Category: L.E. Haywood
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Queer Marx and the Assimilatory Machine of Capital
“[…] in its blind, unrestrainable passion, its werewolf hunger for surplus labor, capital oversteps not only the moral, but even the merely physical maximum bounds of the working day. […] It is not the normal maintenance of the labor power which is to determine the limits of the working day; it is the greatest possible…
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Revolutionary Feminism Now
“[…] it is difficult not to be dispirited by the enormous reluctance women have shown historically to prosecute their struggle with sufficient ruthlessness and aggression. The left tends to be evasive about the numbing violence intrinsic to revolutionary war, and feminism is often particularly fastidious in this respect, even reverting to absurd mystical and Ghandian…
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Virtual Consciousness: Lukács in the Modern Era
Class consciousness is a vital, but deeply misunderstood idea for the left. Many leftists today still conceive of class consciousness as an individualist descriptor for how much a particular individual is aware of their own oppression by bourgeois society. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Algorithmic Deification
[…] ideology reifies. Ideology turns what is always a process of becoming — which is open-ended and therefore changeable — into something that is fixed and permanent. That’s what reification is. And, of course, that’s crucial. That’s the very purpose of ideology. The very purpose of ideology is to close off the possibility that anything…
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Virtual Topology and the Gothic Flatline
The virtual has previously been characterized by this collective as spacial, but in recent weeks this has had to be re-evaluated. To characterize the virtual as a space in which people gather, with defined boundaries and borders is to fall into the exact thinking promoted by virtual control mechanisms. This narrative of the virtual as…
the simulated collective 