rootless cosmopolitan. judeo-bolshevik

New York, NY
Joined April 2010
I went on @woodbinenyc’s podcast to talk with Matt and Amogh about Laclau and Mouffe’s 1985 treatise Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Which would have been better titled Hegemony as a Radical Democratic tactic, or Class Theory: A Deconstruction. open.spotify.com/episode/6tC…
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Love this colorized photo of barricades during 1848 in Paris
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his walls too high
Oliver Reed in the Devils you have to stop. Your mustache too hard. Your swag too different. Your bitches too bad. They’ll kill you Oliver Reed
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the costumes in this film were next level
They had that shit on
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Unlike most thinkers of his day Marx knew the real symbolic power and meaning of architecture. each building makes legible political and material forces and relationships within class societies. When they burn something else always burns too
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
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They had that shit on
In awe of Ken Russell’s The Devils
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For those who haven't seen the film he is doing this shit in every scene, the man is constantly raging at 200% and even when he's quiet you can see him vibrating with the strain of not popping off, it's fucking great
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the biggest slut in the whole film
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grabbed tickets to the restored, uncut version of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)
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it’s a masterpiece. the set design, the costumes, the performances my mom was a huge fan after seeing it very young in the early seventies. she’d obtained a VHS copy, which i watched as a kid, but it was the heavily-censored version from Britain
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A church converted into a socialist women's club in the Paris Commune
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Chris Wickham died. He was one of the greatest historians of his generation. He was the one who made me rethink the class, power, and exploitation behind all those intellectual debates and shiny artistic life in the medieval and early modern periods. May he rest in peace
RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.
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This is more or less how I first remember Anwar Shaikh, in 1978. A great photo.
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Sad news. Today, we lost one of the greatest thinkers of political economy. Rest in peace Anwar Shaikh.
Fun fact: Anwar Shaikh was born in Karachi, Pakistan.
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RIP
ANWAR SHAIKH DIED... I am devastated to share that Anu died tonight. I can't say anything more at the moment
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The most French thing I’ve ever seen
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He wasn’t a member but he actively supported them. They performed in the capital for Chancellor Schuschnigg.
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Von Trapp is even shown in the film wearing the Fatherland Front’s Krückenkreuz.
Replying to @rosswolfe
Just plainly untrue. He was a conservative monarchist. He was never a member of or even associated with any Austrian fascist parties
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Christopher Plummer is generationally great in this role, but it's still amusing to me that the historic Baron von Trapp was himself an Austrofascist who chafed against Nazi-style fascism (a foreign imposition following the Anschluss).
this remains the hottest thing a man has ever done
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