Rafael Lubner

writer/editor @bellonamag; ex: @tinymixtapes

[ani @ani_mality]

My review of Adrian Johnston's latest book, Infinite Greed, which attempts to construct a Marxist theory of the drive: https://t.co/0KNrBhZyVO

[thomas waller @thomasowaller]

I wrote about the recent Lygia Clark retrospective at Neue Nationalgalerie for @LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/GFPBNcngKt

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

It's pragmatic and hopeful, or as he puts it, a music "whose illegibility becomes a tool with which to conceal and protect the undermining act itself."

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

I wrote an introduction to Dominic Coles' wonderful UNAUTHORIZED USE PROHIBITED. The piece offers a sonic invitation to the observer: make the subway an instrument.

[Bellona Magazine @bellonamag]

UNAUTHORIZED USE PROHIBITED

Queens-based composer and improviser Dominic Coles presents us with a performance and score sited in the New York City subway

(w/ introductory text by @stmayfair)

Read and Watch here: https://t.co/thk3pGFs7H

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

UNAUTHORIZED USE PROHIBITED offers an example of what Marina Vishmidt calls 'infrastructural critique', as the subway's turnstiles and doors are construed as both constraint and canvas.

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

@RadSoftGroup *Mamdama

[benjamin 🇵🇸 @bnjmncrs]

we started a film magazine (https://t.co/UJuOh0E8fd). we’re launching our first issue, devoted to luc moullet & vittorio cottafavi, with this series at @AnthologyFilm

[thomas waller @thomasowaller]

The book also includes one of the first English translations (by myself and @emiliomsauri) of the work of Paulo Eduardo Arantes, an influential Brazilian Marxist thinker, a scholar of Hegel, and a long-time interlocutor of Schwarz's writing 5/

[thomas waller @thomasowaller]

Roberto Schwarz and World Literature is now out in hardback with Palgrave Macmillan, marking the first book-length engagement in English with Latin America's foremost dialectician and one of the all-time great Marxist literary critics 1/

https://t.co/q03pBynL3c

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

TurnerPrize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & call for an arms embargo

A special mention to the pathetic statement from the presenter at the end

[Workers for a Free Palestine @Workers4Pal]

🚨TODAY: both Government Departments which licence arms exports to Israel (Foreign Office & Trade Department) targeted by workers and trade unionists, blocking entrances to demand ARMS EMBARGO NOW.

This is part of day of action by workers called for by @The_TUC & @PSCupdates ✊🏽

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

@tbird_news went in expecting this to be bad...and it was so much worse

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

@danhancox would you believe that he subscribes to the horseshoe theory of antisemitism too? https://t.co/Co9R7je2m5

[gabriel @unityopposite]

said my piece in the @antipodeonline book reviews about a necessary, relevant attempt to kickstart the engine of state critique in the present. especially appreciate contributions from @kmunro_econ, @n_hold and jasmine chorley-schulz

read here: https://t.co/Sufsfcians

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

My longread on ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and the killings of Palestinian journalists and their families in Gaza.

https://t.co/zUyeVK5KFE

[James B @piercepenniless]

This piece on Gillian Rose by @neepmail is simply magnificent. It is the best thing on Rose I have read in a long time, as multifaceted as its subject. Read it read it read it: https://t.co/g6uwSx1eQP

[Bellona Magazine @bellonamag]

From the archives: Authentically Plastic (@auth_plastic) "Technopolis: Blackness, Space and Mobility"

A set of ‘Black Sonic Priorities’ are posed against a landscape pockmarked by racialization, carcerality and incipient fascism

Read: https://t.co/xWVU9CgALm

[Bellona Magazine @bellonamag]

From the archives: Rafael Lubner (@stmayfair) 'Slip Infinity (On Elysia Crampton)'

Elysia Crampton enjoins us to consider futures outside the stultifying, death-dealing worlds of coloniality

Read: https://t.co/gX7e4KxIge

[Rafael Lubner @stmayfair]

the second in @sunik__kim's series on 20th century korean communism. here they sketch out the political-economic conditions under which massacres can be naturalised. it's an argument whose stakes are nothing less than "the capacity for historical memory itself"

[sunik kim @sunik__kim]

wrote about the kanto massacre, in which 6000 koreans were slaughtered by japanese police and vigilantes after the great kanto earthquake of 1923, from the perspective of the korean migrant worker and communist for @bellonamag

https://t.co/8b4WV4CcQj

[gabriel @unityopposite]

helped edit another wonderful @sunik__kim essay, this one on a 1923 massacre of korean communists and migrant workers and how the role of violence in the logic of capital is muddied by bourgeois historiography (and therefore the necessity of militant history writing)