Frank Red
@frankredfoot.bsky.social
Against the present state of all things, Politics/Philosophy UnderGrad.
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Frank Red
@frankredfoot.bsky.social
· Dec 20
My first act as president of the world would to make every channel a 24/7 world movie channel showing nothing in English language. Then I would make any algorithmic suggestion in media apps illegal. Reels, Shorts, tiktok, all gone. The "suggestion" sidebar? Gone.
If I ever did a Colonel Chaubert film I'd end it with a post credit scene where he gets invited to join the Thirteen along with Petrov's ghost from Nabokov's Dozen
January 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
If I ever did a Colonel Chaubert film I'd end it with a post credit scene where he gets invited to join the Thirteen along with Petrov's ghost from Nabokov's Dozen
If this paper I'm reading is even half right then half of the authors in this field are straight up Orientalist racists.
January 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If this paper I'm reading is even half right then half of the authors in this field are straight up Orientalist racists.
Do any of you have film recommendations for like "an intro to watching older films"?
I'm in charge of part of the programme for my unis film society for the next semester and I may as well use it to throw on classics.
I'm in charge of part of the programme for my unis film society for the next semester and I may as well use it to throw on classics.
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Do any of you have film recommendations for like "an intro to watching older films"?
I'm in charge of part of the programme for my unis film society for the next semester and I may as well use it to throw on classics.
I'm in charge of part of the programme for my unis film society for the next semester and I may as well use it to throw on classics.
Something something spectacle, something something capitalist realism etc etc. you know the lines, we all do. This shit is our Homeric verses, passed down through history by the dumbest people alive.
January 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Something something spectacle, something something capitalist realism etc etc. you know the lines, we all do. This shit is our Homeric verses, passed down through history by the dumbest people alive.
Fascinating that Balzacs Odyssey riff is so much more tragic. What if Odyessius got back after the wedding is a wonderful twist on it.
January 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Fascinating that Balzacs Odyssey riff is so much more tragic. What if Odyessius got back after the wedding is a wonderful twist on it.
Isak's done miracles on my fpl team, Balzac, Calvino and Brecht in the used book store for cheap, hairdresser has shaped me up nicely. On top of that my social event for tonight is cancelled so I work on my diss instead.
Life can't get better till I grab a tea back at the house.
Life can't get better till I grab a tea back at the house.
January 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Isak's done miracles on my fpl team, Balzac, Calvino and Brecht in the used book store for cheap, hairdresser has shaped me up nicely. On top of that my social event for tonight is cancelled so I work on my diss instead.
Life can't get better till I grab a tea back at the house.
Life can't get better till I grab a tea back at the house.
Oh workers don't have enough time in the day to read theory? Wow, if only there was a political orientation which has always fought for a reduction of working time to its minimum possible without loss of wage
January 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oh workers don't have enough time in the day to read theory? Wow, if only there was a political orientation which has always fought for a reduction of working time to its minimum possible without loss of wage
"wanting to go die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm" when Pessoa gets it, he gets it
January 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"wanting to go die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm" when Pessoa gets it, he gets it
"Kilpatrick was murdered in a theatre; English police never apprehended the assassin. Historians claim that this failure does not tarnish the good name of the police, since it is possible that the police themselves had Kilpatrick murdered" -Borges
January 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
"Kilpatrick was murdered in a theatre; English police never apprehended the assassin. Historians claim that this failure does not tarnish the good name of the police, since it is possible that the police themselves had Kilpatrick murdered" -Borges
Reading Borges' Fictions and I feel like it stands at the head of every annoying thing people think is deep. It's the origin but so original in that that it's wonderful
January 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reading Borges' Fictions and I feel like it stands at the head of every annoying thing people think is deep. It's the origin but so original in that that it's wonderful
"Quinn would often argue that readers were an extinct species. 'There is no European man or woman" he would sputter, 'that's not a writer, potentially or in fact.'" -Borges, Fictions. Feels particularly true
January 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Quinn would often argue that readers were an extinct species. 'There is no European man or woman" he would sputter, 'that's not a writer, potentially or in fact.'" -Borges, Fictions. Feels particularly true
Going to send happy holidays here and merry Christmas on "X" just to play the algo
December 25, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Going to send happy holidays here and merry Christmas on "X" just to play the algo
My first act as president of the world would to make every channel a 24/7 world movie channel showing nothing in English language. Then I would make any algorithmic suggestion in media apps illegal. Reels, Shorts, tiktok, all gone. The "suggestion" sidebar? Gone.
December 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM
My first act as president of the world would to make every channel a 24/7 world movie channel showing nothing in English language. Then I would make any algorithmic suggestion in media apps illegal. Reels, Shorts, tiktok, all gone. The "suggestion" sidebar? Gone.
Love when they show a picture in an old film and it's just like 11 normal looking people and then the most beautiful woman you've ever seen (I'm sure she won't be involved)
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Love when they show a picture in an old film and it's just like 11 normal looking people and then the most beautiful woman you've ever seen (I'm sure she won't be involved)
The defense is just "people should be free to enjoy themselves" what if enjoy myself killing CEOs? Why is it when it's money going to the rich we can ignore externalities to defend 'freedom' but not when it's CEOs going 6ft under?
A craze for betting is sweeping over America. It should be celebrated, not feared econ.st/4fYTrIL
December 18, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The defense is just "people should be free to enjoy themselves" what if enjoy myself killing CEOs? Why is it when it's money going to the rich we can ignore externalities to defend 'freedom' but not when it's CEOs going 6ft under?
December 18, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Probably David Cameron getting elected? I remember a parody of Gordon Brown as Mr Bean? Idk
What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?
Mine is OJ Simpson
Mine is OJ Simpson
December 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Probably David Cameron getting elected? I remember a parody of Gordon Brown as Mr Bean? Idk
Reading fear and trembling in the writings of Paul hits me like seeing Thor mentioned in like Iron Man 2 or whatever when I was 10
December 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Reading fear and trembling in the writings of Paul hits me like seeing Thor mentioned in like Iron Man 2 or whatever when I was 10
"the party is what, little by little, inverts saintliness into priesthood through the narrow requirements of millitantism" Badiou, St Paul, pg. 38
December 17, 2024 at 7:21 PM
"the party is what, little by little, inverts saintliness into priesthood through the narrow requirements of millitantism" Badiou, St Paul, pg. 38
"You guys keep trying to replace Lenin, I'm telling you we can't, we have a historically weak proletariat and the captialists have got a whole spectacle, what we can do is recreate him in the aggregate"
December 17, 2024 at 12:18 PM
"You guys keep trying to replace Lenin, I'm telling you we can't, we have a historically weak proletariat and the captialists have got a whole spectacle, what we can do is recreate him in the aggregate"
Enjoying Hardt & Negri's "Assembly" which seems to be doing Moneyball for radical leadership
December 17, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Enjoying Hardt & Negri's "Assembly" which seems to be doing Moneyball for radical leadership
Like Saussure said, the signal is arbitrary, and we all know what is signalled in this sign. So I would not say it's at all misspelled.
Few things are funnier to me than people who get very angry about politics or public figures, but decide to take out that anger by *creatively misspelling things*
Like “United $tates” or “DEMONcrats”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiric...
Like “United $tates” or “DEMONcrats”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiric...
Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Like Saussure said, the signal is arbitrary, and we all know what is signalled in this sign. So I would not say it's at all misspelled.
I need to go drink a pint of Carlsberg I guess
Casually celebrating that I just received a 1.000.000 kr grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for my next research project, Borders and Boundlessness: A Critical Geography of International Law in Global Capitalism ✨
December 16, 2024 at 10:35 PM
I need to go drink a pint of Carlsberg I guess
Wallerstein in the streets, Camatte in the sheets
December 13, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Wallerstein in the streets, Camatte in the sheets
At some point all my essays for uni are now just Fanon, Wallerstein, Cesaire and whatever world systems guys I can fit in. I'm even throwing in my dissertation supervisor in just because he's a chill guy
December 13, 2024 at 11:36 PM
At some point all my essays for uni are now just Fanon, Wallerstein, Cesaire and whatever world systems guys I can fit in. I'm even throwing in my dissertation supervisor in just because he's a chill guy