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doing critical theory of the domination of nature | PhD @ Laboratory of Environmental Sociology of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
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· Feb 27
Hope in a Warming World: Rereading Adorno on Progress
This article argues for the value inherent in rereading Theodor Adorno’s 1962 essay “Progress,” placing his thoughts in the context of the climate crisis and arguing for the necessity of retaining a f...
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Last year I wrote an article on Adorno's critical defense of the concept of progress, climate change, and the necessity of hope.
It's out now in the new issue of New German Critique, and it's perhaps more timely than it was at the time of writing.
doi.org/10.1215/0094...
It's out now in the new issue of New German Critique, and it's perhaps more timely than it was at the time of writing.
doi.org/10.1215/0094...
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If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.
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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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One of the fascinating things is that if the Reform candidate was a plumber who had just been on a plastering course, we would not hear the end of it in the media.
February 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
One of the fascinating things is that if the Reform candidate was a plumber who had just been on a plastering course, we would not hear the end of it in the media.
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Featuring an avowed reactionary like Curtis Yarvin at a symposium billed as a gathering of “distinguished political thinkers” – alongside Quinn Slobodian and Lea Ypi – risks laundering openly anti-democratic views as just another contribution to respectable debate. Can’t see the case for this.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Featuring an avowed reactionary like Curtis Yarvin at a symposium billed as a gathering of “distinguished political thinkers” – alongside Quinn Slobodian and Lea Ypi – risks laundering openly anti-democratic views as just another contribution to respectable debate. Can’t see the case for this.
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Ooooh the Weltgeist is weltgeisting in the most delicious way
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED HINDSIGHT WAS CLOSED BECAUSE OF WELL IF ONLY ARIELY HAD KNOWN
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED HINDSIGHT WAS CLOSED BECAUSE OF WELL IF ONLY ARIELY HAD KNOWN
February 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Ooooh the Weltgeist is weltgeisting in the most delicious way
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED HINDSIGHT WAS CLOSED BECAUSE OF WELL IF ONLY ARIELY HAD KNOWN
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED HINDSIGHT WAS CLOSED BECAUSE OF WELL IF ONLY ARIELY HAD KNOWN
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Pam Bondi telling Congress that the only thing that they should really care about is how the stock market is doing, ie, how much the wealthy are continuing to amass wealth, continues the Trump administration's ongoing tendency of saying the quiet part of US politics loud.
February 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Pam Bondi telling Congress that the only thing that they should really care about is how the stock market is doing, ie, how much the wealthy are continuing to amass wealth, continues the Trump administration's ongoing tendency of saying the quiet part of US politics loud.
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Who could have seen this coming?
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves
Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected
www.upstreamonline.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Who could have seen this coming?
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".
A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.
When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.
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10/10 no notes
"He is the most transparent president in the nation's history!" -- Bondi is stammering as she attacks Democrats and tries to downplay Epstein as a distraction from the stock market
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
10/10 no notes
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‘Judeo-christian’ is a smart term for persuading rightwing Jews that antisemitic rightwing Christians are no longer a threat. It’s like the LGBs who convinced themselves that they can ally themselves with homophobes by throwing trans people under the bus.
Many people just never want to learn.
Many people just never want to learn.
The puff piece Reform wanted from their launch - full of the bogus term Judaeo-Christian as if to say ‘if we focus on Islamophobia hopefully you will overlook our antisemitism ’ www.jewishnews.co.uk/farage-expla...
Farage: Why I wanted to launch Jewish Alliance for Reform UK
A RJA launch event both Robert Jenrick and Alan Mendoza state there's 'not an antisemtic bone' in the Reform leader's body
www.jewishnews.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 AM
‘Judeo-christian’ is a smart term for persuading rightwing Jews that antisemitic rightwing Christians are no longer a threat. It’s like the LGBs who convinced themselves that they can ally themselves with homophobes by throwing trans people under the bus.
Many people just never want to learn.
Many people just never want to learn.
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
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These days if you privately own the means of production, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail
February 11, 2026 at 7:52 AM
These days if you privately own the means of production, you’ll get arrested and thrown in jail
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I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
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I had to look up the word Jouissance
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I had to look up the word Jouissance
Not that this has ever not been a thing, but the category of enjoyment should be one of the central ones in any study of contemporary fascism. Its discourse is ungraspable without it.
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Not that this has ever not been a thing, but the category of enjoyment should be one of the central ones in any study of contemporary fascism. Its discourse is ungraspable without it.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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“It increasingly seems that the Americanization of TikTok was never about protecting us from a foreign adversary. It was a tactical acquisition of digital infrastructure.”
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
“It increasingly seems that the Americanization of TikTok was never about protecting us from a foreign adversary. It was a tactical acquisition of digital infrastructure.”
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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
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Horkheimer, 1942/44
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Horkheimer, 1942/44
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers
February 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM
the thing i'm waiting for with the ai romance novel lady is for another scammer to figure out that purely ai-generated material w no human authorship is generally not considered to be protected by copyright in the US rn, and saving themselves the 45 mins per book by reselling hers