Same As It Ever Was: The Ilusion of American Political Discourse In Media
“It’s all the same, only the names will changeEvery day, it seems we’re wastin’ away..”-Wanted Dead or Alive, Bon Jovi I never in my life…
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Wonka in Simulacraland
This month’s internet obsession was Willy’s Chocolate Experience,[1] a thinly-veiled rip-off of the ‘Wonkaverse’, the loosely-connected cinematic universe based on Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie…
On the So-Called “Capitalist Mode of Production”
In an earlier entry in Sublation Magazine, the first part of this argument, we discussed the contradictory identity of the commodity-form, which manifests in everyday…
Mindless Markets, Private Taxes, & Liberalism’s Failure Modes
That citizens are burdened by vast “private taxes” reveals just how diseased American democracy is. Private-sector predation is so bad that “economic cancers” can out-tax…
Non-Privative Negativity
From time to time, a strange and engulfing darkness sweeps across academia. Not one that stands dark simply in contrast to the wonders of Enlightenment,……...
Poor Things and Elon Musk’s Dream
The new movie "Poor Things" by the renown director Yorgos Lanthimos might just be Elon Musk's dream.