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Jason Quarrilex

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Marxious legal opinion journalism & commentary. Host of vaporware media endeavor Paint The Roses Red. Poverty Lawyer. Punk jazz guitarist. Definitely not another of the pseudonymous sock puppets used by an insecure Tech Billionaire.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · Nov 21

A thread on the Hegseth sexual assault allegations.

Today Mediaite published redacted copies of reports from the Monterey Police investigation into on a sexual assault reported by an anonymous survivor. The report, linked below, contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I will quote some …

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

still relatively easy. In part that’s what my political project is about, and perhaps the podcast topic ive maybe talked myself into finally producing.

More to come most likely…

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ended by connecting the silos of the islamic world with the silos of Europe through commerce in the books each system produced. That’s a strategy that ought to work with the siloing of our contemporary platform-monasteries. We can be intentional about breaking the siloing and at present that’s …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

voluntary in that it is something we choose for ourselves rather than it being imposed on us by the structure of the institution, as with medieval literate culture did. The analogy also points toward the means of subverting that mechanism. The medieval library’s hegemony over knowledge production…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

silos created by a ruling class to perpetuate the hegemony of it’s preferred ideological metanarrative. I find this analogy more instructive because it shows how we are far from the mature development that such a system might reach. Our informational siloing on the internet is still largely…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

prior to 1054. The internet and its various platforms and algorithmic distribution schemes is, on this analogy, akin to the orthodox catholic monasteries of christendom and the network of muslim libraries sponsored by the abbasids from Baghdad. That is, it is an artificial system of information …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

accept the vaguely luddite parochialism i detect in what I take to be Levine’s conclusion that the internet and the vampire castle are to a great extent coextensive. Rather, in my view the vampire castle is something more like the totality of the catholic orthodox church and the islamic caliphate…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

virtue signaling were more concerned with avoiding corporate liability for discrimination than with actually rejecting oppressive practices motivated by ideological patriarchy racism & xenophobia. I am not optimistic, that would go too far. But neither am I so pessimistic that I am inclined to…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

among the LARPers that political organizing using a concept of political party born of the residual feudalist material conditions of the post-napoleonic Great Game between European imperial powers is anachronistic Trainspotting at best. A general recognition that the shibboleths of empty neoliberal…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

quislings as currently embodied by magazines like Jacobin and its regular contributors content with a fractal LARPing of the partisan splits of the 2nd International, all the while paying obeisance to radical liberal misogynies born of Queer Theory and 3rd Wave feminism. A growing recognition even…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

just start to apprehend in the emergence of radical materialist feminism from women like Jane Clare Jones & @esmeestreachailt.bsky.social, Anwar Shaikh’s classical retort to the marginalist defeatism of analytical marxism, a growing dissatisfaction with the limitations of the careerist left …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

Marx’s debunking of commodity fetishization. There is almost certainly more that we cannot see, and which we will not be able to grasp while we continue to allow ourselves to be contained by the vampire. I wont say Im optimistic on this score, not yet, but there are candles in the darkness I can …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

ideology that provides analytical tools for social ontology with power equivalent to historical materialism in the domain of political economy. As a practical matter, parochial identitarianisms of class, sex, gender, nation, race, faith, etc require a broad consensus demystification analogous to …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

synthesize a theory and praxis capable of generating a teleologically sound revolutionary program for human social and economic liberation, is likely the lasting contribution of Fisher’s most work. But there remains much to do. The theory needs a fully developed concept of law, nation, state, and…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

now starting to get a handle on. No one, as yet, has put all the pieces together and that may take a generation. But I am starting to believe that maybe all the pieces are now there to be gathered up in order to begin that process. In my view, giving us the metaphor to finally do that, & thus to…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

spectrum (spectral?) delusions that mollify (molly-fy?) the ontological (hauntological?) framework of 21st century global capitalism.

It is this material reality that I think, maybe, those of us who have identified ourselves with some form of “left” politics under the Received Pronunciation are …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

cartesian plane of liberal capitalist ideology is merely a local cross section. This, to Derrick Varn’s point, is the full flowering of the Vampire castle as Levine sees it, that has its roots in an idealogical superstructure that angled inexorably to the platform capitalism and one dimensional…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

imaginary vectors of state intervention in economic and individual liberty are, in Wittgenstein’s words, a picture that holds us captive. We have to get outside of the political language that inexorably repeats it to us in order to see the full manifold of political possibility of which the…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

lodestone for renewed left organizing that can avoid the traps that defeated nader/sanders/corbyn style insurgencies in anglophone politics. Key to that throughline is understanding how the multivalence of “left” politics does not fit within the 2-space of the political compass meme. The

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like I may finally comprehend enough for it to become hypotheses about our current social ontology and its modal origins that are potentially testable, but I am still not ready to call a theory. Broadly, i think there is a through line in all of this that has the potential to serve as a …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

neoconservative pseudointellectual operatives of the Reagan & Bush I administrations.

There is a lot more to unpack about that, but it is the political history of the united states that is necessary to understand the cultural history Mark Fisher traced to the 1970s. the why of that is an analysis…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

in place the systems of quasi-state governance that still gatekeep liberal electoral politics to the present and are largely responsible for the failures of the democratic party to adequately respond to the threat posed by an increasingly authoritarian republican party whose roots lie in the …

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

where the differences between the two parties on most issues was negligible. Disagreement was a matter of emphasis and degree rather than a fundamental difference in governing philosophy. That aspect was epitomized by the rise of DLC neoliberalism to dominance with the 92 Clinton campaign which put…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

realignment of the Republican party was final although it took a lot longer for the Democrats to stop clinging to their conservative members than for the republicans to jettison their liberals. The result was a long period, politically formative for almost everyone who is alive in the US right now…

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a tendency for the rate of profits to fall. The upshot of all of this was the proto-identity politics of the civil rights and womens movements of the 1950s and 1960s which became coupled with the New Left and anti-war movements by the Goldwater campaign of 1964. By 1968 the political cold war…

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

women were increasingly unable to continue their unpaid contributions to social reproduction and were remaining in the workforce competing for higher paying jobs in productive labor, accelerating the ever present downward pressure on individual wages driven by something like what Marx identified as…