The Competitive Personality Then and Now
If anything has changed in the theory of the "competitive personality" since Mills's time, it is that the kind of social personality it outlines is more ubiquitous and embodied more spontaneously.
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The Competitive Personality
Mills's classic essay on the "alert, obsequious instrument" of the competitive personality.
On the Persistence of Left Hegelianism
Left Hegelianism has survived healthily into the present because the maintenance of the status quo demands a forum for deflecting oppositional forces.
The Anus: An FAQ, Part Two
When it is held back for too long and too forcefully, badness has a way of finding an exit, and in the most unseemly of manners.
Depressed Losers on the Verge of Destruction
The depressive’s neurons are appropriately withering, along with the possibility of a human future.
The Medicalization of Psychiatry
Patients are reduced to containers for diagnoses and psychiatrists to abstract functionaries.
From Avant-Garde to Sociologized Art, Part Two
Art’s desire to endlessly demonstrate its compromised place ultimately makes it as monotonous as the commodity culture from which it tries to distinguish itself.
