Pestilential Theologies: On the Grand Narrative of Our Time

Mid-plague, it’s fairly easy to view an infection, seemingly from nowhere, as something like the judgment of god: as a sentence handed down that one has been insufficiently rigorous in the measures that they have been taking. It’s easy to look at it this way, because looking at it without this narrative framework is daunting: one in six Americans is Covid-positive. At this point, an individual isn’t really able to remain completely safe: you’re just bending probability curves slightly.

CommentaryCameron SummersJanuary 5, 2022postmodernism, Covid-19, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Talking Heads, Arthur Miller, politicsComment

So Say We All: On Consensus and Unanimity

Recently, I’ve been looking at processes of consensus decision-making, and I’ve grown more and more skeptical of the idea of unanimity. It seems to me that, when everyone is in perfect agreement, there isn’t actually that much thought going on, and that the decisions reached are actually some of the lazier, less-interesting approaches.

Commentary, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJuly 28, 2021politics, Consensus, Duties, RojavaComment