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ArticleAuthorPublication DateDescription
Capitalism and MathematicsAlessandro SbordoniFebruary 19, 2025An interview with Giorgi Vachnadze about religion, psychoanalysis and cybernetics.Capitalism and Mathematics
From Porcelain to Chips: A Genealogy of Global Technology and CapitalismAlex Taek-Gwang LeeAugust 29, 2025Alex Taek-Gwang Lee on the fantasmatic supports of capitalism.From Porcelain to Chips: A Genealogy of Global Technology and Capitalism
Reading Little Hans: Episode ThreeAlfie BownMay 11, 20255-part series on Freud's classic caseReading Little Hans: Episode Three
Introduction to Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's The CompletionAlfie BownMay 09, 2025Bifo argues that humans are becoming more like automatons.Introduction to Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's The Completion
The Left's Disgust at Working-Class TasteAlfie BownMarch 26, 2025How taste is failing the working class.The Left's Disgust at Working-Class Taste
Is Universalist Cinema Possible in a Particularist, Identitarian World?Alfie BownFebruary 04, 2025Is 'Kneecap' the ultimate victory for the cinema of capitalist identity?Is Universalist Cinema Possible in a Particularist, Identitarian World?
Climate Distress and the Problem of ActionAnouchka GroseJanuary 10, 2025Psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose on the climate and our anxiety.Climate Distress and the Problem of Action
The Spectacle of Orphanhood and the Self-Identifying LeftArturo DesimoneOctober 30, 2025Arturo Desimone on a left all alone.The Spectacle of Orphanhood and the Self-Identifying Left
The Gaze Wears You: Meta’s Smart Glasses and the Fantasy of Seamless MediationAvantika TewariMay 26, 2025What happens when capital colonises the "I"/eye?The Gaze Wears You: Meta’s Smart Glasses and the Fantasy of Seamless Mediation
The Undead Gesture of AI, Art, and the Politics of SimulationAvantika TewariApril 02, 2025Walter Benjamin reads the latest commodification of art.The Undead Gesture of AI, Art, and the Politics of Simulation
The Void by Ayça ÇubukçuAyça ÇubukçuJanuary 03, 2025From Weird Material.The Void by Ayça Çubukçu
Abstractionism, Reductionism and Class-First PoliticsBen BurgisJune 05, 2025On the merits of class-first approaches to left politics.Abstractionism, Reductionism and Class-First Politics
On the Charge of "Class Abstractionism"Ben BurgisApril 30, 2025Stop fighting with straw “abstractionists.”
Trump: Not Fascist, but Dangerously AuthoritarianBen BurgisMarch 14, 2025Ben Burgis on Trump's authoritarianismTrump: Not Fascist, but Dangerously Authoritarian
Taking the Red Pill? William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class MatrixBen BurgisFebruary 03, 2025Ben Burgis on the Marxist debate of the moment.Taking the Red Pill? William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix
The Right Way to Be an Anti-ZionistBen BurgisJanuary 03, 2025Ben Burgis on the Isreal-Palestine tensions on the Left.The Right Way to Be an Anti-Zionist
“Rebellions are Built on Hope”: The Logic of Revolutionary Suicide in AndorBorna RadnikJune 17, 2025Borna Radnik on Hegel and Star Wars!“Rebellions are Built on Hope”: The Logic of Revolutionary Suicide in Andor
Bunny Fear by Caitlin HallCaitlin HallFebruary 03, 2025Bunny Fear by Caitlin HallBunny Fear by Caitlin Hall
Fail! Against the capitalist appropriation of the concept of failureChristian Nirvana DamatoJuly 27, 2025Christian Nirvana Damato on capitalism's co-option of critique.Fail! Against the capitalist appropriation of the concept of failure
Vigor Mortis, or the failure of death disavowalChristian Nirvana DamatoJuly 18, 2025Vigor Mortis, or the failure of death disavowalChristian Nirvana Damato18 July 2025Starting from the reading of the dream of the fire mentioned by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams and reread by Lacan in one of his Seminars, in Disavowal the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Alenka Zupančič affirms how the "true nightmare" is not so much the one embodied in a temporary dream phase, albeit in its eventual recurrence, but rather the one from which we cannot wake up by escaping into realiVigor Mortis, or the failure of death disavowal
The Trial of The JokerConrad HamiltonJanuary 13, 2025Conrad Hamilton on the infamous failure of Joker 2.The Trial of The Joker
Socrates is Not Who Agnes Callard Wishes He WasCrispin SartwellApril 18, 2025Re-reading Socrates all wrongSocrates is Not Who Agnes Callard Wishes He Was
The Psychic Life of the American "Left" and the Destructive Use of ShameDarragh SheehanAugust 17, 2025Darragh Sheehan on the commodity logic if wokism.
The Therapist as the "Good-Enough Commodity": From Holding to SellingDarragh SheehanMay 29, 2025Identity-based branding is a hallmark therapy's commodification and betrays the function of the therapeutic encounter.
Countercultural or Counterproductive? On Woke Culture's Use of PsychologyDarragh SheehanFebruary 03, 2025Woke's reductionist exploitation of psychology.Countercultural or Counterproductive? On Woke Culture's Use of Psychology
Marx’s Ethical Teleology: The Role of Religion in Socialist ThoughtEdmund WilsonJune 23, 2025Edmund Wilson on Marx and religionMarx’s Ethical Teleology: The Role of Religion in Socialist Thought
Weird Material by Emmalea RussoEmmalea RussoJanuary 03, 2025What is poetry?Weird Material by Emmalea Russo
The Negation of DiscontentFlorian MaiwaldSeptember 17, 2025Florian Maiwald on capitalist-utopianism and the negation of negation.The Negation of Discontent
Unsustainable: The End of the Emancipatory Subject? – Remarks on Blühdorn’s UnhaltbarkeitFlorian MaiwaldJune 26, 2025Florian Maiwald on Politics and EmancipationUnsustainable: The End of the Emancipatory Subject? – Remarks on Blühdorn’s Unhaltbarkeit
Trump as Pope: The New Reactionary SubjectFlorian MaiwaldMay 19, 2025Right libertarian attempts at 'freedom'.Trump as Pope: The New Reactionary Subject
JD Vance, Absurdity and the Political SubjectFlorian MaiwaldApril 07, 2025Only the recognition of the absurd that we are all surrounded by can drive political action.JD Vance, Absurdity and the Political Subject
The Political Cause, Love and the ContingentFlorian MaiwaldJanuary 05, 2025Are the holidays an apolitical time of love?The Political Cause, Love and the Contingent
Sitting Closely Yet Never Touching: The Psychoanalytic Case of Human-AI interactionGreta KaluževičiūtėMay 25, 2025Is AI all bad?Sitting Closely Yet Never Touching: The Psychoanalytic Case of Human-AI interaction
Surplus Education Part 2Helen RollinsJuly 01, 2025Helen Rollins on Education - Lack and ExcessSurplus Education Part 2
Surplus EducationHelen RollinsJanuary 23, 2025A declassed generation of graduates.Surplus Education
Adolescence and Toxic MasculinityJacob JohanssenMarch 30, 2025Adolescence is about more than incels and toxic masculinity.Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity
The Politics of God Building and “Eschatech”Jag BhallaJuly 03, 2025Jag Bhalla on technotheocracyThe Politics of God Building and “Eschatech”
Trump’s Superior Political AestheticsJag BhallaFebruary 27, 2025Jag Bhalla on the need for political aesthetics to rescue the present.Trump’s Superior Political Aesthetics
Flowers for Science and MarxismJohn Milton BunchSeptember 30, 2025John Bunch on a new book and a whole history of Marxists.Flowers for Science and Marxism
Psychoanalysis, Science and Depression: A Response to Hook & VanheuleJohn Milton BunchApril 15, 2025Science against psychoanalysis
Nostalgia: The Point of No ReturnJordie SaenzMay 27, 2025Is nostalgia a right-wing tendency?Nostalgia: The Point of No Return
Scream Pain LoveJulie ResheJanuary 07, 2025Julie Reshe on Munch, art and pain.Scream Pain Love
Humor and Depressive Realism: Laughter as an Embodiment of the Death DriveJulie ResheJanuary 03, 2025Julie Reshe against toxic positivity.Humor and Depressive Realism: Laughter as an Embodiment of the Death Drive
Migration and Self-Mutilation as ProtestK. T. MillsOctober 24, 2025Migration and Self-Mutilation as ProtestK. T. MillsOctober 24th 2025Throughout the Global North, migrants have become the scapegoat du jour, the specter of their exploitable labor used to divide the working class from itself[1]. What we see in El Salvador’s migrant prisons, the terrifying crescendo of nationalist frenzy that accompanies those images, is the maturation of a preexisting worldview. Concurrently, border control infrastructure has grown more mechanistic, and it exacts a blood price.Migration and Self-Mutilation as Protest
Naughty SoundsKarlo PavlovićMarch 12, 2025Is society becoming more perverse?Naughty Sounds
Where Soul Meets Bone by Katherine EverittKatherine EverittJanuary 03, 2025From Weird Material.Where Soul Meets Bone by Katherine Everitt
Magical Realism as Political PhilosophyLee Nok'si LivingstonMay 07, 2025Literature as politics and philosophy.Magical Realism as Political Philosophy
Communists Should Learn to Stop Being Annoying: Tactics, Strategy, and OpticsLászló MolnárfiFebruary 28, 2025Ultra-lefitsm is counter productive.Communists Should Learn to Stop Being Annoying: Tactics, Strategy, and Optics
Review: ‘Disappointment is Not Just a Feeling – It’s a Political Force’Maria IbrahimJune 24, 2025Maria Ibrahim on Psychoanalysis and PoliticsReview: ‘Disappointment is Not Just a Feeling – It’s a Political Force’
Enjoy Your Surveillance!Michael Downs & Bryce NanceAugust 13, 2025Michael Downs & Bryce Nance on AI, surveillance and capitalismEnjoy Your Surveillance!
Insatiable Celebrity Worship: Consumption of the Chapel of RoanNatasha MottApril 10, 2025The identity politics of Chapel RoanInsatiable Celebrity Worship: Consumption of the Chapel of Roan
Beyond The Performance Principle: Autistic Singularity in Perfect DaysQuique AutreyMarch 04, 2025A reflection on work by Mari Ruti and Wim Wenders.Beyond The Performance Principle: Autistic Singularity in Perfect Days
Charlie Kirk Was Not the Enemy of the LeftRafael HolmbergOctober 12, 2025Rafael Holmberg on the real enemy: capital.Charlie Kirk Was Not the Enemy of the Left
What Psychoanalysis can Teach us about the US ElectionRafael HolmbergJanuary 04, 2025What Psychoanalysis can Teach us about the US ElectionRafael Holmberg4 January 2025 Since Trump’s election victory, it is tempting to think that we need to understand politics ‘by itself’ - that is, without the mediation of any speculative explorations or the insights of other disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology etc, which we often apply to politics to help us understand it. The situation in politics today, it seems, is critical enough to require us to get down to brass tacks,What Psychoanalysis can Teach us about the US Election
Feminist Fatwas, A Quran of Their OwnRafia ZakariaFebruary 06, 2025Rafia Zakaria on feminist re-readings of the Quran.Feminist Fatwas, A Quran of Their Own
Rumors by Mladen Dolar (Review and Implications for the Contemporary Left)Salvador Medina RamírezMarch 11, 2025The nefarious effects of rumour on left-wing politics.Rumors by Mladen Dolar (Review and Implications for the Contemporary Left)
The Ideology of Traffic EngineeringSalvador Medina RamírezJanuary 21, 2025Safety first or capital first?The Ideology of Traffic Engineering
Is J. D Vance Really a Lacanian?Slavoj ŽižekJanuary 04, 2025Slavoj Žižek on the incoming Vice President.Is J. D Vance Really a Lacanian?
A Reply to Perry Anderson On PopulismTalal HangariMay 22, 2025Anderson is misguided in his comparison of Left and Right Populism.A Reply to Perry Anderson On Populism
Sketch of a Proletarian CapitalismWes VanderburghFebruary 17, 2025Is there a proletariat, if we are all the proletariat?Sketch of a Proletarian Capitalism