I thought you were gonna say receiving one as tribute from a winner

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 7mo ago

What's better than winning a Nobel Peace Prize? Being on the Nobel Prize Museum podcast, that's what! In conversation with Gustav Källstrand about economic sciences – what they do, what they're for, and what their limitations are (in Swedish).

This is literally not what they are literally doing. They are literally exactly engaged in an ethnic cleansing and fascist terror campaign. It has nothing to do with anything recognizable as law enforcement.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Literally

… und die deutsche Zweistaatlichkeit ist aus dieser Perspektive eine Spätfolge des nationalistischen Turns der Sozialdemokratie. Historische Tiefendimensionen der DDR aufspüren: dietzberlin.de/freih... /3/

Freiheiten ohne Freiheit - Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin

Die DDR - historische Tiefendimensionen

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My long-ish academic take on Silicon Valley's reactionary futurism is out! Grab one of the 50 free copies using the link below. If you can’t access it and need a copy, just let me know. Here’s a brief thread summarizing the article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...

The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley

This interventionist essay examines the affective politics of an ideology I term ‘reactionary futurism’ in Silicon Valley. The focus is on the emergence of this reactionary ideology among figures s...

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Some years ago, I posted a thread on X/Tw*tter about Marc Bloch. I thought it appropriate to update it and post it here. 0/

open.substack.com/pub/johnganz... This is worth reading in the present moment.

What Happened Here

It's Very Simple Dialectics

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What’s particularly weird and disturbing is the triple combo of the slightly ironic disengagement you identify, plus Trump’s genuine lunacy, and the new quislings that are simply everywhere obeying in advance! What could go wrong?

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

like i have been saying, a lot of americans do not treat politics as “real” — they approach it with an ironic distance that allows them to treat clear threats and statements of intent as mere rhetoric. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

Wherof one cannot speak, therof one must be silent.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY

Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway! Order your copy here: linktr.ee/eherring

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night. We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is. It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. 🧵

Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to @manongarcia.bsky.social, whose work on consent was cited in the closing arguments of the Pelicot trial in France this week as a promise of a better world. « Nous sommes en réalité à la croisée des chemins » 🥂 www.humanite.fr/feminisme/do...

Viols de Mazan : un procès pour le futur - L'Humanité

Au tribunal d’Avignon, les avocats de Gisèle Pelicot et de ses enfants ont plaidé, sobrement mais puissamment, pour les générations à venir, afin d’amorcer le changement des mental...

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Speaking as someone who teaches logic and critical thinking, this is an *unbelievably* bad argument (if I'm reading it right). The kindest thing I can say about it is that it's an instance of denying the antecedent – a basic fallacy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...