50 Books To Read To Understand Critiques of Capitalist Political Economy

Here is a list of book recommendations for people interested in understanding capitalist political economy better as well as critiques of capitalist political economy. I have not read all of these books, but I do look forward to reading them all one day. In addition, I must say: I don’t believe that anyone should be […]

Apocalypse Now! Apocalypse Forever!

there is no redemption the redemption will never arrive all of the request for redemption are fantasies of flight. redeem what? redeem who? redeem where? what’s done is done. apocalypse now. apocalypse forever. the apocalypse came many yesterdays ago. The Conservative and The Liberal gather together in the ruined streets of Minneapolis urging for peace. […]

The End of America

You are uneven. hanging halfway between the ending and an [emergency exit]. – Koleka Putuma, “In Limbo”[i] There are movies that discuss moments like this. A true ‘alien’ enemy threatens the survival of the planet and the only thing left to do is come together, to “spare […]

Die Lit, or the art of being ontological terror

Die Lit, or the art of being ontological terror (Paper Presented at Global Debate Symposium in the Kritikal Lab, July 7th, 2019) I don’t usually like to reflect on my writing for a public audience. I find in every reflection I place the words of who I once was into the context and constellation of […]

no(ble) savage: class notes on Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an 18th Century Genevan philosopher whose ideas about the state of nature and the birth of civil society were pivotal to the French Revolution, the Enlightenment and as such the current conceptual coherence of the modern world today. His “A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of Inequality Among Mankind” is […]