#magazines

An otherwise unthinkable Hegelian synthesis of Marcuse and MAGA

In other words, liberalism sought, through proceduralism and institutional neutrality, to circumvent conflict over values. For Schmitt, this maneuver concealed the value-laden foundation of the state, which was always defined by a substantive political "decision" in favor of one set of values and against others. This argument would inform Telos's increasingly hostile stance toward the liberal-democratic consensus that prevailed across the West at the end of the Cold War.

Metafilter · EN

I Helped Launch Salon.com 31 Years Ago. Now It’s Dead. It’s the End of an Era.

Laura Miller, one of the co-founders of Salon, reflects on the life and death of the pioneering digital publication.

Slate · EN

The Man Who Risked His Life Mocking the Nazis: Read 96 Issues of His Underground Magazine, Created in Hiding During WWII

The word zine, referring to a homemade magazine not distributed through the normal commercial channels, has a longer history than you might expect. Its earliest recorded uses date from 1946 in the world of pulp magazines, most often of the science-fiction variety. But just a year earlier, as it happens, one of the most historically […]

Open Culture · EN