ari linden

It’s the worst. An aesthetic abomination and another symptom of decline

Sovereign are they who determines the needs of others.

It’s unsettling that this has to be pointed out

Volume 52 Issue 2 (155) | New German Critique | Duke University Press

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New piece out on Adorno and actually existing socialism

To be fair, most people don’t know this, though I understand that of all people, the fascists ought to know this

Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits, Qui Parle (2025) This essay explores two key concepts in the work of Karl Marx and argues for their essential interconnection: species-being and natural limits. The first section provides a general account of the idea...

My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle

We are being ruled by literal psychopaths. Those who support these people are, too, psychopaths.

I’ve got a piece on Adorno and actually existing socialism coming out with NGC next month

“Stop eating carrot cake” AND “Keep making carrot cake!”

I see. Though I think a (good) movie critic grades a movie only against itself

The Times reviewed it quite positively!

A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

True story.

Rafah, 5 June 2025. Haaretz

The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

If you’ve wasted the last 43 years NOT reading Rattansi’s Marx and the Division of Labour, waste no more time!

Are there any good essays out there on Marx, AI, and the law of the falling rate of profit?

Also, it’s “fewer” LGBTQ graduate majors ffs. We obviously do need more English majors

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Ah to long for the days when at least career politicians ruled the earth instead of bankers, real estate moguls, autocrats, and techbros.

Eines der gr Missverständnisse ü Faschismus ist, d geglaubt wird es kann nicht Faschismus sein, solange es noch soetwas wie Alltag gibt. Als würde sich beim dräuenden Faschismus d Himmel auftun u Apokalypse niederbrechen.

Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.

Only half-joking when I suggest that we repackage environmental humanities as “agricultural humanities,” or AgHum. There might be some funding left for that?

Dystopia is a tooth fairy who delivers bitcoin

The oligarchy is beginning to take on its international form: the US, Russia, Israel, India, …?

Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr Podcast Episode · The Dig · 02/17/2025 · 2h 15m

Can’t speak highly enough about this interview on modern psychiatry, among many things

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An excellent illustration of how opponents of a way of thinking avoid actual argumentation by calling something an “ideology,” one of the most egregiously abused terms by today’s autocrats/authoritarians

The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.

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Karl Kraus 1933 The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus's writings during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Walpurgnis Night . The contributions place Kraus’s ...

Order copies for your institutional libraries, folx! It’s finally out, seven years later. I also have a piece in it on Kraus, Adorno, and Heidegger.

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@cgelderloos.bsky.social Hi!

A dear friend is having a baby soon and mentioned they were going to read ‘bringing up Bebe,’ I reminded him that the French are likely to turn fascist so let’s not think too highly of their celebrated childrearing practices

The war against Xmas

Ha, just picked up a box of books for my students—Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline—from my institution’s administration building.