Research
Briefs

Marx

Critique of Political Economy Central. Scholarly research briefs on Marxian theory: Capital Volumes I, II, and III and the Grundrisse, culminating in a master reference synthesis document.

Nietzsche

Genealogy, the will to power, and the revaluation of all values.

Heidegger

Being and time, technology, and the question of dwelling.

McLuhan

The medium is the message; media as the extensions of man.

Levinas

The face of the Other and ethics as first philosophy.

Arendt

Action, natality, and the human condition of plurality.

Lacan

The mirror stage, the symbolic order, and the subject of the unconscious.

Foucault

Power/knowledge, discipline, biopolitics, and the care of the self.

Illich

Conviviality, deschooling, and the critique of institutions.

Bourdieu

Habitus, field, and the forms of capital.

Ellul

Technique, propaganda, and the technological society.

Deleuze

Difference, repetition, and the logic of assemblages.

Irigaray

Sexual difference and the critique of phallogocentrism.

Virilio

Dromology and the logistics of perception: speed, war, the accident, and the aesthetics of disappearance — seventeen book briefs and a master reference.

Baudrillard

Sign-value, simulation, and symbolic exchange: from the critique of consumption to the hyperreal and the perfect crime — nine book briefs and a master reference.

Žižek

Ideology, the Real, and Hegel read through Lacan.

Land

Accelerationism, capital, and the outside.

Berry

Agrarianism, membership, and the unsettling of America.

Postman

Media ecology, technopoly, and amusing ourselves to death.

MacIntyre

Virtue, tradition, and the argument of After Virtue.

Harrington

The other America and the moral case against poverty.