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relocating political decisions to the legal level

[...] relocating political (and economic) decisions to the 'legal' level is an effective way of removing them from popular control. This has made the juridical sphere the perfect vessel for the implementation of austerity politics. By mandating austerity at a legal level, economic decisions can t...

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen Against Law-sterity (49) by Robert Knox

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the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

There are those for whom such apophatic Marxist eschatology is dereliction.

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville

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Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks? by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

I miss you by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

The Essentials of Socialist Writing by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Digital Proudhonism by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

An interview with Thomas Piketty LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower - New Socialist

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Citizen Thiel by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Plenty in an age of scarcity by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

What has happened to Britain's ruling class? by Richard Seymour - Patreon

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Preface by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Little expressionless animals by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Disrupt the Citizen by n+1 - Bottoms Up

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Democracy fatigue by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Big Red Son by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Africa's Leaky Giant by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

§1 by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

On Satire The Editors - The Point Issue 14

Federer Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

War Games by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Fear Factor by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Available Light - Salvage #5: Contractions

The Power of a Dollar by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

The neoliberal revolution by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

Project Runway How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

What if you held a protest and everyone came? by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Chapter Two by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

The Cleric of Treason by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor by Mary Karr - Lit

The Trump Way by Jacobin - Journey to the Dark Side

Slavery Is Everywhere by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

Chapter 2 by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Book by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Victory Over the Sun by Connor Kilpatrick - Earth, Wind, & Fire

The Undertakers of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub - Failure (Logic #5)

Goodbye, Cold War by Aziz Rana - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

With Strings Attached by Melisa Handl and Susan Spronk - Uneven and Combined

Final Fantasy by James Duesterberg - The Point Issue 14

"I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete by Clare Hayes-Brady - The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace Larry McCaﬀery / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Truth without Correspondence to Reality by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

From Margins to Mainstream by Doug Henwood - Journey to the Dark Side

The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace by Clare Hayes-Brady - Consider David Foster Wallace

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Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position

by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People

by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child

by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well

by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks?

by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love

by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

I miss you

by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore

Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

The Essentials of Socialist Writing

by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker

by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work

by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win

Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’

by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Digital Proudhonism

by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

An interview with Thomas Piketty

LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia

Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'

Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower

- New Socialist

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in

by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Citizen Thiel

by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

Two-Faced

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Plenty in an age of scarcity

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Chasing Utopias

by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason

by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

What has happened to Britain's ruling class?

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Preface

by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Little expressionless animals

by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Disrupt the Citizen

by n+1 - Bottoms Up

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Democracy fatigue

by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Big Red Son

by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids

by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Forever Overhead

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Africa's Leaky Giant

by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing

by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

§1

by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

On Satire

The Editors - The Point Issue 14

Federer Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

War Games

by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Fear Factor

by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style

by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Available Light

- Salvage #5: Contractions

The Power of a Dollar

by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

The neoliberal revolution

by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

Project Runway

How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace

Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

What if you held a protest and everyone came?

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Chapter Two

by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

The Cleric of Treason

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor

by Mary Karr - Lit

The Trump Way

by Jacobin - Journey to the Dark Side

Slavery Is Everywhere

by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

Chapter 2

by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Farther Away

by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Book

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Victory Over the Sun

by Connor Kilpatrick - Earth, Wind, & Fire

The Undertakers of Silicon Valley

by Adrian Daub - Failure (Logic #5)

Goodbye, Cold War

by Aziz Rana - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

With Strings Attached

by Melisa Handl and Susan Spronk - Uneven and Combined

Final Fantasy

by James Duesterberg - The Point Issue 14

"I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete

by Clare Hayes-Brady - The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

E Unibus Pluram

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace

Larry McCaﬀery / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Truth without Correspondence to Reality

by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

From Margins to Mainstream

by Doug Henwood - Journey to the Dark Side

The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace

by Clare Hayes-Brady - Consider David Foster Wallace

Progressive and regressive politics in late neoliberalism

by Donatella della Porta - The Great Regression

The Philanthropy Hustle

by Linsey McGoey - Uneven and Combined

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

by James Wood - The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

The Depressed Person

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything'

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Triumph of the Shill

by Corey Robin - Bottoms Up