Perhaps once the intimidated masses saw these strongholds of capitalism going up in flames, they might shake off their lethargy even at this late hour.Marinus van der Lubbe Protests and riots have roiled the city of Portland, on and off, for two whole months now. The intervention of heavily-armed federal police, who kidnapped and brutalized … Continue reading The Portland Unrest of 2020 and the Reichstag Fire
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Is Water Wet? A Final Conclusion
The Transcendental Method, The Subject-Object Distinction, the Nothingness of Being, the Anonymity of the Name, and Sadomasochism It is death to souls to come to be water, death to water to come to be earth, but from earth water comes to be and from water soul.Heraclitus From the outlook of common sense, water is self-evidently … Continue reading Is Water Wet? A Final Conclusion
A Short Reflection on the Eucharist
[In the Eucharist] the spirit of Jesus, in which his disciples are one, has become a present object, a reality, for external feeling. Yet the love made objective, this subjective element become a thing, reverts once more to its nature, becomes subjective again in the eating.... Thus the action seems purer, more appropriate to its … Continue reading A Short Reflection on the Eucharist
Coronavirus in Cubes
Preliminary note on form: Pablo Picasso’s painting Violin represents quintessentially the themes behind Cubism. The violin is depicted in a form closer to its phenomenological actuality, with its maple glow and its ebony purfling, the finer details of which only reach consciousness in brief flashes. Each vista, each “cube” in this painting represents a different … Continue reading Coronavirus in Cubes
A Marxian Critique of the Universal Basic Income (Guaranteed Minimum Income)
Illiberales ... et sordidi quaestus mercennariorum omnium....est enim in illis ipsa merces auctoramentum servitutis.The occupation of all wage-earners is illiberal and shameful.... Indeed, for those who earn a wage, the wage itself is the contract of their slavery.Cicero, De Officiis, 1.150 The universal basic income (UBI), or the guaranteed minimum income (GMI), is the new … Continue reading A Marxian Critique of the Universal Basic Income (Guaranteed Minimum Income)
Abandonment of Identity, Flourishing of Ipseity
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.- Napoleon Bonaparte Identity is not equivalent to Absolute Being.-Friedrich Hölderlin To identify oneself means to represent the self as a collection of predicates (e.g. being black, being gay, being Muslim, being female) thus forming an identity. “Identity politics” refers to the process by which identities engage with their … Continue reading Abandonment of Identity, Flourishing of Ipseity
Music Today Is Dead — Don’t Consume Its Corpse!
Music uses a highly universal languageto express the inner essence,the in-itself of the world-Arthur Schopenhauer Art is truth setting itself to work-Martin Heidegger We might start with Karl Marx’s old critique: insofar as we are alienated from the means of production, from the means by which we produce the goods we want and need, and … Continue reading Music Today Is Dead — Don’t Consume Its Corpse!
The Criminality of Being-There
1. Fascism is the ruling sign of modern politics. 2. The camp is the space which opens up when the exception begins to become the rule. 3. Human rights always degenerate into rights of the citizen. 4. Fascism means controlling presence. 5. The struggle against capitalism is just as fundamental as the fight against fascism. … Continue reading The Criminality of Being-There
Be More Modest, Governor: Your Biopower is Showing!
In his History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault writes on the concept of biopower, which focuses “on the species body, the body imbued with the mechanics of life and serving as the basis of the biological processes: propagation, births and mortality, the level of health, life expectancy and longevity, with all the conditions that can cause … Continue reading Be More Modest, Governor: Your Biopower is Showing!
Unionization or a Round of Drinks for the Homies?
A curious set of fliers have found themselves posted in the breakrooms of Delta Air Lines employees this past week. They are perfectly postmodern in form, taking the appearance of internet memes and inviting just as much laughter. Almost instantaneously, a million opinion pieces, all in complete agreement, expressed their disgust with the executives who … Continue reading Unionization or a Round of Drinks for the Homies?
Notes from the Ultra-Left 