Thoughts upon reading Jacek Dukaj's monumental novel ICE: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2011

RIP Udo Kier.

I finished reading THE ROSE FIELD. It marks a milestone, as I now have read through @philippullman.bsky.social Philip Pullman's six volumes about Lyra Belacqua. All wonderful, and much needed in these dark times. www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

New blog posting: on Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2006

New blog entry, on Philip Pullman: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=2004

Ralph Nader interviews Roddey Reid about Roddey's new book on political bullying: www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-era-of...

New blog posting: a review of Jo Isaacson's brilliant new book on the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1999

Roddey Reid’s book, now revised and expanded, is the best text I have found that not only grasps the full meaning of Trump, but places him in the context of American business culture. Be afraid. roddeyreid.squarespace.com/new-book-1

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Just made a Facebook posting that may get me into trouble (as has happened to me once before). But I felt like I had to say it.

New blog posting: on Cassandra Khaw's The Library at Hellebore: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1996

Book review: MINDS IN TRANSIT by Joan Slonczewski shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1993

New blog entry: Charlie Jane Anders' forthcoming novel, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1990

I wrote a brief review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new science fiction novel SHROUD: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1987

Roddey Reid on political intimidation and bullying in the age of Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPY8...

"(T)he retreat of morals in the presence of music, and of dancing, and the general gaiety of the theatre, is a fact very interesting to philosophers and very puzzling to the official censors." -- A.N. Whitehead, 'Modes of Thought'

New blog entry: Donald Trump is not conscious shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1979

New book review: Adrian Tchaikovsky's sf novel SHROUD: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Just signed a contract to publish a book on the movie NEPTUNE FROST in Bloomsbury's Timecodes: Films MInute By Minute series. @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.

RIP Souleymane Cissé, great film director from Mali. HIs 1987 YEELEN, the only film of his I have seen, is extraordinary. He made other films as well, which I hope to get a chance to see.

"Rolling back 'DEI policies'... is really just a code for no longer hiring Black people." -- Elie Mystal

David Johansen aged with grace from his rock star glory into a position as one of popular music's most jovial preservationists. Now he needs help. My heart hurst knowing of his struggles; he's one of the greats www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...

Trump’s policy is best understood as inverse affirmative action: he seeks to punish and penalize any business that fails to exclusively hire and favor white men.

Confession: I have never quite grasped the mystique of Pink Floyd.

In response to the exorbitant fee imposed by corporate publishers to reprint their own work, neuroscientist Germán Sierra and literary theorist Andrew C. Wenaus devise a radical strategy to bypass the neoliberal logic of access and ownership... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEi...

This is more like an expression than a word. But it is VERY important to know if you're learning Hungarian. 😆 árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép - it means flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine. You need to know this because it is an expression that includes all the Hungarian diacritics in one handy place.

Zipf Maneuvers: On Non-Reprintable Materials Andrew C. Wenaus & Germán Sierra with an intro by Steven Shaviro *out today* www.erratumpress.com/zipf-maneuvers @germansierra.bsky.social @sshaviro.bsky.social

Potential title for my spiritual autobiography: From Binswangerian Verstiegenheit to Reconstructionist Sabbateanism

Coming very soon: Zipf Maneouvers. On Non-Reprintable Materials Special thanks to Andrew C. Wenaus, @sshaviro.bsky.social & @erratumpress.bsky.social erratumpress.com/zipf-maneuvers

next up at the #OpenAccess Academic Division... ZIPF MANEUVERS by Andrew C. Wenaus & @germansierra.bsky.social w. an intro by @sshaviro.bsky.social *out 7 Jan* 'a work of conceptual protest that challenges the commodification of knowledge in academic publishing'

16 Kislev (sunset Dec 16-sunset Dec 17) is a major Sabbatean festival

From the archives: Steven Shaviro and Graham Harman - 2015 Whitehead Research Project Conference @sshaviro.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social

I am unhappy that Facebook is having technical issues today, because I rely on it for so much of my social life. But at the same time, it is always important to remember that technological transparency is fragile and cannot really be trusted. It tends to break down.

Interesting that Hanukkah and Kwanzaa coincide this year.

Three cats, three levels.

RIP Tatjana Pavlović (1964-2024)

Weird how lots of people have attacked me on Facebook because I said that I found it "disconcerting" that Cormac McCarthy had had an infatuation with, and sex with, a 16-year-old girl. Apparently feeling "disconcerted" means that I am romanticizing and defending pedophilia.

HAPPY SPINOZA'S BIRTHDAY!!

As Edward G Robinson asks in Key Largo: "What's worse, a dummy or a wise guy?"

This is a work of sheer genius: a (mock) scientific essay, "Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn", which actually got published in a highly-ranked medical journal: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Since Tr*mp named the head of a fracking company as his Secretary of Energy, I ought to link to my own talk/essay on "Magical Fracking": www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oqsiv...

My review, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social , of the newly-published collection of essays by the late David Graeber: lareviewofbooks.org/article/anar...

New FKA twigs song and video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PDi...

New blog posting: on the sf novella WAVE WITHOUT A SHORE by C J Cherryh: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1962