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Jac Lewis

@JacsaLewis

Philosophy PhD: Žižek, Trauma, Ideology, and the Nostalgia Disease Krazy Kat posting account

Joined September 2014
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I have finally submitted my thesis!
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There aren't many people who I hate more than Stephen Fry. His worldview, his aesthetic, is everything that is wrong with Britain
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It's the mix of this fake and tawdry bumbling self deprecation and this elitist and superior snobbery that makes British public school cultural attitudes so insufferable
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𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ (@sonnysehra) profile picture𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ@sonnysehraNov 3
german poet heinrich von kleist went insane after learning about immanuel kant’s philosophy. he cancelled all his life plans, lost faith in God, shot a woman, and then killed himself in 1811. “my sole & highest goal has vanished, now i have none,” he wrote after discovering kant.
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Deleuze and Guattari
Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) profile pictureCatholic Sat
@CatholicSatNov 4
This morning Pope Leo XIV met Bob Dylan 📸: Vatican Media
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The Devils. Came for nunsploitation. Stayed for the nascent French state's Society of Control. Cardinal Richelieu Harkonnen and John Lennon Witchfinder General were highlights
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cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) profile picturecinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticNov 2
Which TV show started off with so much promise but completely fell apart as it went on? A series that had everything going for it, only to turn into an absolute disappointment.
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About to present on the nostalgia and hegemony of the late capitalist far-right in Liege
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1) Brief Encouter 2) In The Realm of the Senses 3) Godland
Peggy Vimes (@SamuelVimes10) profile picturePeggy Vimes@SamuelVimes10Oct 17
This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here's mine: 1) Ghostbusters 2) Kind Hearts and Coronets 3) Super Troopers
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The distinction between "optics" and "principled" strategy is itself ideological (a personalised and artificial contrast between 'pragmatic hard heads' and 'solipsistic dreamers') and reflects more the interests of the attention economy in Britain than Palestinian solidarity
Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) profile pictureAaron Bastani
@AaronBastaniOct 15
Blairite non-entities droned on about ‘strategy’ and ‘optics’ for years - as a way of substituting for substantive politics. Sure, that’s bad. Essentially anti-politics. But that doesn’t mean ‘strategy’ & ‘optics’ don’t matter. ‘Bolshevik’ comes from ‘majority’! Optics!
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Good faith critiques of the motion are lost with Novara's personalised grandstanding over "virtue hoarders". Leninism is apparently when we quibble over the language of a motion and the behaviour of comrades to reflect a majoritarian interest invented by the centrist media
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Comradely disagreement. Does @NoJusticeMTG think there'd be fewer bad faith attacks if the Greens went with 'Zionism is Colonialism'? 'Zionism is Racism' keeps the horror of the genocide in the public consciousness, which is turning against Israel. Principle works
PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) profile picturePoliticsJOE
@PoliticsJOE_UKOct 15
Could the Green Party's Zionism is Racism vote been handled better? @NoJusticeMTG thinks so.

Could the Zionism is Racism vote been handled better?

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Why try to squeeze and moderate this position into the narrowing discursive parameters already being set by the state and the centrist media?
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Rejoining the EU to "change it from within" is hopelessly idealistic while the UK remains deeply reactionary (on international workers, on austerian economics, on the police state). It will just accelerate the EU's self-destruction and the rise of the Right
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"Anyone who decides to organise my life for me can never be my comrade" Alfredo Bonanno, Armed Joy
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When US congressional candidates are now being sexually assaulted with next to no coverage in the press, I am sick of sexual assault being reduced to culture war fodder on debate bro slopcasts @owenjonesjourno should have known better than to engage with these bad faith clowns
Narinder Kaur (@narindertweets) profile pictureNarinder Kaur
@narindertweetsOct 11
Owen Jones was on @KonstantinKisin @triggerpod podcast. Here they are talking about Pakistani immigrant men being guilty of more sexual offences but Kisin excludes British born Pakistani heritage men in this statistic. Owen barely got a word in and won every point. Bravo and chefs kiss @owenjonesjourno
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Came for Carrie's prom. Stayed for Martyr Cinema
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And now the UK waiting list for diagnosis has increased to three years based on this tweet alone
🦉Hootz🐍 🇵🇸 (@YngviCom) profile picture🦉Hootz🐍 🇵🇸@YngviComOct 7
if you have ADHD you cannot under any circumstance internalize that fact you need to have "omg you people cant do anything" flashing your brain at all costs once your ADHD becomes self aware its sincerely over for you that demon will thrive off of that excuse till the day you die
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There's a ridiculously self-serving dead end in the "virtue signalling" thesis, where being met with disapproval or critique is just further confirmation your comrades are corrupted by the virtue mind virus
Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) profile pictureAaron Bastani
@AaronBastaniOct 6
I don’t think I’m a virtuous person. We are all sinners, and err everyday. Any left politics built on an aristocracy of virtue, & virtue hoarding, where unbelievers are malevolent, will perennially lose. We have rather a lot of evidence at this point.
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A chosen few who do a hell of a lot more "language policing" than their censored, debanked and imprisoned comrades
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And this is just "virtue signalling" all over again. "Virtue Hoarders" is just more branding for an impoverished idea that has done nothing but muddy waters at the service of the reactionary press since 2015
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