Historian Nancy Isenberg’s new best seller White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class In America tell the uncomfortable story of how important it was to the American experiment to create for itself a myth […]
Author: Fragile Dignity
Essayist, critic, psychotherapist and free range academic. Whelped and whipped in Texas, but now living in the forests of Northern California. Fragile Dignity is a workshop of critical theory in the service of social and ecological liberation.
Nature and Madness Review
As time goes on I think more and more about a book on human development that was never even categorized as a book on psychology or pedagogy in any bookstore or library. It is, really, […]
The Culture of Narcissism Revisited in 2016
(above picture from the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive”) Cultural historian Christopher Lasch stirred the culture with his diagnosis of American culture with 1979’s The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. […]
Fascism in Reverse: Intro Part II
The Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno is perhaps most famous for this astonishing quote, “Fascism is psychoanalysis in reverse.” In addition to being a witty, if cynical, nutshell of his philosophy in The Dialectic […]
A Fragile Dignity: Intro Part I
There has been a lot of talk lately about virtual reality. I don’t mean people who wear headsets or Google Glass, but that reality itself as a field of experience is somehow in doubt. The […]
A Fragile Dignity 