Sick and Tired
January 16, 2024
Attachment to the ideal of resilience only maintains a world which demands it.
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He has written for the Guardian, The Nation, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. His new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in February 2024.
The Extractive Circuit
The machinery—the actual form and function—of twenty-first-century capitalism is an extractive circuit which quite literally crisscrosses the world. Its global value chains stretch through physical infrastructure and “frictionless” financial flows at the speed allowed by ...
Left-Wing Hypomania
December 7, 2020
There is perhaps no more American expression than “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” The political versions of this aphorism range from the barbaric dictate that you should never criticize unless you have a prepackaged “solution” to ...
We’re Not in This Together
There is no universal politics of climate change.
The Amazon Drama
March 15, 2019
The Amazon HQ2 story is a microcosm of twenty-first century capitalism and a parable about the changing nature of left politics.