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Every Day is Kristallnacht ….. I do not apologize for the short interruption in Chapter XXXVIIII. The consequences of kakistocratic practices must be addressed immediately. The continuation of the Critique… Read more.

“Those who facilitate kakistocracy will learn the taste of shit.” The collapse of the right-wing government of the Netherlands has provided new insights into what happens when kakistocracy and democracy… Read more.

Alienation and Abstraction The affective impact of the blinding of electricity is also a play on the enlightenment as a negative dialectic. The language of the Enlightenment is that of… Read more.

Blinded by Electricity When Adorno and Horkheimer referred to Verblendung with reference to the Enlightenment, they meant it literally. The unfolding of the Enlightenment is both a repetition and a… Read more.

Marxist Fundamentalism A return to academic gobbeldygook Preparing a lecture on the Frankfurt School and hearing the echoes of hardline Marxists such as Gabriel Rockhill and John Bellamy Foster, my… Read more.

“We” (those who have been “properly” educated  within our democratic nation states) know relatively little about the historical unfolding of so-called “terrorist movements”. Usually they just appear out of nowhere.… Read more.

It is now several months after nations in Western Europe have declared to increase their spending on “defence”. Is there any army in the world that is officially labelled “offence”?… Read more.

It is quite logical to connect the concept of kenotic solidarity to those of alienation (Marx) and decreation (Weil). For Marx, alienation appears first as an obstacle to solidarity, because… Read more.

Just because post-apocalyptic life requires a new kind of solidarity (derived from kenotic debt) does not mean that it will necessarily be realized. However, where kenotic solidarity grows, so does… Read more.

It should be clear by now that we live in post-apocalyptic times. From the outset, the discipline of Sociology was created to deflect us from thinking apocalyptically, because it could… Read more.