The Cruelty of Trumpist Political Optimism

As the Democratic Party scrambled to make sense of Donald Trump’s electoral victory, some of the American “moderates” and rightwing analysts, including long-standing New York Times commenter David Brooks and …
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For to comprehend reality means to comprehend what things really are, and this in turn means rejecting their mere factuality. (Herbert Marcuse)[i]

Some things seem utterly unproblematic. We think …
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After wearing glasses for a while, you stop noticing them on your nose because the brain filters out the information as irrelevant. Life, after all, is tiring and demands maximum …
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In a fascinating essay “Marx’s Coat,” Peter Stallybrass traces the origins of the concept of fetishism with the help of thinkers such as William Pietz, Marcel Mauss and others to …
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