Link to essays by John Berger:
from Landscapes
“Defending Picasso’s Late Work”
Bonus links: Ways of Seeing and Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to essays by John Berger:
from Landscapes
“Defending Picasso’s Late Work”
Bonus links: Ways of Seeing and Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Link to an open letter by Ralph Nader:
Bonus links: Corporate Prosecution Registry, Violation Tracker, and …And the Poor Get Prison
Link to an article by Ilan Kapoor:
“Žižek, Antagonism and Politics Now: Three Recent Controversies”
I’m not sure I agree with the criticisms of Žižek this offers, partly because they seem conclusory and underdeveloped, even if intriguing. For instance, the notion that Žižek is overexposed seems to call for an explanation of what “overexposed” means, and why it applies. For example, a discussion of that concept in view of Žižek’s well-known critique of liberalism’s inability to cope with the destructive power of envy seems apropos. Or perhaps something out of Bourdieu or another branch of sociology?
“The goal of all enemy propaganda is not to annihilate an existing force (this function is generally left to police forces), but rather to annihilate an unnoticed possibility of the situation.”
Alain Badiou, “Seminar on Plato” at the ENS, Feb. 13, 2008 (unpublished), quoted in “No Way Out? Communism in the New Century,” in The Idea of Communism 3 (2016).
See also “Ernst Lubitsch, Censorship, and Political Correctness” (“Alain Badiou put it in a wonderful and precise way: the main function of today’s ideological censorship is not to crush actual resistance—this is the job of repressive state apparatuses—but to crush hope, to immediately denounce every critical project as opening a path at the end of which is something like a gulag.”)
Bonus link: “Abnormalize The Empire”
Link to an article by James Plested:
“Recycling Crisis is Capitalist Business as Usual”
Bonus links: “As the Ocean Waters Rise, So Do the Islands of Garbage” and “Against Recycling” and “How Europe’s ‘Trash Market’ Offloads Pollution on Its Poorest Countries” and “A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling” and “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again” and Portlandia Season 2, Episode 8 “Which Bin Does It Go In?” and The Closing Circle
Link to an article by Pete Dolack:
“If You Incentivize Pollution, You Incentivize Death”
Bonus link: …And the Poor Get Prison
Link to an article by Steven Rose:
Link to a video produced by Zero Books:
“How Slavoj Žižek Provoked Jordan Peterson”
Bonus links: “A Reply to my Critics Concerning an Engagement with Jordan Peterson” and “I Was Jordan Peterson’s Strongest Supporter. Now I Think He’s Dangerous”
Link to an article by Wayne Au: