#darktimes — Public Fediverse posts

Миленький текст про не-проблемность и удобство для власти современного искусства, про музейный маркетинг, про риторику о «тёмных временах» и про снисходительное отношение к зритель:ницам: https://kunstkritikk.com/the-end-is-nigh-ish/ #NoraArrheniusHagdahl #artcriticism #museums #generalpessimism #darktimes #condescending #press #KarolRadziszewski

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Sunday, January 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-4-2026/

Sunday, January 4, 2026

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Sunday, January 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-4-2026/

Sunday, January 4, 2026

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Sunday, January 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/sunday-january-4-2026/

#imho #Putin, #Trump and #Zelenksyy should all be removed from office

as they are all unable or unwilling to work together

#Ukraine #kharkiv #hospital hit by drone

1. #Zelenskyy knew in advance (?) that a #karkiv #hospital will be hit? (with #drone not ballistic as the said in #pressconference)

2. #Putin #Russia struck #Ukraine with 130 drones from 28.2. to 1.3. not exactly what someone looking for #peace would do
#Putin does not want reform, but absolute #power

3. #Trump the almost shot president is of course #ruthless #egoist wanna be #king of #America (a #fascist without knowing it? trying to become #dictator, so #Putin is his #idol)

#darktimes when #evil gets in #power #shit get's worse

https://liveuamap.com/en/2025/28-february-21-russian-strike-drone-had-targeted-medical

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-drone-strike-hits-medical-facility-other-targets-kharkiv-mayor-says-2025-02-28/

#wtf #russia #europe #eu #usa #ahoh #wtf #ww3? #terror #catastrophe

Day 4 of my Advent of Music where I am listing my top 25 albums of the year. #music #top25 #albumsoftheyear #vincestaples #darktimes https://austinzani.dev/music?year=2024&album=22

"#Universities in #DarkTimes: Beyond the #Plague of #Neoliberal #Fascism. Facing #authoritarian #threats, #universities—once #progressive hubs of higher learning—are now under #siege.

Many prioritize #profit, #suppress #dissent, and adopt #predatory #capitalism, betraying their democratic mission."

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Censorship #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/04/universities-in-dark-times-beyond-the-plague-of-neoliberal-fascism/

Peter Oborne UNCOVERS the REAL threat to British democracy

#ToxicBritain
#UKPolitics
#DarkTimes
#UKGeneralElection #WesternDoubleStandards #RightToProtest
#MoralPanic
#UKLabour
#GazaGenocide
#WesternImperialism
#WesternHypocrisy
#ArmsTrade
#DivideConquer

https://www.patreon.com/posts/exposed-muslim-99300699