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some advice - if you’re primarily known as a dipshit celebrity who occasionally can deliver a bon mot rather than an actual serious academic, maybe avoid going after The King’s Two Bodies if you’re only going to spend ~one or two sentences on it

“mysterious collapse of the soviet union” don’t worry Levy we’ve got our best (actual) scholars on the case

BHL has a middle school understanding of America’s role in WWII, quel surprise

it’s glaring and obvious but it must be remarked upon: BHL is simply a french multimillionaire dandy who has no conception whatsoever of the historical realpolitik

i think a massive, unbridgeable epistemological issue i am going to have with Levy/this book is this naive commitment to abstracts like “freedom”. he takes the west at its word basically when it comes to being the beacon of freedom and works out from there rather than ever really calling any of the history of american empire into question. no wonder he’s beloved by libs and neocons alike

oh sure there was that whole ugly business of slavery - but Obama was president so Levy is willing to call it even

time for my annual hate read of something that has zero chance of appealing to me

kandinsky moment

seems Koestenbaum had Walter Benjamin on the brain

“death, at this point, is a simple epiphenomenon.” the worst indignity of all - to be robbed of the gift of death

“If altar
be Kafka nose”

it’s probably good that someone took the time to walk through Lyotard’s intro to Differend a little more, uh, carefully

“voom is room plus valley”

the toughest part of being jewish is having to think about the Holocaust every day

“want to know what city i never want to visit? Paris — it’s really gay”

it’s actually cool when every character is morally reprehensible. too many people make art now about being nice to each other Canetti understood that it’s way cooler to be mean as shit

ten cents to see the World’s Fattest Man? you’ve got yourself a deal

global civil war 🔜🔜

"There is no problem with armed struggle except for the state, which wants to conserve its monopoly over legitimate armed force."
earlier there's a line on how popular movements need to be anti-judicial. I think this is because of Foucault's observation that a peoples tribunal (à la Mao) simply reincorporates the principle of the state in the people's struggle against the state. why should this not apply to violence?

what… i thought Byung-Chul Han told me only China had an overreaching biopolitical surveillance state. apparently the West has been championing that model for years? you learn something new from French terrorists everyday

this does in fact appear to be a program

one of my favourite genres - authors that hold academics in contempt

“demand nothing, occupy everything!” i should write something about Deleuze-Guattarian nomadism and the trucker freedom convoy lol

good stuff on student occupations in Zagreb, but kind of wish Raunig would go full black pill on the issue. it’s almost like his own writerly subjectivity is territorialized by his institutional role as an “academic”…