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I repeat, one of the greatest myths of Western modernity, capitalist development, and Eurocentrism is the belief that the colonial hell imposed on others is the road to civilization.
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In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.
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Has the world become less colourful?
(This graph shows the colour of objects over time)
ALT Colour of objects over time (Cath Sleeman, PEC, Nesta, Science Museums Group Collection)
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For me the festering issue is how our collective imaginary has been captured by a small group of techno-capitalists. We yearn for driverless cars, yet fail to imagine what a world without cars might look like. We starve our artists while we build machines to create art.
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I wonder how many political journalists will read John Hewson's words and actually reflect on their failure?
I suspect none.
With a standard "powdered radioactive human lung", I really hope we've reached the final peak of western abstraction ideology theguardian.com/news/2022/ma…
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OK I should have realized this would bring out a lot of “my theory has been suppressed by the scientific establishment.” Please know that if you replied to this tweet with a link to your unjustly suppressed paper I personally reported it to my overlords in Big Science.
Making my way through the final pages of Graeber’s Debt. It has me considering that corrosive element of liberal feminism that celebrates the freedom to be utterly alone rather than the freedom to form bonds with others, outside gender and race without imbalances of power.
This has some slow tv potential, would watch.
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