Jeremiah MorelockJeremiah Morelock

Jeremiah Morelock, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher at the William F. Connell School of Nursing (CSON) at Boston College, where he studies social factors of vaccine hesitancy among adults in the United States, using data from the Vaccination, Health, and Values Survey, which he constructed and disseminated over social media in Fall 2021. He is also the director of RNDS.

“Toward a Socialist Theory of Racism” by Cornel West

*The following essay by Cornel West is reposted from the Race and Ethnicity collection on Eserver.org. **From the website of the full post: “Cornel West is an Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, who serves on the DSA National Political Committee and is a participant in its African-American Commission.” Toward a Socialist Theory … Read more

Adorno – Negative Dialectics: “On the Dialectics of Identity”

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape.  Negative Dialectics Part Two: Negative Dialectics. Concepts and Categories 7. On the Dialectics of Identity Negative dialectics involves interrogating the relations – especially … Read more

Adorno – Negative Dialectics: “‘Logic of Disintegration'”

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape.  Negative Dialectics Part Two: Negative Dialectics. Concepts and Categories 6. “Logic of Disintegration” The notion that our reality is split into two realms … Read more

Adorno – Negative Dialectics: “Relation to Left-Wing Hegelianism”

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape.  Negative Dialectics Part Two: Negative Dialectics. Concepts and Categories 5. Relation to Left-Wing Hegelianism Adorno seems to have gotten some flack for his … Read more

Adorno – Negative Dialectics: “Noncontradictoriness Not To Be Hypostatized”

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape.  Negative Dialectics Part Two: Negative Dialectics. Concepts and Categories 4. Noncontradictoriness Not To Be Hypostatized What makes us so sure that objects conform … Read more

Adorno – Negative Dialectics: “‘Peephole Metaphysics'”

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape.  Negative Dialectics Part Two: Negative Dialectics. Concepts and Categories 3. “Peephole Metaphysics” The way Adorno describes it, coming up with theories that posit … Read more

Adorno – Lecture 10 on Negative Dialectics: “Philosophy and ‘Depth'” (12/9/1965)

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape. In this project I am only covering Adorno’s Lectures 1 – 10 on Negative Dialectics; my summaries of these particular lectures end with … Read more

Adorno – Lecture 9 on Negative Dialectics: “The Element of Speculation” (12/7/1965)

This post is part of my ongoing blogging project called “Critical Theory Down to Earth.” In these posts I provide summaries of and brief reflections on writings throughout the wider critical theory landscape. Despite Adorno’s materialism and his insistence on objects always being larger than their concepts, he also maintains that concepts and larger than their … Read more