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Dream Fragment now in Greek Translation

Someone at αμφιφλοξ blog has written a Greek translation of the Dream Fragment I wrote a few months ago (reposted here beneath the translation). Enjoy. Συναντηθήκαμε ξανά στον δρόμο που είχαμε βρεθεί την τελευταία φορά. Κανείς από τους δυο μας δεν μπορούσε να…

The academic journal as form: a polemic

The universities have truly become the spirit’s burial mounds, filled with the stink of corruption and immovable gloom. – Ernst Bloch I have learnt two things at university: in the entire history of university exams no candidate has ever written…

A Letter on Primary Narcissism

The text below is a letter/email I sent a couple of months ago, in response to a really wonderful article by Dr Daniel Greenberg that was published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis back in 1990: “Instinct and Primary Narcissism…

An Adorno letter to Sohn-Rethel

Here’s a little translation of a letter from Adorno to Sohn-Rethel (related to the letter from Horkheimer to Adorno that I published here a few months back.) Again, I am putting up the German as well so if anyone has…

Against Emma Watson’s Speech at the UN

I see some famous actress has made a speech launching the UN’s HeForShe campaign. The speech was aimed at men telling them that feminism is definitely not about man-hating while quoting Edmund Burke and offering such pearls of wisdom as…

Teutonic History

The entire Teutonic history is recapitulated in miniature in crisps, which, in Germany, are available in only two flavours: Natural and Hungarian. Prolapsarian, 2014