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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons Continue reading
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@tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump
The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley… Continue reading
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Pantisocracy
[Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that… Continue reading
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The background of North Korea
The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity… Continue reading
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#YallQaeda and the Limits of Liberal Laughs | Al Jazeera America
#YallQaeda jokes barter in redneck stereotyping and ignore the more pernicious underpinnings of the patriot movement. “How fucking weird is it that armed militia group in the early stages of what might become a standoff is being laughed at by… Continue reading
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Saartjie Baartman and colonial capitalist obsession
Baartman’s story is a tragic tale of colonialism, and one of the more egregious examples of the West’s exploitation of black women’s bodies. Her body had value because it was considered exotic, like any other animal housed in a cage at the… Continue reading
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Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading
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Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?
An update of a post I made two years ago before I decided to go all in and get my MA and PhD: Lunch time and my thoughts turn to all of my friends who are independent scholars. Many of… Continue reading
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Chaos Counseling
Of course I practice Chaos Magick–what do you think AnarchoCynicism is other than the socio-political expression of something that is a profound F*CK YOU to all institutional power? The fact that I have a nihilistic character that dresses like a… Continue reading
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God & Governing in Texas
A documentary-style series from The Texas Tribune on the role legislators’ personal faith plays in their policymaking. Source: God & Governing | The Texas Tribune Continue reading
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Paranoid Style of American Policing
…It will not do to note that 99 percent of the time the police mediate conflicts without killing people anymore than it will do for a restaurant to note that 99 percent of the time rats don’t run through the… Continue reading
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Bank Bail-Ins Begin
If you have more money in bank accounts than I have–or probably ever will have–you might want to learn what the difference is between bank bail-outs and bank bail-ins. Very much worth a couple of reads. Over-extraction of all capital… Continue reading
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Professors remain blind to boom in humanities
Gotta love that crisis mentality. Cause the sky be falling and falling. Youth are too fragile and the humanities have no future among our youth. Part this arises from seeing how administrators treat humanities programs and politicians deride them. Part… Continue reading
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Big Idea List for 2015
I am very happy to hear that my good brother (and graduate director) finds his new book, A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking, on the DailyBeast’s Big Idea List for 2015. Congrats, Adam Briggle! If your idea of a philosopher is… Continue reading
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Cherry Picking, False Nostalgia, and the invention of Boredom
Sometimes, I wonder at how much Boomers–the most privileged generation in the history of humankind–feel compelled to call today’s youth fragile, lazy, coddled, etc. To lament how things are not as awesome as they were “back then.” I am so… Continue reading
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The rise in stock of philosophy graduates | World news | The Guardian
“A degree in philosophy? What are you going to do with that then?”Philosophy students will tell you they’ve been asked this question more times than they care to remember.”The response people seem to want is a cheery shrug and a… Continue reading
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The “Well-Off” Worker and the Global Capitalist Rewards System
I would disagree with this article a little bit. The diverse means of compensation given the “well-off” worker–paid sick leave, paid vacation, healthcare, pension plan, etc–are not really privileges. But maybe we should think of them as privileges because quasi-job-security has a… Continue reading
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