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On a lost archive of dreams

I spend a lot of time thinking about Charlotte Beradt. She was a Jewish communist, a collector and translator, but little is known of her. During the 1930s in Berlin for reasons we still don’t know entirely, she collected dreams…

On Nuance and Grad School Racists

“They understand how to pose subtle and sophisticated questions, but they swamp the sewers of their questions with the tidal sludge of their answers – that unfiltered wealth which is beneficial for a few and detrimental to almost everyone.”  –…

Insomnia

The whole of Marx’s early writings are aimed at the thought that being “woke” is insufficient to transform the world. He knew too, that this infernal politics of insomnia lets us idly drift into some floodlit night of the world,…

On Jeremy Corbyn’s Populist Turn

I don’t know how many people caught this video (below) that Jeremy Corbyn put out, made of excerpts from his speech at the Fabian Society earlier in the week. The first half in particular is striking because of its choice…

For Mark Fisher and Robert Dellar

This is probably the wrong place to write this. Everyone knows the beginning of The Communist Manifesto, where Marx talks about how society is dividing ever more into two great classes in struggle. The history of a lot of Marxism…

Disney and Ballet

1940-41 mark Disney’s greatest experiment with Ballet, and particularly with the sounds of Paris two to three decades earlier, and the Ballet Russes. And while only explicitly this can be found in the Rite of Spring in Fantasia so are…

Byron Burgers and the Law

What happened at Byron has brought back memories of the terrible events at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2009, when all the cleaners were summoned to a meeting, the doors were locked, and then the UK Border Agency…