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This is a collage of quotations from the works of Peter Gorsen on the function and capacity of pornography in bourgeois society and aesthetics, compiled and introduced by Kerstin Stakemeier.

For armed forces, the group represents more than an element of organizational structures. Military groups are the nucleus of social relations, a driver of soldierly action, and receive a mystifying exaggeration in the concept of »kleine...

The article documents the correspondence between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt between 1952 and 1961.

In their conversation, Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects (2006) and Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), among others, and Jennifer C. Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy (2014), among others, look back at academic debates around pornography...

Raymond Geuss has stood out within Anglophone philosophy for defending a form of radical social critique in dialogue with the history of European social philosophy. His main targets have been political liberalism and analytic moral philosophy, two...

In the secondary literature on Carl Schmitt as well as on the Frankfurt School the political and legal thinker Otto Kirchheimer is described as a forerunner of contemporary Left-Schmittianism. This view is sometimes expanded in the literature to the...

In the contribution of MYSTI, a Berlin-based poet, it is the obscenity of pornography that is unmistakably brought to the fore. But here no critical immorality is salvaged from the pornographic, no deviant desires, but quite the opposite: in I AM...

In an examination of the feminist gangbang film series Ask Me Bang, the article presents a brief history of contemporary pornography for discussion, which it understands as the constant struggle to preserve the morality of women. Women* need to be...

Online pornography forms a ubiquitous part of online culture even as its ready and abundant availability continues to fuel social concerns and campaigns aimed at curbing it. Focusing on the recent campaign of US-based journalist, Nicholas Kristof,...

Monika Rinck begins with the routine of complaints about the genre of poetry, before turning to some counter-examples and the situation of the literary business as a whole. Unsaleability is no more a guarantee of artistic quality than it is proof...

What are the features of reforms that could both change capitalism and avoid those reforms’ usual fate, namely failing? A logic of reforming capitalism provides an answer that is crucial for a pragmatic Left. In search of such a logic I discuss a...