Elliot Swain·Mar 20, 2022A Critical ‘Phenomenology’ of the Object: Adorno’s Radical Critique and the Experience of ArtA review of T.W. Adorno’s core critical project, with attention to the relationship between form and content in his aesthetic theory.
Elliot Swain·Mar 17, 2022How to Do DeconstructionA short beginner’s guide to the elite tier of academic writing
Elliot Swain·Mar 16, 2022“Democratic Socialism” is RedundantA brief note on the primacy of democracy — properly understood — for socialism.A response icon1A response icon1
Elliot Swain·Nov 16, 2021Why Palestine?A good faith attempt to answer a question often, but not always, posed in bad faith: why focus so specifically on the problems of a tiny…
Elliot Swain·Nov 14, 2021Why I Think Foucault Is Basically Entirely Wrong and BadFirst point of order before I say why Foucault himself is wrong and bad.A response icon6A response icon6
Elliot Swain·Sep 14, 20216 Is the Number of Met Gala 2021 Costumes I Could Analyze and Do Jokes About Before I Stopped…But before that latter moment, I think my listicle’s about as witty and insightful as it gets within this particular sub-subgenre.
Elliot Swain·Sep 6, 2021Hard SoundPart I: Embodiment and the Challenge of Avant-Garde MusicA response icon1A response icon1
Elliot Swain·Aug 13, 2021What Did Friedrich Nietzsche Believe?A flawed, personal, not-so-scholarly recitation of one of the strangest, most menacing and beautiful stories in philosophical history.A response icon2A response icon2
Elliot Swain·Nov 27, 2020Against Leftist Anti-Intellectualism: A Defense of TheoryAmong members of the anti-capitalist Left, few types are treated with such suspicion as the intellectual or academic. Even leftists who…
