Link to an article by Tim Seitz:
“The ‘Design Thinking’ Delusion”
Bonus link: “Repeating Lenin”
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Vijay Prashad – Regime Change 2.0
Benjamin Fogel – Against “Anti-Corruption”
Link to an article by Benjamin Fogel:
Curiously, while the author says moralism isn’t an answer, his argument is essentially moral! He really is saying mere moralistic, individualistic finger-wagging won’t convince political opponents to change their own ways, which is a tactical argument that recognizes that the problem does not lie at an individual level and therefore cannot be solved at the individual level either but glosses over normative/ideological (moral) bases for structural/institutional action. But isn’t the author simply arguing that instead of criminalizing the political left through “anti-corruption” laws such policies should instead criminalize the political right? He offers no real explicit argument to this effect, relying instead on implicit ideology and morality/ethics. This is about a political struggle for hegemony, making certain specific procedural/tactical suggestions along the lines of Rosa Luxembourg’s famous “socialism or barbarism” maxim.
Bonus links: Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle (technocrats as defenders of hierarchy) and Slavoj Žižek on Populism (populists) and Ibi Rhodus, Ibi Saltus! Quote (ethics/morals are ultimately political)
Natalie Shure – The Real Lesson from the Downfall of Theranos
Link to an article by Natalie Shure:
“The Real Lesson from the Downfall of Theranos: We Need to Nationalize the Healthcare System”
Bonus link: Some Critiques of Silicon Valley User Exploitation
Jedediah Purdy – The Courts are Political
Link to an interview of Jedediah Purdy conducted by Meagan Day:
Bonus links: Slavoj Žižek On Political Struggle and “Before the Law” and History of the Supreme Court of the United States and “What Is Socialism Nowadays? (Part II)” and “The New Venezuela: An Interview With Supreme Court Justice Fernando Vegas” and “The Kavanaugh Case: Sex, Lies, Privilege (and Plenty of Beer)” and “Ten Items Corroborate Dr. Blasey Ford’s Allegation Kavanaugh Tried to Rape Her” and “Why Conservatives (Still) Like Kavanaugh” and “Kavanaugh Confirmed, Supreme Court Is Instrument of Ruling-class Reaction” and “The Oligarchic Courts”
Jacques Pauwels – 1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil
Link to an article by Jacques Pauwels:
“1918: How the Allies Surfed to Victory on a Wave of Oil”
Bonus link: “Foreign Interventions in Revolutionary Russia”
Rob Urie – Democratic Socialism and Political Power
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
John Pilger – Hold the Front Page
Link to an article by John Pilger:
“Hold the Front Page. The Reporters Are Missing”
Bonus links: Critique of Cynical Reason, and “Three Variations on Trump Quote”, and “The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine”
Bonus quote:
“in the analysis of ideology, it is not simply a matter of seeing which account of reality best matches the ‘facts’, with the one that is closest being the least biased and therefore the best. As soon as the facts are determined, we have already — whether we know it or not — made our choice; we are already within one ideological system or another. The real dispute has already taken place over what is to count as the facts, which facts are relevant, and so on.”
Rex Butler, “What Is a Master-Signifier”
Rob Urie – American Fascism
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
Chip Gibbons – Obstructing Justice
Link to an article by Chip Gibbons about George Crockett Jr. and the FBI: