Tag: critical theory

The Business of Theory /2004

The Business of Theory /2004 “Ethics, in other words, is a subset of politics. “If you want to be good, you need a good society,” Eagleton writes; “nobody can thrive when they are starving, miserable or oppressed.” A true ethics is thus a materialist one, a morality not of feeling but of acting: feeding the…

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Parrhesia, Vol 27 (pdf)

Parrhesia, Vol 27 (pdf) whole issue of this wonderful journal, including: “Abundance – of Critique” by Penelope Deutscher “Forgiveness: A Work of Love” by John Lippitt “What is Philosophy as a Way of Life?” by John Sellars

Let us Militantly Loiter on the fringe of nowhere

Hanging around, not doing anything except, like a droog, hanging around. Strange how what is still the most threatening thing imaginable for urban governments is just people loitering, occupying, striking, or just hanging around aimlessly on the streets. An essay along these lines by Susan Buck-Morss, a brilliant scholar of the writings of Frankfurt School…

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