irenical
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kind pedestrian, sustaining hopes to slow way down, for repair, reflection, even death, for our own time
vulgar indeed when the earth’s precious biodiversity and resplendent cultural tapestry is traded for childish pleasure in shaming and schadenfreude
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
vulgar indeed when the earth’s precious biodiversity and resplendent cultural tapestry is traded for childish pleasure in shaming and schadenfreude
Some systems require more energy than others.
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Some systems require more energy than others.
Yes, while diverting precious wealth, building data centers, more mines, drilling, military, all things utterly unsustainable and anti-democratic, all from students of ‘disruption’.
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yes, while diverting precious wealth, building data centers, more mines, drilling, military, all things utterly unsustainable and anti-democratic, all from students of ‘disruption’.
These Christian “survivors” stubbornly worthy of objects to lament, always anxious and menaced by subordinate others; they should be deprived any means of social domination. (Great thread btw.)
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
These Christian “survivors” stubbornly worthy of objects to lament, always anxious and menaced by subordinate others; they should be deprived any means of social domination. (Great thread btw.)
Isn’t there a transformative/prefigurative aspect though—an ongoing privileging, to the extent possible, of other priorities over profit-making, such as education, autonomy, local/eco sensitivities, the blurring of divisions of labor/decision, etc?
October 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Isn’t there a transformative/prefigurative aspect though—an ongoing privileging, to the extent possible, of other priorities over profit-making, such as education, autonomy, local/eco sensitivities, the blurring of divisions of labor/decision, etc?
Where “owning the libs” has to compensate for loss of everything else.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Where “owning the libs” has to compensate for loss of everything else.
“If witnessing had ‘its own language,’ it would no longer be witnessing—it would be proof.”
Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“If witnessing had ‘its own language,’ it would no longer be witnessing—it would be proof.”
Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou
This book, like a building it describes, “appeared enormous from the outside, but inside it was much larger.”
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This book, like a building it describes, “appeared enormous from the outside, but inside it was much larger.”
I was lucky to discover it in the ‘small press’ section of our local bookstore, well before that gold seal was on the cover. So dark, beautiful, deeply relatable, I barely put it down for a few weeks. Gave me Nile green colored dreams.
September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I was lucky to discover it in the ‘small press’ section of our local bookstore, well before that gold seal was on the cover. So dark, beautiful, deeply relatable, I barely put it down for a few weeks. Gave me Nile green colored dreams.
This review stirred up fond memories of the book, but for anyone at all inclined to read it skip all reviews, interviews, inevitable spoilers. Plunge into this dazzling odyssey and first make of it what you alone will.
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This review stirred up fond memories of the book, but for anyone at all inclined to read it skip all reviews, interviews, inevitable spoilers. Plunge into this dazzling odyssey and first make of it what you alone will.
History will/would emphasize the extreme yet predictable measures taken to perpetuate utterly unsustainable accumulation though ruthless forms of fiscal-military coloniality and culture of petromodernity
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
History will/would emphasize the extreme yet predictable measures taken to perpetuate utterly unsustainable accumulation though ruthless forms of fiscal-military coloniality and culture of petromodernity
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
Yes, and re dominance, thinking of Canetti’s Crwds&Pwr, how “survivors” enjoy a sense of “increase” in proportion to others subordinated, sickened and slain—the despotic pleasure (and increasing paranoia) in violating others’ interdependence.
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yes, and re dominance, thinking of Canetti’s Crwds&Pwr, how “survivors” enjoy a sense of “increase” in proportion to others subordinated, sickened and slain—the despotic pleasure (and increasing paranoia) in violating others’ interdependence.
Tight and ofc troubling summation, but the David Axelrod quote is wrong: “We have gone from zero to Hungary faster than I ever imagined.” We didn’t start at zero.
August 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Tight and ofc troubling summation, but the David Axelrod quote is wrong: “We have gone from zero to Hungary faster than I ever imagined.” We didn’t start at zero.
Today’s conservatives as “survivors” deriving pleasure and psychotic power (not unlike mana) from the destruction of others, and ofc swimming in all its concomitant paranoia (see Crowds & Power by E Canetti).
August 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Today’s conservatives as “survivors” deriving pleasure and psychotic power (not unlike mana) from the destruction of others, and ofc swimming in all its concomitant paranoia (see Crowds & Power by E Canetti).
Jonathan Crary’s truly excellent essay is itself a ‘scorched earth’ takedown of the ‘internet complex’. Very relevant here and a must read! www.versobooks.com/products/214...
Scorched Earth
Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: o...
www.versobooks.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jonathan Crary’s truly excellent essay is itself a ‘scorched earth’ takedown of the ‘internet complex’. Very relevant here and a must read! www.versobooks.com/products/214...
Today’s right as massive misdirection machine, wildly producing resentments and dumb material culture of domination, masking incredible hypocrisy behind its powers of revenge and enjoyment at surviving others' destruction
August 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Today’s right as massive misdirection machine, wildly producing resentments and dumb material culture of domination, masking incredible hypocrisy behind its powers of revenge and enjoyment at surviving others' destruction
‘Scorched Earth’ by Jonathan Carey should make this list, among many others.
August 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
‘Scorched Earth’ by Jonathan Carey should make this list, among many others.
I’ve not heard this complaint before around the Twin Cities. Hard-packed aggregate commuter trails seem to work fine for small wheels.
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’ve not heard this complaint before around the Twin Cities. Hard-packed aggregate commuter trails seem to work fine for small wheels.
As pictured here, fine gravel surfaces are really the best too, both aesthetically and ecologically.
August 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As pictured here, fine gravel surfaces are really the best too, both aesthetically and ecologically.
Okay, individualized responses are definitely not enough, but all hands-on-deck is necessary; lifestyle changes rn are necessary; all doing what we can every day creates momentum: bike/walk/bus, minimize meat/plastic/ai, replace grass w native plants/vegies, protest military, slow down, be kind…
August 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Okay, individualized responses are definitely not enough, but all hands-on-deck is necessary; lifestyle changes rn are necessary; all doing what we can every day creates momentum: bike/walk/bus, minimize meat/plastic/ai, replace grass w native plants/vegies, protest military, slow down, be kind…
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We don't need to understand everything about species & ecosystems to conserve them
We need to understand how to stop them being destroyed
That's a human problem not an ecological one, so economics, political ecology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural science etc are more useful than biology
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We need to understand how to stop them being destroyed
That's a human problem not an ecological one, so economics, political ecology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural science etc are more useful than biology
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August 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We don't need to understand everything about species & ecosystems to conserve them
We need to understand how to stop them being destroyed
That's a human problem not an ecological one, so economics, political ecology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural science etc are more useful than biology
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We need to understand how to stop them being destroyed
That's a human problem not an ecological one, so economics, political ecology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural science etc are more useful than biology
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