I just meant like the “the spectacle is too entrenched, revolution is impossible” thing he gets on.

I skipped recc’ing it just because it gets kinda bleak

What org do you want me to send $10 to?

I’ll bet 10 dollars this is in Northern California

Sure!

Okay, so don’t start with SotS. The Situationist International did a lot of other writing that covers similar ideas and being familiar with those will help you parse SotS. It’ll also be a fun read.

https://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

Then, make sure you’re reading the Knabb translation and not the Perlman translation. It’s better annotated, so you can know when you’ve come up against a cheeky hegel reference or something. He also suggests an alternate chapter order that starts with easier chapters.

Also, don’t be afraid the skip stuff or just let things wash over you. If there’s a part you don’t get, just treat it as a Koan an let it wash over you.

Finally, you can’t really understand it until you’ve collaged ads into councilist propaganda or taken mushrooms and wandered through the city without a destination.

People love to say that southern things are black things. It’s only a matter of time before watching quilting shows, eating at waffle house and living in Dekalb County are appropriative.

The take on hobby shops is much higher

X-Men was woke in a genre known for being woke. Superheros have always had references to Jewish folklore and characters meant to stand in for immigrants.

But sci-fi? Don’t get me fucking started on Heinlein and Bradbury. 60s TV? Even worse. But that didn’t stop Roddenberry from coming out the gate swinging with a Russian main character and an interracial kiss.

Arcata meets LA

I mean, when you’re as great as you are, it would be weird if you weren’t in love with yourself

Is a clopen relationship one where you go on a dinner date and a breakfast date back to back?

Is the Teamsters staff organizer nice?

let me piss here

Man I’m still gonna be a mess at 80 aren’t I

If you publish it anonymously from a VPN I’m pretty sure they could only easily go after the archive

“Through every diplomatic means possible”

I.e. he’s gonna ask nicely

Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he’ll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he’ll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.

It’s like, he has two settings: “actually useful moderate” and “KILLKILLKILLKILL”

Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter

Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.

Population surplus i think isn’t an idea form Marx but (I think) from Mike Davis.

But the way Davis uses it, is beyond the reserve army of labor, racial capitalism creates so many jobless people that it doesn’t even need them as the reserve army of labor. Like, black unemployment reaches 40% at times.

These “surplus people” are managed spatially. The ones who are needed as the reserve army of labor are, and the rest are separated from productive society through borders, prions, ghettos, segregation and Apartheid.

A great example is how unemployment in Israel is about 5 to 10% but in the Gaza strip is 40 to 50%. Then, Palestinians are selectively let into Israel to perform below-market-rate labor while the rest are subjected to ghettoization and genocide.

Also, sometimes dudes like Ahkmed Chalabi get to call the shots on matters of grand historical impact