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DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

Cunty little thing isnt it

the respectable academic variant, especially in the post-Cold War West, was the enormous cloud of intellectual febreze called post-structuralism. a lot of post-structural approaches, postcolonialism, liberal feminism, green studies, discourse-oriented theory generally, became institutionally dominant during the late neoliberal turn of the 1980s and 1990s, precisely when capitalism itself was reorganising into more decentralised, flexible forms of accumulation. suddenly theory is less about totalising structures and political economy, and more about fragmented subjectivities, localised identities, fluid meanings, discourse, hybridity, micro-narratives. which is not to say these frameworks are useless or wrong in their entirety, because many produced genuinely valuable critiques, but it is hard not to notice how neatly their intellectual grammar mirrored the restructuring of capitalism itself. academia became increasingly comfortable with critiques that could be endlessly discussed, deconstructed, and circulated without necessarily threatening the underlying organisation of production or power. the sharper material edges get softened into language that institutions can metabolise safely. and honestly, this is probably the fate of almost every new theory that enters academia; eventually it stops being insurgent and becomes part of the furniture because everyone still needs salaries, grants, tenure, conference invitations, etc.

absolutely ridiculous

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the making of sam dickinson - dec 2025

And can we please stop this over-the-top disgust over the bodies of pregnant people please please please y'all are so happy to defend all sorts of disabilities but then dissolve into a misogynistic froth when pregnancy comes up

get aegyo bombed

"Charity" under capitalism is rarely done for the long-term benefit of those given "aid," and that is by design.

Thomas Sankara

I adore whatever this dynamic is