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George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)
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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful. Translated and edited by Corey Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardback. 360 pages
View Article“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)
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*Raschke, Carl. Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019 It highlights key arguments
View ArticleReview – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)
Hollis Phelps
Stimilli, Elettra. **The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism. Translated by Arianna Bove. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. ISBN 9781438464152 It highlights
View ArticleThe Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)
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This article is the last of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk
View ArticleThe Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
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This article is the second of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk
View ArticleThe Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)
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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests
View ArticleCollective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)
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An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I
View ArticleReview – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)
Timothy Snediker
*Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights
View ArticleTheodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)
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Today the question of debt forgiveness has become an eminently practical, not to mention political, question. From sovereign debt crises in Greece, Spain
View ArticleReview – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy
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*Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer
View ArticleThe Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business
Victor E. Taylor
Victor Taylor examines corporate failure and the 2008 economic crisis, arguing that business models conceal the Real they claim to master through metrics.
View ArticleThe Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”
Carl A. Raschke
Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new politics against consumer capitalism today.
View ArticleCrisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?
Creston Davis
Creston Davis interprets the 2008 financial collapse through Hegel and Badiou, arguing that crisis exposes labor's power and capitalism's hidden dependence.
View ArticleHyperreality
Carl A. Raschke
Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what hyperreality means for faith and democracy.
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