Tristan
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Thankfully got a level-headed response posted by the same journal. doi.org/10.1080/1045...
The Left is Not Immune: Some Thoughts on COVID-Related Lab Leak and Vaccine Fixations
Some on the Left in the United States (US) and other parts of the world have argued that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab leak and/or that the vaccines for COVID-19 have done more harm tha...
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thankfully got a level-headed response posted by the same journal. doi.org/10.1080/1045...
"Early American Methodism was less a church than a movement, a missionary enterprise driving toward the goal of saving the souls of the white settler population ... In that social way, Methodism was like a technology, adaptable beyond its original design intention."
Sacred Capital
<b>How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire</b><br/><br/> In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged
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March 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Early American Methodism was less a church than a movement, a missionary enterprise driving toward the goal of saving the souls of the white settler population ... In that social way, Methodism was like a technology, adaptable beyond its original design intention."
"Atop the bones of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians he erected the New Order, a counterrevolutionary dictatorship that reigned for more than three decades. Suharto also fastened Indonesia...to the capitalist bloc [altering] the strategic balance in Asia and the trajectory of the global Cold War"
Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World|Hardcover
After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fello...
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March 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Atop the bones of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians he erected the New Order, a counterrevolutionary dictatorship that reigned for more than three decades. Suharto also fastened Indonesia...to the capitalist bloc [altering] the strategic balance in Asia and the trajectory of the global Cold War"
"Influencer culture is a factory, in which countless individuals on the internet labor daily, most often for pittance wages, manufacturing a commodity called 'the self'... [this] realizes what Adorno and Horkheimer were describing: the liquidation of selfhood in the name of capitalist rationality."
The Influencer Factory | Stanford University Press
Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the ...
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March 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Influencer culture is a factory, in which countless individuals on the internet labor daily, most often for pittance wages, manufacturing a commodity called 'the self'... [this] realizes what Adorno and Horkheimer were describing: the liquidation of selfhood in the name of capitalist rationality."