Junko's death.........man. got out when she could lol

I used to think this was a movie about Spooky Ghosts!!! on the INTERWEBS!!!!!! no dude this is the moment reality was invaded by the New Reality we've been stuck in ever since. they don't need CRT monitors anymore

i assigned Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE without rewatching it and am (un)pleased to admit that it's much scarier now that I understand it depicts the emergence of Now, in its primitive wired internet form, before it took over the real world and destroyed any chance we had of a different future. oops

Ok guys, slow down, we still have art. It’s not all AI

anticipatory futures newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent

Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent

Episode 16: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 1) | Critical Theory Working Group Get more from Critical Theory Working Group on Patreon

You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...

(Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope)

(R)eal venturing beyond never goes into the mere vacuum of an In-Front-of-Us, merely fanatically, merely visualizing abstractions. Instead, it grasps the New as something that is mediated in what exists and is in motion, although to be revealed the New demands the most extreme effort of will.

I love this for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I live with a man who is 6'8" and so know all about the shenanigans of tall men exaggerating their own height and also other tall men's height in comparison to their own

Coproduction Office boards Sergei Loznitsa’s Soviet Union doc ’Imperium’ EXCLUSIVE: The Ukrainian filmmaker is using archival footage to paint a visual picture of life in the Soviet Union.

Latest from the Sergei Loznitsa sounds exciting! I thought 2019's State Funeral was one of the most interesting docs of recent years

I agree with this

i'm so tired of artists being Epic about Capitalism (the bad thing)

Paradigmatic example of the kind of thing that’s fun to say and sounds smart until you think about it for any amount of time

There’s nothing quite like going to the grocery store and purchasing Items

We are in the opening chapters of the Third World War, the economy teetering on the edge of disaster, my friends are going through it, I have profound life changes looming, and yet I had a nightmare my laptop broke and the new MacBook models reverted to the PowerBook 500

Read all about it. We've been fighting for 4+ years, and we are going to win. unitedfaculty-uaw.org

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

its critically important we make sure there are still orangutans in 2328 so they can rebuild society around the Caesar cult using old books and half-forgotten memories of The Event

one thing you can say about the present is that we're inventing new ways to Oops ourselves at breakneck speed

I agree

I mean of course! But I guess I mean that yeah I have disagreements with anarchists but they ARE on the team. Only WE can criticize our siblings kind of stuff

everyone laughs at them when they do this kind of sweeping, grab-bag terminology to describe their enemies--have they ever seen a Marxist and Anarchist argue, for instance? But what if we took it seriously? maybe there is something to the line being drawn where they want it to be

@colinokeefe.bsky.social your headline rule strikes again

look at my post about the Slate Platner article yesterday to see that there are PLENTY of people on this website who are also literally incapable of abstract thought. social media, EVERY PLATFORM, produces incentives and rewards that destroy second-order reasoning. stop overidentifying and just post

If you enjoyed my (freewheeling, slightly disorganized) courses at Cinejourneys, I highly recommend checking out Chris' upcoming course on WB and the classic studio system. If the early meetings in my Genre course were interesting Chris will give you the Actual History

Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld DHS’s Regime of Images

If you haven't yet, drop everything you're doing and read @mitchtherieau.bsky.social's instant classic on the "dream logic" of the right wing aesthetic imaginary www.thedriftmag.com/into-the-rig...

I have no idea how the rest of the post-2008 Eurozone would factor into this historical analogy though I'm more of an Americanist

I mean this is just classic shock doctrine/economic reorganization of society stuff like Thatcher and Reagan undertook in the 80s with finance capital and telecommunications; it just so happens the place to do it in Hungary was auto manufacturing www.europeanpressprize.com/article/how-...