(Notes on Adorno’s “Society.” Dedicated to my friends in the Adornotes reading group, or "Frankfurt School 2." Thank you for keeping me sane this summer!) Society cannot be defined. Adorno tells us that “society” falls under the category of concepts described by Nietzsche whose names denote processes, not objects, and therefore elude definition. In his … Continue reading we live in a society

[Written in the fall of 2018] If the newly discovered W.E.B. Du Bois science-fiction short story “Princess Steel” (published and introduced in 2015 by Adrienne Brown and Britt Rusert) has been dated correctly and was, in fact, written sometime between 1908-1910, this would mean Du Bois had drawn up schematics for a communist supercomputer before … Continue reading FAIRY TALES TOLD BY A COMMUNIST SUPER-COMPUTER