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Sz Duras
@sduras.bsky.social
i hate the spectacle, vanishing

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The pentagon is not only the main global employer (3++ million employees) but it comtimues to invest twice as muc as Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple and others in R and D…. (Lazzarato)
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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A huge chunk of our political class has "book-you-see-in-an-airport" brain.

Just no interest in rigour.
Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Machine Translation (edited) of prerequisites by Heissenbuttel (1966) from uberliterature…
January 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
looks good

Original post: mastodon.social/@bruces/1158...
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
enjoying this book though Gabriel's Liberalism is getting a little tiresome, and the americanness of the translation.... (sighs)
December 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
reading today... Shotaro Ikenami The Samurai Detective (1975/2025) ...
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
no flying to israel...
December 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
so i was asked why i said both Kojeve and the Kantian ideal of the EU are dead... >>Because the categorical imperative states that we should act in such away that our action could become an absolute rule that applies to everyone... <<
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Given that both Kojeve and the Kantian ideal of the EU are "dead in the water"
how to understand it now? #politics #eu #philosophy
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Love this book, probably my favourite novel of the year (all three parts) On the Cakculation of Volume
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So the gulf stream does not effect this... there is something strange about this
Europe could see up to 8 months of summer by 2100. A new study led by @celiavarves.bsky.social provides important insights for future climate projections. Read more at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#COP30 #ClimateChange #RHULGeogResearch #Palaeoclimate #ClimatePolicy

@royalholloway.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
i am translating a text poetry i suppose we would call it Hiobstafht. the first draft read well then the next day i noticed that the machine had put in commas, full stops... so my editing is removing all the punctuation.... #translation
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
in the introduction ( something like that) to D&G studies 19.4 they write of Sociol-Technical-Envronmental in the phrase i recognise the spectre of the Social-political-technology of the state... as well as the video call to my friend CR in australia... this i should...
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
nice
@tomaashby.bsky.social on Bluesky
Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
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October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
i know that voting leave was a terrible IDEA but still ten years later blaming the ongoing fascism (national liberal fascism) on leave/brexit is surely neurotic... still never mind
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
true
@james-lowry.bsky.social on Bluesky
Not to forget he was unarmed when they shot him while he was on the ground
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October 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander, Anders Richardt Jørgensen eds. Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk - Snakes and Water - Stockholm University Press, 2025
stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...
stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
August 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The short lifecycle of the network strikes again
Really disappointed to find that Berfrois's online archive has disappeared, apart from a few things at the Wayback machine. A shame the site closed, but I thought the past pieces would remain for longer. None of my work there has been preserved, which suggests much more is lost. www.berfrois.com
About | Berfrois
www.berfrois.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
perhaps at this stage only a comprehensive military defeat will prevent Israel's long term plan to create the Greater Israel the fascists dream of.
August 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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🧐''The roots of this American obsession with a neat lawn are surprisingly shallow, initially imported from European sensibilities...'' (Oliver Milman in @noemamag.com) www.noemamag.com/the-cult-of-... #Water #Climate #Systemsthinking
The Cult Of The American Lawn | NOEMA
Manicured grass yards are ecological dead zones. So why are they being forced on people by their neighbors and homeowner associations?
www.noemamag.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
i joined your party, gave them a little money, apologies for being so late...
August 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism, trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine's Press, July 2025
www.staugustine.net/978158731392...
The Idea of Determinism
The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève’s (1902–1968) work published by St. Augustine’s Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), was the introdu...
www.staugustine.net
July 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM