“Any radical thought always adopts the most extreme position of desperation. Simon Weil said, ‘ I do not like those people who warm their hearts with empty hopes’. Thought, for me, is just that: the courage of hopelessness. And is that not the height of optimism?” – Giorgio Agamben As you readers may be well […]
Read More On These Excremental Selves: Subjectivity in the Dialectical Pessimist Key (Pt. 1)The nature of capitalism is to become more horrifying and horror-like in its production, circulation, and realization processes. And the process of this horror is one of increasing dismemberment of not just the body but also of the psyche.
Read More Ethereal Brutality: Dismembered Capitalism and Material HorrorThe driving force behind the analysis being fleshed out and developed on Capillaries: Theory at the Front is an inexhaustible and never-ending engagement with the historical analysis and theorizing of others. While this raw material of study gets turned into the long-form writing on this blog without blatant stating of its sources, it is important to always […]
Read More Anti-imperialism: An Introductory Reading ListThe nightmare of history primarily manifests to us not something to be intellectually grasped but as the persistence of the past through mood, emotion, and feeling. Experiences of the idyllic, nostalgic past provides ideas and images which catalyze moods of contentment or joyful pleasure – they are analgesic.
Read More Recurring Nightmares (Theoretical Inventory Pt. 2)This unspoken, unconscious material stays alive in a way much more akin to the way ghosts and the Otherworldly encroach upon the living. It is there haunting us like a grey wraith that manifests as an absence but hovers, eerily flickering, at the edge of experience. It is almost as if we are possessed by it – acting based on the whims of a mysterious, invisible force that is outside of our perception but inescapably powerful.
Read More The Nightmare of History (Theoretical Inventory Pt. 1)Total warfare. This is what life, our lives, have become. And the necessary response to total war must be pure, unmitigated Horror.
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