those NFT apes

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paying for netflix isn’t fine either

capitalism

don’t forget biden’s historic health care expansion (for victims of havana syndrome)

it was a journal article about house of leaves (jstor link, but it should be accessible through sci-hub if you’re interested in reading it). there’s also a brill book on gothic postmodernism which looks intriguing

This conflict has the potential to cause real change in Russia

time is a flat circle

pissed off all of SIMP Nation

oh fuck off

what is about americans and bumper stickers

to me the post-modern fear that there is no objective reality seems like a way for academics to shield themselves from the post-soviet, neo-liberal ‘there is no alternative’ world they have accepted/cheered on

sorry for the stream of consciousness posting every time i read something it just helps me work through the material better

i’m reading an article on post modernism and it said something to the effect that “undermining reality is the central source of fear in the post-modern gothic”

so am i right in thinking that this fear stems from post-modernism self-proclaimed (and self-conscious?) triumph over history and ideology? that the inward turn in post-modernism - the rejection of grand narratives etc. - will eventually crumble/disintegrate along with the current hegemony

I in no way mean to belittle her

well that’s exactly what you’re doing

Here’s how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.

literally the first sentence in OPs post

never seen a taliban defender on hexbear, but i’ll happily go to bat for north korea any day of the week. if that makes me a tankie so be it

i wish we had a news-type mega just for theory. like somewhere to just post about whatever theory we’re currently reading (and then we could bully each other into reading more)

i’m currently reading up on derrida and destructionism (for uni) and, as much as i hate to say it, derrida got some stuff right

from a jacobin article on hauntology and the spectre of marxism:

The hegemonic state that Western liberal democracy aspires to is simultaneously performing its own version of spectralizing, in its dissemination — via the media. Today, notes Derrida, politicians and events are always already filtered through the media. Traditional political parties are “radically unadapted to the new-tele-techno-media-conditions of public space, of political life, of democracy, and of the new modes of representation (both parliamentary and non-parliamentary) that they call up.” They may disappear, become ghosts whose existence is effaced by politicians who “now often risk, as everyone knows, being no more than TV actors”:

If there is a tendency in all Western democracies no longer to respect the professional politician or even the party member as such, it is no longer only because of some personal insufficiency, some fault, or some incompetence, or because of some scandal that can now be more widely known, amplified, and in fact often produced, if not premeditated by the power of the media. Rather, it is because politicians become more and more, or even solely, characters.

This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation.

the ‘punishment’ of russia is night and day to what we saw happen to the US and its western allies after the invasion of iraq. you can go and cry about ‘whataboutism’ as much as you’d like, but those of us who live in a world not shrouded by a willful amnesia of a past historical events can see the gross display of hypocrisy for what it is—namely a confirmation by the western world that some victims (of war) are worth more than others

there’s just something about the air after midnight

oh no… i’m re-entering my nightwalk era