Cabaret Voltaire | Live on KEXP Recorded May 3, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkSz...
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yahya m madra
@ymadra.bsky.social
psychoanalysis // critique of political economy // http://yahyamadra.net // coeditor @ Rethinking Marxism //
Trump is a symptom of the radically centrist Democratic Establishment and its persistent disavowal of its obscene obsolescence in the face of climate crisis, the decline of the US Empire and centralization and concentration of capital in oligarchic nodes. Convince me otherwise.
Being trans and an academic is like being stuck inside two burning buildings at once.
Have to imagine it's a complete coincidence that the same outlets publishing one piece after another talking about how extremely dangerous and unacceptable the Left is are also laundering genocide and normalizing targeting of trans people while featuring puff pieces on Far Right fascists.
#biamag | Soykırımlara soykırım denmesinden evvel… "20. asrın ilki olup ardından gelenlere temel oluşturduğu bilinen Namibya soykırımı için halen tazminat ödenmemiş olması ayrıca emsal teşkil etmeyi sürdürüyor" ✍️ Rosalino Levantino yazdı buff.ly/0PWJMP1
Tech billionaires didn’t misread science fiction. They performed an edit: keeping the frontier, the visionary, the chrome; cutting the public institution, the collective, and the warning. Every. Single. Time. My new piece is now up in Aeon.
Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w agoTech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’
Spain-Argentina will be the match to watch, with all geopolitical implications.
Polycrisis book club is now on youtube @jwmason.bsky.social @arjunjayadev.bsky.social 's explanation of their title 'Against Money' is great: Against mainstream barter theories Against collapsing the world into money, Against the rule of money @katemac.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lD...
Emel Memiş, a highly respected feminist economist at Ankara University, has been arrested along with 105 other Turkish activists on terrorism-related charges ahead of a forthcoming NATO summit in Turkey. I stand with Emil. Show that you do as well. www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...
I’ve long held that centrism’s sole defining feature is that it is reactionary anti-communism w/in the framework of an electoral democracy.
Distracted by Colombia-Congo game but Progressives are full slate in NYC it seems.
"The concept is not that the sound belongs to an individual. There is only one sound, and all the rest is echo.” Abdullah Ibrahim
The @nytimes.com appears to be the vanguard of the anti-DSA front. Every other piece is a passive-aggressive attack on Mamdani and others.
The Art of Late Neoclassical Disavowal of the Crisis of Capitalist Modes of Extraction
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2mo agolol this is your plan? @economist.com
From Imperialism to Transnational Capitalism: The Venice Biennial as a “Transitional Conjuncture” An essay from 20 years ago on the occasion of the opening of the Venice Biennial. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) From Imperialism to Transnational Capitalism: The Venice Biennial as a “Transitional Conjuncture”
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Today, Palantir posted their manifesto to millions. I published an analysis of exactly this text in @sciasculture.bsky.social, arguing it functions not as political theory but as a corporate manifesto for the nationalist-militarist faction of the tech oligarchy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi." please give what you can if you can! chuffed.org/project/1771...
Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...
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"It seems to be true that it is on the whole the more active, intelligent, and original men among the intellectuals who most frequently incline toward socialism, while its opponents are often of an inferior caliber." - Friedrich Hayek, 1949
I don’t see how Trump will survive this. Given his age and decline…
Our discussion with Michael Hardt about Spinoza, Marx, and the concept of the Multitude has now been released. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/30/m...
Multitude in Spinoza and Marxism with Michael Hardt
In this recording of an online seminar, Michael Hardt discusses the significance of the concept of 'multitude' for radical philosophy.
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This war is going to be studied as an abject example to explain, among other things, the concept of “escalation trap”.