Trolling must produce a flame. It is provocation as a transitive verb. Also see Yurchak and Boyer on stiob, where they discuss the overlap between late socialist and late capitalist ironic forms.

Ok not regretted actually

Dostoevsky’s characters would have posted so hard and then regretted it so hard

Harris, I was wondering about what your Baltimore specific take would be! Also possibly he was actually Albanian?

Democrats spent 5 billion dollars losing to Trump. ~10 percent of that could fund a major media presence nationally, and locally in every swing state prospect.org/politics/202...

Oh and the system of elite ‘civilization’- in Elias’ sense - seems to definitely be unraveling. And of course biopolitics (both neoliberal and socialist variants)

What will replace systems theory in all its guises? What’s after cybernetics, networks and ecologies? Doesn’t seem like “thing theory” or object oriented ontology were good contenders.

The arm binding! Readymade for a picaresque Ostap Bender/Interpol detective stand-off.

managing contention is more difficult than managing elections -- a small number of committed opponents in the streets can create an impression of a problem.

incumbents in hybrids more vulnerable to street protest than incumbents in other kinds of political regimes. authoritarians need to not only defeat proof elections but also the streets. challenges can signal weakness of incumbents and encourage elites to change sides.

But those pained by: “shows up to the vast majority of his commitments” - I’m sorry, this is just standard for a celebrity tenured prof. I too wish the bar was higher, but it’s not.

Hooray!!!!!!!!!! Long deserved!

They hated the czarist police state in general - but with such particular vehemence, born of personal experience with its brutality.