Mike Watson
@mikerwatson.bsky.social
Media and art theorist. PhD Goldsmiths College. Texts for Jacobin, Guardian, Radical Philosophy
Writer/co-founder: revolpress.com
Writer/co-founder: revolpress.com
On the Revol Press substack:
The following text is taken from a conversation between Daniel Tutt and Grady Page, recorded live at Pure Panic Books in Silver Spring, Maryland in November of 2025.
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The following text is taken from a conversation between Daniel Tutt and Grady Page, recorded live at Pure Panic Books in Silver Spring, Maryland in November of 2025.
revolpress.substack.com/p/accelerati...
Left Accelerationsim Failed Us: It's Time to Reclaim 'Folk' Politics
A definition of 'Left Accelerationism' from Daniel Tutt, author of 'How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche'
revolpress.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
On the Revol Press substack:
The following text is taken from a conversation between Daniel Tutt and Grady Page, recorded live at Pure Panic Books in Silver Spring, Maryland in November of 2025.
revolpress.substack.com/p/accelerati...
The following text is taken from a conversation between Daniel Tutt and Grady Page, recorded live at Pure Panic Books in Silver Spring, Maryland in November of 2025.
revolpress.substack.com/p/accelerati...
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@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
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Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."
Reposted by Mike Watson
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.
See the problem?
Rob Faure Walker explores Radical Jung (out 2026 from Revol Press) via the history of the witch trials and a focus on neurodivergence.
'https://revolpress.substack.com/p/a-return-to-dreamings-jung-and-the
'https://revolpress.substack.com/p/a-return-to-dreamings-jung-and-the
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rob Faure Walker explores Radical Jung (out 2026 from Revol Press) via the history of the witch trials and a focus on neurodivergence.
'https://revolpress.substack.com/p/a-return-to-dreamings-jung-and-the
'https://revolpress.substack.com/p/a-return-to-dreamings-jung-and-the
Good policy decision from Vasemmisto (The Left Alliance).
Worth noting for those who see Finland as a left paradise. It has never had a minimum wage! And the cost of living is high!
yle.fi/a/74-20195803
Worth noting for those who see Finland as a left paradise. It has never had a minimum wage! And the cost of living is high!
yle.fi/a/74-20195803
Left Alliance calls for €15 hourly minimum wage
Finland does not have a minimum wage law, as pay is set in collective agreements.
yle.fi
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good policy decision from Vasemmisto (The Left Alliance).
Worth noting for those who see Finland as a left paradise. It has never had a minimum wage! And the cost of living is high!
yle.fi/a/74-20195803
Worth noting for those who see Finland as a left paradise. It has never had a minimum wage! And the cost of living is high!
yle.fi/a/74-20195803
I miss when spreading the message seemed this simple:
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I miss when spreading the message seemed this simple:
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
Revol Press compiled the good, the bad, and the ugly reviews and commentaries on Adam Turl's book 'Gothic Capitalism'.
revolpress.substack.com/p/art-for-ma...
"As Adam’s publishers, we welcome the debate (and disagreement!) these very different reviews of Gothic Capitalism bring to the table..."
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"As Adam’s publishers, we welcome the debate (and disagreement!) these very different reviews of Gothic Capitalism bring to the table..."
Art for Marx sake: Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism' in review
A look back at the debates that ensued from a selection of reviews of Adam Turl's book for Revol Press
revolpress.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Revol Press compiled the good, the bad, and the ugly reviews and commentaries on Adam Turl's book 'Gothic Capitalism'.
revolpress.substack.com/p/art-for-ma...
"As Adam’s publishers, we welcome the debate (and disagreement!) these very different reviews of Gothic Capitalism bring to the table..."
revolpress.substack.com/p/art-for-ma...
"As Adam’s publishers, we welcome the debate (and disagreement!) these very different reviews of Gothic Capitalism bring to the table..."
I interviewed Minja Koskela for Jacobin. For people interested
in the Finnish welfare dream this could be compelling reading (the dream has soured, but the Left Alliance is fighting back).
jacobin.com/2025/11/finl...
in the Finnish welfare dream this could be compelling reading (the dream has soured, but the Left Alliance is fighting back).
jacobin.com/2025/11/finl...
Finnish Left Leader: The Far Right Is Attacking Workers
Minja Koskela is leader of Finland’s Left Alliance. She spoke to Jacobin about how the right-wing-populist Finns Party is using its place in government to attack labor and public services, and how her...
jacobin.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I interviewed Minja Koskela for Jacobin. For people interested
in the Finnish welfare dream this could be compelling reading (the dream has soured, but the Left Alliance is fighting back).
jacobin.com/2025/11/finl...
in the Finnish welfare dream this could be compelling reading (the dream has soured, but the Left Alliance is fighting back).
jacobin.com/2025/11/finl...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You can now subscribe to the Revol Rress substack to get occasional extra critical texts, as well as the regular weekly free texts.
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"The standard operators of war, governments, fail to accumulate as efficiently as corporations because they have multipolar goals. The singular corporate commandment is grow, which is why 157 of the top 200 economic entities are corporations." Full text below:
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November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"The standard operators of war, governments, fail to accumulate as efficiently as corporations because they have multipolar goals. The singular corporate commandment is grow, which is why 157 of the top 200 economic entities are corporations." Full text below:
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
'Intellectual campism, or in particular cultural campism, is a suspicion towards art or theory that deviates from the official (including the official avant garde).'
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Dude, Where's My Aura? or the Babbitry of Intellectual Campism — Locust Review
I contend that Moras, while complaining about the lack of politics in Turl’s work, has written a very apolitical review, predicated upon an intellectual campism rooted in what China Miéville calls “...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
'Intellectual campism, or in particular cultural campism, is a suspicion towards art or theory that deviates from the official (including the official avant garde).'
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
'"The truth is there’s a quiet civil war going on in the Democratic Party right now,” Andrew Cuomo told Fox News... "it will destroy the Democratic Party nationwide... This is not a socialist country."'
Correction... it is not a fascist country.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
Correction... it is not a fascist country.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Centrists have been declaring the socialist movement dead for years in spite of the victories it has racked up. But Zohran Mamdani’s win makes its rise undeniable.
jacobin.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
'"The truth is there’s a quiet civil war going on in the Democratic Party right now,” Andrew Cuomo told Fox News... "it will destroy the Democratic Party nationwide... This is not a socialist country."'
Correction... it is not a fascist country.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
Correction... it is not a fascist country.
jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
Reposted by Mike Watson
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
At Zohran Mamdani’s victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We’re not going to be intimidated,” Ocasio-Cortez said...
www.democracynow.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
Read the first in Theory Gang's new series of texts from the corporate frontline on Revol Press's substack:
Tales from the Corp, Part One: revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
Tales from the Corp, Part One: revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Read the first in Theory Gang's new series of texts from the corporate frontline on Revol Press's substack:
Tales from the Corp, Part One: revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
Tales from the Corp, Part One: revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
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A great victory for liberals, socialists, and liberal socialists across the country
Zohran Mamdani, whose triumphant campaign was built on progressive ideas and a relentless focus on affordability, will become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.
Mamdani is New York’s First Muslim and South Asian Mayor-Elect
Zohran Mamdani’s ascent was powered by a relentless focus on affordability. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A great victory for liberals, socialists, and liberal socialists across the country
A new text on the Revol Press substack:
'Theory Gang provides regular field notes from the trenches of the invisible war waged through corporate systems, where violence has become psychological, procedural, and algorithmic.'
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
'Theory Gang provides regular field notes from the trenches of the invisible war waged through corporate systems, where violence has become psychological, procedural, and algorithmic.'
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
Tales from the Corp — Episode 1
Theory Gang provides regular field notes from the trenches of the invisible war waged through corporate systems, where violence has become psychological, procedural, and algorithmic.
revolpress.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A new text on the Revol Press substack:
'Theory Gang provides regular field notes from the trenches of the invisible war waged through corporate systems, where violence has become psychological, procedural, and algorithmic.'
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
'Theory Gang provides regular field notes from the trenches of the invisible war waged through corporate systems, where violence has become psychological, procedural, and algorithmic.'
revolpress.substack.com/p/tales-from...
And they came for the Teen Vogue Politics desk but I did not speak out because I instead make podcasts doing deep dives into Deleuze...
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
And they came for the Teen Vogue Politics desk but I did not speak out because I instead make podcasts doing deep dives into Deleuze...
The world is lucky those 400 mostly hate and distrust each other. That, above all else, might save us.
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The world is lucky those 400 mostly hate and distrust each other. That, above all else, might save us.
Such a bad move from Academia.edu. Never much liked the platform, but putting illustrators out of business is a really shi**y idea.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Such a bad move from Academia.edu. Never much liked the platform, but putting illustrators out of business is a really shi**y idea.