Raymond Craib

Histories of Disability in Latin America Reframing disability, power, and identity in Latin America's complex histories.Histories of Disability in Latin America offers a sweeping reexamination of disability's place in the region's past, brin...

Today is the publication day of this volume, with chapters by Bianca Premo, Adam Warren et moi on Peru. A terrific collection. Check it out. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

yeah, same.

Fascism in Global & Transnational History, my lecture today in Flagstaff, Arizona at Northern Arizona University

I’ll be talking about some older stuff and some new stuff (in conjunction with the AAG) on March 21 at Medicine for Nightmares bookstore in San Francisco.

Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Dana Carvey “grumpy old man, in my day….” vibes.

Couverture d’Apocalypse Nerds

💥 Il semblerait que ce soit le jour J.

Apocalypse Nerds sort aujourd’hui en librairie. Fierté teintée de fébrilité ; il est entre vos mains désormais.

@nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social @divergences.bsky.social

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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to lift

not sure what counts as manly but all i see is a lot of painful chafing and nosferatu

Cover of a book written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father. THE SOVEREiGN INDIVIDUAL MASTERING THE TRANSITION TO THE INFORMATION AGE JAMES DALE DAVIDSON LORD WILLIAM REES-MOGG THORS OF THE GREAT RECKONING

From "The Sovereign Individual" by Lord William Rees-Mogg (& James Dale Davidson) 1. The democratic nation-state basically operates like a criminal cartel, forcing honest citizens to surrender large portions of their wealth to pay for stuff like roads and hospitals and schools. 2. The rise of the internet, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, will make it impossible for governments to intervene in private transactions and to tax incomes, thereby liberating individuals from the political protection racket of democracy. 3. The state will consequently become obsolete as a political entity. 4. Out of this wreckage will emerge a new global dispensation, in which a "cognitive elite" will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals "commanding vastly greater resources" who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends.

Moldbug argued that the state is not going anywhere anytime soon and thus the best solution would be what he called "neocameralism": that is, convert the state into "a business which owns a country" with share. holders and customers, the ownership of which is formally transferred into the hands of the actual rulers, meaning whoever "capitalists pay for political favors?" Moldbug's arguments echo those found in a number of other texts one could situate within the genre of libertarian exit. These would include James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual (1997). Davidson, a private investor and cofounder of the National Taxpayer's Union, and Rees-Mogg, a journalist and a baron, argued for the commercialization of overeignty and the transformation of the citizen into a "Sovereign Individual" who could "optimize [their] lifetime earnings" by becoming a customer of a "government or protection service."S To help would-be Sovereign Individuals along in their journey to consumer independence, Davidson and Rees-Mogg, much like Phoenix Foundation member Harry Schultz, offered up an array of resourcesweekly investment briefings, private consultations, offshore money management services, membership in the Oxford Club, among others-for purchase. One could also include here the writings of German-American

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

Some of us have been saying for a good few years now that replacing international organisations / institutions was a main goal of the billionaires / grifters behind Brexit and Trump.

From the “Sovereign Individual” books of William Rees-Mogg, through attacking the EU, & installing Trump, Musk, etc.

Public Warning: Charter-City and Free-Zone Developments Carry Documented Risks to Communities This is a public-interest warning, not an allegation against any named individual or organisation.

The Tories and Labour colluded on a nationwide rollout of free zones not long after Brexit.
12 Freeports - 8 in England, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Wales.
74 SEZs - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, 8 in Wales.
5 AI Growth Zones
Thread/Explainer
open.substack.com/pub/european...

New book - festschrift for Kevin Middlebrook

Read along the archival grain….

@letsgomathias.bsky.social is always killing it. His book To Catch A Fascist is a must own to be sure.

Over on @halftheanswer.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com, @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of speaking with him about it and the state of the nation not too long ago as well.

Amazed to hear that people die for “monocultural economic zones”….

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

Today and tomorrow: $5 books are back! We will be donating a portion of our weekend sales to the legal defense of those engaged in acts of resistance to ICE.

www.pmpress.org

Immigrants Welcome Sticker The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness; it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it g...

So glad you asked! You can order these stickers here for the price of production and postage alone:

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Excellent thread.

ICYMI

every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame

dinner parties with Kristi Noem must be nuts…

Concerned about drones from cartels, the US military shot down a "party balloon" (www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...).
Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.

Seasteading has always had that creepy and aggressive underside that characterizes so many “exit” and “freedom” projects. The 1970s Republic of Minerva project “president” Bud Davis declared residents on the private island would be able to do whatever they wanted, and he gave examples….

The Afterlives of Viral Infection | KPFA As influenza cases reach a twenty-five year high, a look at the complicated history of long lasting post-viral conditions. Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishme...

Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has frequently ignored chronic but often invisible illnesses like long Covid and long flu, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

Can’t over-emphasize how good Against the Grain is. Some of the very best interviews on new work you can find.

Love this! LR; WI. Two faves:
Osvaldo Bayer, La Patagonia Rebelde
Emilia Viotti da Costa, Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood