Waypoint: Timenergy, Critical Media Theory, and Culture War: Second Edition: Five Years Later (Unabridged‪)‬

Years before his breakout hit Timenergy, featuring an acclaimed Foreward by Slavoj Žižek, David McKerracher (publishing then as Theory Pleeb) introduced his groundbreaking concept and unique approach in this, his first audiobook. Now, five years after its initial release, this second edition of Waypoint: Timenergy, Critical Media Theory, and Culture War revisits and expands the foundational idea of "timenergy." The opposite of time-without-energy, timenergy is large, energy-infused blocks of repeatable and reliably available time. This concept, discovered at the crossroads of a working class life that came into collision with the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx’s critique of political economy, exposes the limits of a society built on the reduction of human potential to mere labor power.


Drawing on thinkers like Heidegger, Levinas, and Marx, McKerracher charts a path through the wilds of critical media theory—from the alienation of timenergy to the structural conditions of cancel culture. This collection of essays, both academic and polemical, equips worker-theorists and dissident academics with a unique set of critical tools for reclaiming their minds from work and ideology.


In the intervening years, global upheavals from pandemics to political polarizations have only amplified the relevance of this work, making Waypoint more prescient than ever. With a brand-new author's preface, as well as a special reflection by the audiobook’s narrator, this edition invites listeners to revisit the origins of timenergy theory while navigating beyond despair toward spirited resistance and renewal.