Elliot SwainThere Be MonstersSocial constructionist ontology and the myth of the givenSep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
Elliot SwainA Critical ‘Phenomenology’ of the Object: Adorno’s Radical Critique and the Experience of ArtA review of T.W. Adorno’s core critical project, with attention to the relationship between form and content in his aesthetic theory.Mar 20, 2022Mar 20, 2022
Elliot SwainHow to Do DeconstructionA short beginner’s guide to the elite tier of academic writingMar 17, 2022Mar 17, 2022
Elliot Swain“Democratic Socialism” is RedundantA brief note on the primacy of democracy — properly understood — for socialism.Mar 16, 20221Mar 16, 20221
Elliot SwainWhy Palestine?A good faith attempt to answer a question often, but not always, posed in bad faith: why focus so specifically on the problems of a tiny…Nov 16, 2021Nov 16, 2021
Elliot SwainWhy I Think Foucault Is Basically Entirely Wrong and BadFirst point of order before I say why Foucault himself is wrong and bad.Nov 14, 20214Nov 14, 20214
Elliot Swain6 Is the Number of Met Gala 2021 Costumes I Could Analyze and Do Jokes About Before I Stopped…But before that latter moment, I think my listicle’s about as witty and insightful as it gets within this particular sub-subgenre.Sep 14, 2021Sep 14, 2021
Elliot SwainHard SoundPart I: Embodiment and the Challenge of Avant-Garde MusicSep 6, 20211Sep 6, 20211
Elliot SwainWhat Did Friedrich Nietzsche Believe?A flawed, personal, not-so-scholarly recitation of one of the strangest, most menacing and beautiful stories in philosophical history.Aug 13, 2021Aug 13, 2021
Elliot SwainAgainst Leftist Anti-Intellectualism: A Defense of TheoryAmong members of the anti-capitalist Left, few types are treated with such suspicion as the intellectual or academic. Even leftists who…Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020