Category: Politics
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merely directions which allow the chauffeur to park the limousine
I had to cycle to Rosengård this morning to get some olive oil—what can I say; it’s a Malmö thing, y’all—and so I took it as an opportunity to make a tiny dent in the podcast backlog. My selection, perhaps unwisely for a Monday morning, was a recording of Ash Sarkar interviewing Slavoj Žižek on…
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paradigms don’t die easy (but they die all the same)
There’s a fin-de-siècle feel to things at the moment, which manifests (for me at least) as a sort of oscillation between deep ennui and the feeling one gets just before dawn at the summer solstice.
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two abysses in a staring contest
The title of this post is how I described my experience of one of this week’s Internet Discourses to a friend of the show. I was not referring to the the Gaza discourse, as Sam Kriss is doing in the piece I’m about to excerpt from. But I might as well have been. You people…
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a general atmosphere in which a particular conclusion seems undeniable
Building on yesterday’s post about writing yourself into (or out of) beliefs and opinions, I want to return to a piece from late last year which I keep rereading, and which I think has important lessons for us all in this year of many elections of consequence. The title is plain and forthright—“You Can’t Fact…