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Gareth Watkins
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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
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
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
From the diary of Daryl Hall, 1980
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wow, subtweet me much?
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 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?
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Who?
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
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
'Nice argument, but I wrote 'incel' over a completely normal post. Check and mate.'
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 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.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 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.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 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').
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
'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