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In the off chance that anyone ever wondered what the Spanish in the short opening track to my Living With The Living LP from 2007, titled “Fourth World War,” is, it’s this - segments of Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos’ speech about the Fourth World War.

"We have failed to stop the genocide in Palestine. We have failed to build a liberatory society at home..We have failed to have substantive solidarities that provide more than rhetorical aid...We have to be able to hold failure in order to learn from it"

@williamcson.bsky.social asking more from us

All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority

"In the shadow of the Cold War, we find ourselves in what the Zapatista Capitán Insurgente Marcos..once described as a “Fourth World War”...in which tech rules, and, since the state-socialist projects of the Soviet era have been defeated, “humanity is now the enemy”

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All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority

Factions of the US left should learn from failures. Instead, many are preoccupied with being an authority on other people's global struggles while neglecting to beat back empire at home. I wrote about changing this cycle or facing destruction for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2026/03/03/u...

Contemporary neoliberal education has succeeded in naturalizing the belief that action and movement are for the rich and powerful and surrender and dispossession are the pragmatic condition of life for the rest

“The reading crisis can only be understood alongside the defunding of public education, the discourse of useful and practical throughout educational policy, the rise of tech driven distortions of literacy, and the creation of philanthropy and its corporate salons.”

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

"The gatekeeping is explicit: these are the people who are structurally allotted time and resources to live outside of use."

"An economy is a system of apparently willing but actually involuntary exchanges."
- Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene

The final footnote in Georges Bataille's final unfinished book reads:

"I don't intend to deal in this work with the question of the means of acting effectively. However, I will set out the principles of such action elsewhere."

We're still waiting.

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

I wrote about how the reading crisis can only be understood within the context of class warfare, and how culture and capitalism continues to be intertwined

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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

Eunsong Kim on the relationship between art and capitalism (and the reading crisis as class warfare).

Cambridge friends I'm reading next Tuesday at Churchill if you're around 🖤

Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing The far-right’s celebration of killing and the state’s complicity in it show that violence is one of America’s sustaining forces

Fighting fascism requires a realistic analysis of power and force. The right-wing shouldn't feel they can reward their killers and motivate others to kill for them without any consequences. I wrote about the importance of unrelenting actions for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...

my fav genre of the internet is person who knows almost nothing confidently speaking incorrectly about subject matter & then field expert about said matter reading/hearing this take from a burner account & posting about the malaise induced by popular misinformation to said account known to 5 friends

"Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."

my art vs artist take is the difference between a criticism and a review is criticism engages with defining meaning and reviews reflect the feelings of the consumer

Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary Mustapha Khayati Captive Words: Preface to a Situationist Dictionary 1966 “Les mots captifs, preface a un dictionnaire situationniste” originally appeared...

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"Words forged by revolutionary criticism are like partisans’ weapons: abandoned on the battlefield, they fall into the hands of the counterrevolution...like prisoners of war, they are subjected to forced labor. Our most direct enemies are the proponents & established functionaries of false critique"

dressed up in faux therapy social justice speak, of course. no better way to prove we've lost

nietzsche & marx citation required

no money but always money for grifters paid to tell others there is no money but they should be happy anyway ✨

Punishment Park YouTube video by jonanonathan f

Peter Watkins saw the US for exactly what it was

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View of Tower Bridge from Northeastern University London campus

In case anyone is in London and would like to come, I’ll be giving the Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology on February 19th at 6pm.

Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education

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This looks awesome!

Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.

The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.

"The structural de-skilling of a whole generation, who are bound to get less out of their qualifications...

...a whole generation, finding it has been taken for a ride, is inclined to extend to all institutions the mixture of revolt and resentment it feels towards the educational system."

It finds expression in unusual forms of struggle, protest and escapism that the organizations traditionally in­ volved in industrial or political struggle find hard to understand, because something more than working conditions is at stake. These young peo­ ple, whose social identity and self-image have been undermined by a so­ cial system and an educational system that have fobbed them off with worthless paper, can find no other way of restoring their personal and so­ cial integrity than by a total refusal. It is as if they felt that what is at stake is no longer just personal failure, as the educational system encour­ ages them to believe, but rather the whole logic of the academic institu­ tion. The structural de-skilling of a whole generation, who are bound to get less out of their qualifications than the previous generation would have obtained, engenders a son of collective disillusionment: a whole generation, finding it has been taken for a ride, is inclined to extend to all institutions the mixture of revolt and resentment it feels towards the educational system. This anti-institutional cast of mind (which draws strength from ideological and scientific critiques) points towards a de­ nunciation of the tacit assumptions of the social order, a practical suspen­ sion of doxic adherence to the prizes it offers and the values it professes, and a withholding of the investments which are a necessary condition of its functioning.

Bourdieu's unfortunate clairvoyance:

"It is as if they felt that what is at stake is no longer just personal failure, as the educational system encour­ages them to believe, but rather the whole logic of the academic institu­tion."

Joan Naviyuk Kane - "Nunataq" In a strait, some things are useful.

In a strait, some things are useful.
Others, true, she turns to ash.

naviyuk, "Nunataq"

https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/nunataq

reupping this cuz it was Pat Parker's birthday yesterday!

What Will Be the Cure?: A Conversation with Sylvia Wynter Last month, I had a chance to interview Sylvia Wynter about the pandemic, Black studies, and radicalism in our current moment. What began as a series of catch-ups over the course of the pandemic, turn...

Five years ago this month, we were honored to publish the now classic interview “What Will Be the Cure?: A Conversation with Sylvia Wynter.” Read Bedour Alagraa‘s fascinating exchange with the Caribbean icon. offshootjournal.org/what-will-be...