Using connections and back channels to persuade Fredric Jameson to do 10,000 words on Curb Your Enthusiasm

In the latest NLR, Perry Anderson on his fifty-year friendship with Fredric Jameson: 'He could be intensely serious or buoyantly playful as occasion or mood demanded. His erudition was vast, but his authority was not intimidating.' newleftreview.org/issues/ii149/a…

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“Evidently, at least in the richer half of the world and not only in the dominant strata, the hope for change of destitute people in the modern period has been replaced by the terror of loss.”

The type of stuff you would’ve been executed for after World War II

Not everyone

Hear me out

Last photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walked towards the Israeli tank .

ça n'ira pas

“that mixture of political liberalism, empiricism, and logical positivism which we know as Anglo-American philosophy… is hostile at all points to the type of thinking outlined here.” Love that Jameson starts his books by putting the ppl around him on notice

🚨🚨 Urgent Alert❗️ The #HindRajabFoundation has verified information that Israel is imminently attempting to smuggle suspected Israeli war criminal Yuval Vagdani out of Brazil, because of a Brazilian court order for police to take investigative measures against him. There are

The best photograph in the universe

Is there any kind of precedent for these critics who think that AI has destroyed the authenticity of art objects? Has there ever been a critical theory of the machine and aesthetics? Bizarre that this has never been a thing. Congrats to these pioneers of critical thought!!!

I’m devastated to learn that the building in the Brutalist is not a device to explore architecture but is in fact a plot device. Who would do this? Why?

It is with great sadness that I have to announce that El Gato died on Sunday. He gave joy to many throughout his life. He was happy, gentle and full of personality. Life will not be the same without El Gato’s company and friendship. We will miss him dearly.

Chud d'état

Happy Liberation Day! Get ready to have nothing to lose but your chains!

My own analysis of Hillary's harrowing defeat has come to the following conclusions; Liberals are great and we should carry on as normal.