why do people say "precariat" but never "reserve army of labor"

saw someone describe the psychology of settler colonialism as including the idea of "settling" i.e., "giving up," and I'm trying to unpack whether there is actually anything there beyond surface-level wordplay

infrastructure is the best

Deborah Kass, Six Blue Barbras, 1992 collections.thejewishmuseum.org/collection/2...

between cops consulting chatbots and the presence of Rob Schneider, this has become a rich text

Demolition Man ATM Scene

YouTube video by The Last Millennials 1994-1999

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I had a half-second where I thought the trending Duffy might be the Welsh soul singer as opposed to Real World Boston over here

It's funny to me how often I'm thinking about reading of one kind or another

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a park . the woman is wearing a green dress .

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a park . the woman is wearing a green dress .

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contradicting myself right now, clearly, but not posting makes me feel noble, superior, and powerful

do what @onthemedia.bsky.social says, please and thank you; information pollution has real effects

Stuart Hall in the 80s, sounding familiar

I'm going to turn this into an archive of era-defining terms, starting with: "the bleach community"

The challenge, I guess, is to be just deluded enough to be able to keep going without retreating into full individualistic denial of horror

AI worship feels a little too on the nose vis-a-vis reification

"Men with good or bad intentions enter into structures they have not revolutionized—and are tamed by them. They take over the structures of exploitation and power: they internalize the beliefs, the justifications, the rationalizations, the motivations of power and privilege..."

catupnorth@catupnorth.bsky.social · last yr.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe... Recently found speech by Stuart Hall that could have been written today…

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

i probably would be more sympathetic than the average bsky user to the idea that there's a time and place for totally unrestricted intellectual inquiry, to let ideas go wherever inferences might take us. but anyone who thinks that that time and place is the front page of the newspaper is delusional

reveal the random phrase that runs through your head regularly

while plenty of them clearly do not believe me, I enjoy telling students that using ChatGPT in research is a mistake

the no-post post

Chronological feeds privilege posting volume, so rather than screaming loudly to get attention, you have just keep screaming at a moderate volume for a long time

Put differently, if concept creep and debasement is inevitable, I wonder what "rebasement" practices would look like?

Latour has that article "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?" and I think in an era of "do your own research," we can now firmly ask "Why Has 'Critical Thinking' Run Out of Steam?"

I mean...

microblogging that should've been macroblogging

this led me to think about public history and the importance of the radical archive, but before that I had to pick my face up off the floor please make sure you keep watching past 4:18 too

Sylvester | You Make Me Feel | Live 1978

YouTube video by Black Music Archive LIVE!

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barbecue

pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will -- it still lands

make sure you spell "fascist" correctly