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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · 12h

Reviewed of Jacob Lunds book "Transformation af virkelighed: Tekster om litteratur, kunst, politik." for the journal Passage - tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik.

Great book of aesthetic analysis but maybe also showcases some of the issues around the idea of politics within an aesthetic framework.

Visning af: Anmeldelse af Jacob Lund: Transformation af virkelighed: Tekster om litteratur, kunst, politik

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · 9d

I attended the first conference in 2016 and clearly remember one of the presenters opening their talk with something like: "I had a whole presentation prepared, but then I spent the summer reading Althusser". Who shouldn't?

Looking forward to present this year and meet all the other participants

Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 9d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · 13d

Teach them the ways of the looney tunes shark nose punch!

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · 18d

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 18d

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.

Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.

No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.

President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · 19d

Classic Friday night dishwashing material

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Are you sad about summer being over soon (yes, you are💔)

Want something to look forward to? (Also yes)

What about hanging out with these smart and hillarious marxists at a FREE conference for exciting new marxist research and critical theory while you drink FREE coffee? (Yes, this is real life!)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Aug 19

Look upon your works, ye pundits, and despair

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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · Jul 27

Essential questions that I want to see someone try to answer.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 27

Every word of this thread

For the liberals who have come around to recognizing Israel's genocidal campaign, what are the implications besides Stop? Do you all support the war crimes prosecution of US citizens serving in the IDF? How does it shape your understanding of the Houthi leadership in Yemen?

Should the universities reinstate suspended students? Should the pundits and politicians who slandered them as racists apologize?

How should we hold accountable the American politicians — particularly the Democrats — who supplied, excused, and co-committed these crimes?

Should Netanyahu be arrested if he steps foot in the US? How should Joe Biden pay?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 22

You might think I am hyperbolical and overly profane in my rhetoric… but this is the fucking Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies.

This is how desperate the circumstances are.

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now.

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits.

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW.

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jul 16

Although he was an idiosyncratic reader, he loved to talk about all books. I don't think you should love all views on literature, but I find his love of every book inspiring. Rip Otto

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jul 16

I was reminded of his love of books. Every book is filled with newspaper clippings about the book - even the books by authors I reckon he didn't agree with politically. The picture above is just one example. He didn't have to do it, but he just needed to know every opinion about most of his books.

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jul 16

When he was young, as I understand it, he was a farmhand at my grandmother's farm. Books became his world, as his first wife was chronically ilI and had to stay inside a lot to care for her. While visiting my grandmother the week, she said I could look in his bookshelf.

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jul 16

My grandmother's husband died this spring. We weren't close, but I have good memories of watching Tom & Jerry with him as a child and being curious about all the different kinds of books he had. He was not an academic, but worked in a nursing home. His love of books inspired me as I grew older.

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Jun 12

Danish LAPD officer: "The police don't want to get in the way of people protesting. We just don't want troublemakers there" 🤔

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · May 22

Danish social democratic PM's new best friend is Giorgia Meloni. They found each other over a shared sense that the conventions protects the wrong people = "smugglers".

The least surprising friendship in years.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · May 19

Why is the comparison wrong? What about ICE or how ICE operates demonstrates that it’s wrong?

Homeland Security v @DHSgov•14h
It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.
Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.

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Mikkel NJ @mikkelnj.bsky.social · Apr 28

One of the last texts I revisited Friday before closing the computer. Reading Riot. Strike. Riot. and Red Epic changed how I view and think about the world. Rip Joshua Clover