An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵
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Mit Jannis Puhlmann habe ich ausführlich über die Kernthesen meines aktuellen Buches "Kybernetik und Kritik. Eine Theorie digitaler Regierungskunst" (@suhrkamp.de) gesprochen – vielen Dank für das spannende Gespräch! @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social: www.philomag.de/artikel/anna...
Both also seem to fit well for me. If you're leaning into the active intentional act of "bestimmen" as something that is done with authority, you could also use "establish as the means [...]"
RP2.20 is out now!
- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier
- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine
- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California
- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries
- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...
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“It is not as if the world has not long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.”
🎥 Erklärvideo: Wie beeinflussen unsere Vorstellungen von morgen, was wir heute tun?
Jens Beckerts These: Kredite, Innovationen, Investitionen basieren auf gesellschaftlich geteilten Vorstellungen. Diese „imaginierten Zukünfte“ werden real, wenn genug Menschen daran glauben und entsprechend handeln.
Merz: Rechtliche Einordnung eines solchen Einsatzes sei komplex.
So sieht der faschistische, rassistische Traum einer Welt „ohne“ Migration (dafür noch mit Verbrenner-Karre) aus. Ist nur als AI-Fake zu haben.
Contre-programmation (dans une grande surface) 😉
“Fanon’s bogeyman status reveals little about his thought, but it discloses a real tendency in his reception. More than almost any other 20th-century thinker, Fanon has been remembered and interpreted through his aphorisms, which are by turn lyrical, seductive, and arresting.” @samklug.bsky.social
I am very excited that there is now an English translation of this important book. Christopher John Müller has done an amazing job. Thank you to both @morbuscriticus.bsky.social and Christopher for making this happen!
Up until today, I had little idea about Bourdieu's amazing photographies from his time as a soldier in colonized Algeria. Seen these at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, they're on exhibit until march 2026. It runs under the header of "gender, rule, and visuality".
Screenshot eines Online - Katalogs des Auktionshaus Felzmann für den 17.11.2025 13 Uhr 185. Auktion System des Terrors Vol. II
Screenshot eines Los hier Los 17 ein sog. „Judenstern“ von 1942 für sog. „Schutzhäftlinge“ im KZ Buchenwald. Sie bieten ihn für 350 Euro an.
Deutsche Auktionshäuser verdienen Geld mit NS-Propagandamaterial, Dokumenten der Entrechtung und Zeitzeugnissen die in ein Museum, Archiv oder an Nachfahren/Nachfahrinnen gehen sollten und mir ist schlecht
Am 10. November ist der Publizist Micha Brumlik verstorben. Sein zuletzt veröffentlichtes Buch »Postkolonialer Antisemitismus?« ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zu aktuellen Kontroversen, schreibt ak Autor Jens Renner:
Cover of Senghor: Writings on Politics by Léopold Sédar Senghor, edited and translated by Yohann C. Ripert. The background resembles textured parchment. The background resembles textured parchment. The title “Senghor” appears in large red serif font at the top. Below, a green, sketch-like illustration shows Senghor writing at a desk.
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www.philomag.de/artikel/yuk-... Mein Interview mit Yuk Hui im @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social ist endlich online! Vielen Dank an alle Beteiligten, zuvorderst natürlich @digitalobjects.bsky.social.
Die Technik stellt längst keinen abgetrennten Bereich mehr dar, meint der Hongkonger Philosoph Yuk Hui. Er zeigt, warum sich Technologie nicht zurückweisen lässt und was sich vom chinesischen Blick auf Technik lernen lässt. is.gd/fVygfh
lab.cccb.org/en/file-not-... "The great cultural extinctions are modest. They often take place in broad daylight, although they go unnoticed. The introduction of AI-generated answers to Google searches could be seen as a sign that we are on the verge of a new great transformation." Recommend!
Only in the afterlife of slavery and apartheid do you get this story: a Guatemalan woman shot to death for entering the front porch of the wrong house for a housecleaning job. In a neighborhood called *The Heritage* in fucking *Whitestown, Indiana*
"It's unclear if the shooter will be charged."
At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”
Thanks for this, I know this piece, it's great. Is your monograph about Lorde already available? :)
Sounds great! The 1st chapter of my Lorde book is about her vision of the political power of poetry, & then I try to show that vision in action across the other chapters. Her 1986 collection Our Dead Behind Us is 🔥 for this
You should also check out this article by political theorist Jack Turner.
Thank you for sharing, Caleb! I want to deal more with Lorde's poetry as a repertoire for political thought for some for some time now and this definitely keeps me going in that direction (amid my 387 other projects).
CBC Radio has produced a wonderful documentary about the philosopher Günther Anders and the notion of Promethean Shame, with the excellent Christopher John Müller, and I was able to contribute a little bit too. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
Realizing Better Futures Now: @jennahanchey.bsky.social reviews Joseph M. Pierce's SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDBUILDING AND REPAIR (@dukepress.bsky.social)
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum
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Am 6. August 1945 wurde auf Hiroshima die erste Atombombe abgeworfen. Für Günther Anders zeigt sich daran ein Grundproblem der Menschen: Sie können sich die Folgen ihrer Schöpfungen nicht mehr vorstellen und leiden an chronischer Apokalypse-Blindheit. www.philomag.de/artikel/guen...