Jason Christian

Furthermore, when people dismiss didactic art, they tend to have no problem with art that expresses reactionary right-wing ideas. It's only Leftist themes that bother them. I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand these basic facts.

When people recoil at "political" art, what they are doing is conflating didacticism with political. These are not the same thing. ALL art is political, but not all art is didactic.

page from The Cultural Cold War, by Frances Stonor Saunders.

You really have to hand it to the CIA. All the money and manpower they invested in supporting a Non-Communist Left (NCL) for decades paid off. People are more confused than ever and it never occurs to them to seek answers in theories they've been taught to distrust or despise.

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Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood

The passage is from The Cultural Cold War, by Frances Stonor Saunders, which I highly recommend. Here's a PDF:
drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEQC...

page from The Cultural Cold War, by Frances Stonor Saunders.

You really have to hand it to the CIA. All the money and manpower they invested in supporting a Non-Communist Left (NCL) for decades paid off. People are more confused than ever and it never occurs to them to seek answers in theories they've been taught to distrust or despise.

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In the US he would shoot you dead, testify that he felt his life was in danger, and get off scot free.

You too! I was in OK last week so I probably got it there or on the plane.

Day four of having Covid. This sucks.

Many are claiming this data is misleading, which, fine, I’m not one to defend metrics. The keys are usually in the dark, not under the lightpost, but the light is where we can look.

I will simply say, this more or less corroborates OpenAI’s own public statements.

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Vernon, Greenfield #7 - John Ashbery Tribute Show The seventh installment of Vernon, Greenfield: John Ashbery Tribute Show. Cover: John Ashbery (Argyle Socks) by Fairfield Porter, 1952. In honor of what would have been his 98th birthday on July 28t...

In honor of his 98th bday, this hour is dedicated to music about, enjoyed by, and variously resonant (as determined by DJ TY) with John Ashbery. You'll hear snippets of poems, interviews, and other ephemera.

+ Film Rec of the Week w/ @jasonachristian.bsky.social
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I've read quite a lot on the subject and this book filled in a lot of gaps I didn't know I had. It offers truly brilliant analysis of complex political-economic realities in the Third World.

At the end of the episode we all recommend books, and this was my rec. It's absolutely essential to understand Western imperialism and resistance to it in the Global South.

jonathan demme's THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is a modern american masterpiece, a prescient slice of paranoia and disinformation that understood how much of our political landscape was, & will, be based on lies. honored to write about it for @bwdr.bsky.social.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/08/06/w...

Sontag Mag - A Journal of Craft & Poetry “To continue to speak long after catastrophe is to risk language becoming its own kind of heresy.”

"Always in Refusal" 🖤 It is the pleasure of the poet to wake up to reviews like this one in from Rishi Janakiraman. Wow.

sontagmag.com/sontag-mag-v...

Hahaha. I'm long overdue.

I still haven't seen it!

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

Film rec of the day:

Edvard Munch

(Peter Watkins, Norway/Sweden, 1974)

Film rec of the day:

The Executioner

(Luis García Berlanga, Spain, 1963)

My wife just released a new episode of her podcast on the Hindi film DAMUL (1985), a film that explores Bihar's caste and gender politics. Check it out!
sites.libsyn.com/560980/damul...

My wife just released a new episode of her podcast on the Hindi film DAMUL (1985), a film that explores Bihar's caste and gender politics. Check it out!
sites.libsyn.com/560980/damul...

You know I would if I was within a hundred miles of your place.

Film rec of the day:

The Executioner

(Luis García Berlanga, Spain, 1963)

Download this and 11 other Watkins films here:

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Film rec of the day:

Edvard Munch

(Peter Watkins, Norway/Sweden, 1974)