Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth: Violence
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America’s addiction to violence
by Henry A. Giroux
Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Continue reading America’s addiction to violence
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
Noam Chomsky: US terrorism
Noam Chomsky is an activist and an emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading Noam Chomsky: US terrorism
Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental
by Ernesto “Che” Guevara Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen. — Jose Marti Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate … Continue reading Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental
Flipping the script: rethinking working-class resistance
by Henry A. Giroux I have often thought about when that moment came in which my working class sensibility turned into a form of critical class consciousness. For most of my youth, I was defined by ruling-class types and mainstream … Continue reading Flipping the script: rethinking working-class resistance
Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness
by Henry A. Giroux The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to … Continue reading Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness
Death-dealing politics in the age of extreme violence
by Henry A. Giroux How a society treats its children is a powerful moral and political index of its commitment to the institutions, values and principles that inform the promises of a real democracy. When measured against such criteria, it … Continue reading Death-dealing politics in the age of extreme violence
Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade
What makes his vision terrifying is that he is able to weave it into a consistency, and reinforces it via a repetitiveness and patience that defies expectations: there is clearly method in the ‘madness.’ And so he can be regarded as a philosopher. Continue reading Radical punishment: the economic rationality of the Marquis de Sade
Taking notes 31: The wolfman, capital and fugazi
by Sanjay Perera We welcome illusions because they spare us emotional distress, and enable us instead to indulge in gratification. We must not then complain if now and again they come into conflict with some portion of reality, and are … Continue reading Taking notes 31: The wolfman, capital and fugazi
Philosophers for Change 