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One of the best contemporary commentators on war and tech. This looks essential!

22.06.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm speaking at this event, on infinite labour and the system of psychotic digital managerialism in HE. Based on a hopefully-forthcoming book!

21.06.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ooo cheers for this!!!!

14.06.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens unveils his official autobiography Cat On The Road To Findout to be published in September

Such, an amazing, spiritual bloke!!! I hope it has a chapter about how he called for the murder of Salman Rushdie... #catstevens

www.uncut.co.uk/news/yusuf-c...

13.05.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finishing a short book on infinite labour and digital managerialism... some thoughts on treadmills, in our new 'digital workhouses' ...

11.05.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November:

'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...

02.05.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Writing something on 'Infinite Labour and Psychopathic Digital Managerialism'... I quite like this analogy...

24.04.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(4) And everyone opposing him must shift again and all those supporting him claim he's a genius and this is what he meant to do ... Because Trump understands better than anyone that, today REALITY IS A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. We subscribe to the reality whose feed we prefer

09.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(3) What he says is! it exists!!! But it only is until he says the opposite... Tariffs are here and have changed the post-1979 neo-liberal global system ... then tariffs are paused and negotiable and everyone who has banked, guessed, commentated and changed their mind is wrong ..

09.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(2) Trump is the philosopher-king of 'hyporeality'. Where reality is simply what you can claim to be true. Trump is the positive thinking, postmodern Pere Ubu utilising the power of the divine to call the real into being...

09.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...

09.04.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#adolesence Cathy Come Home. Boys From the Blackstuff. Threads, Singing Detective ... Not much else up there with it

19.03.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't get out of swansea much! (no-one does...) I rely a lot on Andy to invite me to places :)

16.03.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! That's really kind of you! :)

16.03.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's attack on Higher Education speech, DEI, etc. is just doing exactly what Curtis Yarvin suggested he do ... This is an assault on 'the Cathedral'. And it's still not yet April. ... From our 'Sharded Media' book... @andrewhoskins.bsky.social

15.03.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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