The world is a business: the messianic capitalism of Arthur Jensen
☛ Network directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Paddy Chayefsky, United-States, 1976, excerpt at 1:34:27. In the script version from January 14, 1976, pp. 125-127. IMDb. [UPDATE–Oct. 8th, 2014] This essay was translated into Persian for the Zamaneh Tribune, hosted by Radio Zamaneh: see “جهان یک تجارت است: سرمایهداریِ مسیحائیِ آرتور جِنسِن”. Founded in 2005, […]
Violence and community: notes on school bullying
☛ Palestine by Joe Sacco, Lake City: Fantagraphics Books, 2001, p. 283. © 2011, Joe Sacco. • • • A teenager commits suicide because he or she was repeatedly bullied at school. The phenomenon is frequent enough to have its own word: “bullycide”, or suicide attributable to bullying (see Bullycide: death at playtime by Neil […]
On Revolt: Kropotkin, Camus, Bataille, Arendt, Žižek
The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake. The will to revolutionary change emerges as an urge, as an “I cannot do it otherwise,” or it is worthless. With regard to Bernard Williams’s distinction between Ought and Must, […]
