Gosh. It's almost as if capitalism is not in fact a totally rational and seamless system.
12.03.2026 09:51
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Gosh. It's almost as if capitalism is not in fact a totally rational and seamless system.
oh of course Kinder Bueno!!! sweet!
tap in you can hear me rant about how much I love Erica Benner’s Machiavelli books lol
ohhh it has a Spanish name? Bueno means Good!! lovely!!
finally uploaded! my shared reading session at
@crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social with Imogen, on the great insights of Rabea Eghbariah's proposal for Nakba as legal concept. Today when illegality and war are brutally deployed we need critical Jurisprudence! www.patreon.com/posts/rabea-...
Saint Nick
NEW:
Critique of the Podcast Form, Episode 14: Discussing the Discorsi
www.patreon.com/posts/152308...
NEW FROM CRITIQUE OF THE PODCAST FORM:
A User's Guide to Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism
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Economic Rights Are No Substitute for Egalitarian Justice jacobin.com/2026/02/char...
NEW:
Imogen, Sebastian, and Sam discuss Situationism as a vindication of Hegelian Marxism and a critique of reified life through its various forms of appearance: artistic production, urban planning, and student life.
www.patreon.com/posts/150114...
@crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social Detourn the detourneours situate de situationist! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
POD EP10: Esther & Sebastian discuss Bloch’s 1932 fragment Nonsychronism & the Obligation to its Dialectics, a text that “takes its place inappropriately” (Benjamin)—on revolutions past, reaction present, & utopias future!
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A single page brochure advertising a small workshop on Adorno titled “Adorno & communism?” tackling new translations of his work. The schedule is: Feb 23: Adorno and Horkheimer's "On the Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party" James Crane. Emory University Mar 9: Adornos Philosophical Terminology, Lecture 42 (Jake Orbison, UC Berkeley) Mar 17: Adornos Contra Paulum (James Crane, Emory University) Apr6: Adorno's "Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory" Chris O'Kane) All sessions at 5 pm pst. RSVP via the QR code for Zoom link and reading
Excited about having had this conversation with comrade Sebastian on working through the past with Ernst Bloch's reflecting on various issues: delay and simultaneity, time out of joint, and floating timelines colliding in the Now Time! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
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Frontispice to a 1974 exhibition publication for ‘Kunst im 3. Reich’ showing a quote from Max Horkheimer which reads: ‘Wer vom Faschismus spricht, darf vom Kapitalismus nicht schweigen.’
IL discourse as Taylor Swift songs
this law is good this law is bad this law is alive back from the dead oh oh oh
I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be
www.jungewelt.de/artikel/5154...
history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as ‘what if we can use international law as a tool’
And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed.
"We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."
A typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96: POEM AT DAWN" reads, "Empire is its own undoing." The author, Diane di Prima, is credited below the poem. The text appears on a plain white background.
Sadly thinking about Costaguana Nostromo and needing to read Fredric Jameson on Joseph Conrad...
“Journalists who declare themselves exempt from the influence of historiography are often the captives of some defunct historian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
3. Klasse als moralische Verletzung
über die moralische Verletzung durch die Klasse und deren Bezug zur Anerkennungstheorie und zu marxistischen Klassentheorien
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 73 (2):246-263
philpapers.org/rec/BLUKAM
7. Class as Moral Injury
on the subjective experience of class as a form of constant vulnerability to harm, humiliation, and indignity
In: Hänel & Schuppert, Understanding Social Struggles (transcript) pp. 49-64.
philpapers.org/rec/BLUCAM-2
1. I screamed into the endless void.
Critiques and critics: never more necessary than now!
Join us @qmul in London’s East End on Friday 23rd January afternoon for the launch of our new centre
as we think/practice the mobilisation of critique anew
This will be a somewhat didactic post, but as much as possible, it really is the time to make sure you’ve a robust account of racism, sexism, ableism, and so on. Study the history thoughtfully and abandon easy notions, especially with the return of race science. It’s returning for a reason.
New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu
Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars?
This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests.
academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
New paper, “Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object,” now out in the OUP Handbook of Adorno www.academia.edu/143573230/Ad...
don’t remember if i posted here or not but here’s a snippet from Adorno’s letter to Horkheimer in the middle of their worst fight (1935) where A goes “By the way I LOVED Dämmerung if you even still care…” lol
