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williammerrin.bsky.social
One of the best contemporary commentators on war and tech. This looks essential!
warmatters.bsky.social
My book comes out next week.

Something like this cannot be written without the help and support of a lot of good people.

So I'd like to publicly acknowledge and thank them for all our good conversations.

A lot of them are here on BluSky but I am not going to tag them all.
williammerrin.bsky.social
I'm speaking at this event, on infinite labour and the system of psychotic digital managerialism in HE. Based on a hopefully-forthcoming book!
williammerrin.bsky.social
Finishing a short book on infinite labour and digital managerialism... some thoughts on treadmills, in our new 'digital workhouses' ...
williammerrin.bsky.social
From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November:

'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...
williammerrin.bsky.social
Writing something on 'Infinite Labour and Psychopathic Digital Managerialism'... I quite like this analogy...
williammerrin.bsky.social
(4) And everyone opposing him must shift again and all those supporting him claim he's a genius and this is what he meant to do ... Because Trump understands better than anyone that, today REALITY IS A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. We subscribe to the reality whose feed we prefer
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(3) What he says is! it exists!!! But it only is until he says the opposite... Tariffs are here and have changed the post-1979 neo-liberal global system ... then tariffs are paused and negotiable and everyone who has banked, guessed, commentated and changed their mind is wrong ..
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(2) Trump is the philosopher-king of 'hyporeality'. Where reality is simply what you can claim to be true. Trump is the positive thinking, postmodern Pere Ubu utilising the power of the divine to call the real into being...
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(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...
williammerrin.bsky.social
#adolesence Cathy Come Home. Boys From the Blackstuff. Threads, Singing Detective ... Not much else up there with it
williammerrin.bsky.social
I don't get out of swansea much! (no-one does...) I rely a lot on Andy to invite me to places :)
williammerrin.bsky.social
Wow! That's really kind of you! :)
williammerrin.bsky.social
Trump's attack on Higher Education speech, DEI, etc. is just doing exactly what Curtis Yarvin suggested he do ... This is an assault on 'the Cathedral'. And it's still not yet April. ... From our 'Sharded Media' book... @andrewhoskins.bsky.social