Richard Cooper

My essays are on my blog, a Strange Horizons piece here: & for Salon: Socialism or Barbarism

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

Only thing I managed to get finished this year (🙁) a piece on Line of Duty & its politics. Featuring Mark Fisher, Roland Barthes, Robocop2, RedRiding, AFewGoodMen, TheWire, BreakingBad, Bodies,TheBodyguard, Callan, Utopia (2014) Happy Valley & Cracker https://t.co/hKlNHvnSkt

[C @Obseyxx]

In quick succession Rowling celebrated Trump using lawfare against a science-led non-profit advocacy group, and applauded an attack on children's books. If anyone is still in any doubt that the woman is a deranged fascist, they're hopelessly lost (or deranged fascists themselves)

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

(That’s not necessarily to say that the replies he got weren’t needlessly aggressive too, or that the tweet he was originally commenting on didn’t deserve criticism, but Jesus, if you can’t keep a literary conversation civil why blame everyone else?)

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

The curious thing about tweets like the one in the first screenshot here is that it’s needlessly irritable tweets like his (as seen in the other screenshots) that are surely the reason that Book Twitter is like that in the first place.

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

FFS

[yogesh @yogeshtwet]

🚨 WATCH: The King confirms the Government will “proceed with the introduction of Digital ID”

[ਜੀਵਨ ਰਾਏ🔻🇵🇸 @jeevanrai]

The reason legacy media ghouls are thrilled for a social media youth ban is their own desire to wield such platforms without pushback. After a decade of being ratio’d by people younger and savvier than them, they need an info-starved generation to survive beyond the Xer audience.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It should be bigger news that Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire associate, who is contracted to build Trump’s mass surveillance state, is hosting a secretive retreat with other oligarchs to discuss cult-building, World War 3-prepping, and get sex tips.

Epstein Island never ended.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

We just made a violent, eugenicist Nazi openly trying to start a global race war the world’s first trillionaire.

Mark my words, by the time this vile episode in history is over, Elon Musk will be at the top of the list of the most deadly people to ever live.

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Labour's collapse and Reform's surge were entirely predictable and predicted two years ago, even by a Canadian in the country for a couple of days.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Yeah this is pure incitement and should be criminally prosecuted

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

It's tragic how keenly observed the little games and tricks of the political and press nexus are in The Thick of It, only for almost everyone involved in making that show to shut their brains off from 2015-2025.

[James Kelly @JamesKelly]

This tweet should result in the end of Tapp's career. No politician with a shred of decency or integrity asks a question that his own government has made it illegal to answer.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You’ve been whitewashing Israel’s genocide against Palestinians for almost three years, what did you expect?

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

@DAMendelsohnNYC There’s no reason why a Tweet like Krause’s couldn’t lead to an intelligent conversation.

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

@DAMendelsohnNYC The post you quoted isn’t an example of that at all, though. What on Earth is wrong with enthusiasm for favourite scenes in a great novel? And who says it precludes anything more complex, or that the reasoning for why the scenes are one’s favourites can’t be complex?

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

We are destroying the world so these inane freaks can keep their vast unearned and unsustainable wealth. They are not creating great wonders of the world, they’re utterly banal mediocrities—all the work is being done by compound interest and capital gains. https://t.co/oIo8CSNWYB

[Dr Kate Webb @katewebb_uk]

"This is so broadly written that it invites - almost guarantees - abuse. In the context of a potential far-right government, it is madness to put such draconian legislation on the books."

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Israeli Genocide

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Puerile and sophomoric stuff.

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

Good God, how did I not think of “Never Say Never Let Me Go Again” sooner?

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

The Remains of the Living Daylights

[Publishing Well @PublishingWell]

Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year 📚 ⤵️ https://t.co/WiWMhBIrSy

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

A Pale View to a Kill

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

@paul_jkrause Also love the sense of fun and whimsy in the Cetology chapter, particular “let him go. I know little more of him, nor does anybody else” and that last footnote.

[Richard Cooper @RichardHCooper]

@paul_jkrause Bildad and Peleg getting rather emotional when having to say goodbye to the Pequod as it leaves the harbour. Delightfully funny.