David
@cityhobgoblin.bsky.social
'Culture is ordinary: that is where we must start.'
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I wrote something on communist eccentricity and the music of Robert Wyatt, also featuring Georg Lukacs, the British New Left, jazz, anti-psychiatry and nonsense writing. You can read it here: echolaliaposts.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/a...
As Mad as any Hatter: The Communist Eccentricity of Robert Wyatt
In April 2012, I went to see Tony Herrington interview the musician Robert Wyatt at Café Oto in Dalston. All these years later I can still remember quite a lot of what Wyatt said, for example about…
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December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wrote something on communist eccentricity and the music of Robert Wyatt, also featuring Georg Lukacs, the British New Left, jazz, anti-psychiatry and nonsense writing. You can read it here: echolaliaposts.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/a...
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Some isotopes from the Otto Neurath (knowledge for all) exhibit in Vienna
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some isotopes from the Otto Neurath (knowledge for all) exhibit in Vienna
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his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one)
December 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one)
They should invent a social media app where you can meet people who share your interests while staying in touch with your friends 👍
December 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They should invent a social media app where you can meet people who share your interests while staying in touch with your friends 👍
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this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
I wrote something on communist eccentricity and the music of Robert Wyatt, also featuring Georg Lukacs, the British New Left, jazz, anti-psychiatry and nonsense writing. You can read it here: echolaliaposts.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/a...
As Mad as any Hatter: The Communist Eccentricity of Robert Wyatt
In April 2012, I went to see Tony Herrington interview the musician Robert Wyatt at Café Oto in Dalston. All these years later I can still remember quite a lot of what Wyatt said, for example about…
echolaliaposts.wordpress.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wrote something on communist eccentricity and the music of Robert Wyatt, also featuring Georg Lukacs, the British New Left, jazz, anti-psychiatry and nonsense writing. You can read it here: echolaliaposts.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/a...
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The Palestine Action proscription is a signature Starmer move: overreach, double down, lose the debate
August 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Palestine Action proscription is a signature Starmer move: overreach, double down, lose the debate
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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This is great from @attackerman.bsky.social on how Zohran’s opponents tried to use the politics of 9/11 against him - and it didn’t work. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is great from @attackerman.bsky.social on how Zohran’s opponents tried to use the politics of 9/11 against him - and it didn’t work. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
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This is 25 year old Parnia Abassi. She was an English teacher and a poet. She was killed alongside her younger brother and parents in Israel's attacks on residential areas in Iran last night.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
June 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is 25 year old Parnia Abassi. She was an English teacher and a poet. She was killed alongside her younger brother and parents in Israel's attacks on residential areas in Iran last night.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.
Not to mention the other resources that made the artistic breakthroughs of mid century possible: free time, cheap housing, a whole middle layer of cultural organisations and institutions that has since been burned through
Death is a fact of life, but in the death of recent musicians like Sly Stone and Brian Wilson there is also a matter of mourning the fact that the conditions that gave rise to them no longer exist. The age of streaming does not seem to support musicians at all, let alone innovative ones.
June 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Not to mention the other resources that made the artistic breakthroughs of mid century possible: free time, cheap housing, a whole middle layer of cultural organisations and institutions that has since been burned through
Hatherley on impeccable form here tbh
www.patreon.com/posts/131173... this is the podcast that 2017 Left Twitter was waiting for. Better late than never.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hatherley on impeccable form here tbh
RIP Brian Wilson, king of the coda
June 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
RIP Brian Wilson, king of the coda
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Free Greta now 🇸🇪
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Free Greta now 🇸🇪
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free david, free union siblings, free workers, free them
rallies tomorrow all over and growing (use the map to find yours)
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rallies tomorrow all over and growing (use the map to find yours)
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#FreeDavidEndRaids
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocat...
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June 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
free david, free union siblings, free workers, free them
rallies tomorrow all over and growing (use the map to find yours)
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
rallies tomorrow all over and growing (use the map to find yours)
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
Sorry, you can't call Trump a fascist one minute and then complain about the 'violence' in LA the next. This uprising is the first encouraging news from the US in years
June 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sorry, you can't call Trump a fascist one minute and then complain about the 'violence' in LA the next. This uprising is the first encouraging news from the US in years
Are they going to reissue that collection of Brechts poetry or what? It seems like the only thing you can get in English is a very slim selected poems
June 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Are they going to reissue that collection of Brechts poetry or what? It seems like the only thing you can get in English is a very slim selected poems
Read the first couple pages of that Abundance book. Leaving aside the blandness of liberal utopia (star trek technology supports the same old social relations): if you think you're getting any of that stuff without some kind of workers' movement then you must be on space crack
June 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Read the first couple pages of that Abundance book. Leaving aside the blandness of liberal utopia (star trek technology supports the same old social relations): if you think you're getting any of that stuff without some kind of workers' movement then you must be on space crack
Going to Vienna this summer. What's good to do??
June 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Going to Vienna this summer. What's good to do??
Eg Fred Jameson, who did as much as anyone to establish a Marxist left in the USA, used to roll up to campus in a VW bug emblazoned with a peace sign
I'm not unsympathetic to some of what Pen and Citarella have to say, but: 'the hippies became neoliberals' is just not serious analysis
June 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Eg Fred Jameson, who did as much as anyone to establish a Marxist left in the USA, used to roll up to campus in a VW bug emblazoned with a peace sign
This is the Doomscroll interview with Jen Pen. I have to say it's quite striking how these glaring errors are combined with a very condescending tone, though to be fair that's mostly the interviewer
It'd be nice to at least see some intellectual honesty from Jacobin types when engaging with the history of the new left. It's not true, as I just heard one of them claim in an interview, that they saw college students being 'the world's most oppressed'
June 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is the Doomscroll interview with Jen Pen. I have to say it's quite striking how these glaring errors are combined with a very condescending tone, though to be fair that's mostly the interviewer
It'd be nice to at least see some intellectual honesty from Jacobin types when engaging with the history of the new left. It's not true, as I just heard one of them claim in an interview, that they saw college students being 'the world's most oppressed'
June 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It'd be nice to at least see some intellectual honesty from Jacobin types when engaging with the history of the new left. It's not true, as I just heard one of them claim in an interview, that they saw college students being 'the world's most oppressed'