naipaul was very misogynistic but I wonder if his claim that no female writer was on his level was a deep insecurity because jean rhys was right there, in his backyard, blowing him up

although it’s set around WWII they way TrinidadIan’s use “man“ is like post-60s. especially shama, biswas’ wife I don’t know the socio-linguistics specifically but I wonder if the usage of “man“ comes from a west indian influence

my stupid roommate is back, putting her stupid butt on everything 😌

The greatest rock music has ever been

🙄 call me when there’s a rock band as interesting as laibach

It’s not very often I feel warmly of my country, especially as an indigenous person, but the return of the isis brides instead of making them stateless is one of these times

Conspiracy? Man, why don’t people read the field of cultural production? This is standard practice since the salon days of flaubert, as bourdieu outlines

More of Zola along this line of thought from the Fortune of the Rougons

A marx footnote i was admiring recently. Hbd 👑

this guy is letting nixon off the hook, smh

scott is a very funny writer, you should buy his books

nothing has changed, depressingly

Whenever I see a Polanski headline i keep briefly thinking the director is a politician now

The French have to read Germinal in high school, so rioting as a cultural institution makes more sense

Emile “blood is good for the crops” Zola going full folk horror

Zola is pretty good at the hang out novel

Man, everywhere you look, the peasants have been very successful in abolishing themselves

It is crazy that the bourgeoise script about poor people hasn’t evolved one bit in over 200 years

john sayles should do a germinal movie

Ofc people complicit in this would reject the framing, lol i didn’t think that needed to be said

It’s a very personal accusation for me. I was ostracised from internet poetry and even closed the magazine I built up for 4 years over fascist entryism and it was a very thankless job as my peers prioritised networking and publishing. They culturally washed fascism but I’m the problem once again?

I’ve been involved with anti-fascist organising on and off since I was a teenager. governments have dragged their feet over anti-fascism for decades but now those same anti-fascists are blamed for antisemitism is really sick

Once again, anti-genocide protest is accused of being the reason for attacks on jews instead of zionism linking the state of israel with a world religion 🙄

Man, Zola really loved huge, honking titties

Trap lore Ross doing adverts for ambulance chasers now? crazy work

speaking of asinine, check out this man who fell to earth with a bowie low cover I found today

this shit has to be the most asinine way to talk about books

I’ll say it again, the mets have the most suicidal fanbase in sports

today's operational report

Marinetti would have loved the Palantir manifesto

Someone needs to write something on the Oulipo influence on game-books

guys who link cologne with being grown up have real three kids in a trench-coat energy

a poem by the patron saint of situationist trash poets mario santiago papasquiaro

One of the goats 🫡 40k in gahenna and cyteen are two of the best

“the toilets don't fucking work right / there's too much godam shit in this office /“ by turns Ashbery meets Rabelais!

The only pleasure in the coming fascism will be watching those who helped it flourish culturally suffer under it

Re-reading Zola, it’s striking at how unoriginal Celine is, for all the proclamations of genius he gets

Is nobody is immune to Frank O'Hara's charms? Here he is allowing the late great J H Prynne to talk seriously about pleasure & fun – and the place of these, with misery & terror, in the dialectical work of poetry: 'the pursuit of fun was a fragile affair... your friends kept falling by the wayside'.

Any ex service member protesting in favour of the war criminal should have their service records very thoroughly investigated

cool band

somebody, please. translate clouscard! I really want to know how he develops lucien goldmann and wolfgang haug without having to learn french 😭

wtf, why does it take for goodreads to ban you? lol

liberals will never beat the fascism charges

people who attend anzac services are anti-koori racists? say it ain’t so lol idk why people are surprised

the only poem about missiles that I’ve ever read!

hell yeah, as much as i hate the new penguin design, the classic la range is re-issuing all of b traven

I'm taking part in a global time-slip PK Dick festival, on Sunday, tomorrow, talking about cyberpunk, around 10:30 California time with John Shirley and Cody Goodfellow. www.philipkdickfest.com/telethon

I mean, we can’t even talk about brodernistas and big dumb meme books without people losing it we‘re a long way away from being able to talk about how bestsellers are not organic

I think we shouldn’t rule out western marxism being used by intelligence agencies, there’s a whole lot of sus shit in how academics are used in security interests I don’t think it follows that individuals were willing collaborators or that their work isnt valuable in political emancipation