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Speeding Through Capitalism to What Comes Next—Left and Right Variants
Blackness, Social Death, and the Constitutive Outside of Humanity
Estrangement, Objectification, and the Loss of Human Essence Under Capitalism
Life, Population, and the Politics of Power Over Bodies
It's Easier to Imagine the End of the World than the End of Capitalism
Contradiction, Negation, and the Method of Critical Thought
How Gender is Constituted Through Repeated Performance, Not Natural Expression
Lost Futures, Cultural Nostalgia, and the Persistence of What Never Was
Cultural Dominance and Consent in Critical Theory
Massively Distributed Things Like Climate Change That Break Human Scales
False Consciousness, Material Practice, and Systems of Belief
Multiple Oppressions, Interlocking Systems, and the Matrix of Domination
Oscillation, Sincerity, and the Cultural Logic After Postmodernism
Sovereignty, Death, and the Right to Kill in Contemporary Power
Objects Beyond Human Access, Flat Ontology, and Speculative Realism
How the West Constructed the East Through Knowledge and Power
Digital Monopolies, Data Extraction, and the Transformation of Economic Power
How Capitalism and Racism Are Inseparable Systems of Exploitation
When Social Relations Become Things and Human Agency Disappears
The Unwaged Labor of Life-Making Under Capitalism
Behavioral Prediction, Data Extraction, and the Commodification of Experience
Critical Analysis of Mass Culture and Commodification