“This is a different panel. Everything’s computer!”

Wait, the same Samuel Moyn who writes for Compact magazine?

great

transition program "“How do we solve for something like this?” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins asked on Fox News. “People are sort of looking around and thinking, ‘Wow, maybe I could get a chicken in my backyard,’ and it’s awesome.”

"Le gendarme incompris (1921), a nonsense play by Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet in which the policeman delivers himself of lines by Mallarmé"

L'ouvrage de Jasper Bernes qui va sortir le mois prochain est un outil absolument excellent pour tous ceux qui voudraient comprendre non seulement l'histoire détaillée et les débats internes de la tradition dite d'ultragauche, mais aussi les conditions concrètes de toute révolution à venir.

“The social order is as much a part of the milk as its fat content.”

bruh "Drones armed with shotguns are now shooting down other drones."

"The trenches that cut scars across hundreds of miles of the front are still essential for defense, but today most soldiers die or lose limbs to remote-controlled aircraft rigged with explosives, many of them lightly modified hobby models."

"From the age of 16, Skye had a relationship with Anthony Kiedis"

"D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation"

"the population implosion" Not a day goes by without the establishment press publishing an article about declining fertility rates in the capitalist core. I'm writing something substantial on this phenomenon, details of which I hope to share soon. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

it's never going to stop being hilarious that so many pundits, and not a few on the US "left," characterized the MAGA movement as "populist" in character.

"China — which processes nearly 90 percent of rare earths worldwide — holds a “near monopoly” over this step in the supply chain...Most major rare earth producers, including the U.S., lack the domestic know-how or infrastructure needed to refine the minerals, forcing them to rely on Beijing."

anyway, the move fast and break things circus seems amateurish & likely cover for the usual grift, spiced up with some pimply nihilism. If they happen to disrupt the functioning of defense, ICE, DoJ, etc., no tears. And who knows what can of worms is being opened up? what scenarios made plausible?

Vengeance bides its time, and never gets old.

Surely the new gang in charge (?) in DC has a role for Blake Masters? Plug him in anywhere, he's perfect, but Secretary of Schoolboy Nihilism fits best.

ask yourself this simple question: are near-future roving bands of 19 yo communist coders organized into expropriating "strike teams" more, or less, plausible than they were two months ago?

Oh wow, this looks great. Endnotes dossier of and on the recently departed Henri Simon

agreed!

Who knows, maybe we've been witnessing future scenarios in inverted form this past month. Not hard to imagine a brazen middle-age communist with a roving band of Luigis showing up at Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon and elsewhere to strip out assets "with a chainsaw" & some cheap code. Life comes at you fast.

"demographic doom loop" invoked as explanation for AfD success in eastern Germany. Brace yourself for more of this.

Les jeunes électrices allemandes ne semblent pas dupes du fait que l'enjeu de fond reste celui de la reproduction de la société capitaliste, et que ce fardeau va peser sur elles de plus en plus. L'article de @profitratedown.bsky.social sur la question reste à jamais d'actualité.

Méfiez-vous des blancs...

Proposing Stephen A. Smith run for president is somehow the craziest political news I've heard this weekend.

this *exactly*

Deleuze said somewhere: "don't move too much, you'll scare off the events." Professor, we're taking it easy.

Btw, sent this in response to DOGE email I received two days ago. One bullet point.

Me, reading on the couch on a lazy Sunday: "Activity is not, as ideology teaches, merely the purposive life of autonomous people, but also the vain commotion of their unfreedom."

My plans for 85, too: "Some people celebrate turning 85 with grandchildren, gardening or a nice cake. Edmund White has published a sex memoir."

Sort of?

lmao 3 -- this is a Dem senator: "spent the past three years immersing himself in the literature and ideas of the “new right,” listening to the podcast “Red Scare” and reading thought leaders like Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen."

It is what it is? “In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions.”

lmao "the Trump administration reportedly proposed sending Chinese soldiers to police a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine"

Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal: chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

La sagesse ne viendra jamais.

I've written about the method in the DOGE USAID madness. It's not bullying as power, it's good Wall Street Consensus on steroids, by and for private equity www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...

Wow: I just reread Clark's "no future" essay and bristled at every line, every word, of it. Precisely my reaction the first time I read it. It's unclear if one should read all of his work post "Idea" through its prism, or if it is a distillation of TJC at his "worst"? Have to figure this out.

Let the college professors laugh at Teddy's lovely book on Alban Berg. I'll listen, and even pay the patreon fee. Or invite me on, we'll talk the Berg and the Mahler books together. People want this, badly. What are we waiting for?

"[He was] shielded by his own defenselessness, the only armor granted the giant in modern times" [zing]

"[he] undercut the world's negativity with the hopelessness of his imagination, accepted it with the accumulated overflow and quintessence of Viennese pessimism, and with mockery and superstition..."

"the tendency to overrate his own imperfections and inadequacies, as if thereby to diminish them"

"“A true Nazi would have held the pose longer, but at minimum it’s a form of dog-gesturing"

When you're too fascist for the French fascists...

"It often feels​ as though New Left Review has been around for as long as the King James Bible."

Bidenomics “A huge amount of money flooded into it. In some ways it made it even harder to build with the number of requirements put on programs. All of this drove up costs so much that the money that got spent was basically swallowed up by the higher costs....”

"Start with growth, which helped make Germany the world’s third-largest economy but has only cracked 2 percent per year once since 2017. After adjusting for rising prices, the German economy is no larger today than it was five years ago."

Look what just arrived! This cover goes so f****** hard

Forgot about this TP cover image. Astonishing.