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'The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism'

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Happy to sign to write/publish 'Digital Shudder: Adorno, Shock, and 21st Century Aesthetics' for Palgrave Studies in the Philosophy of Popular Culture.

A deep consideration of the Shudder in relation to now.

Collaborating with series editors, @maxryynanen.bsky.social and Dusan Milenkovic.

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Tales from the Corp Part 3: Friendly Fire What does it take to stay alive in the corporate world when the big guns come out? Theory Gang returns with a personal tale of survival.

Tales from the Corp Part 3: Friendly Fire

What does it take to stay alive in a corporate world? Theory Gang writes for the Revol Press substack with a personal tale of survival.

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If Hungary can free itself from the rule of a corrupt Russian agent, the USA can too.

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The People Are Not One (Paperback) — Revol Press The People Are Not One (Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn) is a manifesto for a post-populist left willing to confront fragmentation head-on and begin the long work of reconstructing class power. Pre-order now, book ships May 2026. (+5 euros p+p)

Revol Press is happy to publish the following at the end of June.

"The People Are Not One is a manifesto for a post-populist left willing to confront fragmentation head-on and begin the long work of reconstructing class power."

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Reclaim Your Attention Before It's Too Late
Reclaim Your Attention Before It's Too Late YouTube video by CreativeMind

Author Rob Faure Walker joins the Jung on Purpose podcast and shares his insights on how reconnecting with nature and understanding our collective shadows can foster healing and resilience in today's complex world.

Preorder his book, Radical Jung, from revolpress.com

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Uncool Britannia: Art and Gentrification in London in the ‘90s to '00s — Mike Watson A Marxist reflection on the uses and abuses of art by Capital

“Artists contort themselves into beings capable of both critiquing capitalism and whitewashing (or ‘artwashing’) it.”

Full text here: revolpress.substack.com/p/uncool-bri...

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Why the Frankfurt School Today? | Anthem Press Estrangement from Nature in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Anthem have a web page for my book, out September 2027.
A more affordable paperback version will follow later:

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Uncool Britannia: Art and Gentrification in London in the ‘90s to '00s — Mike Watson A Marxist reflection on the uses and abuses of art by Capital

A Marxist reflection on the uses and abuses of art by Capital.

'The trouble with our times is that almost everyone is unable to see beyond the moralizing noise of social and mass media to the material realities that govern our blighted existence.'

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Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

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This is what happens when 77 million people take leave of their senses and put a manifestly unqualified, unfit, mentally ill narcissistic man-child in charge of the country and the world's most powerful. military. This is what happens when the media 'bothsides' election coverage.

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I read it with no comrades and in sequence... honestly some of us just want to read, other people make it more of a chore :DD But I appreciate everyone is different.

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Go for it, it took me ages given other commitments, but was well worth it!

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Just start small with a bit at a time of Capital volume 1. It doesn't matter if it takes 5 years alongside other reading. Finishing it is life changing, however much you know his ideas through osmosis.

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We are reminded that there are as many visions of religion God, etc, as there are brothers and sisters... 🙏✊

Book out late May -- Preorder from revolpress.com

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Fleeing Kafka’s Absurdist Castle: Disenchantment and Bureaucracy in the Digital Age Richard Jones returns with a new essay taking an anthropological perspective on the tyranny of bureaucracy through the ideas of Kafka, Žižek, David Graeber, and the Maya civilisation.

A text on our current era of bureaucracy by Richard Jones for the Revol Press substack:

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More from the supposed leftist beacon. The left (in opposition) call a vote of no confidence over growing poverty : yle.fi/a/74-20218271

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Young Ukrainians leaving Finland in search of work by the thousands "Unfortunately, my life in Finland was not successful. I tried to do everything I could. I feel like this country doesn't want me here," Vladislava Onufrienko explained.

More from the 'socialist welfare paradise' (bear in mind Finns are strongly supportive of Ukraine and Ukrainians):

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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds Six-week trial including whistleblowers and top executives at Meta and YouTube was first of its kind to go to trial

They literally addicted children to harmful products.

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Intentionally causing addiction...

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Meta found guilty on all counts in landmark trial that could reshape social media A jury in Los Angeles reached a verdict March 25

"In the Los Angeles case, a jury awarded the 20-year-old plaintiff, identified as Kaley, $3 million in compensatory damages..."

The case was heard for addiction, but this surely has implications for other issues caused by fb's design. If we all sue... ?

www.independent.co.uk/tech/meta-gu...

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Metal Arts: Class, Aesthetics and Identity in Heavy Metal An interview with Tom Cardwell

Ahead of 2027's release of 'What’s Left of Metal?’ (Eds. David Burke, Mike Watson), Watson begins a series of dialogues with its contributors. This dialogue sees Tom Cardwell discuss his artistic practice in relation to metal, class, and issues of identity.

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Theory influencers be like:

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Apparently this is becoming a necessary weekly PSA. If you don’t want to read, write, and think, that’s fine. But then you have no business being a scholar. Especially if you’re TT/tenured, and especially in the humanities, if you can’t be bothered to do these things, you need to get out now.

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No more excuses for funding social programs.

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