Archive - Critical Rory Theory

What is a command?

Or, slave morality and university discourse in the age of planetary annihilation

Apr 23 •

September 2023

Ressentiment and its Vicissitudes

Nietzsche, Benjamin and Wendy Brown on pain, revenge, history and overcoming

Sep 28, 2023 •

January 2023

Capitalism as Religion

Benjamin and Agamben on Christianity's most monstrous parasite

Jan 10, 2023 •

November 2022

Athens to Auschwitz

Thinking the history and future of politics with Agamben

Nov 11, 2022 •

October 2022

'The human being is the cruellest animal'

Reading Freud and Marcuse on civilisation and cruelty

Oct 22, 2022 •

Oedipus, Odysseus, Catastrophe

How can Adorno and Horkheimer's critique of Enlightenment help us think about climate change?

Oct 9, 2022 •

September 2022

Naming and Nietzsche

Putting the blood back into reference

Sep 18, 2022 •

The Jargon of Mental Health

Articulating the need for a new language with which to express our misery through Adorno and Nietzsche

Sep 11, 2022 •

August 2022

Promising Animal, Confessing Animal

Reading Nietzsche and Foucault to ask what kind of animal we are

Aug 22, 2022 •

Reading Kofman Reading Nietzsche

Reading the classic Nietzsche and Metaphor

Aug 21, 2022 •

This is Critical Rory Theory, a newsletter about Nietzsche, critical theory, psychoanalysis, feminism.

Aug 21, 2022 •

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