Buridan’s Internet
Buridan’s ass would doubtless have hated the internet. The same old blues, he’d think, multiplied infinitely. Or perhaps, and this is the bet every […]
Month: April 2019
Demystifying Pareto optimization: neoliberalism notes 4
“His belief in man’s freedom of thought and action, whether in the marketplace, in the press or in the university lecture halls remained unshaken till […]
On an image in W.G. Sebald’s Vertigo: neoliberalism notes 3
One of Foucault’s most ingenious lightning strokes comes at the beginning of the essay with a name like a telegram from the Hotel Abyss: Nietzsche, […]
The Hunter Plot: from Fenimore Cooper to the Business School
Because it seems to me that the things in Cooper that make one so savage, when one compares them with actuality, are perhaps, when one […]
Neoliberalism notes 2: the ideological hole
We – denizens trapped in this world – are clearly in an alt-right moment. Just this week: Andrew Scheer, the conservative party candidate for […]