Episode 17: Palestine
โResisting Erasureโ authors Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah joined to discuss their mini masterpiece.
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Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
This I think is a big part of the appeal of AI to the oligarchs. Not that it will replace labor or raise profits in general, but that it will specifically replace the labor whose autonomy impinges on them personally.
just namedropped @cominsitu.bsky.social at the bookstore
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in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hรคnel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."
- I have a new essay out, read it here:
www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...
"My decision is not primarily driven by fear of experiencing even a fraction of the humiliation that thousands of so-called 'illegal immigrants,' 'criminals,' or political dissidentsโwrongly branded as 'terrorists'โhave suffered over time. It is, above all, a political decision"
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Did he delete his socials?
Sasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social
I didn't know Josh Clover well, but we did get to do a panel together a couple years back. He said sth then that stuck with me, which is that we should resist analogies with the past to understand the present b/c we need to be open to what's radically new about the now...
There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise."
I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.
So is Carney gonna call in any airstrikes on the illegitimate junta ruling the restive former colonial outpost just across his countryโs southern border? Surely a few well-placed smart bombs will alleviate the destabilizing threat of cross-border skirmishes and territorial encroachment.
might have to make this t-shirt for my girlfriend
I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.
will do this again today
Lโarbre indique que tout est vie.
Jacques Camatte 1935-2025
have you seen Toozeโs review? would love for someone to volley a responseโฆ
Autor Paul Mattick hรคlt sein Buch in Hรคnden: ยปDie Rรผckkehr der Inflation. Geld und Kapital im 21. Jahrhundertยซ, erschienen bei uns.
Paul Mattick: โIt is economic decline, ongoing (through cyclical ups & downs) since the mid-1970s, that limits the welfare spending that it simultaneously makes more necessary, while emptying the globalized economy of its promise of advancement for all.โ Lesenswert: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiel...
Went to see Adam Hanieh talk today. He relayed an anecdote about watching a basketball game in China and being struck by the Saudi Aramco adverts on the sidelinesโฆ a real world-spirit on horseback moment for meโฆ
this is how iโm perceived by my peers
I went to see Raresh DJ last night and spent most of the evening talking about Adam Tooze.
โSon seems compulsively driven to invest larger and larger sums so he can call himself the biggest, most significant, most visionary investor in the world.โ
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on SoftBank and its leader, Masayoshi Son:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
