postmodernism

A 'personal essay' on dichotomies like decadence vs. health, particularity vs. universality, subjectivity vs. objectivity, and misanthropy vs. 'philanthropy,' which uses Noam Chomsky as a…

In honor of the bicentennial of Marx's birth, this essay summarizes some of his contributions and explain in what respects he got his own ideas…

Notes for a 2015 presentation of a book about the “Incontrolados” and The Friends of Durruti,…

Notes for a presentation delivered in September 2017 at the Gijon Anarchist Book Fair on the social, psychological and moral aspects of the…

A scathing critique of postmodernist philosophy (the “French disease”), discussing its academic…

Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization, it captures the dizzying social changes that swept up and transformed the lives of millions of people. Berman delves into the aesthetic and intellectual controversies of art, literature, and architecture: from the writing of Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky to the Paris of Baudelaire and Haussmann,…

Alyson Escalante's critiques of the trans community's reliance on gender essentialism and a proposal…

The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to…

An essay on philosophy since 1848, its decline after WWI, attempts to salvage its valuable contributions and further its development from the…

A brief discussion of the origins, decline, and fall of modern working class culture as a culture of…