Dry Capitalism
The new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.
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What Are We Looking At?
<em>Don’t Look Up</em> is not a good movie. That the Left insists otherwise is not a good sign.
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.
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’.
