Creative Destruction as Method

Beyond Schumpeter's capitalist framework, creative destruction can be reclaimed as a deliberate, anti-capitalist practice. This essay explores how the refusal of psychiatric diagnosis, the deconstruction of binary gender, and the unlearning of colonial categories function as acts of Nietzschean destruction—clearing space for new forms of life not from resentment, but from an abundance of possibilities.

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The Politics of Waste: Bataille's Base Materialism

Capitalism defines waste as that which is unproductive: failed subjects, unemployed time, unprofitable bodies. Drawing on Georges Bataille, this piece examines how "bullshit jobs," crip time, and mutual aid networks function as forms of expenditure and base materialism—reclaiming waste as the site of creative and political potential that resists capture.

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Algorithmic Resistance & Beneficial Degradation

In an age of surveillance, privacy is not found in hiding but in overflow. This research explores "data poisoning," "adversarial fashion," and other technologies of refusal. It details the emerging practice of "beneficial degradation"—workers introducing conscious uncertainties into surveillance systems to make them more humane and less efficient at control.

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