Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
Semiotics of Brunswick.
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Semiotics of Brunswick.
Companies deploying McCarthyism and working with far Right groups against organised labor really has a long history.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Companies deploying McCarthyism and working with far Right groups against organised labor really has a long history.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
Excerpt from the ‘News of the Field' section of the July 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), which hopefully speak for and against itself.
This is an excerpt from public evidence given by Harold Scruby, CEO of the Pedestrian Council of Australia Ltd, at the WA Community Development and Justice Standing Committee ‘Inquiry into the safety regulation and penalties associated with the use of eRideables’ on 13 August 2025.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is an excerpt from public evidence given by Harold Scruby, CEO of the Pedestrian Council of Australia Ltd, at the WA Community Development and Justice Standing Committee ‘Inquiry into the safety regulation and penalties associated with the use of eRideables’ on 13 August 2025.
Just for the record, that's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just for the record, that's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
Though he did write this in a letter from 15 April 1945:
That's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
That's not a real quote from Eisenhower.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
That's not a real quote.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
That's not a real quote.
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Though he did write this in a 15 April 1945 letter:
Incidentally, I just came across this in the 30 September 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Incidentally, I just came across this in the 30 September 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
From the 18 February 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
From the 18 February 1926 edition of The Black Dispatch.
How J. E. T. Philipps described opposition to colonial domination in South Africa, in ‘The Tide of Colour: I. Pan-Africa and Anti-White’, from the January 1922 issue of the Journal of the Royal African Society.
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How J. E. T. Philipps described opposition to colonial domination in South Africa, in ‘The Tide of Colour: I. Pan-Africa and Anti-White’, from the January 1922 issue of the Journal of the Royal African Society.
But of course that's exactly what happened constantly, and exactly the form colonial propaganda often took.
Anti-colonial struggles were presented as manifestations of anti-white racism fostered by conspiracies of communists and radical black people.
These were routine, mainstream positions.
Anti-colonial struggles were presented as manifestations of anti-white racism fostered by conspiracies of communists and radical black people.
These were routine, mainstream positions.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
But of course that's exactly what happened constantly, and exactly the form colonial propaganda often took.
Anti-colonial struggles were presented as manifestations of anti-white racism fostered by conspiracies of communists and radical black people.
These were routine, mainstream positions.
Anti-colonial struggles were presented as manifestations of anti-white racism fostered by conspiracies of communists and radical black people.
These were routine, mainstream positions.
Imagine if the struggles of those violently oppressed and exploited by colonial powers were simply dismissed as the backwards bigotry of colonized people against their betters.
From 1922.
From 1922.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Imagine if the struggles of those violently oppressed and exploited by colonial powers were simply dismissed as the backwards bigotry of colonized people against their betters.
From 1922.
From 1922.
In the early 20th century, pseudo-scientific racisms were so hegemonic that even nominal liberal dissidents often ended up accepting some of the core assumptions.
From the New York Times, reproduced in the ‘Notes and Comment’ section of the October 1923 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
From the New York Times, reproduced in the ‘Notes and Comment’ section of the October 1923 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
In the early 20th century, pseudo-scientific racisms were so hegemonic that even nominal liberal dissidents often ended up accepting some of the core assumptions.
From the New York Times, reproduced in the ‘Notes and Comment’ section of the October 1923 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
From the New York Times, reproduced in the ‘Notes and Comment’ section of the October 1923 issue of The Catholic Historical Review.
A while ago, I came across this, in Frederick A. Ogg’s ‘Personal and Miscellaneous’ column in the December 1933 issue of The American Political Science Review.
There's a long history of states seeking to control the curriculum, makeup and expression of academia.
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
There's a long history of states seeking to control the curriculum, makeup and expression of academia.
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A while ago, I came across this, in Frederick A. Ogg’s ‘Personal and Miscellaneous’ column in the December 1933 issue of The American Political Science Review.
There's a long history of states seeking to control the curriculum, makeup and expression of academia.
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
There's a long history of states seeking to control the curriculum, makeup and expression of academia.
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
So it doesn't seem unreasonable when prisoners talk about having to calculate the risks of resistance to their health both physical and mental, such as in this excerpt from a much longer letter by a prisoner on hunger strike at the time.
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
So it doesn't seem unreasonable when prisoners talk about having to calculate the risks of resistance to their health both physical and mental, such as in this excerpt from a much longer letter by a prisoner on hunger strike at the time.
On Prolixin, an excerpt from Frank Rundle’s ‘The Dilemma of a Prison Doctor’, in the November 1973 issue of The Hastings Center Report.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
On Prolixin, an excerpt from Frank Rundle’s ‘The Dilemma of a Prison Doctor’, in the November 1973 issue of The Hastings Center Report.
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Here's one description of this ‘treatment’, quoted in Stanley J. Dirks, ‘Aversion Therapy: Its Limited Potential for Use in the Correctional Setting’, from the June 1974 issue of Stanford Law Review.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here's one description of this ‘treatment’, quoted in Stanley J. Dirks, ‘Aversion Therapy: Its Limited Potential for Use in the Correctional Setting’, from the June 1974 issue of Stanford Law Review.
doi.org/10.2307/1227...
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Possibly not a surprise when breaking the will of prisoners seemed “intractable” was very much a purpose of such centers.
This is an excerpt from one letter.
This is an excerpt from one letter.
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Possibly not a surprise when breaking the will of prisoners seemed “intractable” was very much a purpose of such centers.
This is an excerpt from one letter.
This is an excerpt from one letter.
And here's a media statement from 3 December 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
And here's a media statement from 3 December 2025.
Excerpt from the Insecurity Insight report on 'Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (12-25 November 2025)' released on 3 December 2025.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Excerpt from the Insecurity Insight report on 'Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (12-25 November 2025)' released on 3 December 2025.
So ‘H.W.A.’ on the failure of mainstream Australian Right attempts to outlaw the Communist Party and the success of often far Right-adjacent efforts to squeeze out the Left from much of the trade union leadership, in a report on 'The Australian Scene’ in the February 1954 issue of The World Today.
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
So ‘H.W.A.’ on the failure of mainstream Australian Right attempts to outlaw the Communist Party and the success of often far Right-adjacent efforts to squeeze out the Left from much of the trade union leadership, in a report on 'The Australian Scene’ in the February 1954 issue of The World Today.
A few of these wild parrots became very comfortable around us.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A few of these wild parrots became very comfortable around us.
One of my favourite photos of some of the wild sulphur-crested cockatoos who used to visit my former home.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One of my favourite photos of some of the wild sulphur-crested cockatoos who used to visit my former home.
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Excerpt from Martin Heidegger writing in one of his black notebooks in the Fall of 1932 - this one published in English as Ponderings III - in the midst of reflections on ‘ethical materialism’ and the Nazis.
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Excerpt from a letter about the support of Austrian Catholic bishops for fascism, which appeared in the 1 April 1938 edition of The Catholic Worker.