“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-...
A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu
e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
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"
“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...
NTEU members at Federation University have kicked off their bargaining campaign for fair pay, job security and a real say in decisions that impact staff.
When staff have a voice, universities work better for everyone. Sign up to be part of bargaining at your university: betterworkplaces.nteu.au
Mathew Abbott
Ketan Joshi
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.
New episode out!
Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeQ...
“The final trick of OR is that it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language.”
Grace Roodenrys reviews Toby Fitch, brilliantly.
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"
NTEU
DK Renton
Liesbeth Corens
Alexander Billet
Agon Hamza
Ben Tarnoff
In response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, Joshua Nicholas Pineda articulates an antireductionist and naturalistic view of materialism.
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.
The final trick of Or is that in the end it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language, the maybe-hopeless pursuit of those “very exceptional c...
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...
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...
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 ...
