Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Five: Elite Betrayal
You don't notice, and you don't notice that you don't notice, and you don't bring it up.
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There is No Red Pill
The red pill/blue pill metaphor has survived the last two decades, which should be strange: the choice it describes no longer exists.
“The Fulfilled Utopia”
Theodor W. Adorno on devouring ice cream, smiling at female store clerks, and being a sissy.
No End to Neoliberalism in Germany
What can be expected of Germany’s “traffic light” coalition? More (eco-)austerity, more privatization, more disciplining of the Eurozone, and more disciplining of the working class.
In Defense of Art, Part Three: For a Revival of Fine Art
Painting, drawing and sculpture, although they are always the bearers of ideological elements, and acquire significant aspects of their particular forms through socio-economic influences, are, as material practices, no more reducible to ideology than are childhood, spermatozoa, or, above all, ‘man’.
In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical Materialism
Part 1 of “In Defense of Art” is here; part 3 is here.
I must be clear and explicit about the political position from which I am working. I therefore wish to make absolutely clear in what sense I am working within the Marxist tradition, and what sort of “Marxism”
In Defense of Art, Part One: For a Psychological Reductionist Account of Art
Health is often taken for granted, but injury and convalescence force you to appreciate it. In the same way, the wreckage of mid-twentieth century art criticism and theory in grandiose socio-political “interventions” brings into focus a baseline psychological function of art. Peter Fuller saw the sickness in artists and critics
