Vox Vana

Joseph Randolph
Philosophy
236 pgs.
2024
Paperback

VOX VANA is the shadow to VACUA VITA, a far darker, more resigned meditation on the cultural and spiritual collapse brought on by late capitalism. This "dark book" shifts from critique to the inevitability of apocalypse, dissecting the necropolitical machinery that drives progress, the paradox of infinite growth, and the dynamics of democratic rivalry and cancel culture. There are particularly sharp essays that analyze the meta-grammar of cultural sentiments and attitudes—such as suspicion and envy—through a distinctly Wittgensteinian lens, exploring how these emotions are woven into the very fabric of modern life. VOX VANA offers no redemption—only the relentless, suffocating reality of a world in which capitalism, as a necropolitical force, propels us toward an unsustainable future, ever accelerating toward its own annihilation.