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Risk and Extortion XXV: Red Pills and Blue Pills
The Cyber-Fossil-War-Machine (c) (CFWM) may provide an alternative explanation to why we find ourselves under the Rule of Kakistocracy. Of course, we may still analyse the ideological operations of the… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XXIV: Cyberfossil-Capitalism and the Culture Industry
Matteo Pasquinelli introduced the concept of Cyber-Fossil Capitalism to describe the continuity between fossil energy and digital technology under capitalism. In contrast to narratives that frame the digital economy as… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XXIII: Intermezzo (We Have Never Been Modern)
Having laid out kenosis as an alternative to identity thinking, this analysis has taken the risk of becoming a moralizing text. In order to avoid delving any deeper into normativity… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XXII: Kenosis as Practicing Place the Hard Way
Having established how social identities are primarily enacted by a rhetoric of belonging-to, we have stumbled upon a core concept: place. Identifications take place, they are practices of emplacement. More… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XI: The Double.Edged Sword of Identity-Thinking
The post that had been missing https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/to-those-who-only-speak-out-when-it-is-risk-free/ One of the interesting features of debating anti-Semitism is the issue why it is not being treated similar to racism. This is often… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XXI: Solidarity and Kenosis
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/to-those-who-only-speak-out-when-it-is-risk-free/ For Christians it should be a no-brainer to conceive one’s existence as a gift of life. Christian faith derives from the gift of sacrifice: Jesus Christ died for our… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XX: The Privileges of Sociology
The question why mainstream sociology – as the Sociology that is being taught at universities especially as a supporting discipline to those who will later work within fields such as… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XIX: Self-Loathing and Anti-Semitism
One peculiar phenomenon that requires more in depth attention and analysis is the way in which Zionism relates to the figure the “Self-Hating Jew” and how this mythical figure serves… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XVIII: The Lessons That Have Never Been Learned
The conceit with which politicians, journalists and commentators – not just but especially in Germany – shamelessly dismiss any public expression of concern over the war crimes and crimes against… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XVII: The PMC and Staatsräson
The blog entry on scapegoats has already argued why the Stranger is the perfect candidate for Scapegoat, as the stranger is among us but does not belong to us; thus,… Read more.









