...addition to communicating some meaning, creates or alters states of affairs. "To accomplish an enunciation," Lazzarato continues, "always means asserting power over extralinguistic constituents that are at once somatic, ethological,...
...it’s an admission that nobody comes out ahead under that system, which is why you need actual consumer goods to fill the gap it creates. But by playing it up—this...
...calculating calm, sacrificing one population for the safety of another (and of our troops, with all those Communist dominoes falling around them). Two young American colonels, under perfunctory orders to...
...their ideology to the world. America’s soft power, for example, played an integral role during the Cold War, when Hollywood movies helped cast American values in a glamorous light —...
...life in the halls of power, responding to its demands and playing by its insular rules. No matter the outcome of the negotiations, one thing is new: Santos has suddenly...
...Weber understood -- wealth was a function of political power and violence, and political violence and power a function of wealth. But that’s exactly my point: fascism is about suppressing...
...Syria would or will be face-saving demonstrations of power, rather than instrumental interventions. Everyone knows that the United States cannot control the outcome of the Syrian civil war, even the...
...ground for world historical processes of capital and modernity, and a vantage point from which to gaze back upon the West and deconstruct broader systems of power, including that of...
...from the power structures that have chewed up momentary desire and repurposed it as a means of keeping capital in the right hands. In heteronormcore, the dad figure is at...
...closely and deconstructed its underlying logic, I’ve found a set of problematic assumptions. The assumption that identity is biological, and that characteristics like gender and race can be read from...
...the prestige economy; their stamp of approval intrinsically bound in the URL under which they operate. If artists have .art at then end of their URL, their work could, in...
...down Is Anyone Up for good. The site's URL redirected to a long essay from Moore on anti-bullying site Bullyville.com explaining that he'd gotten tired of reporting all the underaged...