irenicalintent
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worker-organizer, pedestrian, parent, sustaining hope to slow way down for our own time
What a beautiful beginning, in the spirit of rejuvenating our public sphere, which should restore some hope.
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
What a beautiful beginning, in the spirit of rejuvenating our public sphere, which should restore some hope.
Sigh… how much expended to ensure inequalities, how many possibilities foreclosed, how much catastrophic waste
Sigh.how
December 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sigh… how much expended to ensure inequalities, how many possibilities foreclosed, how much catastrophic waste
Thanks, again. . . persistent messaging abt the influence of infrastructure obvsly matters a great deal.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thanks, again. . . persistent messaging abt the influence of infrastructure obvsly matters a great deal.
Boycott Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, PayPal, really every Silicone Valley enterprise hostile to regulations that protect workers and environment.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Boycott Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, PayPal, really every Silicone Valley enterprise hostile to regulations that protect workers and environment.
vulgar indeed when the earth’s precious biodiversity and resplendent cultural tapestry is traded for childish pleasure in shaming and schadenfreude
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
vulgar indeed when the earth’s precious biodiversity and resplendent cultural tapestry is traded for childish pleasure in shaming and schadenfreude
Some systems require more energy than others.
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Some systems require more energy than others.
Yes, while diverting precious wealth, building data centers, more mines, drilling, military, all things utterly unsustainable and anti-democratic, all from students of ‘disruption’.
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Yes, while diverting precious wealth, building data centers, more mines, drilling, military, all things utterly unsustainable and anti-democratic, all from students of ‘disruption’.
These Christian “survivors” stubbornly worthy of objects to lament, always anxious and menaced by subordinate others; they should be deprived any means of social domination. (Great thread btw.)
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
These Christian “survivors” stubbornly worthy of objects to lament, always anxious and menaced by subordinate others; they should be deprived any means of social domination. (Great thread btw.)
Isn’t there a transformative/prefigurative aspect though—an ongoing privileging, to the extent possible, of other priorities over profit-making, such as education, autonomy, local/eco sensitivities, the blurring of divisions of labor/decision, etc?
October 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Isn’t there a transformative/prefigurative aspect though—an ongoing privileging, to the extent possible, of other priorities over profit-making, such as education, autonomy, local/eco sensitivities, the blurring of divisions of labor/decision, etc?
Where “owning the libs” has to compensate for loss of everything else.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Where “owning the libs” has to compensate for loss of everything else.
“If witnessing had ‘its own language,’ it would no longer be witnessing—it would be proof.”
Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“If witnessing had ‘its own language,’ it would no longer be witnessing—it would be proof.”
Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou
This book, like a building it describes, “appeared enormous from the outside, but inside it was much larger.”
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This book, like a building it describes, “appeared enormous from the outside, but inside it was much larger.”
I was lucky to discover it in the ‘small press’ section of our local bookstore, well before that gold seal was on the cover. So dark, beautiful, deeply relatable, I barely put it down for a few weeks. Gave me Nile green colored dreams.
September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I was lucky to discover it in the ‘small press’ section of our local bookstore, well before that gold seal was on the cover. So dark, beautiful, deeply relatable, I barely put it down for a few weeks. Gave me Nile green colored dreams.
This review stirred up fond memories of the book, but for anyone at all inclined to read it skip all reviews, interviews, inevitable spoilers. Plunge into this dazzling odyssey and first make of it what you alone will.
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This review stirred up fond memories of the book, but for anyone at all inclined to read it skip all reviews, interviews, inevitable spoilers. Plunge into this dazzling odyssey and first make of it what you alone will.
History will/would emphasize the extreme yet predictable measures taken to perpetuate utterly unsustainable accumulation though ruthless forms of fiscal-military coloniality and culture of petromodernity
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
History will/would emphasize the extreme yet predictable measures taken to perpetuate utterly unsustainable accumulation though ruthless forms of fiscal-military coloniality and culture of petromodernity
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
. . . . “we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine. . .”
Yes, and re dominance, thinking of Canetti’s Crwds&Pwr, how “survivors” enjoy a sense of “increase” in proportion to others subordinated, sickened and slain—the despotic pleasure (and increasing paranoia) in violating others’ interdependence.
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yes, and re dominance, thinking of Canetti’s Crwds&Pwr, how “survivors” enjoy a sense of “increase” in proportion to others subordinated, sickened and slain—the despotic pleasure (and increasing paranoia) in violating others’ interdependence.
Tight and ofc troubling summation, but the David Axelrod quote is wrong: “We have gone from zero to Hungary faster than I ever imagined.” We didn’t start at zero.
August 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Tight and ofc troubling summation, but the David Axelrod quote is wrong: “We have gone from zero to Hungary faster than I ever imagined.” We didn’t start at zero.
Today’s conservatives as “survivors” deriving pleasure and psychotic power (not unlike mana) from the destruction of others, and ofc swimming in all its concomitant paranoia (see Crowds & Power by E Canetti).
August 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Today’s conservatives as “survivors” deriving pleasure and psychotic power (not unlike mana) from the destruction of others, and ofc swimming in all its concomitant paranoia (see Crowds & Power by E Canetti).
Jonathan Crary’s truly excellent essay is itself a ‘scorched earth’ takedown of the ‘internet complex’. Very relevant here and a must read! www.versobooks.com/products/214...
Scorched Earth
Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: o...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jonathan Crary’s truly excellent essay is itself a ‘scorched earth’ takedown of the ‘internet complex’. Very relevant here and a must read! www.versobooks.com/products/214...