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 →

Mediating Suppression: At the Crossroads of Judaism, Marxism, Freudianism

The Systems of Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism Structurally speaking, Judaism, Marxism, and Freudianism each constitute a thought system, and their Continue reading →

Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis

Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading →

The Third Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution of the 19th Century has undoubtedly been one of the most significant economic and cultural developments in human Continue reading →

Borges and Murakami: Philosophy in Fiction

Borges and Murakami Philosophy in fiction has had a long and storied history, from the mythology of Ancient Greece to Continue reading →