With time, America has become a country with vanishingly few paths out of poverty (or even out of the working class) and after several centuries
Author: Bjarne Knausgard
Asynchronous Wars And The Technology Of Killing
This vulnerability defines a new phase of warfare: The freezing and seizing of assets by political adversaries, which, when combined with sanctions, becomes effectively a
The Metaphysics Of Stupidity (Asbestos Is Our Future)
At the town’s entrance, drivers are greeted by what looks like a béton-brut installation in place of a welcoming billboard — a concrete structure, suggestive of
The Year Of The Abject: Making Sense of Nonsense
The emergence of 21st century Right-wing populism represents the biggest innovation on that terrain. Right-wingers now recognize the abject as a source of political leverage
This Crisis Requires Genuine Social Change
[Editor’s note: In “The Cost Of Procrastination: America’s Broken Economy,” I compared the haphazard character of the country’s overnight economic rethink, prompted by the pandemic,
Disaster Calculus
Good deeds are unpredictable because they are not natural; they don’t arise spontaneously, people commit them impulsively. Evil, on the other hand, acts naturally —
The Economics Of Repulsion
Since everyone is competing for the same fraction of our (limited) attention, sooner or later cognitive capitalism becomes a zero-sum game. For a brain already
Goebbels in America
They failed in the game which they invented, maintained, and defended at all cost, and now, they want another shot at it, but with altered
Texas
When seen in the context of the most recent developments, the new intensity of the American misogyny appears less of an anachronistic anomaly and more
America’s Cold Civil War
When, however, inequality reaches the critical point, when interests diverge so much that consensus is no longer attainable, the bonding tissue that keeps society together
Death & Life In Utopia For The Stupid (A Flashback)
Entertaining the counterfactual reality that reflects the future as a neoliberal utopia of permissiveness, by allowing for its virtual triumph and applying its patterns and
Fatal Strategies And The Value Of Human Life
The current crisis of politics is unlike anything seen before. It hasn’t been brought about by chronic scarcity, economic devastation or depression. It has been
Bare Life
The GOP’s current political ritual of collective lobotomy is not the result of a regressive uprising of autocratic mad villains, but a consequence of the
Politics As A Suicide Cult
Everything has always been about revenge. That is his curse, but, at this political moment, also his magic, his secret sauce, and the point of
Idiocy And The Art Of Getting Lost
This brings us closer to answering the nagging question that just won’t go away: Why are madness and stupidity embraced as a tool of political
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