Welcome to Waypoint, David McKerracher’s first book. Published under the online alias “Theory Pleeb,” this is a work that gathers together essential essays published in academic journals, blog posts, and previously unpublished writings.
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Prefacacknolwedgements – 2021
This is the preface to David McKerracher AKA Theory Pleeb’s first book: Waypoint. Here you will discover the what, when, why, and how of Waypoint. This work introduces and develops a variety of topics that are key to Dave’s thought.
INTRODUCTION: Difficult prose, structural stultification, and psychological gerrymandering – 2020
To whom is this book written? Because I’ve worked in a variety of organizations that have sought to organize and
Chapter One: A justification of reading on hard mode (via Heidegger’s Being and Time) – 2016
What follows is the original abstract to the version published (under a different name) in Res Cogitans: It seems that
Chapter Two: Virtual Enframing: Heidegger, Levinas, and critical media theory – 2017
What follows is the original abstract to the version published in Stance under a different name in April, 2017: Sherry
Chapter Three: TIMENERGY: An Existential Phenomenology of Labor Power (Heidegger and Marx) – 2017-2018
Anyone who has followed much of my work at all, or talked to me about my research, will know that
Chapter Four: Culture War Critique – 2018
Contrary to one frequently expressed popular opinion, the culture war seen online is not at all “only an online thing”—it
Chapter Five: On the construction of a viral meme – 2018
“Hey Dave.” I turned to see one of my students had stayed in the room as everyone filtered out. He
Chapter Six: How the Anti-SJW Industry Exploits Ressentiment – 2018
For reasons never disclosed, Zero Books first accepted a bunch of submitted papers to publish in an anthology for the
Chapter Seven: Cancel Culture and The Vampire Castle – 2019
Introduction: Do we have to do this? This is such a tired topic, can we just not? If you listen
Chapter Eight: Perpetual Immaturity and Structural Stultification – 2019
I. The Purportedly Progressive Post-Enlightenment Administrative Elite and its discontents There was a time when the progressive establishment purported to
AFTERWORD: Read this before using “timenergy.” – 2021
As far as the theory I’m developing goes, “timenergy” has been the central concept. It has come a long way