A Govt propaganda spokesperson said energy costs are high across the whole of Europe, UK is no different , so blame Putin. Another Govt misinformation item, by the Lying Party Conservatives

Twas the Night Before Christmas in Twin Peaks

“The poorest fifth of the population are now much poorer [in the UK] than most of the poorest countries in central and eastern Europe,” says Stephanie Flanders. “They would be better off in quite poor countries in the European Union.”

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN: Conflict, Compassion and the Process of Understanding 032c.com/magazine/willi… via @032c

"A true reckoning with the radical implications of climate science—that nothing short of political revolution will prevent what amounts to genocide for large, mostly dark-skinned portions of humanity—has yet to come." thenation.com/article/enviro…

“But the reason we read books and listen to songs and look at paintings is to see the self in another self, or even to just see what other people are capable of creating.”

these stories are starting to make me, let's say, eccentric newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

This is fascinating.

I don’t think a single Western politician has spoken on Gaza as powerfully, correctly, and with such unshakable clarity as Yanis Varoufakis.

People are predictably ignoring the point here. Mainstream rap today is undeniably the soundtrack of late capitalism, an empty barrage of product placements. Mos Def made The Ecstatic, probably the best rap album of the last 15 years. He can say what he wants about the culture.

"I do not know what literature means to you outside of networking and grants. To me it means, first and foremost, an unwavering love for human beings and the sanctity of human life." lithub.com/read-novelist-…

I can't believing I'm saying this, but Aaron Bushnell's last words were just read live on CNN.

Stimulating debates at the Progressive International 50th anniversary Congress on the New Economic Order. This is more or less what I said, probably including a few things that I forgot to say

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/155625…

Tune in to the singing tone poems of dial-up modems, Burroughsian cut-ups and the postures of emergent technologies, in part two of my ‘Writing After the End of Writing’ feature from 2015 on Tom McCarthy's Satin Island infinitethought.substack.com/p/writing-afte…

As an autistic man it upsets me when politicians pretend to be excited about taking a train, our culture is not your costume.

"What’s in the box?" open.substack.com/pub/infiniteth…

Twenty years ago today I met artist Paul Laffoley, on the occasion of his 69th birthday. To mark the anniversary, I am sharing a short essay I wrote for the first issue of Under/current: Enter the Bauhauroque infinitethought.substack.com/p/enter-the-ba…