Psychopolitics of AI: From Fetishism to Brutalism
AI is everywhere: from smart home devices to algorithm-driven content recommendation systems; from biometric security measures to online shopping plat…
The Federal Reserve & the White House Don’t See Eye-to-Eye
Our economic situation cannot solely be blamed on the supply and demand repercussions of Covid-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, China, heightened corporate greed, or the government’s…
Free-Standing Sculptures with Weight and Meaning: A Conversation with David Shields
I love dialogic books and gestures: from Socrates and Plato in The Republic to Rob Bryon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. I’ve read as many of these bo…
Icons, Political Aesthetics, the Drag Last Supper, and Trump’s Fist
July 2024 brought us inescapable examples of the renewed power of pictures. Images of Trump rising up, fist raised, on the 13th after being shot…
The Anti-communist Discourse
Anti-communism pretends that the status quo is infinite (N), that it is also continuously identical, and each new leftist affront to the status quo it…
A Review of The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies by Auron Macintyre
Introduction It’s been said that fascism was a 20th century movement of the lesser intelligentsia. If that is the case the 21st recuperation of…