Doing the accounts of the Mary Ann Walkley case yet again
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
The novel is a historical and autobiographically filtered indulgence, yet the making of worlds can sweep you away for a day or a week. Right to choose, needless…
. Against descriptive abstracto-clerical abstentionism. Down with soft-time precario-sectionalcellerationism. Neverforget hard-core solidarnozprojectovognoscism. Exotico-vanguardianist…
Big Day – happy birthday Theodor Adorno.… and the tragedy of architecture that leads to warmongering warbucks… The algebra of need: = the culture industry + tourist rubbern…
I started to code the mixed metaphors in the first page of Critique of Exotica (because I do this for other texts and it helps understand them) but…
Outside Budapest – mood. One day I will make a list of things to do (that isn’t just a contrawise procrastination). Is it weird that no-one reads novels…
… Skillset work needed. Cadre who can scuba dive so as to cut the fibre optic cables providing internet to elite islands; Cadre who can reprogram delivery drones…
. He (I once) swam ashore amidst waves and debris under a typhoon sky. The tops of the waves were blown back against themselves, progress was near impossible,…
. It is now all the more necessary to make anti-war a credo with results. Would you defend the saboteurs of attack aircraft, the sugar in the tank’s…
Écriture – a creature is writhing in meaning, and having writh, moves on. . The performance given in a talk of a class is so much more animated…
There are stranger things in spave than Yuri would believe, one of course is the functionaries that were taking care of Neil Armstrong. I lived for a while…
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark…
Lived nearby the ruins as a kid in the 1960s, about 7 old chimney stacks, some of which provided my dad with bricks for his fireplace, while we…
. Years later, the city was curated by someone enamoured of De Chirico and retro TV like Sesame Street – brought to you by the alphabet. Not alphabet…
#circa 1995. From the look of Daniel I knew that he had been away too long. -Maaaate, how are… His cutting off grunt and wave of shaky hand…
. I have memories of my grandfather telling stories in his kitchen in the seventies. I was 14, he tried to explain that if Cornflakes gave you a…
. The romanticism of those who would escape to a world without Skynet is Skynet’s greatest weapon. A scuzzy-screen fantasy for foot-soldier anarcho-neo-cons who are fully trained and…
Prof. Saibaba recounts horrific conditions in prison August 26, 2024 Prof Saibaba recalled his nine years of solitary prison life in the ‘anda cell’ of Nagpur jail in a…
Anthropology at its best has been a process of rethinking, reflection and study that confirms how first impressions of people are nearly always wrong once more than one…
This critter got tangled up in the bookshelf after entering the apartment tonight. Huge thing it is, 9 cm with its wings folded. Am about to let it…
Muchly enjoying the new translation into English of Capital Volume one [1867] 1872 (second edition). I am learning a lot from the near 150 pages of new introductory…
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Walter Benjamin could be the Johnny Cash of social theory… Vincente Raphael had posted this relic from the Benjamin archive – a note on Marx which Benjamin wrote…
the conference proceedings are here: ISSH2024 Conference proceedings We made the National TV news and all with a report on the start of the conference. The last part…