Archive - Compact’s Substack

May 2025

The Californian Ideology in Ruins

Stray thoughts inspired by Richard Barbrook

May 30 •

Geoff Shullenberger

Right-Wing Victim Power

How Orlando Reade gets Girard wrong

May 23 •

Geoff Shullenberger

On ‘Attention Capitalism’

Chris Hayes’s ‘The Sirens’ Call’ and the limits of tech criticism

May 16 •

Geoff Shullenberger

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 3): The Trans-ing of the Political Subject

COMPACT's Blame Theory podcast

May 15 •

Geoff Shullenberger

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The Prospects of Anti-Woke Capital

On Jennifer C. Pan’s ‘Selling Social Justice’

May 9 •

Geoff Shullenberger

Cronenberg Beyond the Grave

A few thoughts on ‘The Shrouds’

May 2 •

Geoff Shullenberger

April 2025

The Covert Theology of ChatGPT

From Plato to Barthes to Sam Altman

Apr 25 •

Geoff Shullenberger

From the War on Terror to the War on Covid—and Back Again

Meet the new state of exception, same as the old state of exception

Apr 18 •

Geoff Shullenberger

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