Althusser’s theory made a cultural politics possible because it said: cultural apparatuses are actually extended apparatuses of the state, invested with power relations that reflect relations of class domination in the society. It therefore became as valid to be working in a cultural arena as in a parliamentary or an industrial arena, or wherever. One could say, look, there’s the…
View this post on Instagram At the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. Fomapan 400 stand-developed in dilute Adox Rodinal. File no. 1263-41. Late August or early September 2021. (via Instagram )
‘I most certainly do not believe in hell, purgatory or heaven or any of that dreamed-up, sado-fantasist bollockry. However,’ he says, holding up one skinny finger, 'I am prepared to be pleasantly surprised, following my death, because I don’t think I’ve been that bad a person, and if you can’t expect a bit of magnanimity and compassion from God, who the fuck can you…
Harris’s Early Campaign: Heavy on Buzz, Light on Policy - The New York Times : When Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016, she had more than 200 distinct policy proposals. Four years ago, Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a task force write a 110-page policy document for his White House bid. Now, Vice President Kamala Harris does not have a policy page on her campaign website.
Some people won’t believe it—they wouldn’t believe it no matter how much evidence we had. But there’s enough here, I think, to stop Kennedy in his tracks. No summit. No reelection. No détente. And five years from now, or fifty years, this society will fall apart. You can’t build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that—they have to be better than that—I do believe…
I know Guy’s cancer isn’t contagious; you can’t catch it off him, no matter how close you are physically or genetically, not even if you’re his son. That’s the thing about cancer; it’s all yours — it’s entirely, perfectly personalised. The cause might have come from outside — carcinogens in tobacco smoke or whatever — but that just triggered the runaway…
But then, the racial fanatics were seldom the blue-eyed Aryan supermen—they, in the words of Das Schwarzes Korps , were ‘too inclined to take their membership in the Volk for granted.’ Instead, the swampy frontiers of the German race were patrolled by those less confident of their bloodworthiness. Insecurity breeds good border guards. The knock-kneed Franconian schoolmaster, ridiculous…
Biden defends Republican Party coup conspirators : >Biden’s principal concern yesterday was to uphold the stability of the Republican Party itself. “We need a Republican Party,” he said. “We need an opposition that is principled and strong.” He referred several times during his brief remarks to his “Republican friends,” and stressed that he would strive to “unify” Republicans and Democrats to…
A photograph, while recording what has been seen, always and by its nature refers to what is not seen. It isolates, preserves, and presents a moment taken from a continuum. The power of a painting depends upon its internal references. Its reference to the natural world beyond the limits of the painted surface is never direct; it deals in equivalents. Or, to put it another way: painting interprets…
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I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are. James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls , ch. 35
User Clip: For every blue-collar Democrat we lose…we will pick up two…college-educated Republicans. : Remember when Chuck Schumer explained why it was all right, in the end, that Democrats were throwing away millions of votes that they had traditionally relied on in previous elections?
How odd it is, thought March afterward, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to do it! You go along from day to day, down paths other people prepare for you, never raising your head—enfolded in their logic, from swaddling clothes to shroud. It’s a kind of fear. Robert Harris, Fatherland , part 3, ch. 7
View this post on Instagram Lake Superior from Split Rock lighthouse, Two Harbors, MN. Kodak TMaxP3200 exposed at EI 800 and developed in Kodak HC-110. 10? November 2023. File no. 1418-06. (via Instagram )
Jim nodded. His first impulse was to dismiss it as a problem for another day. That was wrong, though. Fuck-it-if-it’s-not-happening-right-now was crisis thinking, and if he couldn’t break out of it, it would only lead to more crises later on. James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls , ch. 1
Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik : This was not the intention, but 107 Days is a hilarious book. The kind of “you have to laugh or else you’ll cry” type of hilarity. As the second Trump administration unfolds in ever-more disastrous ways, Harris and the other timeline that was possible had she won take on a calamitous, mythical quality.…
I have said that a photograph bears witness to a human choice being exercised. This choice is not between photographing X and Y; but between photographing at X moment or at Y moment. The objects recorded in any photograph (from the most effective to the most commonplace) carry approximately the same weight, the same conviction. What varies is the intensity with which we are made aware of the poles…
View this post on Instagram At Compton Hill Reservoir Park, designed by Harvey Ellis and built in 1899 in St Louis. Orwo Wolfen NP100 exposed at box speed and stand-developed in dilute Kodak HC-110. 15 July 2023. File no. 1393-11. (via Instagram )
It was the single central argument that the universe had made to her through her whole life, and she was only now seeing it clearly: Wars never ended because one side was defeated. They ended because the enemies were reconciled. Anything else was just a postponement of the next round of violence. That was her strategy now. James S.A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath , ch. 35
Kamala Harris supported 2008 San Francisco policy that reported arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE | CNN Politics : Harris had established a record as a supporter of immigrant rights while district attorney: She supported issuing specialized visas for undocumented victims of violent crimes, prosecuted an unlicensed contractor in a labor exploitation case for wage theft of immigrants, and…