Category: Frankfurt School
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Chameleons or Charlatans: The Art of Reinvention
Six artists. Six art forms. One century. One question: did any of them actually escape the machinery before it sold them back to us?
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Harvey and the Continentals
David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Cultural Spine of Political Economy
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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PIG IRON: Pete and Bernie’s Philosophical Steakhouse
In which Alan Partridge goes to Paris, eats a testicle, and unknowingly demonstrates everything this series has been arguing.
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PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: Walter Benjamin at the Border
In which we set out a potted portrait of Walter Benjamin and his ideas.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 