Kingsnorth on the Collapse of the Left Hemisphere's Reign and the (Hopeful) Rise of the Tao

The global Machine is teetering, even as it clamps down on its citizenry in an attempt to tamp down unrest and rein in its own wanton destruction of creation and culture. A way of seeing that sets itself against what C. S. Lewis happily characterized as the Tao—the way

The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Smartphones

The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Smartphones

Bill Kauffman at The Spectator

We Must Become Barbarians

We Must Become Barbarians

Paul Kingsnorth at Unherd

Live Like Hobbits

Live Like Hobbits

That's apparently the advice in a new book, "The Reactionary Mind," by Michael Warren Davis. It seems to me that Foucault's "counter-conduct" is becoming the number one obsession today, at least among people who think about . . . or at least feel . . . the left-hemisphere&

A Foucauldian Defense of Liberalism

A Foucauldian Defense of Liberalism

By David McGrogan at Law & Liberty

Poetic Language isn't Modern Language . . . for a Reason

Poetic Language isn't Modern Language . . . for a Reason

💡A side benefit of this essay: It succinctly states what makes poetry different from other forms of writing: Poetry is concerned primarily with creating images that delight us with their economy and elegance. The Integrity of PoetryMicah Mattix at First ThingsThe Daily EudemonTDE Michael Oakeshott maintains that the intellectual life