Cured Quail

28/02/2025

A fine release ...

24/02/2025

Reminder! This Thursday: Cured Quail Vol. 3 Release in Berlin…

For those in Berlin at the end of the month...

05/02/2025

For those in Berlin at the end of the month...

15/01/2025

Henri Simon war lebenslang Klassenkämpfer, aber auf denkbar ungewöhnliche Weise. Am 16. Dezember 2024 starb der französische Marxist im Alter von 102 Jahren.

15/12/2024

"No rewards are too remote for one who prepares for them with patience." (La Bruyère)

Cured Quail Vol. 3 has arrived from the printer!

Preorders start shipping this week.

To order your copy, visit

https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

03/11/2024

While patiently waiting for Vol. 3 to return from the printer, check out Frank Engster's introduction to Kornelia Hafner's "Use-Value Fetishism," which will appear for the first time in English in our latest issue:

An Introduction to Kornelia Hafner’s “Use-Value Fetishism” (1989) Frank Engster For the critique of capitalism, the categories through which Marx traverses in Capital—value and ex…

13/09/2024

Only 5 more preorders needed to send Vol. 3 to the printer! Order your copy today:

https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

In the meantime, below is another preview with a glimpse of Eric-John Russell’s “Platforms of Proletarianization,” an essay that assesses the emaciation of the human senses wrought by these infernal communications platforms.

05/09/2024

We’re mere days away from sending Vol. 3 to the printer!

Preorder your copy now and push us over the edge: https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

In the meantime, check out this preview of coghnorti's “Not Even Wrong: Towards a Critique of Conspiracism,” a surefire highlight of the volume:

16/08/2024

The editorial for Cured Quail Volume 3 is now available:

How to Smile Without Using Your Eyes

https://curedquail.com/How-to-Smile-Without-Using-Your-Eyes

We're like 20 preorders away from sending the volume to print! Carry us to victory by ordering your copy here: https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

12/08/2024

Just published from our upcoming Vol. 3!

Marcel Stoetzler on the status of liberalism today:

The Capitalism of Fools

https://curedquail.com/The-Capitalism-of-Fools

The darkness of the present moment consists just in the fact that we are reduced to hoping that there are still enough liberals who see it in their best interest to crush rather than mollify the fascists.

31/07/2024

Just published online from our second volume!

Ross Wolfe on how abstract art gave sensuous form to the real abstraction at the heart of capitalist society, with attention towards the work of Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian.

Art and Social Reality: Historical Origins of Aesthetic Abstraction

https://curedquail.com/Art-and-Social-Reality

12/07/2024

Yet another banger just published from our upcoming Vol. 3:

The Force of Music: On the Genesis of Social Obedience
by Iris Dankemeyer

“Because the internalized compulsion to work against the threat of disintegration is not decreasing but increasing, bodies without labor are longing to be welded together and integrated. The system of leisure no longer compensates for labor, but effectively replaces it: the DJ acts as a slave driver, the associated sensuality evinces the body’s fitness and willingness to perform. Discomfort at the culturally demanded renunciation of impulse is no longer sublimated, but instead turns into a masochistic desire for direct suppression. Techno fulfills this desire with rhythmic flogging and up to 150 beats per minute.”

https://curedquail.com/The-Force-of-Music

Help bring Vol. 3 to print by preordering your copy here:

https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

28/06/2024

To help build momentum and generate preorders for Vol. 3, we are now intermittently publishing essays from Vol. 2:

For a Dialectical Concept of Culture by Marcel Stoetzler broadly examines why civilization can only fulfill what culture has hitherto only promised in vain, once no one ever goes hungry again.

https://curedquail.com/For-a-Dialectical-Concept-of-Culture

“Culture is the promise of emancipation, square meals and happiness; but then again, culture is garbage.”

Help bring Vol. 3 into a world hardly deserving by preordering your copy here:

https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

15/06/2024

Enough delay. To help generate more preorders to send Vol. 3 to print, we are now publishing a few of the essays online.

The first is a balance sheet on climate catastrophe:

Managing Decline by Jacob Blumenfeld

https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline

"The choice would then no longer be between socialism and barbarism but between inhabitable barbarism and uninhabitable barbarism. […] We are inheriting a broken world, we need to let it down gently. We no longer need to abolish it, since it’s already abolishing itself. Our task in the present and the future is rather to manage its decline."

Help bring the volume into the world by placing a preorder now!

https://curedquail.bigcartel.com/product/cured-quail-volume-3-spring-2024

04/03/2023

"The specific moment of frustration that mutilates individuals today and prevents them from individuation is no longer the family prohibition, but the coldness that increases as the family becomes more riddled with holes."

First English translation of Theodor W. Adorno’s “On the Problem of the Family” (1955)

Endnotes is a communist theoretical journal produced by a discussion group of the same name based in Britain and the US.

03/03/2023

G.M. Tamás (1948-2023).

21/02/2023

Qualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of Work is Necessary Today

by Norbert Trenkle

https://curedquailjournal.wordpress.com/2023/02/21/qualitative-break-why-a-radical-critique-of-work-is-necessary-today/

"The negation of labour, then, is much more than the simple matter of a quantitative reduction in working hours, as proposed, for example, by today’s technological utopians. Rather, the negation of labour is necessarily a qualitative break with all the reified forms of activity that constitute capitalist domination and its social relations—and a necessary precondition for social emancipation itself."

Norbert Trenkle October 13 2022 Translated by John de Plume Originally published at In capitalist society, the compulsion to work is fundamental. To survive in this society we either work for ourse…

06/02/2023

https://www.commonnotions.org/the-self-devouring-society

Everyone can feel that the world is getting angrier. The Self-Devouring Society provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.