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Hip, Woke, Square: Postscript on Mailer

“Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”?

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Mimetic Theory Technology The Left The Outside The Right Theory Theory of the Outside

Mimetic Acceleration and Capitalist Hyperintelligence

On Accelerationism and Mimetic Theory

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Right Marcuseanism

Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” is often cited as the progenitor of the censorious left, but its real ideological heirs are now on the right.