Don't mind me, just doing art historical research out here.
eun song
@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social
🕸️🍥 writer / educator 🍥🕸️ 🕸️🍥 www.eun-song.org 🍥🕸️ 🕸️🍥 www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting 🕸️🍥
Former Panther, BLA member, and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz described “the mosaic” as a model of what’s possible. It helps us see beyond the posturing and corniness that pervades US left sects, which remain stuck. Here's my latest for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/04/28/l...
We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic”
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The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online! Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!
Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...
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normalize the de-sanctification of villains. normalize not trying to understand *more* the murderers the why the how the past etc etc. all villains are caricatures & copycats. deepest desire to learn about everyone not them
"I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway?" June Jordan, "Apologies to All the People in Lebanon"
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
to quote debord "none of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced"
NO GOOD OLIGARCHS
Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...
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"Historian Paul Krause details how Andrew Carnegie—often noted as the “father” of libraries—would break a town’s union and “gift” the town with a library, and points to how Carnegie thought the library for a town of deunionized workers should only contain useful knowledge." 📚
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…
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if you're in London this amazing workshop is happening 4/17! hope to see some of you there warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Love and Work: Materialising Creative Approaches to Archives
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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare Eunsong Kim Considers the Relationship Between Art and Capitalism lithub.com/on-the-so-ca...
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…
lithub.com
posting our @terpsicoreans.bsky.social translation of Kim Eon Hee's poem for no reason what so ever www.2009-2019.poetryproject.org/from-have-yo...
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.
eun song@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 6mo ago"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” prismreports.org/2026/03/03/u...
"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” prismreports.org/2026/03/03/u...
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
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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...
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
prismreports.org
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
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 6mo agoEunsong Kim on the relationship between art and capitalism (and the reading crisis as class warfare).
“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.”
eun song@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 6mo agoI 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 lithub.com/on-the-so-ca...
"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.
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 lithub.com/on-the-so-ca...
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…
lithub.com
Eunsong Kim on the relationship between art and capitalism (and the reading crisis as class warfare).
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…
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Cambridge friends I'm reading next Tuesday at Churchill if you're around 🖤
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...
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
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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."
Dr. Heather Leslie@heatherleslie.bsky.social · 7mo agoOne of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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
no money but always money for grifters paid to tell others there is no money but they should be happy anyway ✨
Peter Watkins saw the US for exactly what it was youtu.be/4bRMMdaQ790?...
Punishment Park
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This looks awesome!
Louis Hartnoll@rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 8mo agoJust published… Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
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.
Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.
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