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In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical Materialism

In Defense of Art, Part Two: For a Humanist Historical Materialism

Part 1 of “In Defense of Art” is here; part 3 is here. I must be clear and explicit about the political position from which I am working. I therefore wish to make absolutely clear in what sense I am working within the Marxist tradition, and what sort of “Marxism”

On the Imperative of Niceness, Part One

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.

A Falling Rate of Intelligence?

A Falling Rate of Intelligence?

The law of the falling rate of intelligence is decreasingly comprehensible, but in studying intelligence one can at least hope not to perpetuate its fall.