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Jul 29 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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We never had the Jetsons on TV, so I know of it mainly through an Annual I used to have. Was it as good as The Flintstones? I suspect it persists in cultural memory now largely via Futurama.
This one, I’m pretty certain. From 1964! The satire of mid-60s US normie work culture was largely lost on me in 1982… Image
Why is Jane Jetson using The Mekon’s hovering platform? What *is* that thing the dog’s floating on?
I imagine @Manruss and @stevepughcom are sick to death of being asked if they’d ever do for The Jetsons what they did so magnificently for The Flintstones, but that’s because it’s an awesome idea and they absolutely should
(and if you haven’t read the Russell/Pugh Flintstones, I highly recommend it - a very attentive reading of the show, drawing out its melancholy and historical resonance)

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Jul 31
Fuckle up, buckos, it's time to talk about Nietzsche again 1/???
Might do this thread for real, just because
So, I think the comics read ambivalently, and this is key to their button-pushing puissance: an absolutely straight rendition of “it really grinds my gears that my male partner in so many ways does not have his head in the game when it comes to childcare and domestic labour”…
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Jul 30
Would anyone seriously dissent from the view that Mickey Mouse is cringe, and Bugs Bunny is based?
My childhood hierarchy: Mickey, Donald and Pluto - wearingly zany narcs, basically youth pastors. Bugs, Daffy, Marvin, Roadrunner - verbal and visual wit, a sense of the world as absurd and cruel. Tom and Jerry - entertainingly violent. Hanna Barbera stuff - trash but killed time
Like I liked Captain Caveman but it was obviously shit. The Scooby-Doo one with Scrappy-Doo - total shit, but you’d watch it because it was on. Wacky Races and others of that family were more inventive and fun.
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Jul 29
ok that is quite clever, I mean fuck you, but yes it is clever

all the more so because Mark was a big Burroughs fan and Burroughs’s bit about “wising up the marks” was indeed well known to him
k-punk on Burroughs from 2004. I haven’t re-read this; it may be dreadful cringe. But also, you had to be there, man. k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/00403…
Actually the Burroughs fandom was always the major thing k-p and *cough* antigram had in common…
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Jul 29
Metallica, Iron Maiden, or with about equal probability Tracy Chapman
Haven't deliberately listened to Tracy Chapman in many years. I think @AlexeiSaylePod pretty much ruined her for me - "'Poor people gonna rise up' - [spluttering] no they're NOT"
Particular umbrage IIRC was taken at middle class white people expressing their appreciation for Tracy Chapman by saying her music was "nice" - "Nice! Nice is a *biscuit* word!"
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Jan 16
Watching the BBC QAnon doc last night - it may be incorrect to describe tge afflicted as uneducated, but what they are often doing is forsaking, more or less deliberately, the background assumptions and inferential constraints of a common worldview - the scaffolding of sense
Take the notion that vaccines are a way for Bill Gates to get microchips into people. A baseline non-specialist understanding of microchips is enough to make this implausible - chips too small to see, invisible in a vial of clear liquid? Powered by what? Connected to what?
Now I imagine if pressed a believer would tell you that there was some special technology, hidden from the rest of us, which the elites had developed in secret and were now foisting on us without our knowledge and consent. Nanotech, implanting itself into our cells. Scifi stuff.
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Jan 4
So I was thinking about how one might quickly explain what accelerationism was actually about, and the example occurred to me of the famous line of Marx/Engels about the bourgeoisie creating its own gravediggers, and the fact that this can be understood in two different ways -
On the one hand, you can see it as an argument about immiseration: capitalism steadily makes things worse for workers, to the point where revolt and overthrow of the system becomes inevitable.
On the other, you can see it as an argument about structural possibility: proletarianisation gives rise to new kinds of organisation, those who work together in the factory can strike and take ownership of the factory together.
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