Wtf

incessant speech and the assumed demand/expectation that others are hearing/must listen mimics the social media need to produce continuous content and embody the Silicon Valley tendency to posit a world constantly in flux and flow (but crucially that always stops for its Man God Kings)

Lol we're Amity Shlaesing again?

Constantly! My heart friend wrote almost a whole book chapter about this!

Oh yea from my childhood that wouldn't even rate an eyebrow

Quintessential southern antiquing experience

Did the Pope read Baudrillard?

Yea a lot of sturm and drang but ultimately...

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Sketch of a woman playing saxophone

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"we're seeing here that you've nominated a slot machine that somehow became a Real Boy to be on the court, hold up"

she's a strong GOAT contender

"Latourian white shamanism" i mean.....

I wrote an essay for Criterion about "Corporate Thrillers," including Wall Street, The Devil's Advocate, Disclosure, Michael Clayton, and more

very cool man!

Yea it's just "possessive individualism" and it's gendered and racist entailments

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.

this is a microcosm of the world as conservatives want it, where “merit” means an unrestricted good ol’ boys club

basically they and Taylor Lorenz have lost it for the same reason

they wanna be victims and victors at the same time and like, that's just a recipe to go psycho

Wut.

Gonna be sick when we nuke the EU for demanding we stop burning oil

i get this. i would say the spectacle of immiseration/suffering is more a 'mass politics' constitutive of the general US 'people' than is always acknowledged. but that doesn't mean the OP isn't onto something

feels pretty novel to me. but yea your point that it makes sense w/in narrow majorities, that tracks.

lol yea the OP was totally right in....1983

The Max Power Presidency

good lord.

Elaine tyler may on contemporary American life as bunkerization?

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

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