My article on state violence and social form, appearing in the forthcoming special issue of Capital & Class on Political Marxism and Open Marxism, is now online.
The entire issue is well worth reading.
Not actually true. Jonathan Rose’s 2001 study, based on some 2000 working-class autobiographies, library records and archives, shows that (roughly between the advent of 19th C education reforms and the mid-century arrival of television), weavers at mills were reading Milton while butlers and maids were reading Proust.
If the life of the mind is for freaks, then it turns out we all have the potential to be those freaks.
This is a fascinating video. You are only allowed to make contact if you hit the ball first and go through the ball and then into the player. So the defender placed his foot behind the ball making it impossible for him to make legal contact with the offensive player.
The offensive player dodged an intended foul and was given the foul anyway. He showed remarkable athleticism in dodging the foul by the smallest degree possible. It’s an interesting debate. Should the defender be punished for trying to foul but the foul being evaded?
Neymar such a loser sucked the life out of Brazil the second he came on, gets that penalty gifted to him, talks shit to the goalie, smiles when he scores a consolation, doesn’t get the ball, cries when he loses