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Martin Hägglunds *This Life* claims to give the left a rigorous atheism. What it instead gives is a credentialed-professional's relationship to mortality dressed up as the transcendental structure of care—with the proletariat quietly erased in the process
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The impulse to locate the truth-content of christianity outside of history undermines the faith from within. What makes the Incarnation special is precisely its complete and total mundanity—God as a victim of imperial violence like any other widow, orphan, and slave
I can only imagine the simultaneous dread and relief of being a dedicated Christian who, upon studying the life of Jesus from a closer historical perspective, slowly comes to realize that the whole thing was an interesting historical episode but totally mundane and explicable
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I found this book to be very clarifying in terms of how so many contemporary efforts to counterpose Christianity against history (ie its "uniqueness" compared to pagans) is rooted in Reformation-era Prot vs Catholic arguments abt what the Church is and should be
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@nonchalantly_ given your interests I think you'd especially enjoy this text
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the reason the elder scrolls franchise is good is because it lets us explore and enjoy a universe where continental philosophy is real
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I agree with OP btw. I only add that it's important to situate that feeling of dread regarding contact made bw faith and history as a phenomenon differentially-felt via denominational, class, and racial lines. Hence why deconstruction much more common w prots relative to caths
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Nope. Car doors are fascist. Ice cream makes socialism impossible. Breathing is theft and thinking is slavery.
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EPISODE 46: PALESTINE AND THE WAR MACHINE
James Crane (@gruidae_james) joins us to discuss how Palestine shaped Deleuze & Guattari's philosophy, and what their concepts of minoritarian politics, the war machine, and lines of flight mean for the practice of revolutionary struggle
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Even though the Syrian Communist Party had around 35k members in Syria and Lebanon by the late 1940s, its membership sharply contracted to only "several hundred" in the two years following the leadership's endorsement of the USSR's 1947 backing of the partition of Palestine
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That all depends on how closely you listen. James Talarico says “I support the ban of OFFENSIVE weapons to Israel”.
That isn’t a rejection. That’s more funding for the Iron Dome & other weapons. That’s politicking. Those are words by a man who will stray if not held to account.
When you listen to James Talarico, you realize that last night's results were not just a rejection of Trump and Israel's Iran war, but also a rejection of a Democratic Party led by people like Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan:
"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign. Seeing what's happening in Gaza makes me sick to my stomach as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being"
This is his message, and he won in Texas!
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In addition to taking nearly $1 mil from J Street (a liberal zionist lobbying firm), Ossoff has stated that his support for Israel is "ironclad" and has voted two times to defund UNRWA and starve the people of Gaza. He deserves nothing but contempt
I see this misleading image being shared around.
Ossoff hasn’t taken a single dollar from AIPAC. This 900k comes from JStreet, which is an anti-Netanyahu progressive Jewish advocacy group that has also given money to Bernie Sanders in the past.
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Tipped off by the Palestine solidarity movement, Calabrian union workers helped to stall 17 containers bound for Israel. buff.ly/T3tUy6Y
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New translation: Karl Landauer’s 1930 essay “On the Psychosexual Genesis of Stupidity”! This is the essay that convinced me of the importance of Landauer’s work *for* & *as* critical theory! Hope you find it as strange & exciting to read as I did!
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Democrats, republicans, DSA, and DSA-adjacent ultras choose to appeal to the same constituencies, using similar nationalist and populist rhetoric. Politics shift rightward, though the language of affordability is taken as a sign of progressive left politics. It is not.
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Ficino is the quintessential contemporary theologian: a privileged, detached, petulant figure, endorsed by power, elegant in all the dispensable corners of life. Yet, at the decisive moment—the one moment that truly matters, when any philosophy is of no avail—he crowns his +
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The Blue Dog faction of the Democratic Party (pro-police, anti-trans, zionist) more than doubled the size of their governing caucus next year. The moderate dems' majorities have diminished the left's electoral leverage. Don't see how this position is analytically helpful
This brand of smug, cynical, “you can’t vote out fascism”, brand of left politics lost last night too.
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Pro- and anti-electoralism (whatever that means) alike tend to obscure the political composition of the Dem party whose challenges for socialist organizers are obscured by framing the Dem party as a monolithic political formation
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ICYMI, CTWG has a book on Racket
Theory coming out soon in collaboration with Ebb books! If you’re at the London Historical Materialism conference, come through for our panel on Thursday morning! (I will be there in spirit! You’ll know it’s me because the spirit will be annoying)
Announcement: At the Twenty-Third Annual Historical Maternalism conference on November 5th, the CTWG will be presenting a panel on an upcoming book on racket theory in collaboration with Ebb books. We would love to see some comrades there!
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