Dosing Culture, Part One
What we get from cultural reception now is not so much an “experience” or a single coherent “work of art” as an endless series of doses.
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Meritocracy Agonistes
On elite anxieties and the instrumentalization of education.
Private, Not For You, Go Away: On Forbidden Books
Mainstream writing sucks. Oppositional writing sucks. The solution is obvious. Part Three of our review series from Sam Kriss.
Bad Air!: A Review of “We Unhappy Few” from Endnotes 5
When the present unrealizability of one’s grandiose ambitions is the misery of one’s actuality.
Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit
Just as black struggle is taken to stand in for working-class struggle, so too is the present enemy of black struggle—the police—taken to stand in for the capitalist class.
Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Two
Fear of a breakdown that has already happened.
Unpacking the Left's Cultural Baggage
Why the Left’s embrace of cultural liberalism hurts our electoral ambitions.
