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diegetic autocannibalism. we love to see it, don't we, folks?

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now

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Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Still in disbelief there's an actual following of - and some sort of mainstream press respect - for someone who wrote his "most important works" under the pseudonym of Mencius Moldbug. I mean, at some point cringe itself has to become a measuring stick right

White text on a deep blue background: The End of Everything (2026) A novel by M John Harrison It feels like the end. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid: yet the exact cause of the catastrophe remains obscure. Is it an alien invasion? An ecological collapse? Or an unprompted change in the nature of reality? Phillip Tennent makes a living selling exotic lifeforms washed up from the Channel - until he lands a creature whose shapeshifting properties threaten to destabilise everything he thinks he knows. M John Harrison, acknowledged master of science fiction, unsettles and entertains in this slyly satirical adventure into the limits of human knowledge and mastery.

Guess this might be the prompting I needed to write a deep dive on MJH

in this time where we're all thinking about how good metal gear solid 3 is again i gotta convince some of you to get le carre pilled. read call for the dead its his first novel like 168 pages and the entire genre is right there fully formed day one

Terence Stamp is Pasolini’s Teorema, sitting outside with his legs wide open, reading Rimbaud’s Illuminations.

RIP Terence Stamp

Director, artist and author Mamoru Oshii sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oshii_... was born on this day, so here's some related artwork (first by Yoshitaka Amano or based on his drawings; couldn't identify the other artists):

Sometimes, I think people need reminding that 'No ethical consumption under capitalism' is a critique of capitalism, not ethics.

The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb When the atom bomb was dropped, 140,000 Koreans were in Japan's Hiroshima city, many as forced labour.

The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb

80 years since Hiroshima—time to reread Anders’ Theses for the Atomic Age, Hiroshima ist Überall, and Die atomare Drohubg

www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...

Finally!! Super excited to hear your thoughts :D

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

ok Günther Anders go off

Would the five invisible people who are gathered round my bed please give me an ex planation. All the beggars of history would like to know, and all the wealthy murderers who have no need to fear the dawn’s vouchers, its church bells and ordeals by pinprick. Let them use whatever language they require. Inner and outer alphabets, everything applicable. Could they offer please some details, or reason or betrayal. And could they please, in a thunder of whatever dates and names, just get out. I think of my friends as blackbirds screeching from rooftops murdered by rising rents Exarchia Kreuzberg Hackney we survive at random. pissed out of our heads in songs in squatted bars there are those you beat to death in prison with us it’s done with pills and needles we never sleep we always dream we wake in the same bed with bedbugs with trackmarks I love my friends they are wires stretched from city to city in borrowed dresses and migraines interpreters commies thieves they live in silence. they paint in black they invent their language

yours is only good for spitting and we live at random. lines and bombs and wires tight around your hands. your necks you fascist shits. your necks my friends are wires are blackbirds This is for those who never made it For those in the center of the earth Who cracked apart in the holding cell The enormous noises of the border “Kreuzberg. Exarchia. Hackney.”

Katherine Gogou, as translated by Sean Bonney:

Had an unplanned red eye flight yesterday/today after a series of weird events. But my joke made a train car full of people laugh so overall a good experience 10/10 👍

Skipping Habermas to go straight to Adorno?

Mr. Gore… welcome to the Critical Theory Working Group…

THE CORNER THAT HELD THEM SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN

there should be more novels about nuns written by avowed communists

Execution of King Charles I. 1649.

An image of Michael Caine and Tim Curry beneath which the text "the reason Michael Caine and Tim Curry are so good in their respective Muppet movies is that Michael Caine treats the Muppets as fellow actors, and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow Muppet"

This hit me with the force of revelation

Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has a seemingly friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the Met museum in the division of finds.

Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone, c. 1479–1425 BC 🦛❤️

Perhaps a practice sketch or a template from 3,500 years ago!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Brunnhilde cat

wow there is a second Brünnhilde cat picture and it’s even better

Danny Hayward · Fascist ships of Theseus (2024)

Our latest issue includes three review essays on recent books on the contemporary far-right and the meaning (or non-meaning) of fascism today

1. Danny Hayward on Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism

www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/fasc...

Was looking for the title of his new book and uh I don’t think that’s correct g00gle

Bini Adamczak, Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future

Books in 2025:
1. Short and incisive, but a painful read on the failure of the communist movement in the last century. Loved Adamczak's work on communist desire, looking forward to reading more written by her.

a little bit late but here’s translation of a New Year’s Eve aphorism that didn’t make the cut for Horkheimer’s Dämmerung (1934), and it’s a huge downer! Enjoy!

The core issue in Elden Ring being that one is profoundly maidenless is maybe the hardest case of a game knowing its audience.