Stephen HK
@stephenhk.bsky.social
Founding partner, Pattern Recognition: A Research Collective. Writes about financialized higher ed here: https://patternrecognitionresearch.substack.com/
contemporary history, CT hair salon signage and music elsewhere.
contemporary history, CT hair salon signage and music elsewhere.
If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, his loss of face at Quantico would leave seppuku his only alternative.
October 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, his loss of face at Quantico would leave seppuku his only alternative.
If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, this morning's loss of face would leave seppuku his only alternative.
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, this morning's loss of face would leave seppuku his only alternative.
Reposted by Stephen HK
Harsh but true
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
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September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Harsh but true
ICYMI a new little fiction/not-fiction; a map, not the territory. Have a read.
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"The Big LARP" by stephen hastings-king
The ambient sound wheezes on.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
ICYMI a new little fiction/not-fiction; a map, not the territory. Have a read.
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
I made a new piece of fiction/not-fiction. Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
"The Big LARP" by stephen hastings-king
The ambient sound wheezes on.
fictionaut.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I made a new piece of fiction/not-fiction. Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
fictionaut.com/stories/step...
I made a play on plays about power today.
Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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"Power Play: A play about power today in one act (or less)" by stephen hastings-king
I tell them “Talk to me like I’m a 12 year old” so they do it and not only do they do it, but they pretend they’re not doing it because it’s normal so what would it mean to be doing something it’s jus...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I made a play on plays about power today.
Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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On his podcast's latest, Andy Wilson and me talk about the topics you see below and some of the other things I've been working out using such notions. Have a listen should inclination and opportunity coincide.
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...
Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination
Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical concept of the imagination. How do they overlap?
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August 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
On his podcast's latest, Andy Wilson and me talk about the topics you see below and some of the other things I've been working out using such notions. Have a listen should inclination and opportunity coincide.
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...
www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...
Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplishes anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical –
June 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplishes anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical –
RIP Alan Lamb. His work with long wires is a series of temporary vacations from the ambient lunacy. Headphones in my experience. Loud either way. Smoke if you do that sort of thing. Listen closely.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP...
Alan Lamb - Primal Image
YouTube video by bchansen67
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May 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
RIP Alan Lamb. His work with long wires is a series of temporary vacations from the ambient lunacy. Headphones in my experience. Loud either way. Smoke if you do that sort of thing. Listen closely.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXP...
Finally. Have a look.
"Ron Vara speaks out at last." by stephen hastings-king
He’s an empty sock
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April 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Finally. Have a look.
In the midst of another day of neofascist stupidity in place of government I am thinking deeply about biryani.
April 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In the midst of another day of neofascist stupidity in place of government I am thinking deeply about biryani.
Like pretty much everybody I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of shabby, half-assed, racist neofascist lunacy.
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Like pretty much everybody I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of shabby, half-assed, racist neofascist lunacy.
The Kafaybe Age. We're adrift on an ocean of bullshit.
January 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The Kafaybe Age. We're adrift on an ocean of bullshit.
"The Return of Darvo McPuddingbrain" is the even-worse sequel to an interminable original that everyone hated,a second time as farce in 4 year-long acts.
January 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"The Return of Darvo McPuddingbrain" is the even-worse sequel to an interminable original that everyone hated,a second time as farce in 4 year-long acts.
Symmetrical with a 4-year expansion of Buffoonistan, MAGA eats itself.
December 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Symmetrical with a 4-year expansion of Buffoonistan, MAGA eats itself.
Seasonally appropriate. From here to there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpF...
Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)
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December 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Seasonally appropriate. From here to there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpF...
There is, apparently, a talk show that summarizes other talk shows. It also summarizes the commercials shown during those talk shows. Every so often the stream of summaries is interrupted by weather reports. Two climates. The hosts are deathly pale.
December 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM
There is, apparently, a talk show that summarizes other talk shows. It also summarizes the commercials shown during those talk shows. Every so often the stream of summaries is interrupted by weather reports. Two climates. The hosts are deathly pale.
We needed paper things so went to a Paper Store which mutated while we weren't interested into the circle of Hell where items in cursive fonts are sent for the sin of using cursive fonts ("sprinkles are for cup cakes") and everywhere was the scent of Yankee Candles and dying brain cells.
December 18, 2024 at 3:48 PM
We needed paper things so went to a Paper Store which mutated while we weren't interested into the circle of Hell where items in cursive fonts are sent for the sin of using cursive fonts ("sprinkles are for cup cakes") and everywhere was the scent of Yankee Candles and dying brain cells.
For a dialectical evening, we had oysters to celebrate the first week of post-Assad regime, discussed Neofascism USA's orchestration of a flight from freedom (for people) & fell asleep to Visconti's The Leopard: "Everything must change for things to continue exactly as they are."
December 15, 2024 at 4:48 PM
For a dialectical evening, we had oysters to celebrate the first week of post-Assad regime, discussed Neofascism USA's orchestration of a flight from freedom (for people) & fell asleep to Visconti's The Leopard: "Everything must change for things to continue exactly as they are."
Watching reports from Hama.
November 30, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Watching reports from Hama.
Marty Gaetz? Tulsi? Hegseth? 2Trump thought it meet to lead with the racists, keeping some of the real clowns in reserve.
November 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Marty Gaetz? Tulsi? Hegseth? 2Trump thought it meet to lead with the racists, keeping some of the real clowns in reserve.
2Trump is working to create kafaybe momentum with a 2% and shrinking popular vote margin. A Suetonius with more patience than I would have great fun dissecting the kafaybe machine.
November 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
2Trump is working to create kafaybe momentum with a 2% and shrinking popular vote margin. A Suetonius with more patience than I would have great fun dissecting the kafaybe machine.