A Future on Fire: Climate Change and Hauntology

The spectre of climate crisis stalks our present, finding ways to mash and mangle our now into one that is Continue reading →

Love’s Labor: Irigaray, Hegel and Revolution

Luce Irigaray points out in I love to you that Hegel conceives of love as a form of labor. In fact, Continue reading →

Louis Althusser, the Ideological State Apparatus, and Interpellation

Imagine that you’ve magically transformed into a bourgeoisie capitalist. You wake up one morning and…poof: regal cashmere pajamas, silk blankets, 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 →

The Failed Übermensch: A Marxist Reading of Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment highlights the turmoil, and tribulations of the societal exclusion of 19th century Russia’s lower class. Raskolnikov, Continue reading →

The ‘Champagne Socialist’ Fallacy

‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, Continue reading →

What Would Life Look Like Without Advertising?

What would life look like without advertisement? This is a question that seems almost unthinkable to us in a modern Continue reading →