Yah 🤢

I was very surprised to learn that Deleuze and Guattari initially bonded over their shared youthful love of Sartre. Jameson also shows us that Sartre as a starting point is not necessarily a bad thing.

Here’s a good example of the way fascists read Girard, from red-brown cryptofascist Compact Mag www.compactmag.com/article/rene...

Not all people who read Girard are like this, and here’s a more even-handed overview of Girard’s work. iep.utm.edu/girard/

I think their preoccupation with sacrifice comes from Peter Theil’s obsession with Rene Girard, who conceptualizes a sacrificial scapegoat as a load-bearing myth of any and all social orders due to the mimetic nature of human desire and the escalation of conflict over resource scarcity. Still weird.

James Watson was not the first www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

This review was instructive for me. boxd.it/btoKy1

I love this essay that was part of Criterion’s re-release last year www.criterion.com/current/post...

I prefer to pretend that Season 1 was a stand-alone mini-series and the rest of the series simply didn’t happen.

The opening music sounds like it could be from Terminator…

A compelling excerpt with the same Open Access link

I definitely think we need mass accountability for as many of these people as possible, but “trials” are not the way to go about it. This book is a (sometimes frustrating) exploration of what we might pursue instead, available for free here temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/unc...

The “SPACE FOR LEASE” sign on a beautiful, metro-stop-adjacent building feels emblematic, as well.