Another repost in the lead up to Wednesdays Paolo Virno panel with Red May. Virno is one of the people who have helped rescue Sohn-Rethel from obscurity. www.unemployednegativity.com/2009/11/abst...

Angela Davis in an interview about the importance of organization in periods of heightened contradictions, drawing parallels to the current situation in the United States today.

Having noted the term in the introduction to Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason, now advocating for the use of “germinal“ rather than “seminal” once and for all

Inflatable art is really having a moment.

Six more minutes appropriate listening window for Blue Monday

Organized this Caseworks exhibition at work, and it felt really good to flex the writing muscle again.

hyperallergic.com/the-death-of... This is more broadly a defense of the university against the corporatizing and state assaults (political and financial) against it.

Yesterday Futel installed a free public payphone in front of Mother Foucault’s and made my day. futel.net

For the protesters and protest curious in PDX

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I am a good horse and I deserve cake.

The Anna herself in Portland. Let’s go!

The only moon take

Midway through Fahrenheit 451, we learn that the U. S. government has launched a series of unprovoked wars against smaller countries, just because it can, while the population is so hypnotized by amusements & devices that hardly anyone knows the wars are taking place.

Adore. youraislopbores.me

My review of Alberto Toscano's Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri has been published on E-Flux. www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...

Everything about this

we need to do modernism again

We absolutely do not need or want roomba taxis in Portland.

confirmed katu.com/news/local/i...

Whatever, 2025

On such a winter day, #California

In other news, I’m stoked that SOCIETY was awarded a Precipice Fund grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation via Portland Institute for Contemporary Art which is going to pay our rent above Mother Foucault’s for a year! societysocietysociety.com

It’s such a beautiful description of effective pedagogy and an argument for the value for young people learning to trust their powers of observation and analysis. See also: art history’s visual analysis. ❤️

Neighborhood phone pole art discourse. Are they just quibbling about millionaire billionaire? One wonders how they think museums get made. How museums acquire art

I went back to look at the original and this is just awesome graphic design for 1850. Check out that font!

Kendrick wins again

That early postwar moral clarity hits different

Signed up for Matt’s course on Weimar Cinema!

Thank you @greg.org for writing about Christian Alborz Oldham’s show Having no talent is not enough at SOCIETY! greg.org/archive/2025...

Quit gooning and fix a pothole.

One Battle After Another

We’re going to need more blow up frog costumes

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The idea of bluetoothy coms through Bitchat yes, but the name could use a capital C because at the moment it reads “Bitch-something”

Also just facilitated the establishment of a Minecraft server some 10+ years after I did the same thing as part of an art exhibition. Port forwarding etc. 😈

News of the fed deployment in Portland on a very chill couple of warm early fall days is just the background sound of helicopters for two nights straight. 🥱 What a bunch of babies.

what's everybody wearing to the rapture

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Grate a pear

has no one bought this yet for satirical purposes? domains.atom.com/lpd/name/dep...

Tomorrow 5-7, we are opening Christian Alborz Oldham’s exhibition Having no talent is not enough at SOCIETY 711 SE Grand in Portland. Https://societysocietysociety.com

Where’s my bag of chips full of cash

Bless the historians, art and otherwise. I think every day about how important in this moment are the historians whose good scholarship reminds us we have seen all this shit before and reminds us also about ways those who have come before us have dealt with it

Christian Alborz Oldham’s solo exhibition opens at SOCIETY this Saturday from 6-8pm. societysocietysociety.com

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HACK THE PLANET!!! Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate!