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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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).