content with being nothing

philosopher-poet, communist-bookseller, fundamentally incomplete as a person but happy about it. he/him. Mozart and Spinoza are my friends

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

You should lean into the overall vibe of the thing, but ultimately it should be more ambiguous. It should be intensely, violently itself, but if I know what it is I will shit in the theater and ruin your career

[Tarbram @tropicalcamatte]

True, but both positions failed one hundred years ago and all marxist thought since has, in one way or another, tried to overcome the split and avoid the pitfalls. Especially bc taken too literally both positions converged in accepting uncritically the results of +

[Yaz Minsky @Yaz_Minsky]

no one's ever gonna beat Xanth in this contest so there's no point in trying.

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

@abookofsymbols I dearly love the first haiku here -
“Don’t worry, spiders,
I keep house
Casually.”

Lazy but truly sincere

https://t.co/1UIGjp1zoB

[NOT Potato Bolshevik @NotPotBol]

I really don’t get homophobic and transphobic communists. Like what are ya’ll even doing? Why are you taking the most socially progressive movement in history, a movement that is sometimes centuries ahead of society at large, and just deciding that actually it’s good when this 1/

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

@bartlebytaco Berlin alexanderplatz really is excellent

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

I don’t know how to explain it to people who don’t understand that something of all of us is buried in Gaza’s mass graves.

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

@gavinmuellerphd Capek was cooking even more than he knew with R.u.R.

[👻Ghostly Phenomenology👻 @plateauscave]

Even as an undergrad, I was disgusted with this rhetorical move from analytic thinkers. So, you didn't understand a major figure in the history of philosophy? When that's literally your job? How is this not just a giant banner saying "fire me because I can't do my job"?

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

Inshallah the Sharia law compliant S&P500 ETF won't be including SpaceX as it violates the prospectus

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

@liuzhao_cn @AuthorialGail Thanks for these!

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

this should hurt to look at. this should make you feel sick. this is one of the worst tragedies in human history and you can see it from space.

[content with being nothing @danwebstere]

@shaabiranks @descripticon You’re trying to tell me we shouldn’t support comrade von Bismarck even after he revealed his socialist bona fides?

[Genre Antagonist @AuthorialGail]

Something kind of fun about being into game studies is how it is that casual investigation into how games actually function and the attitudes they reproduce kind of begins to horrify you

[Carlos Azevedo @cprazevedo]

Students at Dresden University of Technology are protesting a research project between the institution and Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems after a university ethics panel voted against the cooperation, but the rectorate approved it anyway. (1/2)

[Муся @mycr_karenina]

This is the Moroccan-Chinese restaurant where Maimonides lived in Fez

[Camila Lourdes Galarza Zavala @sovietwithsazon]

Lula, who in 2004 sent 1,200 Brazilian troops to assist George Bush in the invasion and U.S. military occupation of Haiti, once again betrays Latin America’s proletariat by sending aid to the right-wing Bolivian regime which murdered a member of the general strike on May 23rd.

[Rob @darwin8u]

Gravestone of Alfred Schnittke, showing a fermata over a whole rest marked fff. Said differently, a long silent rest, held indefinitely, quiet with a thunderous intensity (fortissimo).

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Urban agriculture can be done well and it can be done poorly, but to dismiss it entirely is to ignore reality. It’s utility is context and technique dependent

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

I remember despising Soviet monumental painting for its affectedness, its commercialism, its total lack of sincerity.
Members of the Artists' Union — a bureaucratic elite — were probably the least educated and most corrupt chunk of the whole Soviet establishment.
The theatre, music and film crowd was relatively progressive, carrying forward the traditions of the great Soviet cinema of the 30s, absorbing the genius of national republic cultures — from the extraordinary Georgian filmmakers to an open dialogue with the European New Wave.
But painters were easier to control, easier to dictate style and rules to. They were also paid insane money and basically functioned as employees of one single state-privileged marketing agency serving the entire country.
And yet — I'm looking at these murals right now and my heart is just melting. None of that childhood rage, none of that irritation is left. All I can think is: what magnificent artists — this Galina Zubchenko and Grigory Prishchedko. The way they curved it, twisted it, rolled it out. Pure joy.