Politics After Literacy
Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.
11 Article(s) by: Sam Kriss
Sam Kriss is a writer living in the United Kingdom. He blogs at Idiot Joy Showland.
Conspiracy Theory Is Dead
It’s now impossible to distinguish “conspiracy theories” from the day-to-day hysteria of our era of hyperpolitics.
Trump TV
The mainstream media is playing much the same game as the fake news sites, but they’re losing.
Against Referendums
Referendums give people little say over what happens after the polls close.
Resist Pokémon Go
If Pokémon Go could resemble the best of childhood, it might have some value. What it actually does is very different.
Smash the Force
There was never an Empire; there was never a rebellion; there was only the Force, and it’s evil.
Abandon the Future
If there’s a lesson from Back to the Future Day, it’s that the future can’t save us.
How to Politicize a Tragedy
We must insist on the political nature of tragedy because politics offers the only way out of violence and injustice.
Game of Thrones and the End of Marxist Theory
What would a properly materialist reading of Game of Thrones look like?
Kiev’s Theme Park Revolution
The images of genuine popular self-determination in the streets of Kiev are empty ones.
Empire Down
The player in Age of Empires II doesn’t take on the role of a monarch or a national spirit, but the feudal mode of production itself.