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Founding partner, Pattern Recognition: A Research Collective. Writes about financialized higher ed here: https://patternrecognitionresearch.substack.com/ contemporary history, CT hair salon signage and music elsewhere.

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If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, his loss of face at Quantico would leave seppuku his only alternative.

01.10.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, this morning's loss of face would leave seppuku his only alternative.

01.10.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harsh but true

27.09.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"The Big LARP" by stephen hastings-king The ambient sound wheezes on.

ICYMI a new little fiction/not-fiction; a map, not the territory. Have a read.

fictionaut.com/stories/step...

18.09.2025 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"The Big LARP" by stephen hastings-king The ambient sound wheezes on.

I made a new piece of fiction/not-fiction. Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.

fictionaut.com/stories/step...

18.09.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical concept of the imagination. How do they overlap?

ICYMI

www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...

04.09.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Buffalo is Beef On Weck World, the ornamental headboard of the midwest's bed.

30.08.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Power Play: A play about power today in one act (or less)" by stephen hastings-king I tell them โ€œTalk to me like Iโ€™m a 12 year oldโ€ so they do it and not only do they do it, but they pretend theyโ€™re not doing it because itโ€™s normal so what would it mean to be doing something itโ€™s jus...

I made a play on plays about power today.
Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.

fictionaut.com/stories/step...

25.08.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical concept of the imagination. How do they overlap?

On his podcast's latest, Andy Wilson and me talk about the topics you see below and some of the other things I've been working out using such notions. Have a listen should inclination and opportunity coincide.

www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...

24.08.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Neofascism USA cares about *nothing* except Neofascism USA remaining in power--the numbers show that an educated population doesn't fall for their bullshit, so education has to go. QED. Power & holding onto it in order to benefit friends & punish enemies. No governing ever.

26.06.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.

---Dietrich Bonhoeffer

23.06.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplishes anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict oneโ€™s prejudgment simply need not be believed โ€“ in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical โ€“

23.06.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LUMPEKS - TETE DEUX CHEVALS
YouTube video by Sebastien Beliah LUMPEKS - TETE DEUX CHEVALS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x43...

22.05.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Alan Lamb - Primal Image
YouTube video by bchansen67 Alan Lamb - Primal Image

RIP Alan Lamb. His work with long wires is a series of temporary vacations from the ambient lunacy. Headphones in my experience. Loud either way. Smoke if you do that sort of thing. Listen closely.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP...

02.05.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Upside of having a total narcissist, say, brother is that, once the reveal happens, you don't have to deal with this kind of shit any more. Of course it's not all upside. But that doesn't mean the upside isn't one.

20.04.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Ron Vara speaks out at last." by stephen hastings-king Heโ€™s an empty sock

Finally. Have a look.

09.04.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the midst of another day of neofascist stupidity in place of government I am thinking deeply about biryani.

07.04.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Like pretty much everybody I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of shabby, half-assed, racist neofascist lunacy.

18.03.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Kafaybe Age. We're adrift on an ocean of bullshit.

24.01.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"The Return of Darvo McPuddingbrain" is the even-worse sequel to an interminable original that everyone hated,a second time as farce in 4 year-long acts.

20.01.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Symmetrical with a 4-year expansion of Buffoonistan, MAGA eats itself.

29.12.2024 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)
YouTube video by ๏ผท๏ผฅ๏ผฅ๏ผญ๏ผต๏ผณ ๏ผณ๏ผด๏ผต๏ผค๏ผฉ๏ผฏ ๏ผ’๏ผ๏ผ’๏ผ’ยฉ Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)

Seasonally appropriate. From here to there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpF...

25.12.2024 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is, apparently, a talk show that summarizes other talk shows. It also summarizes the commercials shown during those talk shows. Every so often the stream of summaries is interrupted by weather reports. Two climates. The hosts are deathly pale.

25.12.2024 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We needed paper things so went to a Paper Store which mutated while we weren't interested into the circle of Hell where items in cursive fonts are sent for the sin of using cursive fonts ("sprinkles are for cup cakes") and everywhere was the scent of Yankee Candles and dying brain cells.

18.12.2024 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For a dialectical evening, we had oysters to celebrate the first week of post-Assad regime, discussed Neofascism USA's orchestration of a flight from freedom (for people) & fell asleep to Visconti's The Leopard: "Everything must change for things to continue exactly as they are."

15.12.2024 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching reports from Hama.

30.11.2024 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Then this arrived

23.11.2024 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Marty Gaetz? Tulsi? Hegseth? 2Trump thought it meet to lead with the racists, keeping some of the real clowns in reserve.

13.11.2024 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2Trump is working to create kafaybe momentum with a 2% and shrinking popular vote margin. A Suetonius with more patience than I would have great fun dissecting the kafaybe machine.

13.11.2024 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We now resume our broadcast day.

01.11.2024 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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