“The flaws with Miéville’s argument have less to do with his engagement with idealism than his leap into metaphysics, which does open the door to the mystification of the natural and historical world that modern scientific theory has done so much to counter.”
spectrejournal.com/naturalized-...
“those with power in society are deeply intolerant of any space in which exceptions are possible, in which something could happen”
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
New episode out!
Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeQ...
My attempt at thinking through climate repair as a latent possibility emergent within (but by no means guaranteed by) the overshoot conjuncture, in issue 3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Very interesting review that explores Muskism as a "global class project"
A recent review for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of AJA Woods' book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. The book is really quite good and I think should be read by anyone who takes culture seriously.
The keynote by @abenanav.bsky.social from our planning conference last December is now online. Enjoy!
youtu.be/_fOKi05_Ddo
Thanks @jacobinmag.bsky.social for this lovely review-
"Renton is as secular as they come [yet] ...we can trace back Renton’s desire for a culture of forgiveness, the repair necessary to radically change our world, to a particularly Jewish notion about what is necessary to truly right our wrongs"
On radical Kant in the 1960s:
"It's hard to conjure these leftwing students’ fascination with the arch-bourgeois Prussian philosopher except to say that theirs was no ordinary Kant, but the Frankfurt School’s Kant—a Kant mired in contradictions, whose unpacking promised to disclose something true"
In response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, Joshua Nicholas Pineda articulates an antireductionist and naturalistic view of materialism.
This article recovers Angela Davis’s archived dissertation project, “Towards a Kantian Theory of Force,” from 1969, and places it in conversation with her mature work on prison abolition. It begins by...
Excuse me, have you taken a moment to appreciate the beautiful mind of @natashaheenan.bsky.social recently? Well, do I have just the thing for you: www.break-down.org/producing-th...
D. K. Renton’s new book tackles the thorny subject of revolutionary forgiveness.
Few can accept preemptive forgiveness of their persecutors: we have to have some faith in the future, that there will be a little less pain when we build the world to come.
Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...
To produce a new climate in the ruins of the old we need more than technofixes. We need a politics of climate repair.
D. K. Renton’s new book tackles the thorny subject of revolutionary forgiveness. Few can accept preemptive forgiveness of their persecutors: we have to have some faith in the future, that there will be a little less pain when we build the world to come.
Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile ...
