Another Hedonism is Possible
A Review of Kate Soper’s <em>Post-Growth Living</em>.
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On Paranoid Culture, Part One: An Apocalyptic Jewish Sect Goes Mainstream
The only way to read “The Gospel According to Matthew” today is not to read it.
The Trouble with “Defund”
There is nothing progressive about austerity.
Class Politics and Status Politics
An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.
The Logic of Empire: Blowback and the Brutishness of American Foreign Policy
<em>Blowback</em> Season Two is a welcome advance on Season One, but the show might have outgrown its title.
The Covid Blackmail
Benjamin Bratton’s <em>The Revenge of the Real</em> develops the “temporary” state of emergency of (failed) pandemic governance into a justification of governing society on that basis indefinitely. It’s a deeply anti-social vision of society.
Why the CCC is DOA
Sunrise’s Civilian Climate Corps is a strong proposal. It’s a shame that the class struggle orientation needed to realize it is wholly absent.
