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the Russians are said to have ‘hacked’ the election

When reality fails the model, the electorate refusing to do what they are told, the result is an epistemological crisis which throws up various and variously wild speculations. The Russians are said to have ‘hacked’ the election, and there is a useful elision in the verb between meaning literal IT …

—p.91 Salvage #5: Contractions ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville

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the modulation between apotheosis and disappearance

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The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win Albert Burneko - The Concourse

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

An interview with Thomas Piketty LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

Citizen Thiel by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Essentials of Socialist Writing by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks? by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

Plenty in an age of scarcity by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock by Richard Seymour - Patreon

What has happened to Britain's ruling class? by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Digital Proudhonism by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower - New Socialist

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

I miss you by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins - MISC

scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Book chapters (271)

Introduction by William H. Gass - The Recognitions

Preface by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Democracy fatigue by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Disrupt the Citizen by n+1 - Bottoms Up

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Little expressionless animals by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Big Red Son by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

On Satire The Editors - The Point Issue 14

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

§1 by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

Africa's Leaky Giant by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

Borderland by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

Federer Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

White Indians by n+1 - n+1 Issue 16: Double Bind

War Games by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Who Owns Tomorrow? - Commune (Issue 3)

Fear Factor by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Available Light - Salvage #5: Contractions

Socialism for Realists by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Society as Checkpoint by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

The neoliberal revolution by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

The Power of a Dollar by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

Project Runway How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Chapter Two by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

Bad Atrocity Writing by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

What if you held a protest and everyone came? by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

The Cleric of Treason by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor by Mary Karr - Lit

We Keep You Alive by Lizzie O'Shea - The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie

Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Accidental Neoliberal by Jedediah Purdy - n+1 Issue 19: Real Estate

Perfection by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Chapter 2 by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Slavery Is Everywhere by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

The Book by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

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4 to 5 star sections/books, tagged notes, etc. For writing inspiration.

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win

Albert Burneko - The Concourse

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia

Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’

by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in

by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

An interview with Thomas Piketty

LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'

Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

Citizen Thiel

by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Essentials of Socialist Writing

by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias

by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason

by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker

by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks?

by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love

by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

Plenty in an age of scarcity

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

What has happened to Britain's ruling class?

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Digital Proudhonism

by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Two-Faced

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well

by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower

- New Socialist

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position

by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People

by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child

by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

I miss you

by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore

Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work

by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

Me and My Shadow

by Jane Tompkins - MISC

scaffolding

by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Introduction

by William H. Gass - The Recognitions

Preface

by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Democracy fatigue

by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Disrupt the Citizen

by n+1 - Bottoms Up

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Little expressionless animals

by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Big Red Son

by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids

by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Forever Overhead

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

On Satire

The Editors - The Point Issue 14

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

§1

by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing

by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

Africa's Leaky Giant

by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

Borderland

by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

Federer Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

White Indians

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 16: Double Bind

War Games

by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Who Owns Tomorrow?

- Commune (Issue 3)

Fear Factor

by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Available Light

- Salvage #5: Contractions

Socialism for Realists

by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style

by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Society as Checkpoint

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

The neoliberal revolution

by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

The Power of a Dollar

by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

Project Runway

How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace

Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Chapter Two

by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

Bad Atrocity Writing

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

What if you held a protest and everyone came?

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

The Cleric of Treason

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor

by Mary Karr - Lit

We Keep You Alive

by Lizzie O'Shea - The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie

Farther Away

by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Accidental Neoliberal

by Jedediah Purdy - n+1 Issue 19: Real Estate

Perfection

by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Chapter 2

by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Slavery Is Everywhere

by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

The Book

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

The Trump Way

by Jacobin - Journey to the Dark Side

Behold Us Two Boys Sitting Together

- ZYZZYVA Issue No. 118 The Anniversary Issue

Victory Over the Sun

by Connor Kilpatrick - Earth, Wind, & Fire

Spadework

by Alyssa Battistoni - n+1 Issue 34: Head Case

The Undertakers of Silicon Valley

by Adrian Daub - Failure (Logic #5)

Goodbye, Cold War

by Aziz Rana - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland