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Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00

1. You’ve invested an enormous amount of time and energy, and you still have no idea what is happening.

2. Everybody you meet speaks in half riddles.

3. Hours spent completing a task are rewarded with meaningless feedback and unhelpful awards.

4. No matter how much you accomplish or how good you do, it’ll never be enough.

5. You don’t know why you are serving whom you are serving, but you serve them all the same as though that service matters.

6. Most of the people you meet want to destroy you.

7. You want to destroy most of the people you meet.

8. You sometimes wear a silly robe.

9. You are surrounded by old, crumbling buildings that were probably really something in their day.

10. The most powerful people you encounter were destroyed by accumulating that power.

11. The rush of excitement upon achieving a long-sought goal is followed by the crippling realization that what you achieved doesn’t actually matter.

12. The people you encounter seem to be working out some long-repressed trauma that neither you nor they understand.

13. Your stats are being kept.

Created
Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00
Britain holds fast to its fourteen British Overseas Territories – from the offshore havens of Bermuda and the Caymans to the thornily disputed Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar to the sovereign military base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus. Among the British holdings, the Chagos Archipelago stands out for the curious fact of its having been retained as a colonial outpost so that parts of it could be gifted to the US military.
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Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00
Unlike Althusser’s, Tom Nairn’s Marxism would grow almost unrecognisably open and eclectic. Many on the left never forgave him for writing that ‘the theory of nationalism represents Marxism’s great historical failure,’ or for his insistence that globalisation had liberating, progressive aspects. But many on the right, including Britain’s intelligence services and their clients, never forgave him either – for spreading seditious doctrines threatening to the kingdom.
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Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00
To think of Shakespeare’s plays as safe havens for displaced textual agents from different traditions is to understate the underlying violence of the dislocations they display. But to say that the passage of these ideas is fraught and troubled, rather than apolitical, raises one of the abiding problems in Shakespeare studies: the instrumentalisation of real-world pain for a greedy project of relevance.
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Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00
Kaminsky bought chemistry books from bouquinistes along the Seine and taught himself to make explosives. But when a man known as Penguin (aka Marc Hamon) recruited him for the Resistance, he wasn’t interested in his knowledge of explosives so much as his knowledge of dyes. The Resistance needed papers for passeurs at the border, for members parachuting in from the UK and for Jews at risk of deportation. Kaminsky proved remarkably resourceful and inventive.
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Fri, 03/02/2023 - 00:00
Why would my students pay attention to my views on Brexit when I can’t even get them to stop using the word relatable? Teaching is an uncertain affair, full of humility-inducing failures and miscues. Students have their own ideas about what is worth knowing and retaining, not because they are a tribe apart, but because each of them is an adult – unbiddable, unpredictable and indecipherable. My students aren’t relatable, and neither am I.
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Thu, 02/02/2023 - 22:05

55 journalists have been killed and hundreds more injured or detained by Israel since 2000. Yet for many Palestinian, the physical harm they face pales in comparison to the constant delegitimization of their work by in the media.

The post Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Created
Thu, 02/02/2023 - 21:38
‘Labour’ leader finds time to tweet inanity, but not to support millions fighting for their families and class Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike to resist the Tories’ mass assault on the working class and to fight for their families, their jobs, their pay and the public services we all rely on. […]