Regimes of unpaid labour over the Covid-19 pandemic
School closures during the Covid pandemic have placed an added burden on parents to perform...
Capitalism
Weaponising progress
This essay has been updated. Living the values articulated in speech has never been a...
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely...
Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés...
Wokewashing the money cult: ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times
End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and...
Liberal capitalism is dead. Flogging a dead horse fertilises the soil for fascism
From its beginnings out of the European Enlightenment, liberal capitalism was based on a promise...
When Injustice Becomes Law: Towards a Theory of Just Class War
“We’re not starting a class war, we’re ending one.” — Popular union placard For thousands of...
A Penal State of Mind
Australian nationalism promotes the claim of a nation-state united under the Australian flag, but thanks...
Rising Above the Thinking that Created the Climate Crisis
As a clear and present threat to humanity, the climate crisis is far too broad...
Humanity is like an Alzheimer’s patient lost in the forest
A couple of very useful quotes are attributed to Einstein. The first is his definition...
