Toward a Socialist Minimalism
It’s possible simply to have no definite opinion about many issues that our media outlets tell us are very pressing. In fact, this might be a principled position to hold.
Oh, the Left
Anti-Social Socialism Club
What happens to a Left that dislikes society?
A Death Sentence for the American Left?
Are Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner pointing to real impossibility or mere political limits?
The Cultural Turn Assigned To The Labor Beat, or the Curious Case of Gabriel Winant
When your politics are grounded in dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, labor is just one beat among others.
Two is Too Many
A response to Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby’s “The Two Souls of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man .”
The Trouble with “Defund”
There is nothing progressive about austerity.
The Covid Blackmail
Benjamin Bratton’s The Revenge of the Real 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.
