Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Philosophy of Liberation
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On the Void, the Body, and the Contingency of Suffering
Nietzsche deconstructed the problem of existence by historicizing value, while Camus demanded that the subject revolt against the absurd. Yet both thinkers presumed a subject who possessed the capacity to stand: the free spirit who survives disenchantment, or the absurd hero who returns to his boulder with his faculties intact. Neither philosopher, at any juncture,…
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Charge
Many years ago, I visited a place called Usgalimal in the western ghats of India in order to see the pre-historic petroglyphs discovered here in 1993. These rock carvings have been dated to around 6000-8000 years ago, belonging to the mesolithic-to-neolithic turn in the subcontinent, a period which according to archeologists marks the tail-end of…
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Subterranean War Machines: Deleuze-Guattari & October 7th
Any Western attempt to philosophize from the comparative safety of their desk or office about any ongoing genocide in Gaza is a task which can only be attempted with the utmost militant analysis, as said realities being faced by the Palestinian people can in no way shape or form be simply ‘conceptualized’ or ‘theorized’ as…
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Genocidal Language Games
These lines applies the conceptual apparatus developed by Lynne Tirrell in “Genocidal Language Games”, a text in which the author offers a philosophical analysis of the role of language in the preparation and execution of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Tirrell’s work belongs to a growing tradition within the philosophy of social and political language,…
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