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This account is for my own amusement - do not follow. Also X. Thanks. Crime Writer Dr of Critical/Cultural Studies p/t Oxford Young Playwright of the Year, Mark Rucker crime series, schizoid, "damn-fine novelist." 95% clear pilled, apparently

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steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 20d

#booksky #writingcommunity

7th and final draft

See you on the other side.

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Yello - The Race (Extended Remix)1988

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steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 2h

French thieves, operating outside the 7th and 16th arrondissements., then.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 4h

the sheer vacuity in the face of that boy is incredible.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 5h

"Delightful, kids. However, if I may critique for a moment this piece of "art" you have brought me in the forelorn hopes of winning my approbation, it doesn't quite have the quality to which I'm accustomed. Have you thought of administration as a future career choice?"

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure this was once said to tristan tzara, as he pulled premade words from a hat:
"Tristan, I appreciate the Dada movement dispelling the function of bourgeois auratic art by demonstrating the wonder accrued in staging and performativity, but I fear you've missed the fun part..."

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 6h

Today, I discovered the plot of Interstellar, so I'll never have to watch anything so mawkishly sentimental.

Hipsterism seems to be having a revival: the "auteur" who swears off using Ai to play with minatures, which - apparently - brings back "the wonder."

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 9h

You're not alone - a fair number of men & women get off on this kind of thing. I could name a number of famous scottish crime novelists who think True Crime is the thing to fill their lives. Surprisingly, I don't share that enthusiasm. Decency & self-respect as a human might share a part in that.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 9h

Well, the victims of true crime haven't died in vain, I guess. They may well have been raped, tortured, punched in the face, kicked, had their lives taken away from them, but at least a Guardian journalist overcame insomnia listening to their brief lives rendered into entertainment.

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steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 9h

I find the descriptive opinions of The Guardian - juiced up on the snarky populist stupidity of the bluesky identity crowd - increasingly frustrating.

I appreciate that articles that dig a little deeper are expensive & time-sensitive, but this is a vapid rage-baiting exercise that's quite tiresome.

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steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 10h

Trump may be delusional, but I doubt even he ever thought the US was ever "a bulwark of democracy and freedom" in its history.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 13h

I can understand that - if you grow up in Basingstoke - you need to keep moving. Indeed, Brighton is likely to have the same effect, in my experience. It must be easy when you've a flat in spain as a base.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 14h

"The basilisk opening" (b4, g1): make your move then outlive your opponent as he sits and ponders.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 14h

"opposition to mass migration."
The longest suicde note for a nation in history.
China will eat you whole if you don't start importing labour.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 14h

I have far less problem with this than the depiction of "the third world" used to prop up a patronising, neo-colonialist story for the last forty years - usually involving sudanese holding out a hand.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Sarkozy minds.
Though he may when there's a knock on the cell door and the upper bunk is offered to Pierre-Edouard Stérin later in the year.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

One might further argue - as with most technological upheavals (as Fichte and Marx note of fixed vs variable costs), new technologies augur a period (less of plutocrats) and more of democratisation. Again, perhaps not your area: you carry on, though. I wish you well at your uni studies.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

previous forms of art/media and its context. Perhaps you see no value in modern art, or - as with Ai - are wilfully ignorant of the subjecti, Pippa. However, from a cultural standpoint, it's the moment when the auratic sublime of bourgois art was undermined for politics within art.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

Ai is great, though oddly - as an author - you appear incredibly uncurious (ie. you appear to think Ai is a threat to you as a writer).

Regarding technology more generally, note that modern art, from the fin de siecle of Vienna on, has been self-reflexive and endebted to a conversation with

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

one of nature's mistakes.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

probably because it is so awful.

it reduces genetic diversity & makes the population more vulnerable, with the energetic cost of maintaining two reproductive systems. As self-fertilization it is the most extreme form of inbreeding and incredibly bad for its offspring.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

not that surprising - subaltern diaspiras tend to focus on nationalisms, and Reform's dog-whistle politics against Pakistan communities will be in favour. Once again, we need to dissect identity politics and its nascent populism.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

and stop dropping by on UK newspapers - they clearly upset you, and you're somewhat inconsequential as a living organism, so you won't be missed.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

maybe play in the road today.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

it's written by two american journalists for the US version of TheGuardian. Get a grip.

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steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

however, the premise of "murder" is undercut by the presumption of human subjectivity, and ignoring long-term systemic violence on the environment.

Something that Stone would dispute as a useful starting premise.

steve keeller @keellerinstinct5.bsky.social · 1d

maybe.
It's not a new argument: 8mins-10mins

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Christopher Stone: Do Trees Have Standing?

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