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Corporate Harm and the Institutionalization of Power Introduction: The Geometry of Personal Grief and Structural Harm On February 5, 2018, an otherwise unremarkable day, approximately… Read More »Writing the Catechism
A Personal Reflection on the Anti-Inversion Principle “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.” -Attributed to the… Read More »The Song That Knew Before I Did
A CHT Analysis of a Viral Monologue Introduction I have curated my social media feeds with some care. The algorithms that govern TikTok and similar… Read More »Finding the Hydra in the Wild: Legality, Morality, and the Algorithm of Power
Through the Lens of Critical Hydra Theory On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a surprise military assault on Iran, assassinating Supreme… Read More »Analysis of “An Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of America”
An Essay in Critical Hydra Theory “The Bad Place isn’t tampering with points; they don’t have to. Because every day, the world gets a little… Read More »Complicity, the Catechism of Apotheosis, and the Cornell Seven
What Matriarchal Feminism Asks of Critical Hydra Theory by Tom Arcaro Companion essay for EWO, the companion volume to Learning to See “Critical consciousness is not a… Read More »The Fifth Wave and the Unfinished Work of Seeing
An Assignment to Accompany Learning to See Assignment Overview In Chapter 20 of Learning to See, we consider the distance between the ideal and the real: the… Read More »The Gap Between the Ideal and the Real
Purpose of the Assignment Practices that appear normal from inside a culture can look strange, contradictory, or indefensible to an outsider. Horace Miner famously used… Read More »Explaining Earth to a Martian: Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and the Architecture of Our Contradictions
Hind Rajab, Don Manuel, the Banality of Evil, and the Burden of Teaching Students to See by Tom Arcaro A Companion Essay for Learning to See… Read More »WHY WAKE THEM?
Draft Chapter for: Critical Hydra Theory and Elite Deviance: Power, Privilege, and the Lie of Civilization Tom Arcaro | August 2026 “In war, truth is… Read More »TO EXIST IS TO RESIST: STATE CRIME, NARRATIVE CONTROL, AND THE SEMANTICS OF “TERRORISM”
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