David McKerracher

David McKerracher is a philosopher, writer, farmer, and organizer, and the founder of Theory Underground. His background is in continental theory, existentialism, and phenomenology. He developed the concept of timenergy, a technical concept for reliably repeatable large blocks of time-with-energy available in a community, and argues that timenergy is a necessary condition for the good life.

He is the author of Timenergy: Why You Have No Time or Energy, with a foreword by Slavoj Zizek, and Waypoint: Timenergy, Critical Media Theory, and Culture War. He is editor-in-chief of the Underground Theory anthology series, including Underground Theory Volume 1, Underground Theory Volume 2, and Underground Theory Volume 3. His forthcoming book is Castration Culture.

He runs McKerracher Family Farm, a certified organic, no-till market farm in North Idaho, and is developing Canon: TCG, a liberal arts trading card game. Theory Underground serves workers with earbuds getting into big ideas and rigorous thinking who seek to change their lives and the world.

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A Worker With Earbuds

David McKerracher

David McKerracher
David with his son, earbuds in, at the chicken tractor
David and Ann at the McKerracher Family Farm market stand
David reading in the field at the farm
David holding his sleeping son
The McKerracher family at the farm market stand
David, Ann, and their son at the playground

David McKerracher (M.A.) is the founder of Theory Underground: Thoughts at Work, where he pioneers the future of work and learning, bridging the life of the mind with the work of the hands at the foundations of life. His base of operations is at McKerracher Family Farm, a small, regenerative family farm in North Idaho, where he and his wife Ann are the second generation, starting the third with their newborn son. His research focuses are in critique of political economy, existential phenomenology, and socioanalysis (“through and beyond Marx, Heidegger, and Bourdieu!”). He is the author of Timenergy: Why You Have No Time or Energy (foreword by Slavoj Žižek) and Waypoint: Timenergy, Critical Media Theory, and Culture War, and Castration Culture (forthcoming). McKerracher leads an ongoing seminar, as well as workshops, for members at Theory Underground. He is the Editor-in-chief of Underground Theory and is currently developing Canon: The Liberal Arts Trading Card Game (Canon: TCG).

The Platform
Theory UndergroundThe TU Membership SubstackEssays YouTubeLectures
In Development
Canon: TCGCards
Socials
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The Books
TimenergyAmazon WaypointAmazon Castration CultureForthcoming
Editor-in-chief
Underground TheoryVolume 1 Underground TheoryVolume 2 Underground TheoryComing Soon Blocked by AmazonKirk Anthology
Upcoming Events
TUCON / CANONFESTEnlist
Past Events
American Idiots Tour
Highgate, Marx's grave
Ljubljana
Opening the Agora tour
Zizek talk
Glasgow
Tour Zero USA 2023
Tour group
Tour talk
Cultivating Potential, Vancouver
Vancouver
With Joel Salatin
Power Resistance Control live podcast
The Big Dipper, Spokane
Farm event
TUCON
TUCON
Farmers market
TU Retreat
TUCON gathering
TUCON stage
Canon: TCG playtest events
TUCON build crew
TUCON campfire
Memory highlights
Farm event
At the lake
Miscellaneous
RecipesNatality@MFF
the future of work at the foundations of life