A 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
How to Do DeconstructionA short beginner’s guide to the elite tier of academic writingMar 17, 2022Mar 17, 2022
“Democratic Socialism” is RedundantA brief note on the primacy of democracy — properly understood — for socialism.Mar 16, 20221Mar 16, 20221
Why 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
Why I Think Foucault Is Basically Entirely Wrong and BadFirst point of order before I say why Foucault himself is wrong and bad.Nov 14, 20215Nov 14, 20215
6 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
What 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, 20211Aug 13, 20211
Against 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
