Link to an article by Arvind L. U.:
Tag: Sociology
Rob Urie – Why Opposing the Genocide in Gaza isn’t Antisemitic
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Why Opposing the Genocide in Gaza isn’t Antisemitic”
Bonus links: “Refuting Israel’s Lies About Its Invasion of Gaza” and Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (and summary) and “How Britain’s Labour Party Became a Criminal Conspiracy Against its Members” and “BBC Panorama Hatchet Job on Labour Antisemitism is a Farce” and Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (“We thus enter a cruel world of brutal power games masked as a noble struggle of victims against oppression.”) and concern trolling
Ian Angus – The Carbon Footprint Scam
Link to an article by Ian Angus:
Vijay Prashad – Socialism Is Slow to Mature
Link to an article by Vijay Prashad:
Jonathan Basile – Natural Election
Link to a review by Jonathan Basile of the book Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden:
Evgenia Kovda – The Disappearance of Barbarians
Link to an article by Evgenia Kovda:
“The Disappearance of Barbarians”
Bonus links: The Soviet Century and “Modern Art Was CIA ‘Weapon'”
When a Cult Goes Mainstream
Link to an article in the Milwaukee Independent:
“When a Cult Goes Mainstream: Inside the Toxic Psychological Engine of Trump’s MAGA Movement”
Bonus links: “Is Right-wing News a Religion?” and Kill All Normies Review
Interview with Brian Goldstone
Link to an interview with Brian Goldstone, author of There Is No Place for Us:
Wolfgang Messner – Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?
Link to an article by Wolfgang Messner:
“Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?”
Bonus links: “You Are Having Fun” and “Soft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression in the Service of Contemporary Capitalist Hegemony” and “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”
Julian Vigo – How Privilege and Woke Politics are Destroying the Left
Link to an article by Julian Vigo:
“How Privilege and Woke Politics are Destroying the Left”
Bonus links: Review of Kill All Normies and “Too Much of Not Enough: An Interview with Alenka Zupančič” (“(Moral) outrage is a particularly unproductive affect, yet it is one that offers considerable libidinal satisfaction. By ‘unproductive’ I mean this: it gives us the satisfaction of feeling morally superior, the feeling that we are in the right and others are in the wrong. Now for this to work, things must not really change. We are much less interested in changing things than in proving, again and again, that we are in the right, or on the right side, the side of the good.”) and Beautiful Soul Quote and Review of Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History and “The Politics of Online Friendship” and “Against the Neoliberal Blackmail: Identity Fetishism and the Privatization of Affect” and “What’s Wrong With Identity Politics (and Intersectionality Theory)? A Response to Mark Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle” (And Its Critics)” (“The upshot in political practice is a static pluralism of reified social categories, each vying for more-subaltern-than-thou status on a field of one-downsmanship.”) and “The Politics of Identity” and “Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism” and “Amuse-Bouches II – Testimony and the Pass” and Review of The Trouble With Diversity and “The Political Economy of Effective Altruism”