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Probably this is in part Americans genuinely not wanting another Iraq/Afghanistan but also recognizing that this is only going to accelerate the demise of the global equation that made the US possible. Labor aristocracy of the center is the counterpart of the comprador bourgeoisie of the periphery.

Loss of state capacity is an important component of the swiftness of this decline. Biden represented a late neoliberal inclination (regret) at restoring some of that capacity in the face of climate crisis. Trump represents an end of times plundering of the remainders of the postwar imperial state.

What we are observing is yet another such swift transition. With DoGE, we saw the dismantling of all the regulatory and stabilizing functions of the state, reducing it into a security apparatus. And now the war in Iran is quickly leading the US towards the limits of its military capacity.

Somethings happen very quickly. After the 1929 Crash, New Deal took less than a decade (1933-1938) to establish all the mediating institutions that made US win the war and the subsequent Pax Americana possible. Those were also the years Nazis goose stepped into power.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying

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yes indeed.

when I watched when I was 17, this movie made me a leftist. Have Donald Sutherland made his appearance in full force?

I think the conversation in Power/Knowledge with the Cahiers pour l’Analyse crowd is an interesting and revealing exchange.

YouTube video by ZKM | Karlsruhe Auf den Spuren von Teoman Madra: Die Anfänge der multimedialen Kunst in der Türkei

Selçuk Artut’s Lecture at ZKM Karlsruhe on Teoman Madra’s work (in English) November 27, 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=u9KD...

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

Teoman Madra’nın Disiplinlerarası Sanatsal Pratiği « Teoman’ın sanatı, teknolojiyi hiçbir zaman nötr bir araç olarak görmedi. Kamera, bilgisayar, yazılım, internet… her biri onun için hem imkân hem engel, hem oyun hem mücadele alanı oldu. »

“Teoman [Madra]’ın sanatı, teknolojiyi hiçbir zaman nötr bir araç olarak görmedi. Kamera, bilgisayar, yazılım ya da internet; her biri onun için hem imkân hem engel, hem oyun hem mücadele alanı oldu.” —Yahya Madra’dan: manifold.press/teoman-madra...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Being an political economist who is transitioning to psychoanalysis, I totally missed the story of Theory and Society’s demise. Is there an account of it somewhere?

“The reality that liberal politicians are desperately trying to disguise is that the people vastly outnumber the invading force, … and, if even minimally organized, the [working] people therefore have the ability to defeat the invasion on their own.”

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

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Manifold Tasarım, teknoloji, sanat ve gündelik hayat üzerine denemeler

Yahya Madra: Teoman Madra’nın Disiplinlerarası Sanatsal Pratiği manifold.press/teoman-madra-n…

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like:

“Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

a guy wearing a “i ❤️ ny” cap reading the qur’an in one hand and the communist manifesto in the other

day one in mamdani’s new york

A brilliant read. Yet, I am left wondering what would be articulated otherwise if the essay weren’t written exclusively from the perspective of the clinic of neurosis. The crisis of symbolic investiture and the foreclosure of the Name of the Father has far reaching political implications.

Teoman Madra’nın Ardından / Remembering Teoman Madra // December 23 Aralık // Alper Maral // Selen Gülün // Batur Sönmez // 19:00 // Salt Beyoğlu Açık Sinema

Michael Bernstein’s Perilous Progress might have somethings if I remember correctly

Pragmatizm derken felsefi bir yönelim olarak. John Dewey, FDR, Rorty. Beyaz Saray’da FDR’ın resmini çekmiş, Mamdani. Eğer insulate edebilirse NY’u önümüzdeki bir sene yeniden seçilebilir ve yapacaklarına zemin açabilir.

American pragmatism. Olumsuz olarak söylemiyorum

This is a bold statement. They attack and he perseveres. Impressive.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Appraising Mamdani’s Five Key Policies — The Democracy Collaborative Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city, Professor Maliha Safri wr...

Maliha Safri (@msafri.bsky.social) tidied up the debates around 5 major economic policies by Mamdani in this neat post: www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/mamdan...

Appraising Mamdani’s Five Key Policies — The Democracy Collaborative Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city, Professor Maliha Safri wr...

Maliha Safri (@msafri.bsky.social) tidied up the debates around 5 major economic policies by Mamdani in this neat post: www.democracycollaborative.org/blogs/mamdan...

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