Seth Brodsky
@sbrodsky.bsky.social
I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
the regime's aestheticization of politics has inspired so much publishing and posting! this is good! looking back, what was strong writing about obama aesthetics? especially keen for academic work (podcast version of current queries, in repayment) thebrooklyninstitute.com/podcasts/pod...
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
cant believe nobody made a political compass out of this
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4mo agoSomeone sent me this.
apropos of nothing i thought this was funny
okay now we're really on a heater news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...
Democratic Socialists Win $5.2 Million NYU Retirement Account
A deceased New York University sociology professor’s $5.2 million retirement account will go to the Democratic Socialists of America Inc. based on his 50-year-old beneficiary designation favoring the ...
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“This victory shows that universities should not capitulate to unjust and unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration,” Grundy added. “When we join together and fight, we win.” go AAUP and ACLU!! grow spines, university admin www.thedp.com/article/2026...
Federal agency drops subpoena seeking list of Jews at Penn
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s July 2025 subpoena garnered widespread criticism on Penn’s campus.
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Exactly why “drive” is not the right category for our moment: there is nothing less drive-like, in the psychoanalytic sense, than accumulation.
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last wk."The problem with contemporary culture isn’t that we’re too decadent. Surfaces of decadence – luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display – but pleasure is subordinated to programs of optimisation+ replaced at scale by algorithmic stimulation." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Making Obama content for Trump America is a profitable mistake.
barnabus@othersome.bsky.social · 2w ago
When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror
Igor Sushko@igorsushko.bsky.social · 2w ago💥 Ukraine has destroyed both the Wildberries and Ozon e-commerce fulfillment centers that serve Saint Petersburg in Russia. Damage should exceed $2 billion.
"Political uses of the unconscious foreclose the possibility of being surprised by the otherness they seek to defang; they often refuse to engage an otherness within. No longer another scene, no longer even very strange, the unconscious has been made subservient." criticalnoise.org/the-unconsci...
The Unconscious – History of the Present
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An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-...
How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool…
mondoweiss.net
Listen, I live by the adage, “the grass is always greener” but the Irish do know how to show out and when it’s time to do it.
Kate@gaylekate.bsky.social · 2w ago👏👏👏 "When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded" PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS therealnews.com/peter-thiels...
Backrooms (2026) timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...
More than 500 Disney-style castles were built for $200 million in a luxury village. Today, the entire site is a ghost town with hundreds of empty villas
Rows of identical Disney-style castles rise from the hills near the Turkish town of Mudurnu, creating a scene that looks more like a fantasy film set than a real housing development. Known as Burj Al ...
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Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer https://theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-strange-dream-where-they-were-watching-soccer/
