An excerpt from “Willing Slaves of Capital” by Frederic Lordon.
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What Makes a Good Book? Kafka’s Letters to a Friend
Reading letters of long-dead thinkers is always a fascinating journey. The literary prowess employed in private conversations with friends may uncomfortably remind many that the last text conversation with their significant other contained 13 emoticons and 3 insincere cases of “lol.” On the other hand, you’d probably quickly tire of unsolicited existential musings via text message.
BuzzFeed Founder Responds to His Marxist Roots, “Lol”
Here’s a story of encouragement for budding cultural critics: if you sell out, you can make millions of dollars by re-purposing your academic work for capitalist consumption. At least, that’s what BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has done.
OKComrade: The Radical Left’s Amazing Answer to OKCupid
If you’ve ever perused OKCupid and been sickened by the masses of bourgeois scum, you’ll be delighted to hear the latest innovation in anti-capitalist dating: OKComrade.
9 Insane Stories from The Lives of Famous Existentialists
Existentialism is a field of philosophy that grapples with human existence and flourished in post-war Europe in the 1940s and 1950s.
Of course, these thinkers of human existence were also dealing with their own. Namely, that their lives were a bizarre shit-storm of mental breakdowns, drug-induced genius and tremendous backlash from the societies they lived in.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism, A Critical-Theory Guide
What to do if Your Friend is a Communist: The Hilarious Wikihow Guide
The more pressing question of our day: what to do with our bourgeois friends?
“Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter,” Interview with Gilles Deleuze
In this interview from 1967 in the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, Deleuze speaks about the legacy of Friedrich Neitzsche.
Jorge Luis Borge’s Self Portrait, Drawn After Becoming Blind
Drawn in the basement of NYC’s Strand Bookstore.
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Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophers [Comic]
Featuring level 5 rogue “Damiens the Regicide” as played by Michel Foucault.