@RadfemOwl I was going to say I'm surprised the Marxists aren't doing anything about it, but then I remembered the horror stories an old friend who worked for CPI(M) would tell me 💀
CONTRARY TO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO DISGUISE YOURSELF FROM LONG RANGE PSYCHIC DETECTION ... ANY EQUIPMENT YOU ARE CARRYING SHOULD BE PART OF A NON-THREATENING SEMANTIC FIELD ... FOR INSTANCE CARRY AN AXE - "TOOL" - RATHER THAN A SWORD - "WEAPON" (🧵)
In a footnote to Capital, Marx brought up a testimony of a French worker. In France, he assumed he could do just one specific type of job (= printing). In California, he discovered that he in fact can do anything & all the constraints he faced in Europe were purely artificial
@PattesSouris@old_ric Months ago I was talking to some friends in archaeology & PolSci. Somehow the Lithuanian myth Egle, Queen of the Serpents came up, and the quick structuralist analysis I wrote up had a much larger impact on them than anything I’ve said before about entangled subjectivities
@xhsdow Shadow I have been out in the rain all day and my umbrella kept flipping inside out and back again like a giant foreskin. Why would you tweet this
@Evolving_Moloch I think Mann’s point here was less about their migration and more about the preexisting structures built into the land, but yeah, probably could have been more clear
@RebeccaSolnit Read about this in Hope in the Dark just the other day! It’s incredibly how much of the most brilliant international activism has just been swept under the rug like this…