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The Regressive Form of Illusionary Politics

The Regressive Form of Illusionary Politics
10 months ago

The Regressive Form of Illusionary Politics

It is not without reason that advocacy for political utopias is often scorned, dismissed outright, or simply denounced as a manifestation of naïveté (or even infantilism). The argument typically boils …
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The Plate-Spinning Trip of Climate Agnotology
10 months ago

The Plate-Spinning Trip of Climate Agnotology

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We should stop calling them climate deniers.

Because they’re not denying it; if they denied anthropogenic climate change, they wouldn’t be acting so feverishly to shut-up, actively reject, and blow …
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Inside the Bubble of “Successful Paranoia”: Lacanian Reflections on Techno-Capitalist Delusion
10 months ago

Inside the Bubble of “Successful Paranoia”: Lacanian Reflections on Techno-Capitalist Delusion

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‘A successful paranoia might just as well seem to constitute the closure of science’.[i]

In psychoanalytic terms, denial negates reality, whereas delusion replaces it. In denial, the subject refuses to …
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The Marshall Plan in Reverse
10 months ago

The Marshall Plan in Reverse

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Announced in 1947 by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan was a massive program of financial assistance to help rebuild war-torn Europe, restore production, stabilize currencies, …
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