“Is there a congruence between this figure of the brothel and today’s world? I think that in many respects there is.” —Images of the Present Time

Upcoming courses running in Brunswick and online: + Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit - Gregory Marks + Badiou’s Big Books: The True Change of Logics of Worlds - A.J. Bartlett + Perversion & Subversion in Psychoanalysis - Justin Clemens mscp.org.au/courses/evenin…

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

'...man—that resident of the galaxy always prone to overrate his own existence.' LdM

A. J. Bartlett Chris "come to see who you are"...

When I set about seriously investigating Hegel's youth in Stuttgart, Hegel-Studien–the scientific journal attached to the Hegel-Archiv & the modern critical edition project–served as an indispensable treasure trove for my research It's an honour to now be published in its pages!

AOC chooses to be a career politician within an established political party, which means AOC chooses to compromise her progressive positions. The game is the game. The lesson is stop trying to elect the revolution.

Anyway there is one (at least), I wrote it thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/did-mishima-…

'Men have won many ‘Cadmean victories’, and will win many more, but there has never been such a thing as ‘Cadmean education’. (R. 641c.)

‘when the people fought the leader and up he flew with no Washington bullets what else could he do’

Maximilian 🪁🐝 The utter horror of this!

huge crowds in the convergence on parliament in Canberra, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land, today & over the last few days. we need to do everything we can to up the pressure. Sanctions now! End the genocide now! Free Palestine now!

'...this uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population, & since the latter is always a mine of rebels or soldiers, the colonial troops hold sway by terror...by constantly renewed massacres...these are genocidal in character.' J-P Sartre, 'Genocide', 1968

Please note that the days of our upcoming courses have been changed. Apologies for inconvenience caused.

Note change

3% growth of what? Badiou ‘Number and Numbers’

Western media racing to get in human drag after two years of unhinged racism facilitating the most extreme crimes against humanity

Bernard Keane Nice book they’ve got there: ‘Titus, Trump and the Triumph of Israel’ argues “we are in the middle of a ‘clash of civilisations’ between those who believe in the Bible (Jews and Christians) and those who actively deny the Bible (atheists and Islamists).” Social cohesion hey?