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Theorizing genocide in Palestine, Part 2
Gaza as death camp and laboratory →
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Theorizing genocide in Palestine, Part 1
A winding discussion laying down the historical groundwork needed to understand Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. →
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Who Remembers the Palestinians?
A plea. →
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Israel’s Genocide Exposes America’s True Face
America and Israel’s love affair runs deep. How could it not, when each is the mirror image of the other? →
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Confronting Zionist Rhetoric: A Case Study
An exploration (and thorough debunking) of Zionist rhetoric →
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Two Myths About Israel: How We Justify (Settler) Colonialism
Given the ongoing events in Israel-Palestine, I wanted to take a moment to provide some historical background about the history of the State of Israel and its relationships with Palestinians and Jewish people both. To that end, this piece tackles two popular mythologies underpinning the Israeli justifications for the horrifying crimes they are committing against… →
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Thoughts on the Fascist and Patriarchic Psyche
Updated version published here. There is no singular unity referred to by the word ‘patriarchy.’ Instead, it consists of innumerable lines of penetration, some discordant with others, but all set against feminine modes of subjectivity made out as inconvenient, abject, or otherwise ‘out of line.’ Penetration is the guarantor of the masculine ego: the sword,… →
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The Body Under Capitalism
“The perpetual penality that traverses all points and supervises every instant in the disciplinary institutions compares, differentiates, hierarchizes, homogenizes, excludes. In short, it normalizes.” Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment The 17th and 18th centuries in Western Europe marked the open of a long series of revolutions in the political economy of the body. In the… →
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Marx and Religious Practice
Given the widespread religiosity of Furman’s student body and throughout the area, I thought it might be of interest to briefly discuss some of Marx’s views on religion. His thought, I think, is helpful in developing a socialist theory of religion that usefully informs how we ought to relate to religion and religious people here… →