This collection of essays traverses economics, politics, philosophy, and anthropology to probe the structures and myths that shape our world: from Afterlife to Anarchism, Fascism to Firm Behaviour, Money to Myth, Technology to Utopia. Author Guido Preparata explores how innovation unsettles institutions, how superstition shadows philosophy, and how power sustains itself through imitation, debt, and belief. Engaging with thinkers like Bataille, Jünger, Veblen, and Steiner, these writings resist academic constructs to map the dynamic, often violent interplay of economic theory, industrial organization, religion, and cultural change. You are invited to rethink the paradigms that govern both everyday life and grand historical shifts.
In alphabetical order. To view by topic, use the links to the right.
The Affaire Moro and Notes for a Reinterpretation of the Cold War and the Nature of Terrorism
With Giuliano Preparata
A Tale of America’s Hegemonic Exigencies Recounted Through the Undulations of the US Balance of Payments (1946–2015)
Pre-Keynesian Heterodoxy in Macro-monetary Dynamics
A Strictly Economic Appreciation of the Chinese Practice of Burning (Token) Money
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
Segment originally excised form the first edition of The Ideology of Tyranny
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
The vision of reformer Silvio Gesell
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded)
The Bills of Exchange of Schacht and Rearmament in the Third Reich
From New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research
Defiance Interpreted through a Veblenian Reformulation of Strain Theory
The Ugly epoch —An Analysis of the 1960-90 Crime Wave
Sparse Reflections on the Heresies of Social Credit
Segment on the striking, prophetic parallels between the plot of Goethe’s Faust II and the early vicissitudes of the Third Reich –this part was excised from the last chapter of the original manuscript of Conjuring Hitler
The ways of our system, an outline, from Bretton Woods to the financial slump of 2008
A Plea for a Regional and Perishable Currency
Meth & North Korea - Blogpost 2017
Heroin, Sovereign Citizens, and Native Americans (Blogpost 2017)
J. M. Keynes’s Plagiarism fo Silvio Gesell’s Monetary Economics
Chapter 8 of New Directions for Catholic Political & Social Research
The Political Economy of Fernando Pessoa
Rudolf Steiner and the Social Economics of an Anarchist Utopia
Review of the Movie Get Out (Blogpost 2017)
How IKEA came to Belie Veblen’s Nordic Idea
Leafing through Sciascia in Search of the Meaning of Society, Power & Conspiracy
Taking Stock of an Anarchistic Dream after 30 Years of Militancy
Drugs and Legalization in the West at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
The Neo-Conservatism of Control Theory and the Ethos of Crime
Final chapter of the revised and expanded edition of The Ideology of Tyranny, Reign of Discursive Terror
Seminal Notions for Construing Modern Societies as (Horrifying) Mechanized Anthems
A Modest Monetary and Organizational Proposal for Re-launching the Economic Welfare of Communities
The Story of a Political Soldier and Elements for the Sociology of Terrorism
The travelogues and twisted science of Thorstein Veblen
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded: Reign of Discursive Terror), second chapter
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded: Reign of Discursive Terror), Chapter 4.
Excerpts from the seventh chapter of The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded: Reign of Discursive Terror)
The New Politology of Eric Wilson
Estratto dal settimo capitolo della nuova edizione di The Ideology of Tyranny (2007, 2011), re-intitotala Reign of Discursive Terror (2025)
The Magical Mystery Tour of Techno-Propaganda into the Realm of Genitalia
The Magical Mystery Tour of Techno-Propaganda into the Realm of Genitalia
From: The Ideology of Tyranny (new and expanded: Reign of Discursive Terro), Ninth (final) Chapter
Bataille, Derrida & the Postmodern Denial of the Gift
