Idiocracy, but Sadder
We are more educated and informed than any previous generation, but we’re still becoming more idiotic.
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Does It Matter That Contemporary Art Doesn't Tell Us About Society Anymore?
No, and that’s OK.
The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity
On the political circumstances behind rigid, brittle identity constructions.
After the Election: a Contribution to the Debate
What is being cooked up by Brazil’s New Consensus?
Two is Too Many
A response to Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby’s “The Two Souls of Marcuse’s <em> One-Dimensional Man </em>.”
Meet the New Math, Same as the Old Math: A Review of Justin Joque’s "Revolutionary Mathematics"
<em>Revolutionary Mathematics</em> convincingly demonstrates that our primary task in a critique of algorithmic logic should not be de-reification, which would presuppose a degree of control over technology that we do not possess. But it doesn’t always follow its own advice.
Not in Our Genes: Identity Politics as Liberal Ideology
Liberals increasingly want to portray the identitarian and partisan divides as natural, quasi-biological ones. The result is not simply gross misunderstanding of the present political impasse; it’s also surrender to the conditions that perpetuate it.
