Category Archives: Cultural analysis

Analysis of various cultural phenomenon

The Many Prongs That Lead to Ferguson

Posted on 21/08/2014 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

There are a number of strands that can be picked up from the recent, much-publicized events in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson is a suburb on the innermost ring of St. Louis’s quite extensive “fat belt”, a European term for the series … Continue reading →

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Notes on Ideology, Power, the Media and the Irish Crisis

Posted on 15/05/2014 by Henry Silke

An introduction to the study of ideological power structures and their relevance in the Irish economic crisis (Notes from a presentation to the Dublin Left Forum 10/05/2014) Introduction Since the onset of the crisis that the Irish state thus far … Continue reading →

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The tragedy of Walter White

Posted on 11/02/2014 by Dara McHugh

In The Death of Tragedy (1961), George Steiner argued that tragedy was not possible in the modern world. The liberal worldview, he argued, is incompatible with tragedy, circumscribing the irrational and unjust suffering with an optimism for reform and justice. … Continue reading →

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An End to Musical Chairs: A Rumination on the Basic Income

Posted on 12/10/2013 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

Since everyone is welcome aboard the train of life, don’t we all deserve a ticket? I was walking toward the central transit hub of my town recently, when, shortly prior to passing over the railroad tracks that the train I … Continue reading →

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Dictatorship of the Queer: Universal Solidarity as a Precondition of Revolution

Posted on 08/10/2013 by fuzzyhorns

“As soon as the situation calls for the total transformation of the social order, the masses must participate in it directly, and they must have an understanding of what is at stake and what must be won. This is what … Continue reading →

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Review – Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography – Georgi M. Derluguian

Posted on 20/07/2013 by yeksmesh

The title of this book by itself could already warrant a read, yet there is much more to find in this book, its interesting title aside. The work mainly deals with the question of the Soviet Union and particularly its … Continue reading →

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Against the Grand Narrative: on postmodernism

Posted on 06/07/2013 by modulus

Without recapitulating the entire history of postmodern thought, which beginning we can, for our purposes, anchor at the publication of Dialectic of Enlightenment, it is safe to summarise its development as stemming from a justified distrust of the liberal project, … Continue reading →

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“I Had Weird Educational Experiences”: Interview With Noam Chomsky

Posted on 21/05/2013 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

Spirit: Alot of theorists, I think of EJ Hobsbawm in particular, in the book  On History, separate the concept of “biography” from that of “history”. You’ve been more concerned, it is apparent, in your career, with the latter rather than … Continue reading →

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Breaking With the Economic Beatitude: Refutations of Some Prevailing Notions Against the Basic Income

Posted on 31/03/2013 by Jerome Nikolai Warren

I’ve written elsewhere on the subject of immaterial hurdles facing the argument for the basic income guarantee [µ]. I want to shortly summarize the sentiments constituting these hurdles, and outline the counter-arguments I’ve given against these views. In my prior … Continue reading →

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On ideology and culture

Posted on 11/01/2013 by yeksmesh

“Related to this, but not entirely the same, is the tendency to classify certain movements not by their actual structure, forms, and ways of struggle, but by the specific, formal ideology they adopt to describe themselves. As such, a movement … Continue reading →

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Against Adhocracy

Posted on 21/11/2012 by Dara McHugh

Should we believe that we should organise outside of parties, outside of the State and outside of Left or Right? That with the right process people can come together as people and produce an impetus towards progressive social change? If … Continue reading →

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Poetry: what it is for

Posted on 03/09/2012 by modulus

Poets have from ancient times enjoyed a special status, which connected them with the sacred and the sublime. They were often believed to be inspired by divinity and this position as mediators between a mundane everyday existence and something higher … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on culture in an age of superabundance

Posted on 12/07/2012 by modulus

One of the biggest triumphs of capitalism lies in having created the impression that it’s a natural system. A non-specialist, when considering other times and societies, will almost certainly interpret them through the prism of capitalist assumptions: transferable property, free … Continue reading →

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