Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
In one of the chapters of his book Against Progress (2025), Slavoj Žižek offers an interesting concept of Accelerationism: “Accelerationism, a recent form of historic determinism, is a notion whose basic core should not be confused with its different versions and aspects (neofeudalism against egalitarian democracy, abundancy communism, and so on). However, I believe that…
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,…
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…
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,…