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Trotter, Clean

Clean

Fantasies of disembodiment defend against the calamity of the contemporary world.

Amber Trotter
February 18, 2019February 3, 2019

Dominguez-Sosa, The Anus: An FAQ, Pt4

The Anus: An FAQ, Part Four

Obsessives fear that without the silly rituals, their own anality might seep out in the form of paranoia.

Paola Domínguez-Sosa
February 11, 2019February 3, 2019

Jeremy Cohan, Wilhelm Reich, Sex-Pol, and the Virtuous Circle of Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Wilhelm Reich, Sex-Pol, and the Virtuous Circle of Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Wilhelm Reich’s “Sex-Pol” helps us understand the ingrained obstacles to sexual and social revolution.

Jeremy Cohan
February 4, 2019February 12, 2019

Postone, Behind Our Backs pt3

Behind Our Backs, Part Three

Moishe Postone on theorists of culture and society.

Benjamin Fong, Jeremy Cohan and Moishe Postone
January 28, 2019January 23, 2019

Postone, Behind Our Backs pt2

Behind Our Backs, Part Two

Moishe Postone on theorists of the self.

Benjamin Fong, Jeremy Cohan and Moishe Postone
January 21, 2019January 19, 2019

Behind Our Backs, Part One

Behind Our Backs, Part One

An interview with Moishe Postone on “Self, Culture, & Society,” and the value of general education requirements.

Benjamin Fong, Jeremy Cohan and Moishe Postone
January 14, 2019January 14, 2019

Dominguez-Sosa, The Anus: An FAQ, Part Three

The Anus: An FAQ, Part Three

The act of restricting one’s own pleasure in deference to the pleasure of others is, for Marx, the precondition of relating to others in an exchange society.

Paola Domínguez-Sosa
January 7, 2019February 12, 2019

Chabrier, A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools

A New Type of Educational Illness in Brooklyn Public Schools

In consistently “failing” schools, the competitive spirit is always present, but with an estranged character.

Jonathan Chabrier
November 26, 2018November 16, 2018

Henderson, The Psychoeducational Middle School

The Psychoeducational Middle School

The introduction of a therapeutic element in the absence of any explicit acknowledgment of the social and material context in which tensions arise intensifies repression rather than relieving it.

Sal Henderson
November 19, 2018November 16, 2018

Maleen, The Competitive Personality Then and Now

The Competitive Personality Then and Now

If anything has changed in the theory of the “competitive personality” since Mills’s time, it is that the kind of social personality it outlines is more ubiquitous and embodied more spontaneously.

Manuela Maleen
November 12, 2018November 16, 2018

C Wright Mills, The Competitive Personality

The Competitive Personality

Mills’s classic essay on the “alert, obsequious instrument” of the competitive personality.

C. Wright Mills
November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

Aurora Borealis, On the Persistence of Left Hegelianism

On the Persistence of Left Hegelianism

Left Hegelianism has survived healthily into the present because the maintenance of the status quo demands a forum for deflecting oppositional forces.

Aurora Borealis
October 29, 2018October 23, 2018

When it is held back for too long and too forcefully, badness has a way of finding an exit, and in the most unseemly of manners.

The Anus: An FAQ, Part Two

When it is held back for too long and too forcefully, badness has a way of finding an exit, and in the most unseemly of manners.

Paola Domínguez-Sosa
October 22, 2018January 1, 2019

Doinel, Depressed Losers on the Verge of Destruction

Depressed Losers on the Verge of Destruction

The depressive’s neurons are appropriately withering, along with the possibility of a human future.

Antoine Doinel
October 15, 2018October 15, 2018

Patients are reduced to containers for diagnoses and psychiatrists to abstract functionaries.

The Medicalization of Psychiatry

Patients are reduced to containers for diagnoses and psychiatrists to abstract functionaries.

Robert M. Galatzer-Levy
October 8, 2018October 4, 2018

Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.

From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two

Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.

Chris Crawford
September 24, 2018September 24, 2018

From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part One

The “political” is contemporary art’s idée fixe.

Chris Crawford
September 17, 2018September 25, 2018

Only when we see the working-class as a class-for-itself may we say anything concrete about its supposed “racism.”

Race and Class

Only when we see the working-class as a class-for-itself may we say anything concrete about its supposed “racism.”

Harry Chang
September 10, 2018September 7, 2018

When we call someone “anal,” we typically understand what is meant, but we do not understand as well what it is that we are understanding.

The Anus: An FAQ, Part One

When we call someone “anal,” we typically understand what is meant, but we do not understand as well what it is that we are understanding.

Paola Domínguez-Sosa
September 4, 2018October 18, 2018

Bureaucratic pseudo-difference prevents us from engaging in a critique of the language of psychopathology by simply denying that that language is available.

On the Need for a Language of Psychopathology (and its Critique)

Bureaucratic pseudo-difference prevents us from engaging in a critique of the language of psychopathology by simply denying that that language is available.

Antoine Doinel
July 30, 2018July 27, 2018

Activistism combines the political illiteracy of hyper-mediated American culture with all the moral zeal of a nineteenth century temperance crusade.

“Action Will Be Taken”: Left Anti-intellectualism and its Discontents

“Activistism” combines the political illiteracy of hyper-mediated American culture with all the moral zeal of a nineteenth century temperance crusade.

Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood and Christian Parenti
July 16, 2018January 12, 2019

In the hallucinatory process, we see the collapse of the world turn into a system of reference.

The Phenomenon of Agitation in the Psychiatric Milieu

In the hallucinatory process, we see the collapse of the world turn into a system of reference.

Frantz Fanon and Slimane Asselah
July 9, 2018January 12, 2019

Lumivance Reveals New “Literally Viral” Marketing Campaign

On the genesis of “Brake Light Repair Clinics.”


July 2, 2018June 29, 2018

Academic knowledge is entirely reducible to the endogenous dynamic of the capitalist mode of production.

The Knowledge Industry

Academic knowledge is entirely reducible to the endogenous dynamic of the capitalist mode of production.

Hammam Aldouri and Scott Jenkins
June 27, 2018January 12, 2019

Capitalist society damages us, in ways both adaptive and otherwise.

Introduction to Damage

Capitalist society damages us, in ways both adaptive and otherwise.

Damage Editors
June 21, 2018June 27, 2018

On the difficulties that arise in any attempt to trace social character to neoliberalism.

A Report on Neoliberal Psychology, Part Two

On the difficulties that arise in any attempt to trace social character to neoliberalism.

Elia Tommaso
June 21, 2018June 25, 2018

On the difficulties that arise in any attempt to trace social character to neoliberalism.

A Report on Neoliberal Psychology, Part One

On the difficulties that arise in any attempt to trace social character to neoliberalism.

Elia Tommaso
June 18, 2018June 26, 2018

Our contemporary social media ecosystem is both the product of and the producer of the accelerating destruction of social bonds.

The Digital Claustrum

Our contemporary social media ecosystem is both the product of and the producer of the accelerating destruction of social bonds.

Amber Trotter
June 4, 2018June 5, 2018

The concept of race is often thought to be logically prior to that of racial distinction. It is necessary here to “straighten the dialectics out.”

Dialectics of Racial Categories

The concept of race is often thought to be logically prior to that of racial distinction. It is necessary here to “straighten the dialectics out.”

Harry Chang
June 4, 2018June 6, 2018

The left is committed to fighting for everything to the extent that it is in denial of the fact that it is currently in a position to win nothing.

Everything All of the Time

The left is committed to fighting for everything to the extent that it is in denial of the fact that it is currently in a position to win nothing.

Aurora Borealis
June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

The Institute for Precarious Consciousness has engineered theoretical "machines" for their own confusion.

We Are All Very Bad Materialists

The Institute for Precarious Consciousness has engineered theoretical “machines” for their own confusion.

The Machine for Fighting Machines that Fight Things
June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

Evidence-Based Practice provides a "scientific" rationale for providing less service while garnering greater profit.

The Politics of Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-Based Practice provides a “scientific” rationale for providing less service while garnering greater profit.

Allan Scholom
June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

College students today are engaged in a relationship with their own objectified image of themselves.

Clinical Encounters with the Entrepreneurial Self

College students today are engaged in a relationship with their own objectified image of themselves.

Katie Jenness
June 4, 2018September 13, 2018

Undoubtedly the most insidious ploy of late capitalist society is the channeling of genuinely human impulses into a resolute commitment to political impotence.

Politics as Affirmation

Undoubtedly the most insidious ploy of late capitalist society is the channeling of genuinely human impulses into a resolute commitment to political impotence.

Ted Weezy
June 4, 2018June 4, 2018

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