Our Deformed Professional Class
“All professionals are deformed,” begins a quip by acclaimed literary critic Merve Emre. She’s correct, but that insight applies in a larger sense. In her…
The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War
Ethnic cleansing reifies ethnicity and inflicts devastation on real human beings in the name of a bogus right-wing conceptual scheme. It is despicable…
The Failure of the Three-Body Problem
China finds itself estranged from its own cultural production, excluded from the very discourse of universality it had sought to engage. The experimen…
Decolonizing a Fake Caliphate
Indigeneity is a Neoconservative Ideology “Yemen became two Yemens, Lebanon became four and there will be more!” “Why?!” “For us to have more votes at…
Beckett, Bowie, and Being Other
In other words, neoliberal freedoms, although appearing at first as a liberation, are in reality a trap because bourgeoise consciousness must first be…
How Best to Love Your Kids in a World on Fire?
How best to love your kids in a world we set on fire? Many parents say that they would do “anything” for their kids, but…