I have been sleeping early these days not early but usually before or at 1:00 AM and now I am half asleep and all I can recall is gunshot, one call, chitchat from the ethiopian drill songs I consumed earlier and even ...
Continue readingAchille Mbembe is a Cameroonian philosopher who took Foucault’s ideas about power and asked: what happens when power is not just about controlling life, but about deciding who gets to die?Foucault wrote about biopower...
Continue readingIf you can buy land, buy the fucking land. If you cannot buy land, buy gold. If you cannot buy gold, buy construction materials. Own things that exist in the physical world. Own things that cannot be deleted from a da...
Continue readingVenezuela 2002 is the story of a coup that actually worked for 47 hours, then collapsed like a wet paper bag because the plotters forgot one tiny detail: the guy they arrested was genuinely popular with the poor.Hugo ...
Continue readingHerbert Marcuse was a German American philosopher and a Frankfurt School bad boy. He wrote One-Dimensional Man (1964) and predicted almost everything about modern consumer society. The 1960s students who read it calle...
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