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The Covid Blackmail

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.

The Truth of Lockdown, and its Escape

The Truth of Lockdown, and its Escape

Daniel Defoe and John Donne’s alternative languages of disease and isolation—and their meaning now.

Let’s Not Get Sentimental

Let’s Not Get Sentimental

Hate is an element of political organizing we are encouraged to disavow. But liberal sentimentality only leads to repetitive acting-out of the dynamics of dehumanization.

Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Two

Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Two

Fear of a breakdown that has already happened.

I’m Not Wearing a Mask

I’m Not Wearing a Mask

Why are the esrtwhile hysterical Crybullies of Social Justice Sanctimony now extolling the virtues of stoicism, censuring those that would dare admit that this moment might be a bit—dare I say—“traumatizing”?

Technocracy’s End-of-Life Rally

Technocracy’s End-of-Life Rally

If it’s true that the dystopias we dream up are the ones we secretly desire, then is our exceptional situation not the one centrists coveted?

Pinned to a Rock, Alone: The Coronavirus Reading List

Pinned to a Rock, Alone: The Coronavirus Reading List

Sam Kriss reads books, Part One. Literature is not therapy.