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Recursive Prophecy: Rewriting Time and Truth in US Politics
This segment, "The Republic of Recursive Prophecy" by philosopher Bry Willis, offers an anthropological analysis of contemporary American politics, particularly as illuminated by the Trump era. Willis argues that US politics has moved beyond simple disagreement over facts to a quarrel over the very conditions that make facts possible, leading to the dissolution of a shared grammar of verification. This process results in the rise of parallel narrative architectures—present in both right and progressive cosmologies—where political time becomes mythic and pliable, demanding allegiance rather…
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