We Don't Agree

I know this is six years late to the Mutual Exchange Symposium on markets and planning, but I finally grasped the words to describe an intuition I've long had on the question of planning.

In response to various cultural and electoral victories over the last couple months, we've seen people declare that "Woke 2" is now a thing.

heroImage Once again I write within the context of unfolding events, this time geopolitical, to make a deeper theoretical point that includes predictions about the future.

They're so thoroughly hypnotized by the short-term victory of global capitalism that they can't surf the new paradigm, look to the longer term. – Charles Stross, Accelerando One obvious role for a radical intellectual is to do precisely that: look at those

In the last few years there’s been a spate of articles published about Curtis Yarvin in left or left of center outlets.

One doomer sentiment I’ve seen floating around my Bluesky feeds in the last couple days is that the current moves by the Trump regime are part of some 4D chess to trick people into protesting against him so he can unleash a violent crackdown that places h…

When it comes to the presentation of radical aesthetics in any sort of media, both mainstream and niche, Leftist intellectuals tend to dismiss it as trickery and subterfuge.

I, like I’m sure many of you, have spent the last couple days swinging from outright despair to mild anxiety and concern.

As a project, anti-capitalism has seen immense intellectual energy expended in its name.

Formatted as a zine for reading.

It’s been a mainstay of the radical left for a long time to blame the lack of radical activity by whatever particular collective subject they believe to have potential on some sort of capitalist subterfuge.