Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Philosophy of Liberation
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Xangô, the Anarchic Sovereign: Notes on Segato, Agamben and Political Theology
Does domination have its roots in theology? Or should we, as good materialists, assume that worldly inequality (economic or political) merely mirrors itself in theological conceptions, thus finding ideological justification? Be that as it may, the knot that unites politics and theology should be examined. Perhaps the purpose of political theology is only to ground…
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From the Jewish Question to the Palestine Question
Firstly, what is the Jewish Question? In its simplest form, the question goes along the lines of: “What are we to do with the Jews?” Secondly, who asks the Jewish Question? Whom does it target? Historically speaking, the “we” that requires the Jews as the object of “our” question is the modern, nominally secular, European…
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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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