Doing some research continuing my thread on Realisms and history thereof, and came across this painfully salient image.
"In the mid-1930s, a former Bauhaus student and anti-fascist resistance member Franz Ehrlich was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.…During his years in Buchenwald, he designed several structures for the complex. Including the infamous entry gate with the slogan Jedem das Seine (To Each His Own)."
To Each His Own.
You Do You.
Sound familiar?
[#]CovidIsNotOver
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Have been doing a lot of reading on histories of realisms, endeavoring to articulate a distinction between the eponymous subject of Fisher's book, on the one hand, and the epistemological ground of Fisher's analysis, on the other.
In so doing, have come to think of the subject of his screed as Neopoetic Realism—here referencing both the resigned aesthetic of 19th-century German Realism and subsequent New Objectivism and the melancholy of some 1930s French film, both of which anticipate Fisher's concept of reflexive impotence.
Here, Neopoetic Realism appears as a variety of Ludomythic Realism, reflecting an uncanny disjuncture between how one plays by the rules of society, on the one hand, and the collective stories we tell about those rules, on the other.
Ludomythic Realism would include literary Magical Realism—which itself grew out of New Objectivism—where authors reflect "wrenching personal upheavals, which…cannot be adequately represented in a discourse of undisturbed realism."
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[#]NYC MTA has installed spikes to keep poor people off public transit.
Because of course they have.
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Okay, weirdness that haven't been able to explain.
In Google Docs, a friend finds that whenever they add headers, all the text following the header is switched to header style.
On investigation, it appears their entire document is comprised of soft-returns rather than hard-returns. They insist all they're doing is hitting the enter key when they move between paragraphs.
The same thing is present in other documents they've edited. Something about their setup seems to be substituting SHIFT-ENTER for every press of ENTER on its own, at least in Google Docs.
Anyone have any clue what could be happening and how to help them put a stop to it?
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Finally took some time to read Mark Fisher's book.
Yes, that one.
Resisting the urge to write an extended critique, if only because the text is so bad as to not be worthy of the effort.
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"As an avian influenza virus (AIV) panzootic is underway, the threat of a human pandemic is emerging. Infections among mammalian species in frequent contact with humans should be closely monitored. One mammalian family, the Felidae, is of particular concern. Domestic cats are susceptible to AIV infection and provide a potential pathway for zoonotic spillover to humans. Here, we provide a systematic review of the scientific literature to describe the epidemiology and global distribution of AIV infections in felines reported from 2004 – 2024."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.30.24306585v2
HT Daniele Focosi on X
[#]BirdFluBegins #BirdFlu #H5N1
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"Understanding these strikes is made difficult because labor left reporting, including outlets like Labor Notes and Jacobin, does not cover key questions such as level of worker participation in these strikes, which should be a key aspect of labor reporting."
“Understanding these strikes is made difficult because labor left reporting, including outlets like Labor Notes and Jacobin, does not cover key questions such as level of worker participation in these strikes, which should be a key aspect of labor reporting. However, from accounts online, mainstream sources such as the New York Times, it appears that participation is very low in these strikes...”
~ Joe Burns
https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/social-issues/the-teamsters-amazon-strikes-a-critical-assessment/ar-AA1wRnW3
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Insomnia sucks, and then you lie on your back staring at the ceiling for the second night in a row wondering what sleep could possibly be doing that is more important than visiting with you.
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Not wanting to stomp on your threads, but the material relations you're discussing are why "class consciousness" is a dangerous myth of colonial power.
Underpinning this trope of control is the humanist ideal, a notion of the human that always somehow quietly excludes even as it loudly asserts its own universality.
For a society purposefully divided so that those that have basic needs met depend on the dispossession of others to maintain their privilege, the myth that we're all of the same abstract "class", somehow capable of its own diaphenomenal consciousness, allows those disparities of dispossession to be elided in the name of upholding "class" interests.
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"#H5N1, a disease typically only found in wild birds, has been killed seals and sea lions in the tens of thousands. Dairy cattle have been seeing lying dead in the sun in California. AND we know that the strain this person was infected with was the same strain as the teenager hospitalized in British Columbia— and that one has the gene necessary for human to human transmission. Even so, the rhetoric of the CBS newscast sampled here said the danger to the general public is very low. I would laugh if this wasn’t such a disaster."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDx0V3HvmYb/?igsh=MTV3enVkNDk0cWRnaw==
[#]BirdFluBegins #BirdFlu
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National voluntary recall of cat foods because #BirdFluBegins.
As influenza surge making news in various Usian cities.
Of course, #H5N1 is an influenza.
At some point, #BirdFlu is gonna make the leap to full adaptation for inter-human transmission.
If it happens during a post-holiday winter surge, we might not even know we're dealing with zoonotic spillover, because flu looks like flu until you bother to sequence.
Unless you bother to sequence.
(Also, lots of other things look like flu, but we can at least tell covid and RSV, when we bother to test, from flu.)
As of December, two in five Usians have been vaccinated for seasonal flu. The lowest uptake in the past six years.
Meanwhile, our government continues to arm a rogue national government that bombs an airport while the head of the world's global health agency is on the tarmac.
[#]PublicHealth
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Expect to see more Usians masking in 2025.
As Democratic fanbase will no longer be able to justify ignoring risk out of devotion to party.
[#]KayfabePanto #PublicHealth
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If we can count on anything in 2025, it's that Usian Democratic voters will pay a lot more attention to #BirdFlu once they can pin it on the guy they don't like.
[#]H5N1 #BirdFluBegins
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If the world suffers a #BirdFlu pandemic in the years immediately following this coming #Jan20...
Please remember that the previous administration had more than enough opportunities to address the #H5N1 threat on the horizon, long before even the absurdly drawn-out U.S. electoneering cycle began.
Usian partisans will want ya'll to blame global mortality of a pandemic in the second half of this decade on the person then in office...
Rather than on the naked emperor, who ensured that there be no serious interventions to stop spread and mutation in U.S. livestock—lest attention to such distract from boasting about ending a pandemic, from the first half of this decade, that still has yet to end.
Nero doesn't get to blame Galba, just because the second conflagration was slow to start.
[#]PublicHealth #BirdFluBegins
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Using assassination trial as backdrop, the next administration is gonna push through aglithaculture legislation that worsens diagnosis and treatment for vulnerable groups—in the name of forcing insurance companies to pay for non-"big pharma" medical options.
Leftists will cheer the narrative of forcing insurers to pay and breaking the "big pharma" stranglehold.
Liberals will support even "radical" legislation out of fear of more vigilante action.
Conservatives will support it because GOP are home team.
Doctors will support it because they'll get to write a scrip to the gym rather than just dismiss symptoms out of fatphobia or ignorance about chronic illness.
And when Usians don't get healthier, but instead get sicker, the narrative will shift to blaming non-compliance:
Those freeloaders who refuse to follow doctor's orders and get healthy will be the reason why we can't have nice things.
Chronic illness, like homelessness, will be declared a lie.
[#]disaccommodation #classposture
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So, yeah, that perp walk by the NYPD, with cop mayor presiding?
Spectacle, to divert attention from this:
"At the DBK4 delivery station in Queens, New York, cops swarmed and arrested an Amazon driver who stopped his van in support of the strike. Then they forcibly broke the picket line. In anticipation of a possible strike at JFK8, police had camped out by the facility in advance."
https://www.labornotes.org/2024/12/cops-bust-picket-line-teamsters-strike-seven-amazon-warehouses
[#]FifthEstate
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Common to ideologues of all stripes is to disparage each those they respectively deem unenlightened as sheep—of herd mentality lead around by others.
Not so the anti-capitalist, who instead imagines a society of mountain goats, standing precariously along the sides of the steep, craggy, ravine wall of an uncanny valley—seeming approximations of the diaphenomenal consciousness that is the true mind of the human category itself, yet only just close enough as to be eerie, hauntingly close to real.
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[#]PleaseBoost
Putting feelers out for a subject-matter expert:
Looking for anyone with a deep knowledge of #Catholic theology and metaphors common to discussion of same.
Looking for an etymology of use with regards to the term "moral grid" (English) or "grille morale" (French).
Have been able to trace the term back to an 1888 literary journal, where it is used off-handedly as if having an already established meaning.
Term takes off in mid-20th century print sources, being taken up in literary analysis and ethnographic writing, always invoked just the once, as if its meaning is a given. Yet, in so doing, seems to have taken on a slightly different meaning than its original theological use.
Yet if this shift has been formalized by anyone, have been unable to find the theorist responsible.
Anyway, if anyone has any leads to share, they'd be most appreciated.
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This toot brought to you by a video essayist trying to articulate meta-Protestant sympathy for the outlaw in terms of the historical decline of public executions.
They begin to approach a recognition of intersectional split by referencing competing moral grids—the term "moral grid", presented without citation, appears to have originated in narrative studies only to be picked up by anthropology and religious studies in recent decades—yet doesn't quite go so far as recognizing that each such interpretive frame relates to a distinct #classposture within the same body.
That one's habitus can be multiple, such that there is no single "consciousness" to which any one of our contemporaries, ourselves included, may necessarily be classified, is not speakable, given the discursive genre.
Like Cohn after the summer camp, we are left unable to pose the questions we might otherwise: as such pose, such posture, is inarticulable if we are to be "understood" within conventions of established lore.
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The problem of "class consciousness" as descriptive trope is one of anachronistic reductionism.
Such dichotomous thinking—whereby all are judged as one side or the other of a threshold of oppressed or oppressor—belongs to a chiliast ontology, wherein the foretold liberatory dissolution of such threshold, thus tribulation itself, is promised.
Our contemporary, intersectional, era is one of split consciousness, plural #classposture—a superposition of standing against the wall, loading the rifle, and mopping up afterwards. We don't get the simplicity of teleology, regardless the appeal of discursive tradition.
Well-worn theory won't guide us, as our crease-torn map long predates the infrastructure, thus the lay of the land, of the territory we today inhabit.
Our models are thus as realistic as historical recreation: painstaking in every detail, we re-enact—through our genres of discursive canon—the lore of a once-upon-a-time. All-the-while, the manifold present day defies thresholds.
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