“Father don’t forgive them, for these f**kers know exactly what they’re doing.”
Chica Marx
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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
I was annoyed at the *discourse* and wrote some rapid fire notes on Steinem www.patreon.com/posts/168891...
Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology" — Wyatt Gwyon
I'm constantly talking about LLMs as text elementals and hungry ghosts trapped in jars and nobody's called me out for LLM psychosis once, I can only conclude that the correct stance is mythologizing the things instead of anthropomorphizing them
the life of the transexual is a daily gauntlet of various indignities, but few stick with you like a man calling you "sir" while staring at your tits
Yeah, I think the best way of describing this stuff is as rightwing appropriation of popular culture. It's not a joke (there's nothing about it that is attempting at humor) and it's not sincere in the way classic propaganda is. Instead, it's an attempt to shift culture towards a certain set of signs
Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24h agoRepetition of Nazi imagery normalizes the regime’s horrors to make its views acceptable in political debate. These aren’t jokes. They are weapons.
Brief history of once useful critical terms that broke free of their references and became largely meaningless: alienation (70s), postmodern (80s), neoliberal (90s), biopower (00s), eugenic (10s).
Something deeply mythic about Trvmp cutting down DC's cherry trees. Callback to the myth of a young George Washington telling his father: "I cannot tell a lie, it was I who cut down the cherry tree."
I feel like the visual allusion here is a pretty deep cut for a trade book.
No convinced that AI is or could be “intelligent,” but then I’m not convinced humans are or ever could be either.
“Hüzün, dünyanın duyumsanması ile dünya fikri arasındaki ayrılığın hissedilip düşünülmesine eşlik eden ruh halidir.” #McKenzieWark #MolekülerKızıl Çeviri: Cemal Yardımcı 🔗 www.metiskitap.com/catalog/book/36709
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social The primary problem with Reps isn't Trump, who is leading the parade but didn't start it, but that white evangelicals are in rebellion against modernity itself and have turned against the democratic process they can no longer win fairly. 1/2
Got an AI scam email from a bot claiming to be the CEO of Oxford University Press and the first tip is that they expect me to believe someone in academia is working on a Sunday of the Labour Day long weekend
Love this opening to @mckenziewark.bsky.social's intro to WHEN MONSTERS SPEAK: A Susan Stryker Reader @dukepress.bsky.social, how someone can be "a revered elder" and an exact contemporary at the same time, hooray for trans kinship 💞
Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.
Prepping to teach J G Ballard’s CRASH in the autofiction class. open.spotify.com/track/7mxvuh...
Warm Leatherette
The Normal · Warm Leatherette · Song · 1978
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Ahora en españiol mutatis-mutandis.es/libro/histor...
Historia de vida McKenzie Wark y Elizabeth Duval
Traducción e intervención (Plegaria) / Elizabeth Duval Foto de cubierta / Z. Walsh Diseño gráfico / Arnau Pi Rústico sin solapas 172 páginas 10,5 x 13 ISBN: 978-84-129798-9-3 PVP: € 15,90 (€ 15,29 ...
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Leer ‘Life Story’ y las formas en que McKenzie Wark va cambiando su epitafio, de forma que refleje una vida always in flux, me ha hecho pensar cual querría que fuera el mio. «pasajere en tránsito perpetuo» (palabras que me dedicó una persona muy querida hace un tiempo, eso es) #RandomThoughts 🫧
The curriculum is cruelty. That is the only vision for education that is currently coming from the bipartisan “anti-woke” coalition.
Biggest problem with modern Looney Tunes, even COYOTE VS ACME (which I like) is that Bugs Bunny has been sanded down into a mascot. You watch him in the 40s or 50s and he's a freaky lil dress-up pervert who is down for anything. Assigned diva at birth. Nowadays, he's just a regular guy. Not my Bugs.
«I speak instead of what I have loved: writing, the city. In the end, after many diversions, this body, this world—and you.» ——— From ‘Life story,’ a beautiful, touching book by @mckenziewark.bsky.social (and I’m lucky enough to have it signed 📚🖋️)
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
Just keep in mind, as prices soar, as we bomb weddings and discuss nukes, that Iran’s “impossible“ “unreasonable“ demands essentially amounted to “leave us alone, leave Lebanon alone, and pay to repair the shit you broke.”
The warning signs are flashing red about Trump's willingness to go to extreme measures to prevent a midterm election loss. My latest Authoritarian Watch column in the Nation plays out these scenarios. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Shadowy Powers that Trump Could Use to End American Democracy
Two Washington insiders are sounding the alarm about what could happen if Trump activates the top-secret Presidential Emergency Action Documents.
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Lesbian baristas have successfully co-opted both realtree camo and harley davidson shirts. Total cultural victory