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These Slipmats haven’t sold well and I want the space back. I’ve dropped the price from $15 to $7. Options below. Designs not pictured I could also make: -Fuck ICE -Fuck AI Slop -I finished Clarissa -(most of) Jclo RIOT

Sunday morning 🧑‍🏫

I am convinced that Jacob Geller could make an entirely enthralling video essay about paint drying if he wanted to 😅

There's no window open for this because it's a completely unrealistic proposition. Israel's existence presupposes colonial and genocidal violence. It's not a "Netanyahu problem."

"When the modern barter myth replaces the medieval monetary imaginary, it becomes possible to conceive of economic life as prior to political institutions, a self-organizing domain populated by isolated individuals who engage in exchange; a sphere that, alone, produces 'value.'"

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“[I]n the commercial universe of late capitalism the serious writer is obliged to to reawaken the reader’s numbed sense of the concrete through the administration of linguistic shocks, by restructuring the overfamiliar or by +

I’m not a hardcover books kinda guy for the most part, but I really love those Library of America editions…so slick and classy 😍

Ok, Julian Schnabel’s newest film, In the Hand of Dante, is…something. I think this film *could* have been good, but talk about miscasting 🤦‍♂️ Speaking primarily of Momoa and Gadot; though, I’m also just kind of in need of an Isaacs break tbh. Book is hopefully better I guess 🤷‍♂️

Revisiting just an absolute boon to the world that’s been done in the cleaning up and making public of these fantastic seminars and wonderful commentary by the guests as well! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Dialectical thinking and writing—not only in the unfolding of the sentence but in the movement between sentences and paragraphs and in the incorporative sweep of the argument as a whole—are inseparable.” Philip Wegner, 'Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative'

Oh shit! 🤩 youtu.be/6z4QlS1d7YQ?...

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

I don’t know how I missed the fall of Theory Underground 😅 Watching the video the head dude Dave put out about it now and maaaaan…….I am beyond surprised an organization lead by a guy who refers to himself as a dictator and speaks very individualistically didn’t work out 🤷‍♂️

Wasn’t planned but I finished these two graphic novels today 🤩 1984 was a better adaptation than I expected, and Parecomic is a nice biography of Michael Albert and the independent publishers he’s been part of, as well as a solid condensed exposition of Parecon, including some critical responses 💁‍♂️

It’s interesting to think about how most of us who grew up hearing the phrase, “Think outside the box” didn’t realize we would have an actual box (AI) that we would have to think outside of eventually 😬

Insane that “job creator” means a rich person and not like a public institution

“[A]s a service economy we are henceforth so far removed from the realities of production and work on the world that we inhabit a dream world of artificial stimuli and televised experience: never in any previous civilization have the great metaphysical preoccupations, +

“I have felt that the dialectical method can be acquired only by a concrete working through of detail, by a sympathetic internal experience of the gradual construction of a system according to its inner necessity.” – Fredric Jameson, ‘Marxism and Form’

Not to downplay the seriousness of this but... I don't think this is the all-time high for antisemitism in GERMANY

Death, African-American proto-punk band from Detroit comprised of the 4 Hackney brothers. They formed in 1971, originally as a funk band. Recorded “Politicians in My Eyes” in 1975. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oweh...

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Appears problems are isolated, but please check your feed. Vandal Live takes us to Berkeley for a collaboration with brilliant Yael Segalovitz. I loved the topic she & David Marno conceived, & live audience clearly agreed. The final hour is little like having my therapy session recorded. Be kind.

“[Fredric] Jameson’s project of dialectical criticism simultaneously explores the narratives we use to make sense of this world from our limited spatial and historical situations and provides its own map by which we can guide ourselves through that world.” – Robert T. Tally, 'Fredric Jameson'

“Terry Eagleton’s assessment of [Fredric]Jameson as a writer one reads “for pleasure,” as one would read a Baudelaire or a Faulkner, resonates strongly with me, and I believe that Jameson’s style, the ultimate merger of content and form in his prose, is essential to his critical project in general.”

“[Fredric] Jameson has been concerned above all with the ways in which individual expressions—sentences, in fact —relate to forms, which in turn derive their force and significance from the totality of social, political, and economic relations at work in a given mode of production.” – Robert Tally

“Jameson’s rigorously formal analysis, Marxist critical theory, and utopian discourse come together in his distinctive project of dialectical criticism, and taken in its entirety, Jameson’s work constitutes a cultural cartography of the world system.” – Robert T. Tally Jr., 'Fredric Jameson'

This book came out four years ago today (and it is on sale). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2061-t...

In this paper I will demonstrate the close affinity between the film 'Koyaanisqatsi' and social ecologist Murray Bookchin's concepts of 'First Nature' and 'Second Nature'. I assert further that the film is an audio/visual representation of Bookchin's call for a so-called 'Third Nature' 💁‍♂️

I have a new piece in @truthout.org today about autonomous libraries and the collections and spaces they create for political movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

The “world’s greatest detective” is attacked by a few guys wearing Joker masks in Batman: Ninja and Batman then demands of one of them, “Who’s your master!?” 🤔 and is then later surprised to find Joker is indeed the problem…🤨

“Everyone has every right. Over everything. And the day when our human race has fully matured, it will not define itself as the sum of the inhabitants of the globe, but as the infinite unity of their reciprocities.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’

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“Benjamin’s pessimism is in the service of the oppressed classes. His preoccupation is not with the ‘decline’ of the elites or the nation, but with the threats the technical and economic progress fostered by capitalism pose for humanity.” – Michael Löwy, 'Fire Alarm'

Comrade shared this helpful chart of brands for the Paramount boycott

Yeesh…watching anything on PlutoTV really makes you appreciate the commercial break lengths on other streaming platforms 😬

The more folks I listen to who argue against socialism, the more I realize how many people really, really, and I mean truly, are confused about what socialism entails…🫤

“[I]f the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’

“I believe we once knew, and have since forgotten, the truth that no indulgence can erase the marks of violence: violence alone can eliminate them.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’

Just finished this book and it was really intriguing! Anyone with an interest in Bourdieu will enjoy it, as well as anyone interested in Burawoy since he contrasts/compares/combines Bourdieu with various other thinkers for some genuinely productive outcomes.

I haven’t posted any new books I’ve gotten in a little while. Largely because I have (thankfully) cut way back. But anyway, here are the last 4 I’ve gotten in the past month or so 💁‍♂️

“I do not believe there is any relevant truth, and certainly none in the realm of sociology, which is not attended by the risk that it might be wrong, that it might be wide of the mark.” – Theodor Adorno, 'Introduction to Sociology'

Whoop whoop! Finally finished this incredible volume 🤩 This ranks up there with the feeling I had upon finishing Kant’s first critique…just a profound and mind-altering experience throughout. A book I will no doubt revisit here and there for the rest of my life. Google “Murray Bookchin” 💁‍♂️