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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 10d

HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU: You find yourself wondering: why can’t I find any two hour long podcast episode about Kanafani’s literary works as condition/consequence of his conception of resistance culture? YOUR SEARCH IS OVER

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 2h

Adorno pulled stunts like this too. mid-40s Horkheimer, Löwenthal, & the NY office secretary Margot von Mendelssohn spent months trying to figure out where the ISR library copy of Hegel’s Logic was—turns out Adorno stole it in like ‘39 & lied about returning it for ~5 years lol

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 2h

as a follow up to this—apparently Adorno’s first pass at the Odysseus excursus from DoE was a series of notes on Oedipus that for some reason he let a hysteric friend of his borrow when she was having a personal crisis & she lost them & later denied ever having them lmfao

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · May 1

Karl Korsch, in 1942:
"The novelty of totalitarian politics in this respect is simply that the Nazis have extended to “civilized” European peoples the methods hitherto reserved for the “natives” or “savages” living outside so-called civilization"
www.aaap.be/Pages/Korsch...

The new techniques of imperialism which were invented almost simultaneously in the East and the West are utterly different from the methods applied by that old-style imperialism of the 19th century which is somewhat nostalgically described by its eulogists as a “democratic” form of imperialist expansion. The difference does not consist, however, in an increase of violence; ruthless violence has been characteristic of every historical phase of capitalist colonization. The novelty of totalitarian politics in this respect is simply that the Nazis have extended to “civilized” European peoples the methods hitherto reserved for the “natives” or “savages” living outside so-called civilization.

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 8h

hmmm “civilization” is probably what they’re trying to pick apart here! “society” is broader (includes ants), “culture” is narrower (basically culture as a problem of civilized societies ancient Greek to 20th Euro/American)

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 9h

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

Adorno & Horkheimer taught me it was okay to be annoying

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 13h

i believe

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 13h

box seats at the creature opera

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

shout out to Adorno for writing parentheticals like this on Dostoyevsky’s aporetic relation to Freud in the middle of his letters

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

If i stolen hanger. I dont steal it bc i did. No i didnt ❤️

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

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Chris O’Kane @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 1d

oh man, it's real!

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Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre

"Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre" published on 26 Mar 2026 by Brill.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 1d

essential reading

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

www.versobooks.com

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

“Perhaps we can leave some of the existing equipment standing here and there for archaeological purposes, some masterpieces of the bourgeois epoch, so those… after the world revolutionary explosion, can remember them.” libcom.org/article/huma...

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

“The solution, if the maddened shouts of the survivors had not been raised too high would have been simple: close all the entrances! … Without oxygen everything falls silent: the oxidisation of coal and the analogous process in man, which we call life.”

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Albert Einstürzende Neubauten 🇵🇸🇦🇲 @wokesteppenomad.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Bordiga again

Lord Forgive Me But Its Time To Go Back To The Old Me

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

rereading Bordiga’s stuff on how communism liberates human beings, animals, rivers, solar radiation, electrons, etc from the stupid & stupefying compulsions of capital accumulation & making the airhorn noise by myself at 3AM

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately i do not have a great record with pasta sauce but i will take a crack at it because 12 bucks a jar is tooooooo much

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

yes!

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

regrettably the much more expensive “truffle infused” pasta sauce jars are fantastic i could drink this stuff cold

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

the core insight of psychoanalysis to me is all mental illness is psychosomatic. as a hysteric kept alive exclusively by a conversion disorder so advanced it is structurally load bearing & also makes me frequently & spontaneously bleed, i am intimately familiar with this truth

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

we will find bigfoot

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 1d

Adorno & Horkheimer taught me it was okay to be annoying

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