Michael PetrucelliMar 18, 20204 min readThe Devil Told Us His Name“Faust: What is your name? Mephistopheles: The question seems but cheap From one who for the Word has such contempt, Who from all outward...
Michael PetrucelliMar 16, 20206 min readUbi Nunc, Destructive Man?The destructive character, according to Benjamin, has no need for solitude, instead, he is desirous of one thing, witnesses. He does not...
Michael PetrucelliMar 10, 202014 min readThe Present Dystopia: Foucault, False Consciousness, Cinema“The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, unresting jerkiness of Fascist maltreatment. Not...
Michael PetrucelliMar 3, 20205 min readThe "Anti"-PressIt’s too much to have to fight at the same time the dastardy of the enemies of freedom and the blindness of its friends. Jean Paul Marat,...
Michael PetrucelliJan 21, 20209 min readA Dying Culture: What Is LeftI, perhaps did not anticipate that I would end up coming to view this as equal parts a criticism, and discussion of the film. Though,...
Michael PetrucelliJan 19, 202012 min readDeus Ex/Diabolus Ex: The Fake Left Prophets of Spectacle“Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his...
Michael PetrucelliJan 14, 20204 min readNever Sublimated, Never in Submission: A Response to "The Bard of Capitalist Realism"Sean Bonney isn’t dead, He walks the Earth, Like those who came before. The act of sublimation to capital for the spectacle has been...
Michael PetrucelliNov 26, 201920 min readAn Attempt to Answer, "What Is Culture?"A question, that is so simple to ask, and it seems like it should be nearly self-explanatory, after all, we are all living, and breathing...