Ben Rosenzweig
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Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
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Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
· Apr 18
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People outside of the country generally don't realise that the Singaporean elections of April 1955, the first elections with any plausible claim to representative democracy, saw the electoral Left doing extremely well, which is to say, winning.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
People outside of the country generally don't realise that the Singaporean elections of April 1955, the first elections with any plausible claim to representative democracy, saw the electoral Left doing extremely well, which is to say, winning.
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Israel has killed hundreds of civilians since the 9 October ‘ceasefire’ ‘deal’.
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
And blown up hundreds of buildings.
Excerpts from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 6 November 2025 ‘Humanitarian Situation Update #338’ on the Gaza Strip:
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Israel has long united the most ardently Zionist Jews and the most anti-Semitic sections of the Christian Right, and now brings them together with most of rising US fascism.
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
This is the text of a full-page advertisement which appeared in the 3 December 2002 edition of the New York Times:
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Excerpt from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 'Atrocity Alert No. 458: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and COP30' (12 November 2025).
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
www.globalr2p.org/publications...
French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
A short thread on ‘section 28’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A short thread on ‘section 28’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
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I'm trying an experiment - does a book trailer actually work in promoting a book? Feel free to share, and let's see what happens...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
Book Trailer - 'The Book of Calling' - a Haunting Gothic Chiller
YouTube video by Tengy Talks TV & Movies
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm trying an experiment - does a book trailer actually work in promoting a book? Feel free to share, and let's see what happens...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
Emma Graham-Harrison, 'Israel's top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse', from the 4 November 2025 issue of The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Emma Graham-Harrison, 'Israel's top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse', from the 4 November 2025 issue of The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
Reading contemporaneous accounts of the Left victory in the 1924 French elections, I eventually realised that the article on 'The Liberal Trend in French Politics' in the October 1925 issue of Current History was by the same Louise Weiss elected to serve in the European Parliament in the 1980s!
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reading contemporaneous accounts of the Left victory in the 1924 French elections, I eventually realised that the article on 'The Liberal Trend in French Politics' in the October 1925 issue of Current History was by the same Louise Weiss elected to serve in the European Parliament in the 1980s!
That excellent Mamdani campaign video discussing the repression of the first New York birth control clinic, and the role of eugenics in the subsequent politics of two of the founders, feels almost like a continuation of the critique and advocacy visible in the work his father did in the early '70s.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That excellent Mamdani campaign video discussing the repression of the first New York birth control clinic, and the role of eugenics in the subsequent politics of two of the founders, feels almost like a continuation of the critique and advocacy visible in the work his father did in the early '70s.
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
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This is my friend, Rahaf, from Gaza.
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
June 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is my friend, Rahaf, from Gaza.
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
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A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
Regardless of who took what position in key disputes at Situationist conferences, Debord is still the artsy-person's ultraleftist.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Regardless of who took what position in key disputes at Situationist conferences, Debord is still the artsy-person's ultraleftist.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.