Yeah that's what I figured, though it seems to be mixed in with a message about masks actually being somehow ineffective - although a bit of dancing a...
Yeah, the discourse around masks has been very confusing and unclear. I get that the lack of availability means that, as a matter of priority, masks s...
Separate post on phenomenology, or rather, psychoanalysis: I mean, I'm no Analyst obviously, but this is drive at work no? This element of being 'caug...
But this does not have to be a one way street (gustatory). The integration here can and should modify the space of reasons into which it is brought as...
Oh that's great, I never thought to make that connection! But yeah, now that you mention it it's obvious that thinking-of is indeed a representational...
A solid chronicle of failure, and a good response to any waste of oxygen that would like to simply devolve blame upon the states. I do wish the 'blame...
I don't think it's a question of coherence (what indeed would it mean to ask this?) so much as a question of situating it's significance in the right ...
@"csalisbury" I've been meaning to write the above for a while, but your thread on explanation prompted me to finally get around to it. Can be conside...
My immediate reaction to the OP is that the *kind* of explanation at issue (broadly: Why X? or What explains Y?) is too broad and underdetermined. Wha...
Last one for the evening - why anyone who thinks what is happening is a 'return of big gubberment' is a living a fantasy: "Fighting the pandemic in th...
From the author of my favourite book published last year: "It is now rapidly becoming clear that the “spontaneous order” of the market cannot save us ...
I need to quote more: "What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely m...
You asked about India earlier. I was wrong to treat is as a celebratory case. So wrong. The brutality of what happened to the poor over there was wors...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-05/spanish-government-aims-to-roll-out-basic-income-soon "The Spanish government is working to roll ou...
Oh the idea is quite simple. In the interests of continually sucking on Trump's balls, devolution of blame must go to the states, despite them having ...
India acted proactively and unlike most of the "developed" world, instituted lockdowns long before numbers even reached 1k+. Modi is a cunt, but on th...
Except that anyone who knew anything about disease had been warning that this or something like it would happen. In the US, the government's own reser...
It's true though, that among the many lies exposed by CV has been the lie of the island-individual: the island-individual is a construct, a limit-case...
"The epidemic overturns the cliché that if I love my fellow men or women I should hug them, kiss them or stick to them like sardines … Today I display...
Two ways the current situation could break, politically: "The difficulties experienced by national populists are unsurprising given they are no friend...
True, but I will never stop driving the point home that capitalism is ruled by parasites that will fuck workers not just at every opportunity, but esp...
Two things about Bernie here: first, to use an idiom that has been floating around for a while, Bernie has always been a compromise choice for the lef...
Trying to figure out why you think this. In any case if I knew you only wanted to read things that agreed with your preconceptions then I ought not to...
NOS, you must understand, is selective about whose boots he licks. He's a man of refined taste in State leather - Trump's being of the highest quality...
Considering that 9/11 was used an opportunity to conduct a series of genocidal wars that left millions in the Middle-East in appreciably more wretched...
Quick note that the tragedy of the commons is an economic myth and fabrication, or perhaps better, a scenario only possible under extremely abnormal a...
It is not a low figure. In no fucking universe is 100,000 people drowning in their own lungs a low figure, and anyone who says otherwise can get fucke...
? "In the Physics Aristotle conceives of ?????? as the beingness (?????) of a particular (and in itself limited) region of beings, things that grow as...
It's hard to imagine the cognitive dissonance at work when people actually think that a projection of 100,000 deaths is 'good job'. What an incredible...
'Tis probably one of my desert island books. Like, if I could read no other books but that and a few others for the rest of my life, I'd be OK with th...
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