It might take a while before history starts again
COVID is killing the old order left populists fought against, but only at the cost of postponing the new.
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The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic
In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma.
Left Populist Affect: On the Imperative of Niceness, Part Twenty-Four
The left populist attempts to substitute affect, undergirded by invocations to be excited and a laundry list of community agreements, for material interests.
I Can’t Relate
Left populism and its vicissitudes
With the continued breakdown of the neoliberal order, “populism” has gained renewed importance in contemporary political discourse. Many leftists see great promise in populism, arguing that the left should take advantage of the affective politics that today are considered the domain of the right. Conjuring
The Unwoke are Awake
Real divisions within the working classes, based on structural as well as cultural differences, cannot be wished away with glib sloganising reminiscent of schoolyard divisions between cool and uncool.
Why I (Usually) Hate Writing for the Media
Market incentives compel every editor to pretend to their authors, with a straight face, that anything but the dullest everyday English is unnecessarily “precious”, “snobbish”, etc.
On the Imperative of Niceness, Part One
The imperative to be “nice” is, at bottom, an imperative to properly comport oneself to the demands of the market.
