Ben Rosenzweig
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Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
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Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
· Apr 18
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French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
French history people: if someone became a member of the National Council in France during Vichy, were they referred to as "collaborators"?
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
Also: and now?
I know people like André Siegfried seemed to continue within parties of the French centre or centre-right without any apparent difficulties...
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm with Derrida: pessimism and optimism are ultimately trivial concepts.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
And also appear more often as demands of others or performances of self rather than as part of any serious attempt to understand literally anything at all.
But mostly the Derrida thing.
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
A short thread on ‘section 28’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
A short thread on ‘section 28’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
For people my age, the phrase “section 28” came to refer to 1988 efforts of Thatcher's Conservative government to further institutionalise homophobia, to prohibit local bodies from ‘promoting’ homosexuality, very broadly interpreted.
The ‘Local Government Act’.
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I'm trying an experiment - does a book trailer actually work in promoting a book? Feel free to share, and let's see what happens...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
Book Trailer - 'The Book of Calling' - a Haunting Gothic Chiller
YouTube video by Tengy Talks TV & Movies
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm trying an experiment - does a book trailer actually work in promoting a book? Feel free to share, and let's see what happens...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
youtube.com/shorts/xnMr3...
Emma Graham-Harrison, 'Israel's top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse', from the 4 November 2025 issue of The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Emma Graham-Harrison, 'Israel's top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse', from the 4 November 2025 issue of The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
Reading contemporaneous accounts of the Left victory in the 1924 French elections, I eventually realised that the article on 'The Liberal Trend in French Politics' in the October 1925 issue of Current History was by the same Louise Weiss elected to serve in the European Parliament in the 1980s!
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reading contemporaneous accounts of the Left victory in the 1924 French elections, I eventually realised that the article on 'The Liberal Trend in French Politics' in the October 1925 issue of Current History was by the same Louise Weiss elected to serve in the European Parliament in the 1980s!
That excellent Mamdani campaign video discussing the repression of the first New York birth control clinic, and the role of eugenics in the subsequent politics of two of the founders, feels almost like a continuation of the critique and advocacy visible in the work his father did in the early '70s.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That excellent Mamdani campaign video discussing the repression of the first New York birth control clinic, and the role of eugenics in the subsequent politics of two of the founders, feels almost like a continuation of the critique and advocacy visible in the work his father did in the early '70s.
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Relatively recently, there was a French national election in which, learning from the manoeuvres of the centre and Right in the previous election, electoral Left parties coordinated, often running the Left candidate most likely to be successful rather than multiple candidates splitting the vote.
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This is my friend, Rahaf, from Gaza.
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
June 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is my friend, Rahaf, from Gaza.
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
She is 3.
She is a double amputee from an airstrike.
She has my whole heart. ❤️
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A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
Regardless of who took what position in key disputes at Situationist conferences, Debord is still the artsy-person's ultraleftist.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Regardless of who took what position in key disputes at Situationist conferences, Debord is still the artsy-person's ultraleftist.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
Doesn't matter HOW invisible your committee is.
As much as I admire both Touch of Evil and Psycho, it feels odd that they came out one year apart.
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
As much as I admire both Touch of Evil and Psycho, it feels odd that they came out one year apart.
Brief article on the fascist group calling itself the 'Australia First Movement', from the 25 May 1942 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Brief article on the fascist group calling itself the 'Australia First Movement', from the 25 May 1942 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
So many writers and teachers who lived and worked through decades during which video equipment was if not omni- then at least lots-of- present, but somehow it's not that easy to find to find much Simon Clarke, for example, from either of the two major phases of his academic life.
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So many writers and teachers who lived and worked through decades during which video equipment was if not omni- then at least lots-of- present, but somehow it's not that easy to find to find much Simon Clarke, for example, from either of the two major phases of his academic life.
Interesting footnote from a discussion of particularly 17th century Russian state oppression of people on the basis of alleged witchcraft in W. F. Ryan's 'The Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Modern Europe: Was Russia an Exception?', from the January 1998 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review.
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Interesting footnote from a discussion of particularly 17th century Russian state oppression of people on the basis of alleged witchcraft in W. F. Ryan's 'The Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Modern Europe: Was Russia an Exception?', from the January 1998 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review.
The Trump administration treats declaring emergencies like they have an Oliver Sacks-style neurological issue where they can't tell literal and metaphoric apart.
'The law says I can because we're in a state of war'
The 'war on drugs' isn't supposed to count, and neither is the 'war on crime'.
'The law says I can because we're in a state of war'
The 'war on drugs' isn't supposed to count, and neither is the 'war on crime'.
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Trump administration treats declaring emergencies like they have an Oliver Sacks-style neurological issue where they can't tell literal and metaphoric apart.
'The law says I can because we're in a state of war'
The 'war on drugs' isn't supposed to count, and neither is the 'war on crime'.
'The law says I can because we're in a state of war'
The 'war on drugs' isn't supposed to count, and neither is the 'war on crime'.
I know it sounds obvious, but given the intersecting attention economies that constantly loom so large in the processes constituting our everyday lives, it's probably important to think about how political people, groups and networks are sustained or expand within capitalist social relations.
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I know it sounds obvious, but given the intersecting attention economies that constantly loom so large in the processes constituting our everyday lives, it's probably important to think about how political people, groups and networks are sustained or expand within capitalist social relations.
Israel being involved in a remarkable portion of India's military expenditure predates the far Right takeover of the Indian state - this just continued and expanded during the Modi regime, with Israel conveniently not putting human rights-related conditions on arms and military-related sales.
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Israel being involved in a remarkable portion of India's military expenditure predates the far Right takeover of the Indian state - this just continued and expanded during the Modi regime, with Israel conveniently not putting human rights-related conditions on arms and military-related sales.
According to Haaretz, this is "day 746" of "Israel at war".
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
According to Haaretz, this is "day 746" of "Israel at war".