In Defense of Gay Assimilation

So-called queer studies is no stranger to provocative titles. I might be better off defending a more modest program of Continue reading →

An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: On the Relationship Between Map and Territory

“It is abstraction in its precise, literal sense… complete absence of quality, a differentiation purely by quantity and by applicability Continue reading →

Can Pascal’s rationality rescue the pandemic vaccine?

Introduction Although several countries have begun rolling out immunisation programs for the coronavirus, the distrust of the vaccines amongst people Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: Iglooghost, Mark Fisher, and the New Digital Modernism

In February this year I wrote a 4 part piece on the idea of anti-hauntology. Part 1 looked at the Continue reading →

Eternal Action: Christopher Nolan’s Objects of Anti-Accelerationism

In Tenet time is stalled for forever plunder. As a child, I never liked riding on tilt-a-whirls or other spinning Continue reading →

Gamespot reminds us that “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.”

The story should be familiar to us: WallStreetBets, a community on Reddit, noticed that hedgefund Melvin Capital overshorted Gamestop’s price, Continue reading →

Learning to Unlearn: Applied Psychology in Social Justice

I. Introduction Why is unlearning racism so hard? Virtually everyone agrees that racism is bad. On the left, we read Continue reading →

Anti-Hauntology: SOPHIE, Stiegler and the Ruins of Accelerationism

Since the initial article on SOPHIE last week the idea of anti-hauntology has gained a significant amount traction across various Continue reading →