@apetrossiants
writer and editor; PhD candidate at NYU writing about tenants' movements and the production of social space; co-editor of Diversity of Aesthetics https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/diversity-of-aesthetics-looting-volume-3
“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.”
Our editors on the Iran war:
www.equator.org/articles/epi...
Governor Newsom's recent comments about Israel were confusing and problematic at a critical moment, as the United States, Israel, and their regional partners confront significant threats from the Iranian regime. If the Governor intended to express concern about proposals to annex parts of the West Bank, that debate requires precision. Invoking the term "apartheid" is wrong and inflammatory, does not reflect the complex realities on the ground, and only risks inflaming tensions.
The future of the Democratic Party will be centrist Democrats saying factually true things (and in fact understating them) and the collective pro Israel lobby freaking the fuck out
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
It is true that he has absolutely no real views whatsoever but that's actually really helpful in this situation, because you should take it as a clear sign and a win if someone with no beliefs feels the wind is blowing in your direction.
My country is being destroyed in front of my eyes by the West’s favourite genocidal state and I’m supposed to act as though these sociopaths want to have peace.
There can be no peace in the fucking Middle East and I promise you that if Israel is not stopped the horrors will reach the West
The goal of the US and Israel is to reduce all blooms to desert
Hey Im really bad at self-promoting but The Extended Universe is out in a month and a half and if you havent pre-ordered it yet and want to support my work this is a really good way to do it!
at least we're gathering evidence for The Tribunals™️
It is an absolute non-starter to provide any funding for another forever war. Congress has already appropriated a trillion dollars for military spending and now you want more?
With some Senate democrats already hedging, where does the rest of Dem leadership stand?
Why are current protest movements against the war in Iran comparably muted as compared with those against the war in Iraq? Pessimism because of the failure to stop that war? The consolidation of right-wing forces in the media? Exhaustion due to the impossible conditions of social reproduction?
no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
"Billionaires, the corporate lobby, and the political right don't need an uptick in crime numbers as pretext to start drawing blood from the mayor. Tisch doesn't require any reformist provocation from the mayor to openly defy his leadership."
Nick Pinto in Hell Gate on the anarchist snowballers, hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...
"Police unions operate at the same piercing frequency of grievance whether an officer is killed or just gets wet."
The extent to which search functions got worse, across the board (on macs, search engines because of AI rather than page rank, etc.) must have more to tell us than just being a good example of enshitification. I am trying to periodize not being able to find files with notes about periodization ...
Defund this
This guy gets it.
Great review of Toscano's new book by Jason Read
www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
If you write about FIFA’s obscene Gaza plans without mentioning that Israel has systematically destroyed Palestinian football by murdering Palestinian footballers, destroying Palestinian pitches and blocked Palestinian footballers from training or playing, you are part of the problem
The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional .. When a single individual disposes of more money than a government grant awarding agency or research university, the impact on knowledge production and academic relations is profound.
"...the treatment of in-house domestic servants, primarily black women: any attempt at labour organisation was met with the argument that they were family members, hence liable to be treated with the same sanctified forms of abuse as next of kin."
"The appropriate reference point here is not the nuclear family but the household economy, where production is inseparable from reproduction, and the management of business assets is coextensive with the preservation of family possessions."
As always Melinda Cooper's work is impeccable and so astute. "Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order." www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Boycott this monstrosity
Don't sleep on Neil's forthcoming book. It's so excellent. Pre-order available now www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-ove...
SF: "... in moments of struggle, when the masses mobilized, many militants, including the intellectuals, would leave the party. But in times of defeat, they would go back to it. The Communist Party was like a big womb that would always take them back."
www.e-flux.com/journal/160/...
"... the agency has so far purchased 11 warehouses for a sum of $697.4 million in funds from the billions they received in Trump’s funding bill last summer (that total excludes the sale prices that have not yet been made public.)"
