Democratic Vistas
George JensenA berserker's guide to American politics and culture.
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Carnival versus Totalitarianism
Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World, recently out in a new translation by Sergeiy Sandler, should be read as a book about ontology, a particular kind of ontology—the anti-totalitarian self. It is a book that Heidegger, who is considere...
Simulacra as a Mode of Reality
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In my last post, I explained Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra and how it helps us to understand the negative effects of social media, especially on our democracy. In this post, I will explain somet...
Simulacra, Social Media, and Democracy
To get back to photography: It’s technics [a cultural code, a system of signs that are stripped of its deeper meaning, signs connected only to other signs, but still robust enough to shape our perception of reality] that give the photo it...
American Politics, Original Sin, and Identity
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In “American Politics and Original Sin” (posted April 12, 2026), I explained how the theology around the concept of original sin is continuing to affect our current politics.
In that post and several that...
Foucault and the Democratic Self
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This post will attempt to answer a question that was usually raised when I taught one of Michel Foucault’s works: Foucault has shown us, through his genealogies, how institutions and discursive regimes...
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George Jensen is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published articles and books on a wide range of topics, most recently on the ethics of nonfiction.
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