Each chapter contributes in some fundamental way to the ultimate questions, concepts, problems, or fields within the purvue of TU’s research agenda. theorizing the emerging education and philosophy underground, critical media theory (CMT), ideology critique (including the Left itself), historical interpretation, and even a work on the dialectics of fitness, health, and nutrition. What unifies all these threads? The question concerning who we are and what is the nature of The Good Life.

Book content

Underground Theory and Alternative Education

The Idea of the Neoliberal University: Reflections of a Disenfranchised College Graduate by Ann Snelgrove
The PMC and the Walls That Separate Us From Them: An Extramural Missive on Algorithmic Capital, Recognition Debt, and the New Peasants by Bryce Nance
Don’t Write Like Theory Academics by Catherine Liu
Wage Labor and Jouissance: Why the Left Needs Žižek to Understand Workers by Michael Downs
Mikey for the Classroom by Jennifer Friedlander, Alan Ke, Emilio Esquivel Marquez, Sophie Krop
How to Produce a Radical Subject? Dialectics of a Philosophical Institution of the Common by Michał Rams-Ługowski
Running in the Shadows: Vignettes and Constellations by Bryan Weeks
From The Idea of the University to The Real of the University: Reflections Pointing towards the Possibility of a New Intellectual Life by Cadell Last
The Swoletariat’s Letter to Soft-Bodied Theory Dorks: Dialectics of Fitness by Eamon Radecki
The Soldering of the American Mind by Phillip Shinn

Critical Media Theory

Mnemosyne and the Fate of Capital in the Digital Age: Ammon’s Law, Technology, and The Invisible Revolution by Samuel Loncar
A Letter on Lewis Mumford by Marshall McLuhan
Millennials and Loneliness: McLuhan and Levinas on the Phone by Michael Downs
The Algorithmic Stage: Subjectivization in the Age of the Attention Economy by David McKerracher

Ideology Critique

Difference…As Such by Nick Castellucci
Enjoy Your Trump! Or, How We Learned to Love the Id and Ignore the Superego by Russell Sbriglia
Therapism, Psychoanalysis, and Ideology by Andrew Flores
To Opt for the Bad Side by Nour Hariri
And Yet it Moves: Interpassivity Between the Sheets by Michael Gray
Huey P. Newton, Future Trauma vs. Past Trauma, and the Politics of the Infinite from the Bottom of Society by Sean Mittelstaedt
Is Sex Passé? by Alenka Zupančič

The Left and Its Critique

Identity Politics vs. Class Struggle: What the Bernie Sanders Campaign Revealed by Norman Finkelstein
Living and Dying in a Mad World by Slavoj Žižek
On the Necessity of Talking by Nina Power
Belonging on the Left Today: Or How to Avoid the Dissident Trap by Daniel Tutt
The Vampire Castle is PMC (But PMC Should Not Be Used As An Epithet) by Elton L.K.
Universalist or Identity Politics: Universalist politics or identity-based politics? An important choice to make for a freer, more humane and human-centred social order. by Christine Louis Dit Sully
The Negative Dialectic of Marxism by Chris Cutrone
How the 2020 Lockdown Served Capitalism: The left’s one-sided analyses of the pandemic failed to take account of the system’s need for ever-deepening crises by Ted Reese
Lefter Than Thou: Enjoyment and Discursive Taylorism by David McKerracher
Historical Interpretation and the History of Philosophy

Historical Interpretation and the History of Philosophy

Uncool Britannia: Art and Gentrification in London in the ‘00s by Mike Watson
Totalitarianism or Anarchy? Rethinking Mao’s Cultural Revolution and the Contradictions of “Anti-State” Politics by Tony Chamas
Limiting Us to Freedom by Todd McGowan

Critique, Theory, Philosophy

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich

Transformative Adaptation : Another world is still just possible by Rupert Read, Morgan Phillips

Traumatized : The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

Underground Theory

Virtue Hoarders : The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy by Sigrid Weigel

What Do Men Want? by Nina Power