From @deterritorialization.substack.com - a sharp and beautiful take on political rhetoric open.substack.com/pub/deterrit...

A few great pieces have been published in our journal so far this month. This one, in particular, deserves as much attention as possible.

They don't see the irony in their nationalistic, genocidal practices, so why would they see it here?

Every successful act of liberation, every movement, turns its own history into a manual, a technique of government(ality). Let us not forget this, especially today. Happy #Mayday, comrades.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure there's actually a place for philosophy in social media. It just doesn't sell well.

There's this popular take about the “fate” of mankind, especially with relation to climate change. As is usually the case with the term itself, it plays with its metaphysical definition that understands fate as a predetermined journey from point A to point B.

#BlackMirror S07E01 is, for now at least, in a genre on its own--subscription horror. I believe this type of story will become all too common in the near future.

I have a new article on depression and critique out in Constellation - in case anyone needed more depression on their timelines! I discuss to what extent, and how, feelings of depression can be politicized and channeled into resistance.

From the Archive: Andrea Mubi Brighenti, 'On Territorology: Towards a General Science of Territory' - conceptualizes territorial components, technologies, effects, and their interplay, in order to establish the main lines of inquiry for territorology. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I sort of understand the appeal that Taylor Sheridan’s writings have to many people worldwide. His neoconservative shows (Yellowstone, Landman, etc.) with socially charged yet oversimplified commentaries and humanizing gestures, are what make them so popular.

"attacks on the administrative state and on the universities are very much of a piece with this aim to reconstitute collective life on far-right terms. ... A left cultural world has been built before, ... and there is no alternative to building it again" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Revolution is (or at least ought to be) an all-encompassing and pervasive phenomenon. Its aim should be (and this is especially true of the stakes today—the possibility of a future) the refashioning of every element not only of the world we share but also of the one we share with everything else.

Musk complies with Turkish autocracy’s requests to suspend pro-democracy accounts to “ensure X remains available” for Turks. He didn’t seem to care about X being shut for Brazilians last year when a democracy requested far-right account suspensions, which he rejected on the basis of “free speech”.

How do we survive this constant monitoring, through stats and analytics, of how well we manage to drag and hold each other's attention? However it is, it won't last.

The NIH’s mission is to "to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability." It can't achieve that mission if the review process becomes hostage to political whims.

Isn't that just another way to say "we want to be productive as well," thus, you know, holding to the very ethos of the system we should be fighting; a system which turns life with all it's marvelous disharmonies into a competition of production?

For @thenation.com, I reflect on Aaron Bushnell’s death & the limits of protest. I deny that he self-immolated to raise awareness, or because he thought he could quell the Gaza genocide, & I claim that part of his message was: watch this, nothing will change. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

I'm tired of people tired of political art, backing one that deals with some universal humanness. "We need to know what it is to be human, not what it's to be the one who is treated as non-human." Keep your art made in indifference and boredom for those you belong to--the indifferent and bored.

Mahmoud Khalil asks, “Who has the right to have rights?” in his dictated letter from prison, which he reads over the phone. Isn't this question already pointing to the absurdly problematic notion of rights, of law, and of jurisprudence more generally?

The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online. If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance. vimeo.com/1058822880/7...

This one really makes you think about the dimensions of the war happening before us. One not between AI and us, but between AI and all the operative algorithms making the virtual possible. Teknemachia.

Wooww - that is such a fantastic episode on Stuart Hall's marxism and method to investigate historically specific and antagonistic social relations that produce capitalist social formations. Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...

Artisans and communists, laborers and anarchists, took over the city of Paris and established the Commune on this day in 1871.

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist

One of Rafael Holmberg's pieces for #deterritorialization, in which the author examines how #literature reflects the contradictions of social reality through the concept of the "Real." #philosophy #psychoanalysis #society #culture

I've got a new essay out today in @eflux.bsky.social on the occasion of T.J. Clark's new book. I write about "what happens in paint," about art and politics, Trump, the 'mad sublimity' of the society of the spectacle in fascist overdrive, and the abolition of art. www.e-flux.com/notes/660176...

The only historical thing about the Israel-promised ceasefire is the naivety of everyone believing in—and even celebrating—it.

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