UnitOfTheAbsolute
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friendly drone / no one in particular / UWJSIS / PSCC / ILCPS / RM / views barely ‘my own’ & not those of my affiliates
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2022
Interesting and very timely. Opacity is the tool.
"This paper argues that withholding information, rather than reducing supply, has become China’s preferred way to manage its dominant role in the rare earth industry."
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My current hypothesis on why Wang’s arguments has gained such prominence, (apart from him being interesting and intelligent and well-regarded on this beat) is (1) it serves the threat inflation camp, and (2) it serves the centrist-liberal version of the ‘abundance’ narrative
When you listen to Dan Wang speak about the Chinese and US economies one thing he emphasises a lot, as he does at the beginning of this interview with Douthat, is that "things don't work here [the US]; thing work exceptionally well there [China]" with the usual emphasis on
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If you could assign students *one* article, essay, or book chapter by a contemporary New Right thinker that serves as a lucid and coherent introduction to their political thought, what would it be and why?
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once again, @tobihaslett has been over this
The political novelist is a fiction writer in diminished form. The great novelist’s intentions, motivations, and biases are forever obscured behind a rhetorical mask. The great novelist doesn’t aspire to be a political actor, but a ventriloquist.
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8/ The longer politicians cling to the simulation the more it disintegrates. This gives a strange set of incentives where they must tell the public increasingly fictional stories rather than adjust their messaging. In essence, politicians are stuck inside their own simulation as
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final page of the Intro to Hellworld is a description of a "you" drowning in pigshit, "the fluid pour[ing] into your skull." "Like everything I tell you here, this is not fiction. It really happened. It is happening now."
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Free Gifts by @alybatt is a remarkable, important work of sophisticated Marxist theory informed by spectacularly detailed analysis of our actually-existing capitalist world—and beautifully written at that. It’s about nature but also everything. Wow. Convo this fall @thedigradio.
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Recommend this new @jacobin piece by @Matthuber78 @Leigh_Phillips @fredstaffordcs as a key intervention on abundance. Private market interests hinder abundance, as does an NGO-govt-legal bureaucracy. Class struggle must overcome both for a plentiful future to prevail.
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@ValueHao My favorite part of history museums are when they have a corner dedicated to the cultural revolution and they talk about the “erroneous class struggle line”
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almost like a dollar drawdown
The Dollar is down 10% this year. Much of this fall is due to geopolitics. The US lashes out at allies, but is soft on Russia and China. This inconsistency is doing damage, which - ultimately - will spill back into higher Treasury yields and loss of reserve currency status...
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@EmptyMaterial I've visited 1,000 companies across the world, carrying with me my favorite microscope. I saw it. The value particles..... They're real.
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if you look at embroidery instead of your phone it’s still 2007 outside
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Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents five moments of the Marxist encounter with the question of authoritarianism 1. Marx & Engels 2. Lenin & Luxemburg 3. Pashukanis & Stuchka 4. Neumann & Bloch 5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
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India’s manufacturing dream hits a demographic wall. Young workers resist factory life due to low pay, harsh routines, and better gig options. Unless labour housing, skilling, and dignity of work are addressed, the farm-to-factory shift will remain stuck in theory.
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Watching Claire Denis's propaganda for South Korean shipbuilding, L'intrus (2004)
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this week is the anniversary of the St. Louis Commune The 1877 railroad strike was one of the biggest labor actions in US history, and in St. Louis, a multi-racial worker coalition briefly controlled the city
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Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields.
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