Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams
This is the first in an ongoing series intended to peel back the glossy facade of ideology and intellectual fancy to show the all-to-human faces of agents of power. It’s […]
Author Archives: Patrick jennings
Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
Rojava: patchworking from the Real
The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]
The Horizon of the Absolute
What has mathematics to do with politics; and, by default, with our survival as a species, given the apparently unstoppable acceleration of capitalism, the collapse of a realistic left […]
The Yellow Vests
The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]
Death of the Thinker
Can thought be put in danger? I recently had the experience of encountering that old bogeyman of dogmatic thought while reading a text by someone whose writing I had gotten […]
On Marx and Socialized Nature
I’d like to comment on Edmund Berger’s post on the “ecological” Marx which you can read here. The nub of the issue he raises is summarised in the following: This […]
Terminal Abstraction and the Radically Human
What follows is a response to a point made by David Roden in the post “Against Non-Philosophical Humanism“. I am not critiquing the Post-humanist stance as such, though. I found […]
Struggle Without Fear
Struggle Without Fear by Patrick Jennings 1. This text came about as a comment on Arran’s post “The Ko’an of Extinction”. It is not a critique as much as a […]
