The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Privilege Production of Impasse – The case of the Deadlock Between Radical Feminists and
Identity Politics And Ressentiment, Part 1 (Camila Bassi)
“The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.” – Karl Marx “the late modern liberal subject quite literally seethes with ressentiment.”
A Nation Of True Believers (Robert Wright)
After the Great War, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust, many thinkers tried to figure out what was wrong with the world. I’ve discussed some of their work in earlier
History Repeated As Farce – White Anarchists Must Not Co-Opt The Movement For Black Justice (Carl Raschke)
This article is republished from the author’s private blog at thoughtsoutofseason.net “We want justice, we want anarchy”. Thus read a sign of protesters standing this past weekend in the median
Some Notes On Blanchot And Disaster (Roger Green)
In this piece, I want to explore the distinction between the “state of exception” and the “disaster.” In doing so, I am also drawing on an interesting seminar that Joshua
Surveillance Society – Panopticon In The Age Of Digital Media (Donna Susan Mathew), Part 2
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Surveillance in a Post 9/11 World It is rather difficult and impossible to impose regulation
Surveillance Society – Panopticon In The Age Of Digital Media (Donna Susan Mathew), Part 1
The following is the first of a two-part series. “The social technologies we see in use today are fundamentally panoptical – the architecture of participation is inherently an architecture of
Disaster Communism, Disaster Capitalism, Or Simply Disaster? Thoughts On Žižek’s PANdemIC! (Carl Raschke)
“There is no return to normal, the new ‘normal’ will have to be constructed on the ruins of our old lives, or we will find ourselves in a new barbarism
Indigenous Land-Grabbing In Brazil Amid COVID-19 (Roger Green)
A recent article in The New York Times by anthropologist Bruce Alpert relays the story of a fifteen-year-old Yanomami boy, Alvaney Xirixana, who died from Covid-19 earlier this month. He
A World Glimmers Beyond The Still Black Horizons Of “Pandemia” (Carl Raschke)
The Great Global Covid-19 Pandemic has functioned in recent weeks as a gigantic, media-tinged Rorschacht ink blot upon which anyone and everyone is invited to project both their deepest political