Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver
The 2020 election is the perfect opportunity for visual acuity themed political slogans
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.
Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/jonestowns-victims-have-a-lesson-to-teach-us-so-i-listened-peoples-temple-anniversary-40/
Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code - Phoronix https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-New-Politeness
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » A/Political (and a deferral on Doomsday) https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8415
Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968 | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/dan-mcquillan/rethinking-ai-through-politics-of-1968
The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/secret-twist-political-philosophy-good-place/
Postmodernism is not identity politics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fIBA7O5Ag
The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/
Dave Rubin and the rise of YouTube’s reactionary right - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17883330/dave-rubin-ben-shapiro-youtube-reactionary-right-peterson
The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653
Anime SHOULD BE(and is) POLITICAL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQkf-0ke9o
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4
Campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions - Vox https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown
Interview with Fred Turner https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
The slacktivism of Richard Linklater. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html
story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
Hot take: politics is normal interpersonal drama writ large. Anything done in public is political, and anything done in private is political if it’s repeated often enough, by one person or by many independently.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss
I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires
In a thousand years, we’ll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.
Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?
Chelsea Manning traces her political roots back to rave | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4991/chelsea-manning-traces-her-political-roots-back-to-rave
’Ndrangheta mafia: more powerful, and scarier, than it’s ever been. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/ndrangheta-mafia-more-powerful-and-scarier-than-its-ever-been.html?utm_source=nextdraft
Thinkpiece formula: in the age of
TBH there is nothing more cyberpunk than a world where actual politically-relevant cyberpunk literature is forgotten while shitty shallow corporatized versions with awful politics are blockbusters.
the political spectrum is a horseshoe crab: ancient, ugly, full of blue blood that contains poorly-understood enzymes that might cure some kinds of cancer, and frequently leaving its molted shells along the north atlantic shoreline of north america
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city
200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right â but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html
Goodbye, Cold War | Issue 30 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/politics/goodbye-cold-war/
The junhu and the art of everyday politics in imperial China | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-junhu-and-the-art-of-everyday-politics-in-imperial-china
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/
Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/invisible-algorithms-invisible-politics/
Optimizing for anything other than human happiness seems like a recipe for misery. Of course, no existing political system really seriously attempts to optimize for human happiness.
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
People make the obvious comparison to Blade Runner, but seeing as how Blade Runner is a famously shallow & aesthetically-focused adaptation that strips the social & political elements from its source, Altered Carbon comes out the winner here
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is M… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radical-1970s-group-relevant-science-for-the-people-politics
Band name of the day: math not politics
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
The Most Political ‘Star Trek’ Episode: ‘Past Tense,’ From ‘Deep Space Nine’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/