What’s so fascinating about this silliness is: 1 How important peoples’ affective attachments to hobbies has become politically 2 How conservatives seem obsessed about the defence of the popculture of early postmodernity 3 How chill the creators are

Zupancić:

'There is a spectacular rise of what we might call a bio-morality (as well as morality of feelings and emotions), which promotes the following fundamental axiom: a person who feels good (and is happy) is a good person; a person who feels bad is a bad person'

McCarthyism is real. I’ve been relieved of teaching responsibilities. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.

With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to our friend and comrade Loren Goldner, now and forever, we can still break their haughty power

RIP Loren Goldner.
Loren mentored many of the best comrades we have in the US in the backrooms of diners and bars, over tea and toast. He taught us how to read class struggle in an international context, set an example of an uncompromising intellectual.

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Outside our Palestine Congress in Berlin, a German Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace has been arrested, for holding up a sign reading 'Jews against Genocide', by German police for... anti-semitism. Police also prevented the Rector of Glasgow University from entering.

Every week I think about do I really understand value and what my favourite Weakerthans song is….and in a globalised world I’m far from the only one.
Night Windows… probably …

The kids keep on making ‘69’ with dice but can’t actually explain why they think it is funny… but we watched a bunch of Northern Boys videos so I have no one to blame but myself

I hate how for a certain level of Australian progressive the impact of something on ‘artists’ and ‘progressives’ is seen as being especially important. Call Centre workers, chuggers, tourists trinket shop staff - all of us - deserve housing

The MSM have gone absolutely mad. One-half of their articles is about how Chinese economy cannot be revived and another half about how China produces too much. Do they believe that people, having read page 1, cannot remember it on page 2?

'China is producing too much'.
Does Janet Yellen know any economic history? Did not India say the same thing to England? Did not England say the same thing to the US?

Imagine being as stupid as this guy and thinking climate change is due to Qld voters and not global capitalism

This is such a fucked up thing to say (Melburnian progressive of course). Also very stupid for multiple reasons.

So Purplepingers posted the details of land banked vacant properties in multi million dollar suburbs and oh boy are the landlords angry

I was doing lectures 20 years ago about how democracy and liberalism were becoming unstuck from each other. Here we see the latest stage of the process: Starmer being positively gushed over by relatively junior commentariat for having had the good sense to lie to his own members.

This Fraser thing is insane. Solidarity with all the scholars in Germany who signed other open letters and whose livelihoods now seem to be in danger.