ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
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Dangerous people!
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The atomic energy mainly, combined with Kant.
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Jesus this bookshelf ought to be enough to send someone to jail
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rearrange things a little and you're here
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That's the way. Those housewives know things.
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Speaking of, here's my grandfather's portrait of Scott Camil. Ppl can read a snippet with him here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bud19...
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Your patriotic duty, even
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Do you happen to know if much of this sort of dissident material is available in English? Even from earlier? I do a chunk in world history on Mosaddegh and the coup but don't really have the kind of primary sources I'd like.
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They for sure get radicalized but usually, unfortunately, not to the left. I know there was for a bit a veteran's caucus or similar within the DSA, but I'm not where all that is at the moment
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They are also often being more or less screwed over by the United States of America
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www.metopera.org/season/2025-...
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There's going to be or is an opera version!
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Really seems like an "I won't because you're trying to make me" type of decision
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Maybe, but not most of the cars in Kansas.
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I guess Americans need control?
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It seems a reasonable thing
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they should be again a thing
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If it's always on, it's just background noise! Which, maybe that's what a person wants or needs, but for me I would rather not.
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This is one reason Baudelaire remains relevant
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Ah hah! Yes, this is excellent, thank you!
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people want desperately to be in control of the meaning of their own language, which we are not, and so they reject the instability and multiplicity that is also, in fact, essential to all successful literary language. that'd be my suggestion anyway.
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Of course Pluto and AK I should have thought about! Especially for the person asking Pluto would make sense. I don't know Ill Will at all -- thank you!
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(I am asking for a friend!)
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My friend was stuck outside!
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About the French name, I'm not sure! That's interesting! Welles for sure has narratives like this -- the Time Machine is also about the biologization of class -- but I think it's a much less surprising way of thinking by the later 19th century.
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he's a bit skeptical for sure. deflationary. it does make me want to read the Nelson book.
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next proposition here would be, and i'm on thin ice, that in the recent past robot narratives have been used by major media that want a sort of liberal colorblind civil rights allegory -- that don't really want to think too hard about it. as opposed to *Sorry to Bother You*, for instance!
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Right?! I would want to follow some citations to see what we really are talking about though -- seems like some undated fragments in S's papers.
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I do think there's something specific about the biological aspect of it -- the notion of not just a race but a species of servants. a different set of anxieties/desires are activated.
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exactly
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It was not something I'd heard of before
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But in an unpublished and undated fragment!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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It's really such a *satisfying* movie