2 days ago
Do Not Answer: Bogna Konior and the Dark Forest of the Internet
Somewhere in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy there is a scene where humanity’s first message to the stars is intercepted by an alien pacifist, who risks everything to …
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1 week ago
FIRE FOREST FIRE FOREST FIRE FOREST FIRE FOREST FIRE FOREST
In the silence of the startling news, I reach out to Michael and ask if we may write a text together. Imagine a correspondence. To acknowledge. And inscribe.
2 weeks ago
The Pedagogy of Occupation: Discipline, Biopower, and the Making of the Russian Child in Ukraine
On 6 July 2026, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights transmitted to the delegations of its participating states a certain document: a report on the militarization and …
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3 weeks ago
There Is No America: A Short Primer on Collapse
The ideological grammar of capital
A famous scene in Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976) has grown more illuminating with each passing decade. Arthur Jensen (Ned Beaty), chairman of a multinational corporation, summons Howard Beale (Peter Finch) – …
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4 weeks ago
On the Law of Clarity
On my office wall, at an institution I taught at a few years ago, was a dull, unimposing poster from the American Psychological Association—the organization responsible for the conventions of …
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1 month ago
Consequences of Newtonianism: Another History of the Modern Human Subject (3)
In the early years of the eighteenth century, when Leibniz and Clarke debated, there were at least two plausible ways for European thinkers to imagine the cosmos and, by implication, …
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1 month ago
Logomachy, or the Conflict of the Faculties
Introduction: A Philosophical Crisis
In the UK, over the last several years, philosophy has come under sustained state-sanctioned attack. The closure of the University of Kent’s Department of Philosophy, the …
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2 months ago
The End of Algorithmic Denialism
2026 strikes me as the year in which AI’s fiercest critics began writing their critiques with the help of artificial intelligence. I notice because they use it clumsily and barely …
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2 months ago
Who Is the Excluded Third in Toy Story 5?
The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand. Sheriff Jessie (Joan Cusack), together with Woody (Tom Hanks), Bullseye, and the other traditional toys, …
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2 months ago
Marginalia on a Burning System: Rereading Deleuze and Guattari in the Age of Financial Axiomatics
More than ever before, the global economy is dangerously reliant on the acceleration in bank credit flows, driven almost entirely by massive U.S. borrowing tied to artificial intelligence expansion, which …
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