In 1941, en route from a ghetto to a concentration camp in Ukraine, a Nazi soldier beat my grandfather to death. My father witnessed this murder. His is just one of millions of similar stories, of [...] Read more
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E. Cummings [...] Read more
Anthropocene Communism:
Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster
by Paul Guillibert, Verso Books Translated by Matt Reeck
How communism can inform the ecological revolution In Anthropocene Communism, [...] Read more
Never explain yourself to those who live in the WORLD you have already surpassed — Yuval Harari We are living in a world where people demand explanations for everything — your choices, your [...] Read more
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous. Click here to read the full article [...] Read more
ALIENATION. RAHEL JAEGGI, Columbia University Press The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. [...] Read more
Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death endures because it confronts the most universal yet most repressed dimension of human existence. Its brilliance lies in revealing that the striving for [...] Read more
Frey, C. B. (2019). The technology trap: Capital, labor, and power in the age of automation. Princeton University Press. How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand [...] Read more