Archive - Moloch Theory

Rationality is not maturity

A critical reply to Catherine Liu's Doomscroll Interview

Jun 11 •

Matthew Stanley

May 2025

April 2025

Practical Freedom

How the assertion of freedom undermines freedom

Apr 30 •

Matthew Stanley

Why Class Analysis isn't Enough

On downwardly mobile managers and consumption

Apr 23 •

Matthew Stanley

Waving your flag in the void

The urgent need to withhold our love

Apr 9 •

Matthew Stanley

Capitalism after Capitalists

What James Burnham Got Wrong

Apr 7 •

Matthew Stanley

March 2025

The Intelligence Arms Race

Moloch's pursuit of intelligence for its own sake

Mar 10 •

Matthew Stanley

February 2025

Medicare for All is a Bailout for the Food Industry

On the difference between health and healthcare

Feb 21 •

Matthew Stanley

Capital's Biological Bubble

Biopolitical institutions run on the very Life they cannot produce

Feb 12 •

Matthew Stanley

January 2025

How institutions reproduce

A malign substitution and the exploitation of failure

Jan 29 •

Matthew Stanley

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