How Masculinity Works
In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis argues that we’re witnessing a power struggle between traditional industrial capitalists and a new elite of tech oligarchs who accumulate...
Tag: Culture
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The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade II
--- This piece picks up where “The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade I” leaves off. You might want to read that first. Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy (2024) Allie Beth Stuckey is a conservative...
The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade I
--- This piece picks up where “Dangerous Feelings” left off. You might want to read that first. --- Paul Bloom’s book Against Empathy was not published by an academic publisher that would vet the...
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant yet deeply unsettling account of the psychological and social effects of colonization on oppressed peoples. Born in Martinique and trained as a...
Friendship As A Way of Knowing
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15 Critical Theory Substacks, Spy It
--- 1. $1 a secret plotCritical Theory - Journalism - ArtBy Tom Pazderka --- 1. $1 Critical Theory & Burning QuestionsCritical Theory & Burning Questions is a Marxist-Leninist publication dedicated...
The Desire For Community (Revisited)
We have watched the price of food rise over the past few years, and so many of us have had to ask ourselves if we can afford our usual groceries. The price we pay for shelter is becoming prohibitive,...
Who's Afraid of Empathy?
In "Why Empathy Makes Us Cruel & Irrational," author characterizes empathy as an emotionally transmitted disease, a virus, and as a parasite. He claims that empathy debilitates thought, makes us...
A Failure of Identification
> “Then I want to take up the practice [of world-traveling] as a horizontal practice of resistance to two related injunctions: the injunction for the oppressed to have our gazes fixed on the...
3 More Philosophy Substacks Worth Checking Out
Antagonisms of the Everyday: Philosophy, Culture, PoliticsPolitics and Philosophy on the irregularities and antagonisms of everyday life. Focusing on US,UK, European politics and political theory,...
The Culture Industry by Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno, one of the foremost thinkers from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, made a lasting impact with his critiques of mass culture and the homogenization of society. In The Culture...
A Romp Through Early 19th Century Philosophy
This piece was originally based on a thread of tweets that I wrote while viewing Travis Ross’ Youtube lecture entitled: Early 19th-Century Philosophy: German Idealism and its Reception. The sound...