A Review of:Lears, T.J. Jackson. 1994 [1983]. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. T.J. Jackson Lears’s No Place for Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 is a sweeping and original cultural history of the origins and impacts of antimodernism—“the recoil from... Continue Reading →
Reflections on Ethnographic Argumentation
disguised as a choice of a body I say shit to everything and I go to sleep ~Antonin Artaud (1965: 211) Here we have made use of everything that came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. ~Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1987: 3) Introduction Plan of the Essay.... Continue Reading →
A Short Untitled Observation by a Quasi-Pessimist while Walking His Dog
Does my dog know that he is expected to die before me? Does he grieve over his impending and unforeseeable death? Does he grieve for my grief which will arise in the wake of his absence?
Writing Against Academia: An Antidisciplinary Approach
I have heard whispers of this topic around, but it has been shouting at me for some time now. Perhaps it could turn the whispers of others into shouts, encouraging a re-thinking and re-making of the academic institution as it currently exists.
A Quasi-Unfinished and Rambling Rant Against University Course Evaluations
Today is Tuesday, December 22nd of the year where the forces of capital combined with those of racism, xenophobia, and ignorance to result in a hellscape: front and center we have COVID-19 which has taken a massive toll (deaths as well as other forms of suffering) in the US due largely to negligent politicians; to... Continue Reading →
Dark Materialism: Notes on a Critical Politics for the New Materialisms
It's the garbage fire you all have(n't) been waiting for... Below is my MA dissertation pasted in full. However, since a blog post is a wholly inadequate way to deal with long pieces such as my dissertation, I've also attached it HERE as a PDF document. I haven't yet received final marks for the work,... Continue Reading →
"We take the term “gore” from a genre of films characterized byextreme, brutal violence. Thus, “gore capitalism” refers to theundisguised and unjustified bloodshed that is the price the ThirdWorld pays for adhering to the increasingly demanding logic ofcapitalism. It also refers to the many instances of dismembering anddisembowelment, often tied up with organized crime, gender... Continue Reading →
Sayak Valencia’s Gore Capitalism
Achille Mbembe's conception of 'necropolitics,' first coined in a 2003 essay1 published in Public Culture and then elaborated in Necropolitics,2 published in English in 2019 by Duke UP, has been widely taken up in the humanities and social sciences. This short article provides a good summary of just what Mbembe is getting at with this... Continue Reading →
Achille Mbembe’s “Necropolitics”
(Preliminary) Ideology Critique of Aristotle’s Account of Slavery
In this essay, I perform an ideological interpretation of Aristotle's account of slavery as presented in the Politics.
Untimely Meditation in the Days of COVID-19: The Insanity of the “Situation”
The situation of panic and pandemic wrought by the novel coronavirus is insane. It overflowing the order of things. It has sun beams out its ass.
Theoretical Capriccio 