Streeck out of context

Overhead people on the train whisper, 'you don't want to mess with that guy, he reads the Le monde diplomatique'.

From the AfD to the SPD, they all want to keep it (the representative of the Greens dodged giving a direct statement).

Hesse's chancellery rejects the Left's motion to remove the Israeli flag that is still on display in front of its building. Its spokesperson justifies it with adhering to 'Staatsräson'; questions re: Israeli polcy/conduct of war are foreign-policy related, ie irrelevant

RT @DanielaGabor: apparently I'm a prophet, and strident critic, of (derisked) capitalism.

A triskelion embedded in a Star of David used to be a very Japanese concept.

Now watching Kenji Sonoda's take on how fascism would look like if it'd undergo a pop-revival in post-Asian Financial Crisis Shibuya [Madness in Bloom (2002)]

Reading in the FAZ that Palantir's critics have overlooked Alex Karp's "far left politics" ("voted for Clinton and Harris; his intellectual foundation is based on Marxist theories").

RT @Mr_Considerate: We could all do with being as militant about anything as Hatherley is about public loos. (We could all do with being as….

RT @FAZ_Feuilleton: „Krimi“ heißt ein neuer französischer Comic, der in ein paar Monaten auch übersetzt erscheinen wird. Das schönste Beisp….

"Everybody stopped talking. Along the corridor came a man who, though no taller than I am, had an air about him of being, as the Bible says of King Saul, 'higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward'. ".

Regarding Werner Herzog's thirteen thousand rats (Letters to the LRB):.

Graph in today's FAZ, bottom left: a comparison of copper consumption among world regions in 1960 and 2023 (Asia: red; Europe: blue; North America: light blue):

Imagine making an amusing remark that made even Adorno laugh (photo: Barbara Klemm).

RT @G_Platzdasch: Paul Breitner, die "Peking Rundschau" lesend

RT @kimchimarx: For @TheBrooklynRail I reviewed Hong Sang-soo’s wonderful By the Stream, a thoughtful rumination on the history of art cens….

RT @_TimBarker: What's more, this book was written by an immigrant radical, sitting at Ellis Island waiting to be deported. The 20th centur….

Rimini (2022, dir. Ulrich Seidl).

Every day I encounter a new species of Sinophilia on my TL—today: China as a safe-space for Third Way nostalgics.

RT @artistdurer: Saint Jerome in his Study #artbots #dürer

"The celebrated cavalry officer Colonel Burnaby, who had volunteered for the campaign, was heard shouting 'Isn't this fine sport, my boy,' just before being fatally speared in the neck.".