Come As You Are: Punk and Neoliberal Leftism
Trying to break free of the aural monotony was our goal, and I don’t know if we achieved it, depending on how you define success. We refused to foll…
Making Graphs to Flatter the Global Elite
Two new books argue that capitalism will solve the climate and ecological crisis. While making such an argument with different styles and focuses, Bloomberg journalist…
Cats, Politics, and the Despair of Human Existence
But this is also where the emancipatory potential of domestic cats/animals lies: They remind humans that they are beings of civilization - and that th…
Woke-Speak of Bosses at NPR and Academia Irks the Masses
By 2025, I assert, no one is going to talk the way NPR CEO Katherine Maher talks, ever again. No doubt the word ‘woke’ has…
The Left and Its Meaning
The Left’s adherence to principles makes it politically dogmatic and inflexible. This is the entry point of its puritanism. Principles, especially t…
Was Adorno a Leninist?
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?" The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcomin…
