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The fascist spectacle is the point.

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“And so yeah, he just has the chef burn his steak and…mon dieu…just starts hurling ketchup on it.”

On restorative justice. An act of violence [against my flat mate/friend during a break-in at our home] also ended the lives of his parents. But something good can come out of horror. Fantastic piece of journalism. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...

our Mother she hungers

I have to say I'm disappointed the Criterion Channel didn't take the opportunity to highlight women directors in March for women's history month. They could even have used the films they already had. So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.

I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik

Is Space Karen just Liz Truss with boosters?

Melania Trump Holds Paint Swatches Up Against Bellowing Void

Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGv... Good practical discussion of the theoretical distinction between positive and negative freedom.

So sad. So disgusting. So infuriating. The EU will disintegrate in the face of this if a decent, humane and publicly argued for solution is not found. The inhumane and indecent Right will certainly not allow everyone to keep looking the other way. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“The end-point of which is the depraved, low-tech murderous assault in which violence is not so much a means as an end in itself… and in which the border between the “political” and the “mentally disturbed” becomes almost impossible to discern.” My Observer column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#philosophy #Nietzsche

And for the New Year, a somewhat uncurated list some of the books I’m looking forward to in the next couple of months:

Argues that Neo-Liberals have never sought to abolish/limit the state. Instead, global institutions aimed at restricting anything like national democratic interference in market [pre]conditions have been constructed. Next question: how to challenge it without collapsing into populist nationalism?

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