The four horsemen: how the global economy works
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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Mental Disorder
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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Violence
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ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
by Sanjay Perera
This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse. Continue reading ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade
by Sanjay Perera …he would greatly have loved to make a formidable death machine of universal life. But mere nothingness is not his goal. What he has striven for is sovereignty, through the spirit of negation, carried to its extreme. … Continue reading Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade
Taking notes 37: Meritocracy, repression and Piketty’s apocalyptic asymptote
by Sanjay Perera
Much has been said about Thomas Piketty’s important and much talked about book. But not enough has been said about his nuanced wit and jibes at a system of meritocratic capitalism that is starting to merge with the hereditary accumulation and growth of wealth termed as patrimonial capitalism. But then it can also get quite serious. Continue reading Taking notes 37: Meritocracy, repression and Piketty’s apocalyptic asymptote
Disposable futures
by Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans The 20th Century is often termed the “Century of Violence.” And rightly so, given the widespread devastation of an entire continent during the two Great Wars; the continued plunder and suppression of former … Continue reading Disposable futures
The economic unconscious
by Sanjay Perera Woman, eternally, /shows us the way. — Faust, Goethe Supposing truth is a woman — what then? — Beyond good and evil, Nietzsche A. Introduction It may still seem novel to some that what they have been … Continue reading The economic unconscious
A theory of economic violence
by Sanjay Perera ‘They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps. They are like servants … Continue reading A theory of economic violence
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