Transgression, in fact, is a private affair, but a private affair which moves one beyond oneself. It is communal, but not public. The word "secret" pairs well with transgression. *** To engage in the political is to also realize that which is not political, and in so doing find how those categories that appear as oppositions relate … Continue reading Fragments on Transgression
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Totalitarianism as a Material Fear
Material interest includes more general needs (food, water, shelter) but is also always particular and has integrated particular desires and forms of needs (not just food proper, people conceive of food in particular). Material fears are their fears that come from social situations and the material conditions. Many people have a general fear of invasive control into their personal lives. The particular form of that fear is contingent on what could enable that. The (Western) totalitarian fear as it exists today involves fears that are particularized through the relationship to mass media, surveillance, and the party-centered nation-state.
New Published Article: “More Acid than Communism” and post-script
Last week I had the pleasure of being published by Cosmonaut magazine. You can read the piece, “More Acid than Communism” here. Now that the piece has been out for a while I wanted to write a little bit from a more personal perspective about my concerns with Acid Communism and the opportunities and roadblocks … Continue reading New Published Article: “More Acid than Communism” and post-script
Recreation as a Subject of Production: Video Games & Material Analysis
I. New Production, New Technique? *** On April 23rd, 1934, Walter Benjamin gave an address to the Institute for the Study of Fascism, Paris, titled "The Author as Producer." In it, Benjamin gives a singular summation of the issue he is most known for addressing, what would later become the foundation of his famous "The … Continue reading Recreation as a Subject of Production: Video Games & Material Analysis
Acid Communism as Demand
Since the publication of Mark Fisher's collected writings in the K-Punk compendium, there has been some discussion over the last piece in the collection - his incomplete introduction to the unwritten book Acid Communism. While some have found the piece inspiring in its attempt to push beyond Capitalist Realism, some have found it to be … Continue reading Acid Communism as Demand
Some odd thoughts: Warhammer 40k & Politics
"...in the grim dark future there is only war." As I continue to ponder what, precisely, my politics are - and how I can understand The Political in connection to said politics - I decided it might be worthwhile to attempt a kind of critique against some of my favorite fiction to draw out my … Continue reading Some odd thoughts: Warhammer 40k & Politics
Sinful Dialectic
I “...the negative itself, we may say, has reduced all these individuals, not to their most elementary essence as commodity and labor power (as Lukacs argued in History and Class Consciousness), but precisely to their elemental power as negation and revolutionary refusal, as agency, as a form of revolt in which they are all equal … Continue reading Sinful Dialectic
Anonymous Democracy
I haven't been particularly political until very recently in my life. I still am not entirely sure what "politics" actually is. My gut instinct is that it involves the decisions that determine our everyday lives as a group (the "our" and "group" being members of a nation, state, city, etc.) Yet, decisions seem lacking today. … Continue reading Anonymous Democracy
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