Based on my experience in the dsa from 2017-2022 that would track, as it did for a lot of things
'Death in our society derives its glamour and pathos from representing the extinction of an allegedly unique, not just solitary but singular individual, once upon a time ideal-typically a ‘genius’ or ‘hero’ and today more often a celebrity.' #Jamesonnewleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
reading between the lines here it seems a lot of heads in the Jacobinverse fell for the oldest trick in the book, being led to believe they had a seat at the table newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Gaza and the DNC.
screening of "Kaspar Hauser" in honor of Bruno S.; he arrived late & sat next to me, was old, fat, pretty drunk, smelled a bit; he talked to himself throughout, commenting on the film – "ah! here comes Bruno!" and "ha! what did Herzog know?!" – at the end we sang "Happy Birthday" & he wept
npr interviewer got a little skittish about Ta-Nehisi Coates correctly pointing out zionist bias in the media, but kinda dumb of coates not to counter with the fact that jeffery goldberg, EIC of The Atlantic, was an IDF prison guard
there's a lot of people on this website who are capable of imagining such a thing as a Ukrainian civilian but not a Palestinian one
remember one of yous said that the fate of the left is to watch its ideas implemented in reactionary ways. watching an historical drama based on the formation / collapse of the League of the Three Emperors and thinking reason is a big one here
I could watch Megalopolis today OR watch this playlist of YouTube videos explaining how much it would have cost Jigsaw to build his various traps in each movie.
I was reading Philip K. Dick and it made me think about Deleuze a lot so I went to see what had been written about them. Fine, okay, well played.
always suspected I'm quite porous to whatever it is I'm reading and retouching a few sentences of a short story for publication I've definitely 'caught' Lovecraft, this is dreadful