if I were Elon Musk I would spend less time worrying about the dangers of humanity staying earthbound and more about the threat of my primal horde of offspring banding together to overthrow castrate and cannibalize me but maybe this is just a STEM vs humanities thing
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson
“I maintain, and I will ambiguously maintain — and in doing so, I believe that I am following Freud’s footsteps — that poetic creations generate psychological creations more than they reflect them.” - Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI
we are living under fascism right now
Enoch made them, Enoch shall break them!
we now have new technologies that use more energy than most nation-states and evaporate whole lakes en masse to (AI) make search engines unusable and generate the shittiest words and images you've ever seen, and (crypto) scam rubes with unregulated securities fraud. throw silicon valley into the sea
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"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
A love suden and love Gaza flag during Kendrick’s performance
The image of the night.
“Trying to Understand Endgame,” Theodor Adorno
“Beckett poses the decisive antithesis: an avowed process of subtraction. Instead of omitting what is temporal in existence—which can be existence only in time—he subtracts from existence what time, the historical tendency, is in reality preparing to get rid of.”
save me ned ludd
ned ludd
ned ludd . . . save me . .
"Rejecting identitarianism...means abandoning the neoliberal dream of impeccably multicolored boardrooms. But it does not mean retreating into a tone-deaf class-only politics."
myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
The Lord gave us one Stuart H.M. Hall decades ago to teach us that we must talk about class and race together. I understand that Dem thought-leaders can't/don't read, but still, let's not embarrass ourselves here.
“In the dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About to the dark times.” - Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”
bad if true
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Mark Fisher, “Curtains and Holes: David Lynch”
“Instead of looking inside (the character) for some final key to the film, we must attend to the strange folds, burrows and passageways of Inland Empire’s weird architecture, in which no interior space is ever secure for long, and gateways to the outside can open up practically anywhere.”
Yet, I think this example could help illuminate what Jameson is trying to argue in this quote.
Also, one could argue that redistribution is always ideological, as in it allows for the ruling social order to remain intact (think along the lines of what Oscar Wilde argues in “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”).
I won’t pretend to be a knowledgeable on the economics of feudalism, so I could be misrecognizing an instance of feudal ideology for a Utopian component.
While I don’t want suggest that communism/socialism/Marxism can be reduced to redistribution, this passage does presents the Utopian view of a social order in which wealth is shared with the lower classes.
Yet there are certain points in which it portrays a Utopian conception of how society can be arranged. In act IV scene I, Gloster makes an interesting comment: “So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
I’ll take a crack at this: first example that comes to my mind could be King Lear. Though play appears to mostly reinforce the ideology of monarchy (the plot centering the portioning of land to his three daughters).