Monthly Archives: July 2019

It was the paralysis of that public which failed to turn into a mob, a paralysis achieved by the fascination and fear emanating from the display of power, which permitted the deadly logic of problem-solving to take its course unhampered. … Continue reading →

‘Caught up in mere words a child is cut off from all reality: Kantian doctrine uproots him from the soil of his ancestors. A surplus of diplomas creates what we may call, after Bismarck, a “proletariat of graduates”. This is … Continue reading →

Thirty years ago Jameson felt novel, daring. Now we are living inside the future and many (most?) of us have largely forgotten what was, after all, a quite recent past. It’s anonymous here, sterile, stultifying.

The main characteristic features of a capitalist economy are the presence of a market that serves as the main mediator of relations of economic exchange in a society built of classes of private owners of the means of production and … Continue reading →

BBC: Russia’s RT banned from UK media freedom conference

A #Lithuanian man and his wife have won the world #wifecarrying title, leaping over timber and wading through waist-high water to beat dozens of other couples for a second year running. The prize is the wife's weight in beer.AP photo/David … Continue reading →

Today #Lithuania celebrates her Statehood Day, which is dedicated to the coronation in 1253 of Mindaugas as the King of Lithuania. pic.twitter.com/rQYDE0FWak — Lithuanian MOD (@Lithuanian_MoD) July 6, 2019

Biden on Russian election interference: "You think that would happen on my watch, on Barack's watch? You can't answer that, but I promise you it wouldn't have. And it didn't." So does this make Biden a Russiagate skeptic now? Welcome … Continue reading →