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Austin Hayden Smidt

Austin Hayden Smidt

A Cup of Tea, Bad Infinity, and the Process of Production

I am working through some tensions that I’ve sensed in the field of political economy; even the field of the critique of political economy…

Aug 17, 2018

Aug 17, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Punitive Justice is Self-Harm

Punitive justice (or ‘retributive justice’) is a form of justice that advocates for a proportional punishment for the offense committed. An…

Jul 24, 2018

Jul 24, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Fantasy and Disappointment: In Defense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Recently, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made some ambivalent remarks regarding her position on the Israel-Palestine situation. After being…

Jul 20, 2018

Fantasy and Disappointment: In Defense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Jul 20, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Capitalism, The Embrace that Smothers: An Analogy

There are technical debates about how we should understand the nature of capitalism. One such debate pertains to the ‘ontology of capital’…

Jul 17, 2018

Jul 17, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Leftist Nihilism: Thoughts Towards an Enlightened Hedonism

“The left is boring and has no sense of humor.”

Jul 11, 2018

Jul 11, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

The State as Ultimate Insurer of Value

Bernard Stiegler argues that economy is always about protension. That is, the tendency that most characterizes a given economic system is…

Jul 9, 2018

Jul 9, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

The Debt Logic of Counter-Hegemony

Further to my thoughts from yesterday…

May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Something Always Escapes: Excess and Lack

Something I’ve been working through is the way constituted power structures, ideas, networks of power, systems, etc. gather power and then…

May 9, 2018

Something Always Escapes: Excess and Lack

May 9, 2018

Austin Hayden Smidt

Yesterday’s Liberals are Today’s Monarchs | Today’s Liberals are Tomorrow’s Ancien Regime

The constant assertion from free market apologists is that the market is the most rational agent for resource allocation. The market sees…

Mar 10, 2017

Yesterday’s Liberals are Today’s Monarchs | Today’s Liberals are Tomorrow’s Ancien Regime

Mar 10, 2017

Austin Hayden Smidt

The Success of the Conservative Imagination

“[We] can chalk up the current state of the right not to its failures of imagination or excess of spleen — as some have done — but to its…

Mar 7, 2017

Mar 7, 2017

Austin Hayden Smidt

Austin Hayden Smidt

Political philosopher, filmmaker, actor, writer, and podcast host (@wisecrack & @owls_at_dawn & @idigthismovie) | ahsmidt@gmail.com | @austin_hayden

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