wrote an article on Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance cos I wasn't seeing much criticism that knew the history analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/p...

ah ty mf

Just came back from The Hague, where I admired Vermeer's "View of Delft". Proust had Bergotte die in front of this painting during an artistic epiphany caused by "le petit
pan de mur jaune". There are many theories about which little yellow wall he had in mind. I'm convinced it's this one.

poem

great piece

didn';t think much of the Losurdo Stalin book substack.com/home/post/p-...

available now from the publisher that brought you the toad tunnel www.marrowbone.ie/shop

v proud of this title. thanks to the heads @ fallow

Just arrived the first issue of fallow magazine: poetry, essays and fiction; Chris Beausang, Helen Charman, Ellen Dillon, Oisín Fagan, Greg Gerke, Eva Griffin, Patrick Nathan, Wayne Koestenbaum & Rhian Sasseen. Interviews with Pascale Sardin and Gabriel Josipovici. fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-01

logging off permanently to make use of this book to raise child in Irish language (zero contradiction with my remaining on goodreads letterboxd substack etc) be good, love yous all xxxx

Feel like people in Europe and elsewhere aren’t making a big enough deal of the fact that we’re soon gonna have a US-free social media, it’s like everything we’ve ever hoped for 🥲

no my purpose is to annoy you specifically

the spectacular tendencies will also be unevenly distributed (especially for those living in places not premised an idiotically wasteful irrigation projects)

also as well as a 'shoot the messenger' tendency of the type you saw during covid for those who said this thing has causes and can be mitigated

Guy Debord on suburbia and manufactured ignorance

review of Losurdo's hatchet jobof European intellectual history, which looks like fun. Reading i) Perry Anderson as a Trotskyist and ii) Trotsky as a centrist esp. on the war seem off the mark marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2190...

MCKINSEY (2004)
Al McKinsey (Liam Neeson), founder of the eponymous consulting firm, receives a huge grant to study sexual behavior in the human male. Years later, he publishes a report finding that more $ is needed to determine whether sex is real, and whether babies do not in fact come from storks

Piece of ash from right outside my back door in Glassell Park. Only clear words are “platonists” and “Swedenborg”

A quick translation of the interview for the curious:

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Interview with Malachy McGurran, leading figure of the Official IRA, in the paper of the trotskyist Ligue Communiste [Rouge, 11th March 1972]

"For us the development of the revolutionary struggle in England and Europe is complementary to the struggle we are waging in Ireland."

Angelus Novus ass cactus

insinuatingly threatening emails about the need to secure your career against AI by upskilling from a company that makes > half their money from rent-seeking

Guy who's only read Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini voice:

"Getting a lot of Marxist Dependency Theory and theories of superexploitation vibes off this."