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80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’ Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

80 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world has blundered into a new age of nuclear perils, Jason Farago writes. “To survive this second nuclear age we are going to need models from the first one: artists who faced up to what the bomb did, and what the bomb made of us.”

Mazel!

needs to be said again and again

may the Korsch be with you

Yes I highly recommend it!

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

I choose Korsch!

◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️

KORSCH/SCHMITT - including 7 new translations, and 2 interpretative essays

endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/kor...

I only assign posts bro, sometimes just a meme, or a gif if that’s too hard, maybe an AI summary of an emoji

www.academia.edu/143214013/Th...

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI, Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial intelligence, Silicon Empires uncovers the deep economic forces guiding the expansion of AI

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI - @politybooks.bsky.social, October 2025
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

they still read books?! what a world

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

The director of B'Tselem, one of the largest and most esteemed Israeli human rights NGO's, on how the organization came to the conclusion that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Coalposting

The Kojève biographies just keep on coming

New book review:
Bonnell on Eiden-Offe, Patrick; Blumenfeld, Jacob, trans.: _Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat, The_. Brill, 2023. Published by H-Socialisms.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20121435

In our new article, Jens Beckert and I ask how "Capital and the Family" interconnect in contemporary capitalism. We argue that they come together in owning relations - and are crucial to today's economy. Read more in @bjsociology.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

This whole thing reads like a civilisation that is daring itself to go over the brink ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Neukölln hat eine „Neue Yuppie Brücke“ für den Sonnenuntergang Pollerstreit und Gentrifizierung in Kreuzkölln: Unbekannte haben den Treffpunkt für den Sonnenuntergang umbenannt. Das ist gleichermaßen lustig, wie dramatisch

important local development www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/neuk...

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

"The market will solve climate"

the market: (swear this isnt satire,but Goldman Sachs CEO)
"We need a new asset class of healthy soils and pollinators" "Our core message is simple...we must transform the goods & services provided by nature into asset classes" ft.com/content/f04f...

🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025)

How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?

We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

@sfb294.bsky.social

Finally getting around to reading Adorno's lectures Volume 2: Social Theory and Politics and the end of the lecture on The Relationship Between Individual and Society is fucking great

‘Worst-case scenario’ of famine unfolding in Gaza, says global hunger monitor World Food Programme says Israel still not enabling movement of enough food to stave off ‘catastrophic human suffering’

‘Worst-case scenario’ of famine unfolding in Gaza, says global hunger monitor https://on.ft.com/3Hbi09b

“bold—and controversial”

Die Druckfahnen sind da! Mitte Oktober erscheint „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“ von @onachtwey.bsky.social & mir. Wir gehen hier der Frage nach, warum viele die Demokratie in Schutt und Asche legen wollen. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zerstoe...

Incredibly important book!

On this day two years ago, Kyle Gordon posted a TikTok that had a text overlay reading, "Every European Dance Song in the 1990s."

We Need New Jewish Institutions Sustaining the struggle will require spaces for reimagining our tradition.

"We need new Jewish institutions . . . We need them not to exit Jewish community, but to join it in earnest, on our own terms. To transition from pockets of rebellion to poles of power."

@arielleangel.bsky.social on the structures we need to sustain our movements. jewishcurrents.org/we-need-new-...