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Book cover of "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" by Caroline Fraser. The design features a monochrome photo of a man's face—partially obscured—with a superimposed industrial landscape and plume of smoke, blending the imagery of a serial killer with a polluted, foreboding environment. The title is in bold yellow text at the top, and the author's name appears at the bottom in yellow, noting her as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Prairie Fires".

The Crazy Wall

Caroline Fraser’s Murderland dismantles the voyeurism of true crime by tracing serial murder not to aberrant monsters but to the poisoned infrastructures, institutional apathy, and cultural amnesia that made their violence possible.

Adam Scott as Mark Scout in Severed

We’re all already severed

Watching Severance, I couldn’t help wondering if we’re already living it, split between the person we are at work and who we are the rest of the time, with capitalism quietly stealing the best parts of us.

Another Tool of Exploitation

The rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) isn’t a step toward human progress, it’s a weapon for capital, designed to intensify exploitation, erase jobs, and cement the power of the dominant class.

Four Just Stop Oil supporters

The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Eco-Socialist Revolutionary

Decades of incremental climate action have utterly failed to spur the urgent systemic transformation needed to address the worsening climate crisis. Therefore, radical eco-socialist change involving confrontational civil disobedience targeting the continued use of fossil fuels may now be the only morally justifiable pathway left to break the stranglehold of capitalism and give humanity a chance at a livable future.

Time in the Age of Hyper-Capitalism

Exploring the interwoven fates of the worker and the capitalist, this piece delves into the consequences of hyper-capitalism, the blurring of work and life, and the potential for liberation through the fracturing of capitalist time.

Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Fear AI, Fear Capitalism

As we march towards an era of technological innovation, driven by artificial intelligence, it’s easy to be fearful of the machines. But the real threat isn’t the AI itself; it’s the system that created and manipulates it for its own gain. Capitalism, with its insatiable hunger for wealth and power, poses the greatest danger to humanity.