Two dialectical aphorisms
In London “bare life” means “lots of life.” On the difference between philosophy and real life: in real life being impotent means you can’t come; in philosophy being impotent means you can’t become.
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg
On Reproductive Labour and Surplus
I was having a chat about social reproduction with my housemates last night that got me thinking – and maybe this is a crazy idea. I’m pretty allergic to a lot of the theorising of “reproductive labour” that goes on…
Two thoughts on Freud, 1915
On Politics and Newspapers In the essay on the metapsychology of dreams there is a footnote that describes the difficulty of the interpretation of dreams that deal with abstract ideas. Freud says, “We might compare it with the problem of…
On Debt and Default (for Greece)
Let’s be more explicit about debt. The question of default is not, as presented in the media, about a struggle between interested parties like any other contract. The matter is not about lent money and interest all floating financially in…
Hegelian Night
The night in which A.C.A.B. G.W.F. Hegel
Of Barenboim’s Schubert
Long past four in the morning an old man sits at the piano. Outside the shaded sky turns azure, its mottled urban-orange clouds invisible from within the concert-hall, windowless as the rest of them. His fingers have struck the same…
Catastrophe
A short piece published in Bad Feelings, ed. Arts Against Cuts, Book Works, 2015.
Why I like Hillary Clinton
I think the best thing about Hillary Clinton is definitely that she’s nothing but an enormous accumulation of dead people, whose lives were ended through those modes of oppression that could most appropriately attach themselves to whatever in them might…
Materialists
Most of the world’s population is divided into nihilists and magicians, but occasionally you meet someone who can be both: a materialist.
Comment on Marxist Politics
I know I don’t say things about politics/political theory much, but one of the advantages of Marxist accounts of society is that we can recognise that practical claims to a politics of inclusion before communism (a state of absolute inclusion)…