I'm presenting the Endnotes contribution to this book this afternoon at Goldsmiths—coincidentally, also the place that project was first presented in 2007 or 2008.
3-5pm RHB 137 (in person only)
Free and open to all
Organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Book cover with text: "Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What is to be done under real subsumption?", edited by Anthony Iles and Mattin.
Years ago I wrote some stuff for this book, coming out of a debate we participated in as Endnotes. I had thought the project gone, but it has risen from the dead. Odd to have something you wrote come out so long after the event. Glad they got there though!
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If Snowden, Huawei, TSMC signalled a new fear of tech dependency, Nord Stream II and the US embargo on fuel for Cuba should ring alarm bells on the risks of fossil fuels for the sovereignty of those without major deposits. Renewables against chokepoints!
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Mi artículo sobre las últimas agresiones estadounidenses contra Cuba, en español. Traducido y publicado por Communis Press.
communispress.com/llave-al-cue...
"Identification with the mambise guerilla; invocation of the machete-charge; rehearsal of ‘patria o muerte’ cries – often performed at the top levels of state, these are not without their residual popular bases."
On Cuba and Venezuela in @newleftreview.bsky.social
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@roblucas.bsky.social on the US attempt to strangle Cuba by cutting its fuel supply:
"... between the chokepoint of oil-dependence and a green alternative... The question is whether Cuba has the capacity to hold out long enough to reach new strategic terrain."
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Brings a new, unexpected meaning to that old piece.
In a newspaper both started by Fidel Castro and noted for its sex education column, coverage of a presentation I did on the geopolitics of telecoms:
www.juventudrebelde.cu/ciencia-tecn...
Armas para pensar
🇺🇸🇨🇺 Gesto abyecto: el Partido Demócrata, Trump y Cuba
El tratamiento de Cuba por Estados Unidos obedece a un ensañamiento irracional practicado al unísono por Demócratas y Republicanos
✍🏼 @roblucas.bsky.social
Mi artículo sobre Cuba, Biden y Trump en castellano hoy en Diario Red.
www.diario.red/articulo/arm...
'Perhaps the safest thing to say is that the working class, as a class, didn’t do anything. The vote is evidence of dealignment, not realignment: voters below $100,000 split basically down the middle.'
Tim Barker writes for Sidecar:
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In the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social, I wrote about the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, and her recent book, "Rules".
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The Economist's "World in Brief" this morning:
"A correction: some editions of "The World in Brief" podcast on Thursday included a mistaken reference to "Israel's imperial impulses". This was an error. As the context suggested, the phrase should've been "Russia's imperial impulses". Sorry."
So it turns out two of the dogs are actually named after THAT economist—the one who is named after that guy who works for NLR.
"A former tantric sex coach, Milei ... employs a psychic medium to speak with his dead dog, Conan – a creature whom he had cloned for $50,000, thereby producing four other mastiffs, each of them named after a different libertarian economist."
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I am told that my dissatisfaction has been logged with the reference number CRL57GH3JK.
The Economist's delirious war propaganda.
It is on fire quite a lot though.
This is a really original take on the question of secular stagnation.
NLR is now on Bluesky at @newleftreview.bsky.social
True story
Writing a letter to the management to tell them how much you support them and admire their work because this is the best way of ensuring that you can get on with being a radical in academia.
Important things that go ignored because they are so boring.
Debating with other users in the support forum whether it is even possible to close your own account, or whether that is a logical contradiction.
The banking app doesn't give me full privileges and directs me to the website for a certain kind of transaction. The website just displays an ad for the app instead of the login page. The people on the support line tell me I should log into the website by entering a code from the app in the site.
Calling IT support so that I can gain the correct access privileges to click a button to tell someone the same thing that I just told them in person so that their boss has a formal record of it in a database.
AD 2150: humanity is reduced to warlordism as the scattered survivors fight over the embers of a dead planet, but somewhere there's still a guy arguing that capitalism is healthy enough to accommodate his idea for a reformist programme.
