this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.

@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.

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Issue Five is in production and will be coming soon to our website and the doorsteps of our subscribers!

IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!

one of the reasons i cover such a broad scope of topics - e.g. gaming, politics, protest/movement journo, genocide, sports, technology, just to name a few - is because these issues aren't independent of each other, at all

every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵

this manifests in me taking it to it logical conclusions in anarchism & the theory that informs it. i know many MLs may roll their eyes at that (i implore you to read anarchist theory, especially anarchist economic theory - see @strangemattersmag.bsky.social), but its the truth of my views.

I do feel a bit bitter at people who were like, "oh it's not fascism if you can say it's fascism."

Now you can't. yay?

Walk into any bookstore and the #book #titles aren’t just bad, they’re outrageously bad; and they’re not just outrageously bad, but outrageously bad in very much the same way.
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Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Labor day 2021 was a breaking point for me, I am still working on building myself back up to a fully functional human being 😅
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I liked this profile by Mary Steffenhagen in @strangemattersmag.bsky.social of @iwriteok.bsky.social

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appreciate yall so much <3 - i have an even bigger project im part of with @transnews.network that yall may be interested in checking out ;)

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So exciting to see one of our writers launch a new and urgent publication. Congrats @thefreeradical.org!

You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2:

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Great discussion, looking forward to digging into @htwvmag.bsky.social and placing it on my shelf next to @strangemattersmag.bsky.social and Long Haul (longhaulmag dot com)

One thing about the post-Covid crash in legitimately popular (if niche) small businesses & third places:
it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.

More people need to read Quinn Soutar's essay "The Socio-Material Lens" in Strange Matters @strangemattersmag.bsky.social

got a bunch of more or less explicitly antifascist poems up at Strange Matters, including one on Webern and this short piece below.

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But we shouldn't mistake this rage for self-loathing. Berlatsky is clearly full of affection & good humor for the traditions in which he was raised -- see his wordplay meditation on the nature of the law. He dreams of other ways out of our conditions but bombs & ethnic cleansing.

But classical fascism isn't his only target. As a Jewish man, Berlatsky is filled with rage at the atrocities now being committed in his name.

This bursts forth in the explosively titled "Shoah Bonus Round," a denunciation worthy of a prophet of the misuses of collective memory.

The poems are a mix of satire, elegy, & history. Few worthy targets escape their bite.

In the modernist composer Anton Weber, who had fascist sympathies but was banned by the Nazis, Berlatsky finds a sharp analogy to our own artists-gone-chud. Ironies abound at each line break.

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What does Jewish identity mean to Jews -- along w/ the Holocaust, fascism, & modernism -- in light of the ascent of authoritarianism & the genocide in Gaza?

@nberlat.bsky.social has brought the full force of his mordant, piercing poetry to bear on the matter.

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Tbh I kinda expected this, I think it’s a way bigger indictment of the military leadership that there has been zero resignations or statements