Gareth Watkins
@garethwatkins.bsky.social
Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
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*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
That organised transphobia can fill, and from there it's easy to move to other parts of the illicit libidinal economy - it's like there's a whole other universe of forbidden desires out there waiting for them.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
That organised transphobia can fill, and from there it's easy to move to other parts of the illicit libidinal economy - it's like there's a whole other universe of forbidden desires out there waiting for them.
Sure - to them at least. Doing that sort of thing to people is something that, rightly, is outside the libidinal economy of everyday life. You can't talk in a job interview about how your hobby is to try to get trans people to k themselves, but, like heroin, there is a demand there...
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Sure - to them at least. Doing that sort of thing to people is something that, rightly, is outside the libidinal economy of everyday life. You can't talk in a job interview about how your hobby is to try to get trans people to k themselves, but, like heroin, there is a demand there...
From the diary of Daryl Hall, 1980
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
From the diary of Daryl Hall, 1980
Wow, subtweet me much?
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Wow, subtweet me much?
When you look at them does your vision slowly zoom in while they talk and sometimes zoom all the way in when they say something funny?
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When you look at them does your vision slowly zoom in while they talk and sometimes zoom all the way in when they say something funny?
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Meaning that you don't think that it was cool to do D-Day in mech suits against time aliens?
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Meaning that you don't think that it was cool to do D-Day in mech suits against time aliens?
It's probably the first time any of them have seen a work of art that wasn't by Thomas Kincaide or AI generated.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's probably the first time any of them have seen a work of art that wasn't by Thomas Kincaide or AI generated.
'Nice argument, but I wrote 'incel' over a completely normal post. Check and mate.'
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
'Nice argument, but I wrote 'incel' over a completely normal post. Check and mate.'
I'm trying to think of the last British band that I really liked, and the answer is Mandy, Indiana, who left the UK.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm trying to think of the last British band that I really liked, and the answer is Mandy, Indiana, who left the UK.
Gene Hackman plays the same character in Enemy of the State and, while it's not a masterpiece it's not a bad movie.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Gene Hackman plays the same character in Enemy of the State and, while it's not a masterpiece it's not a bad movie.
And to Lyotard this is complicated because we don't have simple, unproblematic desires. Just as you can buy beer in a store but you might buy a baggie of heroin too, you can have fascistic desires even when you're not a fascist (Deleuze and Guatarri call it 'micro-fascism').
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
And to Lyotard this is complicated because we don't have simple, unproblematic desires. Just as you can buy beer in a store but you might buy a baggie of heroin too, you can have fascistic desires even when you're not a fascist (Deleuze and Guatarri call it 'micro-fascism').
'Yoooo just copped new #Heinz #beans' is weird, sitting overnight for a new iPhone is normal. Fascist libidinal economies say that you can enjoy saying the r-slur but you couldn't volunteer at an animal shelter. Fairtrade coffee is bad, coffee with a picture of a Spartan helmet on it is good.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM