If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Amelia C. Winter's review of Worthy of the Event. She is not too hot on VII the practice. She's troubled by the shit and the meta. Who is not?

IS THE FORM of philosophy dominant in English-speaking universities covertly resistant to radical thought? Does it present as the work of pure reason what is in fact the function of an ideology complicit in oppression? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

the world was full of shitty stuff five years ago too, but I'm starting to miss the way every hack used to be idiosyncratic

MIT researchers confirming what we are finding in classrooms - using LLMs for essay tasks compromises skill development: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

parasitic ass economy. wonder if anyone wrote about this

my latest, 'we' love poem, in @universityofotago.bsky.social press' landfall 249 arrived in the mail today 😎

colin vandenburg in the latest @nplusonemag.com... 🔥🔥🔥 www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

Good to see @usyd-humanities.bsky.social returning to Pacific history, which it pioneered some 100 years ago... Closing date June 15

may 2025 anti-hegemony reading list ✨

"do not buy this book it's the best thing i've read in ages & will ruin books for you forever" I mean there's a truth-bomb for the ages (ignore any foresight btw BUY WORTHY OF THE EVENT") (and ty @elese.bsky.social!!)

it is true... i have reviewed @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's OUTRAGEOUSLY GOOD book WORTHY OF THE EVENT published w @littlepuss.net... TL;DR do not buy this book it's the best thing i've read in ages & will ruin books for you forever: overland.org.au/2025/05/yes-...

“Whether you’re a fervent nihilist or a Victorian Socialist, WORTHY OF THE EVENT will strike you as the work of a lifetime.” Elese Dowden reviews Vivian Blaxell’s new book. Generously supported by @copyright.com.au

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

🧵 They don’t want you to ask what the #RSB means for #women. But we’re asking because the impact on wāhine Māori & #Pacific women will be brutal. You’ve heard what it does to Te Tiriti. Now let’s talk about #wahine. Here’s what this Bill really means through the eyes of wāhine: ⬇️⬇️ #NZPol

seen on insta 😂

Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online! mscp.org.au/courses/wint...

a beautiful day in naarm to walk FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA 🍉

can u really call urself a communist if ur spruiking centrist paywalls tho

"all power... has entered into a legitimation crisis in which the state of exception... has fully come to light", agamben in potentialities (1999)

corduroys and flares are back... the looser the pant the lefter the political climate

e.e. cummings, the little horse ie newlY

I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students. Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions

i have done it. i have made the bruce bogtrotter platonic form of the chocolate cake

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

ankle socks... the mark of modernity

The Bandung Conference in April 1955 has achieved the stature of being a mythical moment in the history of the Global South. In this article on its 70th anniversary, Walden Bello draws lessons from the successes and failures of the historical conference. focusweb.org/the-long-mar...

i love living in the future

Hey guys what did I miss? Image unrelated

Victorian Socialists will fight to scrap negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount for all investment properties and build housing for human need not profit! Read our full plan to fix the housing crisis here: victoriansocialists.org.au/policies/hou...

strap in comrades we're reading lukács on lenin (1924)

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.

The AHA expresses its disappointment that recent policy changes at the National Library of Australia have introduced increased restrictions to Trove. It urges the NLA to reverse these policy changes and restore Trove's status as a hallmark of digital accessibility.

"the capitalist will do anything for the worker except get off his back", international socialist, sydney (1917)

Over 900 online and open access collections now listed hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits & Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. All are products that contain palm oil. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

If you're an Australian writer or illustrator that has had work pirated by LibGen and used by Meta to train AI, ASA is collating a list of stolen works to advocate to the government on our behalf. Form here, with link to database search tool > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

i sure hope its me

Nice work of art you got there, be a shame if the advent of mechanical reproduction deprived it of its aura

adorno's minima moralia (1951)

i changed my mind. i do not want fully automated luxury communism. unautomated basic communism is ok for me thanks

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

An interesting thing is that at some point, mass plane travel inevitably becomes too great a risk of pandemic infection, and like the Conchord or crewed moon landings, becomes a thing that humanity could once do but no longer can.

It’s a perfectly good time to stop buying American products. Alcohol, grocery items, fruit and vegetables, clothes - there are many items we consume daily that are made in or imported from Trumpland. Choosing not to buy them is an act of economic friendship for more deserving nations.

It’s come to this: We need to boycott computer

gm everyone. i hope ur also having a nice brekky

from john ashbery's 'forties flick' (1972) #litsky