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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 8d

Marx saw the issue of censorship as central to his critique of the economic system.

Read more here on Revol Press's substack: revolpress.substack.com/p/marx-and-c...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 9d

We did it! Thank you 🙏

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 9d

We're all going to capitalist hell

Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · 9d

Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 9d

Just need 6 more folk to sign up free for Strange Exiles to hit 1k on Substack. If you're not already on the list, hit the link, drop your email. I'll be ghosting all social media soon, so get involved if you want to follow my writing! 🙏

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 13d

This looks utterly compelling but will be a tough watch for me as a person who has struggled a great deal with my bipolar. It's cost me so much, on a personal level. But this sounds like an outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking.

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In Whose Name? | Teaser Trailer | Only In Theaters September 19

YouTube video by In Whose Name?

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Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1.bsky.social · 15d

New essay. From triumphal 1990s ideas about an American century underpinned by Internet power, to the mid-2010s belief that social media was a “global conversation,” to mid-2020s anxieties about communication breakdowns and civil war. open.substack.com/pub/paroxysm...

Managing the Global Discourse

Care, Content Moderation, and Cultural Imperialism

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 15d

My first piece for Discontent dropped today, drawing on the philosophy of Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Slavoj Žižek and Julie Reshe.

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Against 'Morality': How moral certainties subvert ideology

Subverting Ideology

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · 16d

See on the Revol Press substack a transcript of a talk by Mark Fisher on education and capitalism, given at the MACRO museum, Rome, in 2013.

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Towards a Free Education: Conference Speech Transcript – Mark Fisher (2013)

The late Mark Fisher on neoliberalism, education, and the task of rebuilding the left to counteract capitalist realism.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 16d

I sort of understand why happy escapist bullshit dominates the cultural landscape at the moment, and the notion that expressing joy is a political act in dark times. But I also hope doomer / depressive / transgressive aesthetics come back before I'm too old to make new art.

a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

ALT: a man is dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 21d

I was on This Is Revolution today with the homie Jason Myles talking left wing publishing, the far right clown show, protest, mental health and more. Watch it back! 💥

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Left Publishing in the Trump Era ft. Mike and Bram from Revol Press

YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 23d

My latest essay on the Poll Tax riot, the anti-Iraq War marches, and why we need to rethink how we protest in order to beat the rise of the far right.

Now on the Revol Press blog:
revolpress.substack.com/p/lost-arts-...

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Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social · Sep 8

📚🪐🧐💙📚🖋️📚⏰
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Steve Aylett on the Quest for Originality

In a new interview ( click here ), British author Steve Aylett discusses his current project The Heart of the Original. Here are a few li...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Sep 4

👻 NEW EPISODE! 👻 I talk to writer and artist Robert Shepherd about his essay series 'Our Ghost', plus memes, Marxism, Doctor Who, and his thoughts on our dystopian AI future.

🎧 bit.ly/strangex41
📚 strangeexiles.substack.com

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · Sep 2

People look to social media to assert themselves, but to what degree does it undermine their subjectivity, reducing them to object status? An excerpt from Mike Watson's 'Hungry Ghosts in the Machine'

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Nietzsche and the Nihilism of Shitposting

People look to social media to assert themselves, but to what degree does it undermine their subjectivity, reducing them to object status? An excerpt from Mike Watson's 'Hungry Ghosts in the Machine'

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Sep 2

A podcast about ideas, identity and ideology. This is Strange Exiles⏳

bit.ly/strangex40 Tish & Adam Turl
bit.ly/strangex39 Simon Copland
bit.ly/strangex38 Chris Kelso
bit.ly/strangex37 Brad Kelly

... more soon

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Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com · Sep 1

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What the volcano told us

Things go south. Naples, August 2025.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Sep 1

Storm in a teacup maybe 🤣

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Sep 1

People need to stop appropriating my name. On the other hand, I am full of hot air

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks for all the great feedback, questions and arguments this post has generated in comments and DMs! 🙏

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 26

NEW ESSAY FOR REVOL PRESS! Just over a year since I published The Darkest Timeline, a book that took a deep dive into the idea of “the end of the world.” Did I predict things accurately?

Thanks to Revol and @mikerwatson.bsky.social 👇

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Bram E. Gieben: Farther down 'The Darkest Timeline'

One year on from the publication of his book on our dystopian present and dark future, the author and critic asks - have things gotten worse?

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Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · Aug 19

I answer some interview questions on the Revol Press substack about the future of publishing in general, and what Revol plans next.

I also talk about how we stay out of divisive left mudslinging:

revolpress.substack.com/p/running-an...

Illustration: Vladan Jeremic

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Running an independent left press today: Interview with Mike Watson

Revol Press founder Mike Watson talks about left publishing, the future of the press, and what it means to be genuinely independent. Plus, what's coming next...

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 20

On the escalation of fascist tendencies in US politics, from my conversation with @bornagainlabor.bsky.social on the latest Strange Exiles 🚩 bit.ly/strangex40

Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 19

The gaffer at Revol, pulling nae punches 💥

Mike Watson @mikerwatson.bsky.social · Aug 19

I answer some interview questions on the Revol Press substack about the future of publishing in general, and what Revol plans next.

I also talk about how we stay out of divisive left mudslinging:

revolpress.substack.com/p/running-an...

Illustration: Vladan Jeremic

w/ @bramegieben.bsky.social

Running an independent left press today: Interview with Mike Watson

Revol Press founder Mike Watson talks about left publishing, the future of the press, and what it means to be genuinely independent. Plus, what's coming next...

revolpress.substack.com

Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 19

Underrated.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · Aug 18

What if you could send #ElonMusk back in time to kill all the baby versions of himself before he became a capitalist monster? Tish and Adam Turl aka @bornagainlabor.bsky.social on why we need to legalize time travel, from the latest Strange Exiles⏳ bit.ly/strangex40