Richard Riddick

I regret to report that AI actually seems to be quite good at transcribing handwritten manuscripts

This is somehow the perfect interaction between Jameson and Stuart Hall:

Zola's handwritten notes on Marx's Capital:

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

Can't help thinking that Cold War liberal conspiracy theory fails miserably at that task, even when it's right in seeing fascism

What do contemporary Marxist economists think about Marx's money theory? Is it crucial to his value theory or could it be revised or discarded without significantly modifying the former?

Just received an all-staff listserve email about... tackling email overload

Has anyone else wondered if Marx’s whole thing with tailoring and weaving is an elaborate pun on Threadneedle Street…

Most Millennial tattoo idea: ten-year average growth rate for high-income countries 1960-2015

what's wrong babe you've barely touched your congealed labour-time

My conclusion from rewatching every Lynch film (except for The Elephant Man and The Straight Story) is that Inland Empire is underrated. It's a crazy work of digital video late style about movies being metaphysically evil but also redemptive to be watched along with Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma.

All these time-saving innovations and still none of them can do the laundry or the cooking.

Feeding the NLR archive into DeepSeek in order to find out who won the Brenner debate

Arguably pp. 300-600 of Capital are the most important because that's where you can put some real creasing in the spine. The first and last 300 pages you're just creasing the covers

Music in Lynch's films seems like a pretty good example of psychoanalysis' body problem: the scenes where the music really hits have to be explained away as a fantasy of plenitude, desire finding its object etc.