Introducing the 2026-2027 CLiuAnon Syllabus

Plus an update from the Palm Springs School for Social Research

Keep an eye out this week for the announcement of PSSSR’s Emerging Writers Fund. The Fund aims to elevate voices in critical and public discourse by providing editorial guidance and resources. Watch this space here! Applications will close August 20th. More on this soon.

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One of the perks you get from being a paid subscriber to CLiuAnon, is participation in our Critical Theory Seminars. They happen once a month and they are not recorded. We have a lovely group of people who are serious and light-hearted. The seminars are not recorded out of respect for everyone’s privacy and a guarantee for freedom of discussion for me. As some of you might have noted, the attacks come quick and fast when we don’t conform with the official lines of Left/Liberal orthodoxy. The seminars take place weekend mornings at 8 am Pacific Standard Time. We will repeat a few critical texts. Next spring, I will be teaching a graduate seminar called The Frankfurt School at UC Irvine and paid subscribers will have access to that seminar as well.

Links to the Zoom invites and readings will be provided in due course, behind the paywall.

August 22, 2026

Walter Benjamin’s “The Storyteller” and revisiting “Theses on the Philosophy of History”

September 2026

No Seminar because I am on tour for Traumatized!

October 18, 2026

8 am PST

Sigmund Freud, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” (I will be in New York City, so we might stream this meeting as a Substack live from a venue at 12 noon EST)

November 22, 2026

8 am PST

Sigmund Freud, “Moses and Monotheism”

December 19, 2026

8 am PST

Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry”

January 23, 2027

8 am PST

Karl Marx, The German Ideology (excerpts TBA)

February 27, 2027

8 am PST

Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital

March 21, 2027

8 am PST

Detlev Claussen, One Last Genius (excerpts)

April 25, 2027

8 am PST

Theodor Adorno, From the Stars Down to Earth

May 22, 2027

8 am PST

Concluding remarks, presentations by seminar participants