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the poetry of the beyond baroque scene of the early 1980s

plus: London-based post-punk of the 2010s The Maoist period of Jean-Luc Godard (1967-1979) The anti-revisionist leftist movements of the post-1968s American left and 1968 organizations in general I could go on about all four for hours on end, these are just the most I've accumulated pages of notes and literature about

@joepeters

Apr 5, 2024

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Experience and poverty by walter benjamin

Firs tthing- walter Ben-ya-meen. If u bring him up in conversation and say ben ja min ur gonna look like an idiot apparently. But its funny bc its not like people say Valter Benyameen. They say walter. Go figure. Anyways this text is So Great. im definitely late to the game to this contexts of frankfurt dialectics, post war philosophy manifestos, yada yada but this one is so powerful and formative esp if ur an artist or visual creator that is Woke. Its one of his more accessible writings, and he is also a very important person to kno if u r even remotely into literature/philosophie/art/design/criticism etc. Benyameen talks about this loss/absence of human experience post war/industrual revolution whcih i think is rlly the root of all this floptok based retard gang xiaohongshu on the extreme side, but even at its most tame (yet this is more insidious/barbaric in the bad way as Benyameen puts it) all of these miu miu shoe unboxing, day in the life of a big city transplant, clean consumerism we are witness to online. It is rlly this central idea of experience that hit home for me, and the resulting idea of barbarism which fr opened my third eye and put words to the feelings of trying to contextualize our days of Today. Im also totally going to start using the word barbarian to describe creatives and intellectuals and world leaders haha. Be the Good Barbarian. dm me if u want my annotated copy i culd keep going but arent these meant to be kept short idk<3

@marlaperfecthi

Jan 20, 2024

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Postmodernism is being used as a weapon to disempower social movements and insulate/legitimize corporate and federal soft power

let me just adjust my tinfoil hat here I think that as a mode of understanding the world, postmodernism is a very potent tool in unraveling meaningful social change in the way that it embraces relativism and subjectivity over a large overarching truth This is the perfect playing field for government officials to facilitate infiltration into social movements run by laborers, students, academics, etc - by obscuring objective truths or reality, this enables: A. those a part of those movements themselves engaging in myopic engagements with themselves or others over minor slights or differences or lapses in a unified truth B. infiltration by agitators who assume leadership and mislead their followers away from material changes C. the professional-managerial class to assume a relative level of comfort by having their lives structured by pomo. Why do you think identity and speaking about privilege thrives in corporate jargon and environments but neuter labor movements? I truly believe that a majority of social movements are full of honeypots looking for weak links or areas to exploit. I think this about Occupy especially But it happens probably in many other social movements and why for a while in socialist circles especially, myopia around privilege and identity failed movements but thrived in the corporate sector I sound schizo but I stand by it, postmodernism is fed shit

@aidanaguirre

May 15, 2024

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buddhai bodai

it's vegan but they rule and usually non vegans appreciate it too

@gittlitz

Jan 24, 2024

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Sweeney Todd

story of a proletarian hero i scored $30 tix from entering their lottery every day for a week and a half https://lottery.broadwaydirect.com/show/sweeney-todd-ny/

@gittlitz

Jan 25, 2024

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blazing eye

https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-eye

@gittlitz

Jan 24, 2024