_Mistaken Identity_ is Asad Haider’s pithy reflection on the various ways that race and class can be leveraged in service of both authoritarian and emancipatory political projects.
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In _The Abuse of Property_ @danielloick.bsky.social asks how we might interact with things and other people outside of the alienating logics of property that so commonly structure our connections.
While we generally consider forgetting to be an individual annoyance (currently missing my car keys), Henry Giroux’s _The Violence of Organized Forgetting_ reminds us that remembering and forgetting are social acts that can’t be separated from the exercise and reproduction of power.
While much of the Frankfurt School canon is, once again, distressingly relevant, I particularly like this collection of Herbert Marcuse’s essays for their concision and polemical perspectives on culture, democracy, and capitalism.
More Frankfurt and Frankfurt-adjacent stuff: Bertolt Brecht’s collected poems and Löwy’s helpful gloss on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Both incredibly evocative reckonings with history, politics, mourning, and redemption.
What would cooperation look like across politics, economics, and broader society? And how would this differ from the status quo of liberal democracy? These are the questions at play in Bernard Harcourt’s _Cooperation_
Byung-Chul Han reconsiders power in the present age of media, tech, and Big Data, paying particular attention to how the human psyche is implicated in the struggle for freedom.
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