Gaucho Marx
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"Good evening, my dove. Haven't you got a kiss for the Gaucho Bakunin?"
"You look more like a Gaucho Marx."
"You look more like a Gaucho Marx."
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Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I’ve purchased one large blanket. Join me.
$66 buys one large blanket, mattress, or waterproof tarp.
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I’ve purchased one large blanket. Join me.
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There are two methods for cranberry harvest- wet method and dry method. Pictured is the ‘wet harvest’ method where the cranberry bog is flooded and the plants are shaken to dislodge the submerged berries, which float. (Fun fact: in a flooded bog the workers become high ground for the spiders.)
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There are two methods for cranberry harvest- wet method and dry method. Pictured is the ‘wet harvest’ method where the cranberry bog is flooded and the plants are shaken to dislodge the submerged berries, which float. (Fun fact: in a flooded bog the workers become high ground for the spiders.)
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Today on the blog, Jon Catlin interviews Federico Marcon on his latest book, "Fascism: History of a Word," which uses semiotics to chart fascism’s changing political and heuristic meanings from its invention in Italy in 1919 to the present.
@joncatlin.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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The Disadvantages of “Fascism” for Life: An Interview with Federico Marcon (Part I)
by Jonathon Catlin
www.jhiblog.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Today on the blog, Jon Catlin interviews Federico Marcon on his latest book, "Fascism: History of a Word," which uses semiotics to chart fascism’s changing political and heuristic meanings from its invention in Italy in 1919 to the present.
@joncatlin.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
@joncatlin.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
"They're not even criminals" is such a depraved response. These assholes always fuck up the most basic messaging.
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"They're not even criminals" is such a depraved response. These assholes always fuck up the most basic messaging.
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Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok)
Felix Thiollier
Fan Ho
Olga Karlovac
The ending of this great piece is a massive sigh of resignation. We’ll be buried in our own waste, become one with our waste, because it’s not possible to get beyond capital.
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The ending of this great piece is a massive sigh of resignation. We’ll be buried in our own waste, become one with our waste, because it’s not possible to get beyond capital.
Everyone diagnosing liberalism and conservatism without any mention of capitalism is pissing in the wind
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...
A Mole in MAGA’s Midst | Los Angeles Review of Books
Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Everyone diagnosing liberalism and conservatism without any mention of capitalism is pissing in the wind
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...
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"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Violence and the Sacred | Ryan Ruby
Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core than humanists would have us believe.
thebaffler.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"What draws readers to Guyotat and the other writers of the transgressive tradition is that they are candid about violence. Violence may not be the totality of life, but it is closer to the core of it than spurious humanisms would have us believe."
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
Ryan Ruby on Pierre Guyotat in @thebaffler.com
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On Wednesday, November 19 at 5:00 pm ET on WPRB...
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG RETURNS!
Three hours of Neil Young + Crazy Horse reimagined by a wide mix of musicians, including many of your superb recommendations.
If you want to suggest a cover or record one yourself, please send my way by next Monday.
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG RETURNS!
Three hours of Neil Young + Crazy Horse reimagined by a wide mix of musicians, including many of your superb recommendations.
If you want to suggest a cover or record one yourself, please send my way by next Monday.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On Wednesday, November 19 at 5:00 pm ET on WPRB...
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG RETURNS!
Three hours of Neil Young + Crazy Horse reimagined by a wide mix of musicians, including many of your superb recommendations.
If you want to suggest a cover or record one yourself, please send my way by next Monday.
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG RETURNS!
Three hours of Neil Young + Crazy Horse reimagined by a wide mix of musicians, including many of your superb recommendations.
If you want to suggest a cover or record one yourself, please send my way by next Monday.
Incredible case of easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
This is quite the read on @lrb.co.uk
"Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention"
"Anyone who thinks the 21st century will not see the biggest global movement of peoples in history has not been paying attention"
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Incredible case of easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
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Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on the new Marxism:
‘This is precisely why it is important not to conceptualise material interests as transhistorical categories existing outside of specific social conjunctures.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
‘This is precisely why it is important not to conceptualise material interests as transhistorical categories existing outside of specific social conjunctures.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams, Alternative Horizons — Sidecar
A reply to Dylan Riley.
newleftreview.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on the new Marxism:
‘This is precisely why it is important not to conceptualise material interests as transhistorical categories existing outside of specific social conjunctures.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
‘This is precisely why it is important not to conceptualise material interests as transhistorical categories existing outside of specific social conjunctures.’
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).
Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
#FutureHistories #Podcast
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It seems more likely that they are not hung up, they’re triangulating
i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity
October 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It seems more likely that they are not hung up, they’re triangulating
Ezra Klein sucks up so much oxygen
October 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Ezra Klein sucks up so much oxygen
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It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
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Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
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Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...
Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? | Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru: The highly educated aspiring writers of New York are looking beyond the English-speaking world for their reading fixes. It must be a sign of the times
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...
One of my very favorite books. The writing matches the subject of extraordinary brilliance and beauty at the center of each chapter
i reviewed LK’s Seiobo There Below, which showed the swerve in his work after communism fell and he was finally able to travel www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai review – an exhilarating experience
The winner of this week’s Man Booker International prize has an extraordinary intensity unsurpassed in English-language fiction
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One of my very favorite books. The writing matches the subject of extraordinary brilliance and beauty at the center of each chapter
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Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...
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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025
We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Read this right now please.
This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
And incredibly damning
Huge recommendation
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Read this right now please.
This is excellent
New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is excellent