It has conventionally been assumed that market actors are motivated by nothing but financial avarice. The frightening reality we are now confronted with is a political capitalism (neofeudalism, data colonialism, surveillance capitalism) that makes old-fashioned greed comfortingly quaint.

This is f*cking nuts. Pete Hegseth’s pastor, Brooks Potteiger, went on a far-right podcast and talked about wanting James Talarico to “die” or be “crucified with Christ.” The host even said, “I pray that God kills him.” 1/2

This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Fine. I’m not a porn fiend. Won’t do any of this shit. Fuck off.

Much of millennial feminism was predicated on a hyper-personalism of publicising ‘lived experience’ as feminist self-empowerment narrative. Problem is, one is internally a mess, and one’s emotional and sexual self is frequently at odds with one’s stated principles.

Carly Rae Jepsen was the queen of 2010s pop. No one else came close. m.youtube.com/watch?v=77Pz...

‘My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’ Nancy Fraser, new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

For my MA art history thesis I chose to compare 19th century romantic Hudson River landscapist Thomas Cole & pop artist Ed Ruscha. American history sucks — and yet I was fascinated with the spiritual vision of America as a new Eden from Cole & others. Vast skies, prairies & mountains…

My 47 year old bonce is so thick that hairdressers struggle to hack through it. The one part of my physical self I’m happy with. 😀

Orson Welles - all of 22 - at the time he was Lamont Cranston in "The Shadow" on the Mutual Broadcasting System. He played the role from September 1937 to October 1938.

#NotYourFavourite 🚫 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 2️⃣9️⃣9️⃣: TV On The Radio 🗣️ TV On The Radio 🔊 Will Do

It's International Manatee Appreciation Day 😁 #ManateeAppreciationDay

The thing about the leftists who are radicalized into antisemitism by their grief over Palestine is that they are so very very similar to people who are radicalized into Islamophobia by their grief over some other atrocity and they cannot see it.

Just Watched Amityville Karen (2022)! The neighborhood Karen is out to make sure everyone acts in ways she approves of! Her job as an Inspector entitles her to belittle businesses as well! Stealing a cursed bottle of wine from a Winery she wants closed! The Wine makes her Murder those in her way!

It doesn't get more purely gorgeous than this. Rogier van der Weyden, 1435, for the feast day of the Annunciation.

Foucault was a penetrating theorist of the 20th century but in the age of AI and digital systems are we really living under a biopolitical epistiocracy of institutions? Institutions are disintegrating into data markets that obviate truth claims. Power is no longer knowledge exactly.

Rewatch complete of John Boorman’s raw and bold take of the Arthurian legend. The story is incredibly streamlined but the visuals create a truly dreamlike experience. Brutal battle scenes, amazing costumes and set design are all elevated by the unforgettable thunderous score!

On the podcast: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and @piercepenniless.bsky.social explore the things that do and don’t change people’s minds, and why real change is better achieved through means other than argument, such as social ties and collective action. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I do not think this prediction is likely to come true: www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world...

Frank Septimas Superfine Partridge England and Wales, Census, 1891

One inevitable but disgusting side effect of Israel's systematic descent into settler fascism is the re-emergence of old antisemitic nonsense and a weakening of anti-antisemitic barriers in progressive circles. This must be ruthlessly stamped out bsky.app/profile/purp...

I'm afraid if you're a writer in your 30s or 40s posting a blog about what Lindy West's marriage says about gender today you don't get to say it's an autopsy of millennial feminism. You ARE millennial feminism!

teaser single “Sundial” 🤍 kristinhersh.lnk.to/Sundial

Balthus (Polish-French, 1908-2001) "The Cat in the Mirror," c.1990 Oil on canvas 195 x 220 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

The right claims men have an intrinsic masculine nature suppressed by liberal society. @polphilpod.bsky.social, a political philosopher, points out the problem: men today have more freedom than ever to pursue that life—and most don't.

25 Mar: The Annunciation, Jacopo Tintoretto, 1560 - 1585 (Rijksmuseum)

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

An average of 50+ U.S. citizen kids *a day* with a parent pulled into detention

Everything is absolutely fine in the secondhand shops of the South West of the United Kingdom and there is nothing eerie or disturbing to be found there at all.

My guess is that markets are in a kind of Trump Credulity Bubble. Market actors might think Trump is full of shit. But they expect everyone else to act as though THEY expect everyone else to act as though the claim might be true. Which is externally indistinguishable from naively believing Trump.

Paul Klee : City of Churches (Stadt der Kirchen), 1918 Pen, pencil, and watercolor on paper 15.4 x 21 cm This work is part of a period where Klee, influenced by the war, shifted toward more abstract, symbolic landscapes, and a quasi-logical, dreamlike structure. Further info in the alt text 👇

Artemis in spring

have fun, Vance

How "critical" can your critical theory be if your biggest fans are EU commissioners, university rectors, and big centrist politicians? Habermas' comments on Palestine only confirmed my disappointment. But there's a political dimension to his thought worth saving ... even from Habermas himself. 2/2

The greatest sickness in modern life is the rise of performative cruelty. Many no longer hide their sadism but revel in it. It’s not hard to trace the root cause. The book is an empathy machine. It’s no surprise the decline in reading has been accompanied by a spike in inhumanity. It’s hand in glove

Anyone who’s ever been in hospital will tell you the people who bring you food are always the nicest - this is stupid for so many different reasons

Getting slighted by Habermas makes something of a refreshing change from the usual festering psychic wound of getting turned down by the hot girl at high school I suppose.

specifically being told he was losing to the literary theorists is villain origin story you could not make up to explain the present - improbable veracity

Adding this to the “AI is just the Hegelian master/slave dialectic” folder (i.e., the point of using AI is to perform the status of the master, whose frictionless existence is subtended by the friction-full labor of subordinates). AI ‘democratizes’ this position of mastery.

This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird www.404media.co/this-company...

Killingworth New Town, North Tyneside, 1978, photo by Belgian photographer Martine Franck.

Incredible that some Russian gangster profiting from CSAM on the dark web gets banged up but a Valley oligarch just has to cough up the average person equivalent of 50p. The distinction between lawful and black market capitalism is now meaningless.

Let's remember some of history's best analog posters Martin Luther Confucius Equality Phil

Even if Zuckerberg had to pay this fine himself, out of his own personal wealth, it would be the equivalent of me paying about $2,000. For large-scale child exploitation.

Recently re-watched ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974). A film about emotional and physical distance, disconnection, the urban alienation of the second half of the 20th century. The protagonists are always dwarfed by colossal structures, suggesting almost cosmic isolation and homelessness. 1/x

wrote about how tristan und isolde is secretly about power rather than love, about a woman rather than a man, and why you should go see it at the Met immediately if you still can. www.late-review.com/p/loves-bad-...

Morning all. Under the Tyne Bridge, Newcastle, December 1976. Photographer Graham Smith.

Financial markets are 'post-truth' media technologies and always have been. Keynes, Hayek, Lyotard, Mirowski etc etc etc have always known this. The rarity now is that their logic has penetrated to the heart of a very powerful modern government.