Posts by Mike Watson
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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 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.
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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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.
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“Artists contort themselves into beings capable of both critiquing capitalism and whitewashing (or ‘artwashing’) it.”
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Anthem have a web page for my book, out September 2027.
A more affordable paperback version will follow later:
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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?
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.
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.
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.
Go for it, it took me ages given other commitments, but was well worth it!
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.
We are reminded that there are as many visions of religion God, etc, as there are brothers and sisters... 🙏✊
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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
More from the 'socialist welfare paradise' (bear in mind Finns are strongly supportive of Ukraine and Ukrainians):
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Intentionally causing addiction...
"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... ?
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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:
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.
No more excuses for funding social programs.
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