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The idea that French theory is revolutionary “68 thought” is a myth whose purpose is to promote anticommunist theory as radical while invisibilizing the actual theorists and actors of revolutionary politics.🧵1/9
#Marxism
My latest in @monthly_review: monthlyreview.org/2023/06/01/the…
#Marxism
My latest in @monthly_review: monthlyreview.org/2023/06/01/the…
#Foucault didn't publicly support the 68 movement & for good reason: he had participated in the Gaullist academic counter-reform that triggered the student uprising. He was thus clearly on the opposite side of the barricades in #May68. 2/9
#Bourdieu was absent from the streets in #1968. Following the tradition of his mentor, the anticommunist CIA asset Raymond Aron, he preferred so-called “empirical evidence” to what he dismissed as the “revolutionary posturing” of leftism. 3/9
Happening now: Zoom with @lacancircle
"We have been invaded by the proliferation of the impossible Real" quoting Lacan
"We have been invaded by the proliferation of the impossible Real" quoting Lacan
"Science affects nature but it does not affect the subject. Disjunction between science and the human psyche." Rik Loose paraphrasing #Freud from Civilization & Its Discontents
"Stars in the sky? They never lie. They do not commit errors. But humans do [...] Knowledge is based on an unlimited universe and when applied to Earth it encounters limits."
Rik Loose talk: The Fall of the Object to Earth:
Object a at the Zenith Immonde and Discontent
Rik Loose talk: The Fall of the Object to Earth:
Object a at the Zenith Immonde and Discontent
I'm doing something for my pleasure. But the computer is making it far more difficult than it should be?
"Computers force their will upon us." #Irigaray
Mostly I disagree with this. But a moment like now, which I will show you, makes me think: Truly, she's right.
"Computers force their will upon us." #Irigaray
Mostly I disagree with this. But a moment like now, which I will show you, makes me think: Truly, she's right.
And I already know somebody, probably Millennial (I'm Millennial) or Gen Z (adore you, Gen Z) is thinking:
You just need an app.
No. I do not want to download any apps in order to achieve what I wish to achieve. Apps ask way too much data of me. And I decline all that.
You just need an app.
No. I do not want to download any apps in order to achieve what I wish to achieve. Apps ask way too much data of me. And I decline all that.
My latest: #Zizek rose to fame promoting pomo radlib theory against Marxism, claiming #communism is “the worst catastrophe in the history of humanity." No wonder he’s the (capitalist) world’s most famous “Marxist”! 🧵 1/7
@NatCounterPunch
#Marxism #Marx
counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/cap…
@NatCounterPunch
#Marxism #Marx
counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/cap…
Opposed to #socialism in #Yugoslavia, #Zizek wrote for a ‘dissident’ mag accused of being CIA. He founded the
*LibDem* Party & ran for Pres against the communists, advocating for privatizations: “more capitalism would mean more social security” (sic). 2/7
*LibDem* Party & ran for Pres against the communists, advocating for privatizations: “more capitalism would mean more social security” (sic). 2/7
The Eastern liberal was for pro-West civil society & against the Yugo. state when the latter was socialist, whereas he was against civil society & for the state when the latter turned capitalist (& sought membership in capitalist & imperialist orgs like the EU & NATO). 3/7
#Zizek
#Zizek
#Coronavirus Cinéma hollywoodien mis en scène par #Gilead pour gagner des milliards de dollars avec un traitement sans efficacité #remdesivir, qui n'a même pas marché chez les singes, en se repliant au final sur un epsilon de gain aléatoire. Thread ⏬
1/ Journée de folie hier, sidérante à plus d'un titre, L'étude chinoise randomisée, donc Gold Standard, qui avait fuité sur le site de l'OMS quelques jours plus tôt, montrant que le Remdesivir n'a pas d'efficacité, va sortir. Mais Gilead va la prendre en sandwich et l'étouffer.
2/ Acte 1. Communication par Gilead des résultats qualifiés de "positifs" pour le Remdesivir d'une étude multicentrique SANS GROUPE CONTRÔLE. Aussitôt son action prend 6% en bourse.
On jette un oeil : 37 morts sur 397 patients. mortalité : 9,3% !!!
On jette un oeil : 37 morts sur 397 patients. mortalité : 9,3% !!!
Was thinking of starting a small series with the hashtag #WorstAcademicDiagrams but worried that they'd all end up being from Bruno Latour articles.
Prompted by this diagram, which has really got to me this afternoon #WorstAcademicDiagrams
...but of course I know that there's much worse out there, like this with is also from Latour #WorstAcademicDiagrams
