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Art and Abolition: A Proposal - Journal #155 Dominique Routhier on “art” as a fictional bourgeois category that arises from capitalist relations of production.

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."

- I have a new essay out, read it here:

www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

"My decision is not primarily driven by fear of experiencing even a fraction of the humiliation that thousands of so-called 'illegal immigrants,' 'criminals,' or political dissidents—wrongly branded as 'terrorists'—have suffered over time. It is, above all, a political decision"

Some excerpts 🧵

Did he delete his socials?

Joshua Clover (1962-2025) The poet Michael Robbins emailed me on the night of April 27 to tell me Joshua Clover had died. I could tell you that I sobbed, immediately and hard and...

Sasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social

I didn't know Josh Clover well, but we did get to do a panel together a couple years back. He said sth then that stuck with me, which is that we should resist analogies with the past to understand the present b/c we need to be open to what's radically new about the now...

There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise."

I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.

So is Carney gonna call in any airstrikes on the illegitimate junta ruling the restive former colonial outpost just across his country’s southern border? Surely a few well-placed smart bombs will alleviate the destabilizing threat of cross-border skirmishes and territorial encroachment.

might have to make this t-shirt for my girlfriend

other planes Playlist · guns n röbbins · 26 items

anyway here is my four-hour Sun Ra playlist

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

will do this again today

L’arbre indique que tout est vie.

Jacques Camatte 1935-2025

This Global Warming Book Is a Token From Another World “What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

have you seen Tooze’s review? would love for someone to volley a response…

Autor Paul Mattick hält sein Buch in Händen: »Die Rückkehr der Inflation. Geld und Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert«, erschienen bei uns.

Paul Mattick: “It is economic decline, ongoing (through cyclical ups & downs) since the mid-1970s, that limits the welfare spending that it simultaneously makes more necessary, while emptying the globalized economy of its promise of advancement for all.” Lesenswert: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiel...

Went to see Adam Hanieh talk today. He relayed an anecdote about watching a basketball game in China and being struck by the Saudi Aramco adverts on the sidelines… a real world-spirit on horseback moment for me…

this is how i’m perceived by my peers

I went to see Raresh DJ last night and spent most of the evening talking about Adam Tooze.

Laleh Khalili · I am Genghis Khan: Shoring Up SoftBank Masayoshi Son seems compulsively driven to invest larger and larger sums so he can call himself the biggest, most...

‘Son seems compulsively driven to invest larger and larger sums so he can call himself the biggest, most significant, most visionary investor in the world.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on SoftBank and its leader, Masayoshi Son:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

a couple of different looks at some stairs I built

commodity form double entendre concrete labour double entendre

commodity form double entendre concrete labour double entendre

"If Trump wins we may have play our part as financial advance guard and prepare the ground for territorial expansion. But what's that to us, in the big scheme of things."