Mark Fisher
The year in which I was made redundant, we were required to fill in "Active Schemes of Work." No one really knew what this meant. This is kind of the Kafkaesque nightmare of these things.
View ArticleMcKenzie Wark
Wall Street is everywhere, in a sense. You could occupy Corona Park in Queens and say you’ve occupied Wall Street, because it is there too.
View Article“Grandma, what are your thoughts on the de-democratizing pressures of...
Spending time with your family needn’t be a source of enervation. Instead you can use this interval as a period of study and take holiday gatherings as an opportunity to radicalize your relatives.
View ArticleThe Map and the Territory – Michel Houellbecq
Readers should be grateful, not disquieted, for these provocations.
View ArticleInterns Fight Back
While an intern at Harpers Bazaar, a fashion magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, Xuedan Wang was not paid, even though she was in fact working what amounted to a full time job. This, argues Wang...
View ArticleDogma – Lars Iyer
The book does for the novel what modal jazz did for soloists: uncouple your improvisations from a rigid structure, radically simplify your range, and you’ll be shocked to hear how good this new freedom...
View ArticleJoshua Knobe
Many people think Experimental Philosophy is a mistake, but in this very unusual way where they think, “You know, those guys are doing something interesting. Let’s give them a try.”
View ArticleJoshua Knobe (Part 2)
If people are seeing you too much as a machine and someone who has no emotions, just this driving force to resolve questions in the philosophy of education, all you have to do is take off your clothes.
View ArticleFinding Time to Read at South by Southwest
During SXSW, It’s always fun to take an afternoon to wander a little west and visit Book People, Austin’s landmark independent book store. I spoke with the staff of Book People about SXSW and the...
View ArticleThe New People’s Library
After the seizure of “The People’s Library” at Zuccotti Park last November, Paolo Mossetti asked leading writers, activists, and academics how they would repopulate the empty shelves.
View ArticleThe Femicide Machine – Sergio Gonzáles Rodríguez
That even biology cannot save us now is the gloomy possibility that THE FEMICIDE MACHINE places on the contemporary horizon.
View ArticleQuebec Students Prefer Not To
The argument of the students of Quebec goes far beyond bowing to the cold economic realities proffered by state and provincial governments, who claim that public money for education is simply not there.
View ArticleAijaz Ahmad
If your main motivation is the sense of outrage at cruelty and injustice --- fascism, imperialism, what capitalism does to the vast majority of human beings --- then you may not need the stimulation of...
View ArticleConfusion – Stefan Zweig
CONFUSION will resonate with anyone who has felt the tension between desire and knowledge that sits at the heart of pedagogical relationships.
View ArticleChris Lehmann
I do believe in that H.L. Mencken expression, “the politics of the horselaugh.” When you are describing things that are absurd, you laugh to keep from crying, in a certain way.
View ArticleFatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy – Robert Pippin
Given our recent history, an attempt to develop a theory of agency that probes behaviors like risk-taking and gambling is a welcome philosophical exercise.
View ArticleAlberto Toscano
We want to think about those works which try to “totalise” our current conditions, to thematize those facets of social existence which are particularly symptomatic of the trends and tensions in today's...
View ArticleWe’re Flying – Peter Stamm
Most of the stories in WE'RE FLYING depict more quotidian anxieties than a crisis of faith.
View ArticleJoshua Cohen
The story is the language. If you can locate a difference between a story and the language it’s told in, something is wrong.
View ArticleCasey Nelson Blake
I was attracted to the argument in the book that, even in the 1950s, cultural radicals like the Beats and white-collar executives (company men or “organization men”), were actually brothers under the...
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