To celebrate Halloween, I thought I’d write about something many people find pretty scary these days - the idea of socialism. In his book of the same name, Axel Honneth explores its history before criticising some of its central tenants as stuck in a 19th C industrial mindset. /1

I’m always suspicious when people like @matthew.flux.community dismiss the notion of mimetic desire as simply wrong. It is after all a frequently encountered trope in literature and theatre. Consider the recent film Friendship (2024) w/ Tim Robinson & Paul Rudd. /1

I thought I’d celebrate Diane Keaton’s role in Annie Hall by relating what Jeffrey C. Alexander has to say about the film’s importance in The Civil Sphere. /1