"Contemporary artificial intelligences such as Midjourney and ChatGPT are used to generate facsimiles of art...and are only able to do so due to the labor time congealed within said art...from which it has peeled off an aesthetic layer." socialtextjournal.org/the-productive…

It's always been the minimum amount required to reproduce labour-power. The ability to raise a family on it relied massively on the unpaid domestic labour of wives and mothers.

Pedro Almodóvar read my thesis

every child you see with mangled legs being hopelessly carried, every person you see lit on fire, all the dust covered faces, they were a whole universe. to themselves and everybody they knew. lives as complex, joyful and difficult as yours. it kills me. i’ll never get numb to it

Before the West finally dies, it will “become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous” and it will “disgrace itself completely, on all fronts” (Césaire).

Looking forward to presenting at HM alongside these other great papers!

On Moore St today 💯

Today at Historical Materialism Journal I'll be speaking on the panel Fascism and Anti-Fascism on Screen in the Marxism and Culture stream. 4.30pm in SOAS: Brunai Gallery b202. Be there r be square

"Profiteering. That's what no one is talking about here... There doesn't have to be a cost of living crisis. In fact for some, it's a cost of living Bonanza". - Richard Boyd Barrett on #RTÉUpfront #AnotherIrelandIsPossible

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Podcast: The ‘crisis of masculinity’ and the far right - with Odin O'Sullivan 🇵🇸 anticapitalistresistance.org/podcast-the-cr…

Walter Benjamin would HATE how you guys are using “aura.”

Now seated:

Pretty good but not a patch on Herzog's or Murnau's

Now, the superstructure seems to overwhelm the base. The mode of production stays the same but the Right decides what cultural factors sit above an unchanged economic base. Musk and Zuck pivot with them in order to maintain their profits.

Hilarious that the Queer Eye cast are so desensitised to all the poverty they encounter so they have to keep finding more terrible stories so the new guy is just getting a shotgun blast of human misery to the chest and weeping while they other four stare on dead eyed

Vampires and capitalism, remakes and gimmicks: Odin O'Sullivan 🇵🇸 reviews Robert Eggers' update to a classic of the horror genre, Nosferatu. rebelnews.ie/2025/01/18/nos…

Introducing this excellent talk today! If you're in UCD drop in