The Politics of Modulation: Simondon’s Influence on Deleuze’s ‘Societies of Control’

Deleuze’s short essay ‘Postscript on Societies of Control’ has become one of the most widely discussed individual essays in continental Continue reading →

Plan for Obsolescence: Why Institutions Should Have Expiration Dates

A river flows following the path of least resistance. Until a dam gets built. The water gets redirected toward desirable Continue reading →

Popular (Neo-)Modernism: Fisher, Meillassoux and Novelty

In the recent Anti-Hauntology debate Matt Bluemink and Matt Colquhoun discussed ways out of a current mode of culture that 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: Derrida and Stiegler on Dancing With Ghosts and Education

in a small ghost town, there’s a little arcadewhere the poltergeists play their video games In my previous post I 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 →