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did you once see shelley er plain? (look it up) (
“I’ve just remembered the high point of my career. At the Cities In The Park Festival I was backstage wearing a pinwheel hat (look it up). I was obsessed with pinwheel hats, you see, and had written a...
View Article“as the master* teaches us”
Can mark-grubbing suck-ups ever, in themselves, be radicals? Do radical projects always require a host of cautious Tory dittobots to give even good ideas social heft? *note: master is sometimes a girl
View ArticleI have measured out my life in unclicked threads
Which is likely to depress me more: a Guardian debate between a scientist and a philosopher, or a Crooked Timber thread on Westerns and John Hughes? (Truly you can hunt for them yourselves and please...
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platonism and anger management
Entirely unsurprisingly, the word ‘troll’ now has a politicised range of meanings—all the way from anonymous internet bully to subtly provocative dialectician, with a fractally wriggly continuum...
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none dare call it skewed
Quick unedited notes the morning after (on just 4 hrs sleep) 1: the road-testing of the citizens united decision has not developed entirely to the 1%’s advantage 2: TRUMPBOT SMASH *trumpbot falls over...
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#bronydom
I guess I actually quite like it that Aaron Bady reps for Corey Robin when (a) Bady’s much better at the things Robin is supposed to be good at than Robin is, and (b) Bady’s much MUCH better at the...
View Articlearma virumque
So I was toying with what I suppose has turned into a kind of riddle, along the following lines: i: you embrace it — and build yr worldview round the fact of the embrace — bcz you believe it will...
View Article“They’re your dad”
There’s a reason Alex Harrowell’s name is bigger than Adorno’s in my tag-cloud. Here he is on UKIP’s current electoral make-up, following on from here: and noting that there’s a fuck-off HUGE split in...
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