Brumaire maybe the Marx text that has aged the best, a bunch of it is like this idiot is the guy in power???
Huge Ontario energy (derogatory)
Is art politics? Nope, but there are overlaps!
Is art a moral treatise? Bzzt wrong!
Is art the libidinal expression of a bunch of weirdos? Ding ding ding!
Fascinating thread
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I wrote about T.H. White's deeply enigmatic book The Goshawk and tried to think about queer kinship and how hard it is to love: niche-canada.org/2026/06/12/f...
I also wrote about beavers and the echoes of the fur trade and beaver as symbol in contemporary Canada:
revistas.usal.es/dos/index.ph...
The same, by the way, with the woke homophobia which writes gay men out of LGBT history or claims we've just appropriated the *real* radicalism of lesbian or trans pioneers. Not true. And misses the more interesting question: if the political disposition of the average gay man has changed, *why*?