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Reagan was in truth always a dove, refusing all large-scale interventions and then eagerly seizing on the opportunity to embrace Gorbachev, all against the serried force of his own neo-con supporters.

This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.

the surfeit of digital image-production—spam advertising being the most abundant—is neither the swarm of wish-fulfilment fantasies nor the tool of domination it is often taken to be

[...] The thought that we might be the rubble implies that history will advance without us, protagonized by other subjects; we would be left in the position of Kafka, who maintained that there was ‘plenty of hope—but not for us’. Would this seeming abandonment of agency really be desirable? Steyerl…