Critical Theory
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Excerpt from Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom
On the correlating rise of capitalism and individualism: “All human relationships were poisoned by the fierce life-and-death struggle for the maintenance of power and wealth. Solidarity with one’s fellow men...
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A Note on Open Access
I recently came across a text, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety, that like far too many scholarly texts is far overpriced. The book is $180 and the eBook is...
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Capitalism and Violence-Customs
There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all...
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Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in...