My Twisted World is not a manifesto, it is a bildungsroman.| mcrumps blog
Last night a U.S. airstrike killed General Qassim Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations. A literal political assassination of a state military target, the attack is an unprecedented escalation of hostilities against Iran. In the aftermath of the event the U.S. mainstream media, the major newspapers and … Continue reading Iran War Notes→| mcrumps blog
I theorize about the incels, but how can one treat them?| mcrumps blog
From the Crumplar-Žižek correspondence.| mcrumps blog
Based Deleuze is an attempt to use Deleuze’s philosophy to retroactively justify various right-wing opinions, inclinations, and prejudices that Justin and his online audience happen to hold.| mcrumps blog
Roman Polanski did all that bad stuff, Harvey Weinstein did all that bad stuff, and Quentin Tarantino would be kidding us all were he to moralize about it.| mcrumps blog
I’ve been getting more interested in Badiou lately—I bought and have been reading “Theory of the Subject,” casually, or at least as casually as one can read such a book. What is good about Badiou is that he offers a real revolutionary lucidity; he doesn’t get led astray in the sense that the so-called “crypto-fascist” … Continue reading Talking Badiou, Borders, and Bernie→| mcrumps blog
I’ve been taking a little break from Twitter lately, which has been very nice. So far it’s been going on for about a week and a half. It was difficult at first because I kept feeling like I wanted to check what was going on, instinctively, every moment I was bored. When you expect the … Continue reading A Quick Break from It All→| mcrumps blog
It should go without saying that this sort of truth—about a collective—is well outside the range of psychoanalysis. The truth of these observations are so mundane as to be banal.| mcrumps blog
“follow him”—the poem Jenny Zhang published in Buzzfeed that kinda made it sound like she had been sexually harassed by “@PissPigGranddad” back in August 2017. This poem describes the l…| mcrumps blog