Prometeo

Though an attractive proposition, the price of conceptual harmony is a homogeneity of observation as easily at home in a peer-reviewed journal as it is in a Venmo payment. Irrationality is reduced to all that is implicit in human activity, whereas the rational is simply its opposite, just as commensurable. From the perspective of the damaged, hypostasizing this relationship is the last error that can be made between the realms. The individual and the extant social system ultimately appear as an unrealized norm, a question of empowerment through the right kind of ‘praxis’. The problematic of the mental health-minded activist becomes: how can we change the world if we are so affected by it?

The New Parochialism - Cured Quail

Calls to reopen the economy in the face of grave danger to life are not simply irrational outbursts of corona skeptics who worship the death drive. They are authentic expressions of a collective wish to sacrifice oneself for the abstraction that gives us all life, the subjectless subject of our world, the only real community any of us have left on this compromised planet — the community of capital. It is not people who give you jobs, pay your bills, feed you, teach you — it is the soft hand of capital. There are no more prophets, no more vessels of the divine in earthly garb — but there is a voice that speaks through us, a voice that guides us even in the most inner parts of our soul. That voice of conscience is not god, or the superego, or the father — it is the mutilated screams of a billion price signals telling your synapses when to fire. You can’t call it identification with the aggressor when the aggressor is normality itself.

Normality is Death In Autumn 1944, amidst abominable horrors occurring in Europe, Theodor Adorno penned the following paragraph, later to be included in Minima Moralia in a section called “Out of the Firing-Line”

Great review of the new AngryWorkers book.

Class Power on Zero-Hours AngryWorkers want you to build an international revolutionary organization guided by the axiom “the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves,” and they have a plan.

New piece by one of our favorite groups.

Covid-19 and Harvest-20| Covid-19 and Harvest-20 That the profession of farmer is in principle a precarious and arduous affair is something borne out by almost any news story on agriculture. As suppliers of raw materials for the food industry, a successful branch of capitalist production, farmers have to invest huge sums of...

Another great testimonial from Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life. Part of an ongoing series.

HARD CRACKERS- "An Incredible Catch-22": An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis HC: Tell us what you do for work. I am an emergency department nurse in Oregon. HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people who are neglected in every other way. Although we don’t really have resources to help peopl...