2 years ago
The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism
Foundations of the Global Theory Industry
Frankfurt School critical theory has been—along with French theory—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. Together, they serve as the common …
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4 years ago
Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics
My article in The Philosophical Salon, “Foucault: The Faux Radical,” has been praised in certain circles for its political clarity, while in others it has generated some heated debate, as …
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4 years ago
Foucault: The Faux Radical
The Radical Recuperator
Ptolemy constructed an inordinately complex model of the universe in order to make all of the empirical data conform to a central, organizing false assumption, namely, that …
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5 years ago
The Failure of the French Intelligentsia? Intellectuals and Uprisings in the Case of the Yellow Vests
One of the largest grassroots social movements in recent history has overtaken France and extended beyond its borders. Like all mass movements, it is multiform and dynamic. Although there are …
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8 years ago
The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left
It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized …
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8 years ago
Is Censorship Proof of Art’s Political Power?
Crews of chisel-bearing operatives were hired to hammer out the auspicious image of Lenin — symbolically gripping the hands of an African-American and a Russian soldier and workers — from …
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