Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part One
Boundaries are the latest therapeutic propaganda.
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Pinned to a Rock, Alone: The Coronavirus Reading List
Sam Kriss reads books, Part One. Literature is not therapy.
Applied Roganism
Politics for most people is a means to an end. If we fail to highlight solidarity and shared material interests over ideological purity or identity, we will fail to transform the abstract support of disaffected voters into actual engagement.
“Political Realism” is Ideology
I fear that 2020 will teach the Democrats a costly lesson about the dangers of getting swept up in ideological movements distinguished more by political realism than enthusiasm.
It might take a while before history starts again
COVID is killing the old order left populists fought against, but only at the cost of postponing the new.
The Class Character of the Coronavirus Panic
In the panic attack, the traumatic event is created by the imagination and this construction (a micro-delusion), built in loneliness and anxiety, has the same power as the real trauma.
Left Populist Affect: On the Imperative of Niceness, Part Twenty-Four
The left populist attempts to substitute affect, undergirded by invocations to be excited and a laundry list of community agreements, for material interests.
