Caffeine from iced coffee and carbonation from Sprite Zero Sugar, yet again. Not great for a banana‑sized stomach, but still better than vodka.
Malarkey for March 14, 2026
Tag: Antonio Gramsci
Pandora’s Box: Hope as Illusion
I learn something new every day. I have Gustavo Horta to thank for sending me back to a story I hadn’t revisited since kindergarten: “Pandora’s Box.”
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Poem: The Monsters and the Absurd
Author’s note: Inspired by the absurd news story of a drunk raccoon.
Gramsci warned us in his Prison Notebooks:
“The old world is dying,
and the new world struggles to be born;
now is the time of monsters.”
Utopian Realism
Marxists Write Poetry, Too.
Theory Isn’t the Only Tool
Karl Marx wrote poetry. So did Joseph Stalin. Mao Zedong as well. Their creative work came before their political and philosophical output. That’s not a coincidence—it’s a pattern. And yet, most Marxist discourse today treats art as secondary, decorative, or indulgent. Why?
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Quotes: Illusions
Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements (Lewis 2018; Hawley 2017; Neiwert 2017; Nagle 2017). This article will explore a distinct, but related, subject: new right wing tendencies within the tech industry itself. Our point of entry will be an improbable document: a German language dissertation submitted by an American to the faculty of social sciences at J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt in 2002. Entitled Aggression in the Life-World, the dissertation aims to describe the role that aggression plays in social integration, or the set of processes that lead individuals in a given society to feel bound to one another. To that end, it offers a “systematic” reinterpretation of Theodor Adorno’s Jargon of Authenticity (1973). It is of interest primarily because of its author: Alexander C. Karp.
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Read More »The Indifferent by Antonio Gramsci
The Indifferent by Antonio Gramsci
I hate the indifferent. I believe, as Frederich Hebbel did, that ‘living means being partisan’. There can’t be men [sic] who are men alone and exist outside of the city. To really live means to be a citizen and to take part. Indifference is abulia, is parasitism, is cowardice. Indifference isn’t life. This is why I hate the indifferent.
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