Monthly Archives: July 2022

In this book, Alenka Zupančič makes a striking argument that the positivity of sexual expression depends upon a background of negativity. She proposes a kind of Gestalt Theory. This way psychoanalytic discourse would move concertedly against Deleuzean thought, by insisting … Continue reading →

Parasites are attracted by the spillage from an over-filled platter. They are attracted by a cascade. A cascade moves across relays where containment fails and fluid falls to lower levels. The parasites arrive where some value-forms are approaching exhaustion. A … Continue reading →

Capitalism has a unique ambivalence towards the cultural, which it perceives as both a risk and an opportunity.  The risks lie in the particulars of regional traditions that would obstruct the planning of market expansion. These includes the dangers of … Continue reading →

Liberalism apologizes for the ethical blunders of the investors, and the making of these apologies requires an appeal to the universal. The investors fail to take responsibility for where their investment decisions would lead the evolution of the species, though … Continue reading →

Industrial development follows a linear course up until it stalls on its own inherent deadlocks. These deadlocks occur due to the fixity of concrete references, which might be scientific, geopolitical, monetary, legal, or pedagogical. Development exhausts itself due to the … Continue reading →

It’s often taken for granted that the essential hypocrisy of the liberal subject lies in the ethnic exclusivity of their friendships. This is the familiar corruption which discriminates between those who are formally recognized and tolerated and those elect who … Continue reading →