discipline posted:

Scrree posted:

Readin' Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts now and it's almost impressive how effective Europeans were able to use economic and military violence to pauperize every society they came in contact with. Every single claim capitalism makes about itself is a lie.

Uh this is still going on fyi

we are basically in the late Victorian era, it never ended

chickeon posted:

altlit folks are the fuckign worst theere will be very special gulag for them

a prison of narrative cohesion, plot progression, and character development

discipline posted:

Scrree posted:

Readin' Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts now and it's almost impressive how effective Europeans were able to use economic and military violence to pauperize every society they came in contact with. Every single claim capitalism makes about itself is a lie.

Uh this is still going on fyi

Yeah I know! And it's cool that I can look at modern practices like say, Microlending, and realize that it's just an attempt by European banks to cut out the native petit-bourgeois loanshark class (that they themselves created by enclosing the commons) and profit more directly from the usure of the indian masses - old oppressions draped in new robes and all that.

Edited by Scrree (April 23, 2014 20:57:14)

deadken posted:

people seemed to like it idk

i liked it and thought it was better than much of your other output, and i'm not being insulting or anything

elektrenai posted:

prohairesis posted:

yeah but it shares that realm of trendy smug ultraleft theory along w/ semiotext(e) etc. teh only thing i know about n+1 is that one of the editors cheated on his wife w/ some alt-lit girl and she wrote an embarrassing story about it

no that was the very similar but worse online-only magazine The New Inquiry's editor Rob Horning, the story is called Adrian Brody and it's unreadable

I started to talk about being similarly alienated from the intellectuals and activists I knew.

"Like I was involved with socialist politics for a while, but, like when I went to protests or whatever I felt really embarrassed. Like being surrounded by college kids saying things like, 'we're the vanguard of the working class.' I don't think there will be a socialist revolution."

This was the first time I had admitted that to anyone, including myself.

"I don't think there will be either. When I think about leftists I know, like my friend who is pushing me to write a book, I think about how privileged he is...like he says things like, 'I didn't go to an ivy league, I went to the University of Maryland', like that means something."

"Are you talking about Malcolm Harris?" He was another writer who wrote in the same places as Adrien Brody whose articles I read sometimes, who I knew enough about to recognize that he was talking about him.

"Yes, Malcolm Harris."

I gasped. "He's only twenty two, right? He's so smart!"

"He's a pretty smart guy."

He went on to talk more about Malcolm Harris, and how aggressive and self-promoting he was, and how seriously he took himself. "But I guess that's what you have to do to succeed..."

What if Malcolm Harris led the revolution?" I asked

this is real