Agamben's State of Exception
In *State of Exception* (the second volume in the series entitled Homo Sacer), Giorgio Agamben examines how governments avail themselves of states of emergency to assume extra-legal powers under the guise of protecting the public interest.
TikTok Is Dead (Again), but It's a Whole New World
Yesterday I got the little pop-up notice to agree to new terms of service and promptly deleted the TikTok app. Unlike that other time that I also thought TikTok was dead and deleted the app (I wrote...
The Center Cannot Hold Us All
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; -- Yeats, The Second Coming Tell me if you can relate to this, but these past weeks I have been thinking about the role of artists and thinkers in difficult...
The Philosopher's Guide to Watching Everything Fall Apart (And What to Do About It) | Part One: Walter Benjamin's Angel of History
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would...
Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have...
Agamben's State of Exception
In *State of Exception* (the second volume in the series entitled Homo Sacer), Giorgio Agamben examines how governments avail themselves of states of emergency to assume extra-legal powers under the guise of protecting the public interest.
TikTok Is Dead (Again), but It's a Whole New World
Yesterday I got the little pop-up notice to agree to new terms of service and promptly deleted the TikTok app. Unlike that other time that I also thought TikTok was dead and deleted the app (I wrote...
The Center Cannot Hold Us All
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; -- Yeats, The Second Coming Tell me if you can relate to this, but these past weeks I have been thinking about the role of artists and thinkers in difficult...
The Philosopher's Guide to Watching Everything Fall Apart (And What to Do About It) | Part One: Walter Benjamin's Angel of History
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would...
Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have...
Agamben's State of Exception
In *State of Exception* (the second volume in the series entitled Homo Sacer), Giorgio Agamben examines how governments avail themselves of states of emergency to assume extra-legal powers under the guise of protecting the public interest.
TikTok Is Dead (Again), but It's a Whole New World
Yesterday I got the little pop-up notice to agree to new terms of service and promptly deleted the TikTok app. Unlike that other time that I also thought TikTok was dead and deleted the app (I wrote...
The Center Cannot Hold Us All
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; -- Yeats, The Second Coming Tell me if you can relate to this, but these past weeks I have been thinking about the role of artists and thinkers in difficult...
The Philosopher's Guide to Watching Everything Fall Apart (And What to Do About It) | Part One: Walter Benjamin's Angel of History
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would...
Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have...