Jac Lewis

Just as the Nazis trialled IBM punch cards to hunt Jews for the profit of US companies, Israel continues that legacy as a psychotic fascist lab experiment of blood and technology

Great piece!

The reactionary element of Effective Altruism's utilitarian ethos is the way class relations of financialised capital are taken as an optimisable given. But its also a fantasy world of utility maximisers emerging at the precise moment capital is productively exhausted. Bentham turns in his grave

Mansonite beekeeper symbolic castration movie was so much fun

Can Laibach stop releasing stuff now

I'm so glad I'm not the only one

Saltburn has taught me to fear the feral cunning of the lower classes.

Going deep down the Well for the first time

I can't fully process the horror of the latest Epstein files. And the horror is not just their own.

Misogynistic violence is the basis of capitalist society. The rich as a whole benefit from the class functions of a world in which poor women have no choice but to submit to be raped and disappeared

True

Utilitarianism must be destroyed

The unseen all-divining Eye of Sauron will watch you forever

Me too.

The overdependence on internal candidates is a sign of this aswell. The lamest excuse for me so far, post-interview, was "It is customary to send an email to us asking questions about the module beforehand".

The US government is simulating the return of great power rivalry to give Peter Thiel a toy island

China has no territory or interest in the region. Russia can't win a war in Ukraine. This is nostalgia mode frontierism for assets that will soon be underwater.

A crack in the hermetically sealed academic job market has thankfully opened for me in the form of an interview. I've been briefed to talk about Kant for an hour.

Honoured to speak at the Žižek conference in Prague on his ideological romanticism and, ultimately, conservative politics

Very excited and honoured to be included in the upcoming Haunted Futures conference in Cork!

I'll discuss the crisis of an increasingly hegemonic post-internet far right, and the relevance of hauntology for re-thinking antifascism

I happened to accept this recently too. Just been utterly miserable.

This is the first public post of yours I've seen in over two years and Charlotte Gill is still obsessed with you 💀

"Are you the Jesuve?"

Excited to announce I'll be participating in a conference on Slavoj Žižek in Prague this November!

I'll be talking about the nostalgia disease, 'afflicted imagination', and the conservative limits of Žižek's romantic and bruising pathos of ideology theory

Why not transform the entire world into an Oxford Union carnival where heads of state lay out their genocidal policies on podcasts. Why the fuck not. Oh what's wrong? You can't defend your case? Weakling

Truth then sits with affliction as it always does, in silence.

In postmodern culture, the genocidal fascist and failed comedian are one in being professional cynics.

They loooove debate. They intuitively understand that Power today is exercised as sleights of attention and simulation. They get their kicks from this exhaustion of language