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🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why #gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why #gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why #gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why #gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated -
‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: #Israel’s Demolition of #Gaza
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/19/all-they-will-find-is-sand-israels-demolition-of-gaza/April 19, 2026
[article from #LondonReviewOfBooks with intro and photos by #WorldOutlook.]The #UN Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute #genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The first two concern mass killing and serious bodily or mental harm...
The third prohibition ...forbids ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. This refers to indirect forms of killing, those that don’t target human bodies but the environment that sustains them. Sufficient ‘conditions of life’ require buildings, hospitals, ...sewage and water systems, power grids, agriculture. The intentional destruction or degradation of such structures undermines a people’s ability to survive, leading to a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation.
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‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: #Israel’s Demolition of #Gaza
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/19/all-they-will-find-is-sand-israels-demolition-of-gaza/April 19, 2026
[article from #LondonReviewOfBooks with intro and photos by #WorldOutlook.]The #UN Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute #genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The first two concern mass killing and serious bodily or mental harm...
The third prohibition ...forbids ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. This refers to indirect forms of killing, those that don’t target human bodies but the environment that sustains them. Sufficient ‘conditions of life’ require buildings, hospitals, ...sewage and water systems, power grids, agriculture. The intentional destruction or degradation of such structures undermines a people’s ability to survive, leading to a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation.
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‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: #Israel’s Demolition of #Gaza
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/19/all-they-will-find-is-sand-israels-demolition-of-gaza/April 19, 2026
[article from #LondonReviewOfBooks with intro and photos by #WorldOutlook.]The #UN Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute #genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The first two concern mass killing and serious bodily or mental harm...
The third prohibition ...forbids ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. This refers to indirect forms of killing, those that don’t target human bodies but the environment that sustains them. Sufficient ‘conditions of life’ require buildings, hospitals, ...sewage and water systems, power grids, agriculture. The intentional destruction or degradation of such structures undermines a people’s ability to survive, leading to a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation.
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‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: #Israel’s Demolition of #Gaza
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/19/all-they-will-find-is-sand-israels-demolition-of-gaza/April 19, 2026
[article from #LondonReviewOfBooks with intro and photos by #WorldOutlook.]The #UN Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute #genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The first two concern mass killing and serious bodily or mental harm...
The third prohibition ...forbids ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. This refers to indirect forms of killing, those that don’t target human bodies but the environment that sustains them. Sufficient ‘conditions of life’ require buildings, hospitals, ...sewage and water systems, power grids, agriculture. The intentional destruction or degradation of such structures undermines a people’s ability to survive, leading to a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation.
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“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.” Nancy Fraser on Jürgen Habermas and her relation to his work in the LRB.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas
#habermas #Obituaries #londonreviewofbooks #academia #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #foucault
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“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.” Nancy Fraser on Jürgen Habermas and her relation to his work in the LRB.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas
#habermas #Obituaries #londonreviewofbooks #academia #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #foucault
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Was Jane Austen Gay? – The Actors’ Church, London
Script: Sam Kinchin-Smith However tempting it may be to write a letter of complaint to one of…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #ActorsChurch #AnnaDennis #Britain #CityofLondonSinfonia #ClaudieBlakley #Concert #GreatBritain #JamesMcVinnie #JaneAusten #JemimaRooper #london #LondonReviewofBooks #RebeccaKnight #Review #RuthFunnell #SamKinchin-Smith #Theatre #WasJaneAustenGay?
https://www.europesays.com/uk/736885/ -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/736885/ Was Jane Austen Gay? – The Actors’ Church, London #ActorsChurch #AnnaDennis #Britain #CityOfLondonSinfonia #ClaudieBlakley #Concert #England #GreatBritain #JamesMcVinnie #JaneAusten #JemimaRooper #london #LondonReviewOfBooks #RebeccaKnight #Review #RuthFunnell #SamKinchinSmith #Theatre #UK #UnitedKingdom #WasJaneAustenGay?
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Just finished off cleaning the downstairs windows by polishing them up with pages from an old #LondonReviewOfBooks.
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Just finished off cleaning the downstairs windows by polishing them up with pages from an old #LondonReviewOfBooks.
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InPublishing: The London Review of Books chooses Exact Editions. “Exact Editions says it offers an immersive reading experience, with a fidelity that replicates the visual impact and design integrity of the print edition but allows for seamless navigation, full-text search and accessibility features. This new digital subscription to the London Review of Books provides all the benefits of a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/inpublishing-the-london-review-of-books-chooses-exact-editions/
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re: Compost
“There’s a eucharistic mystery to the biochemical transformations that follow. Things fall apart. They decompose and recompose. Thermophilic microbes foment anarchy in the pile…I make my own compost so that I can convince myself that even when the world seems socially and ecologically broken there are still mechanisms for recovery: it shows that change is possible. Composting is a simple habit of composition or gathering together that integrates past fragments into a future whole“
by Fraser MacDonald in London Review of Books
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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O man, away for a week, mail got delivered:
this is so great 🍸😺
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 3 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/29/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-iii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 3 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/29/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-iii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 3 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/29/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-iii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 3 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/29/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-iii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 2 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/28/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-ii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 2 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/28/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-ii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 2 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/28/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-ii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 2 of 3)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/28/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-ii/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (I)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/27/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-i/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (I)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/27/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-i/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (I)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/27/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-i/
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from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (I)Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://world-outlook.com/2024/06/27/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-i/
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This is appalling: 'Since October, Indian Telegram chats with more than fifty thousand members have been sharing, commenting and clicking “like” on indiscriminate images of the torture and death of Palestinian men, women and children.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/think-about-the-nation
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This is appalling: 'Since October, Indian Telegram chats with more than fifty thousand members have been sharing, commenting and clicking “like” on indiscriminate images of the torture and death of Palestinian men, women and children.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/think-about-the-nation
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This is appalling: 'Since October, Indian Telegram chats with more than fifty thousand members have been sharing, commenting and clicking “like” on indiscriminate images of the torture and death of Palestinian men, women and children.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/think-about-the-nation
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This is appalling: 'Since October, Indian Telegram chats with more than fifty thousand members have been sharing, commenting and clicking “like” on indiscriminate images of the torture and death of Palestinian men, women and children.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/think-about-the-nation
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A piece from a fellow person who does not own a smartphone: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/necessity-or-compulsion
#londonreviewofbooks #lrb #smartphones #phones #addiction #technology #elaineglaser #parenting
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A piece from a fellow person who does not own a smartphone: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/necessity-or-compulsion
#londonreviewofbooks #lrb #smartphones #phones #addiction #technology #elaineglaser #parenting
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A piece from a fellow person who does not own a smartphone: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/february/necessity-or-compulsion
#londonreviewofbooks #lrb #smartphones #phones #addiction #technology #elaineglaser #parenting
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#IsraelUSAHamasWar / Rubble from Bone: Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords
[…] Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on #Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment. Like all punishment, to ask whether or not it ‘works’ misses the point that punishment is often an end in itself. But the conduct of the war also has an orgiastic quality. The celebrations of the killing by Israel’s political leaders; the fantastic schemes for the removal of Palestinians to Sinai, or Europe, or Congo; the public figures signing bombs to be dropped on what’s left of Gaza; the gleeful recordings made by individual soldiers – all combine malice and mirth.
#LondonReviewOfBooks https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/tom-stevenson/rubble-from-bone
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#IsraelUSAHamasWar / Rubble from Bone: Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords
[…] Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on #Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment. Like all punishment, to ask whether or not it ‘works’ misses the point that punishment is often an end in itself. But the conduct of the war also has an orgiastic quality. The celebrations of the killing by Israel’s political leaders; the fantastic schemes for the removal of Palestinians to Sinai, or Europe, or Congo; the public figures signing bombs to be dropped on what’s left of Gaza; the gleeful recordings made by individual soldiers – all combine malice and mirth.
#LondonReviewOfBooks https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/tom-stevenson/rubble-from-bone
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#IsraelUSAHamasWar / Rubble from Bone: Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords
[…] Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on #Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment. Like all punishment, to ask whether or not it ‘works’ misses the point that punishment is often an end in itself. But the conduct of the war also has an orgiastic quality. The celebrations of the killing by Israel’s political leaders; the fantastic schemes for the removal of Palestinians to Sinai, or Europe, or Congo; the public figures signing bombs to be dropped on what’s left of Gaza; the gleeful recordings made by individual soldiers – all combine malice and mirth.
#LondonReviewOfBooks https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/tom-stevenson/rubble-from-bone
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#IsraelUSAHamasWar / Rubble from Bone: Tom Stevenson writes about Operation Iron Swords
[…] Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on #Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment. Like all punishment, to ask whether or not it ‘works’ misses the point that punishment is often an end in itself. But the conduct of the war also has an orgiastic quality. The celebrations of the killing by Israel’s political leaders; the fantastic schemes for the removal of Palestinians to Sinai, or Europe, or Congo; the public figures signing bombs to be dropped on what’s left of Gaza; the gleeful recordings made by individual soldiers – all combine malice and mirth.
#LondonReviewOfBooks https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/tom-stevenson/rubble-from-bone
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#PatriciaLockwood meets the Pope.
Some gorgeous phantasmic writing
#londonreviewofbooks #rome
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/patricia-lockwood/diary -
#PatriciaLockwood meets the Pope.
Some gorgeous phantasmic writing
#londonreviewofbooks #rome
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/patricia-lockwood/diary -
#PatriciaLockwood meets the Pope.
Some gorgeous phantasmic writing
#londonreviewofbooks #rome
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/patricia-lockwood/diary -
#PatriciaLockwood meets the Pope.
Some gorgeous phantasmic writing
#londonreviewofbooks #rome
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/patricia-lockwood/diary -
CW: Careful - it's partly about suicide
For all sorts of reasons I was moved to tears by this wonderful piece of writing in a recent #LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB
Non-subscribers can read up to two free subscriber-only articles in LRB per month - but please do subscribe and support excellent English-language writing
#Spirituality
#Love -
CW: Careful - it's partly about suicide
For all sorts of reasons I was moved to tears by this wonderful piece of writing in a recent #LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB
Non-subscribers can read up to two free subscriber-only articles in LRB per month - but please do subscribe and support excellent English-language writing
#Spirituality
#Love -
CW: Careful - it's partly about suicide
For all sorts of reasons I was moved to tears by this wonderful piece of writing in a recent #LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB
Non-subscribers can read up to two free subscriber-only articles in LRB per month - but please do subscribe and support excellent English-language writing
#Spirituality
#Love -
CW: Careful - it's partly about suicide
For all sorts of reasons I was moved to tears by this wonderful piece of writing in a recent #LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB
Non-subscribers can read up to two free subscriber-only articles in LRB per month - but please do subscribe and support excellent English-language writing
#Spirituality
#Love -
The #sky is amazing tonight. #bridge #Pittsburgh #LondonReviewOfBooks #bookstodon #reading #coffee #saturday
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This short #LondonReviewOfBooks article on the absurd bureaucracy of the British armed forces during the First World War is absolutely fascinating. Reminds me of Gilliam’s “Brazil”.
"In Good-Bye to All That (1929), Robert Graves complained about the ‘army forms marked “Urgent”’ which ‘constantly arrived from headquarters’ and were ‘all contradictory’. These forms were prefixed ‘AF’ and indexed with a number and a ‘class’ letter, which in 1917 ran from A to W. The class letter indicated the general subject or the branch that had issued the form. Class A forms were ‘General Forms’, such as ‘A. 6 Wounded in Action – Nominal List of’, or ‘A. 2000 Horse Return’. Class B, ‘Regiments and Corps’ forms, ran through topics such as ‘B. 4 Leave of Absence Officers’ or ‘B. 258 Weekly Church Parade States’, and ended with ‘B. 5103 Medal Entitlement’. “
(may be paywalled)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/jonathan-sawday/fill-in-the-blanks
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This short #LondonReviewOfBooks article on the absurd bureaucracy of the British armed forces during the First World War is absolutely fascinating. Reminds me of Gilliam’s “Brazil”.
"In Good-Bye to All That (1929), Robert Graves complained about the ‘army forms marked “Urgent”’ which ‘constantly arrived from headquarters’ and were ‘all contradictory’. These forms were prefixed ‘AF’ and indexed with a number and a ‘class’ letter, which in 1917 ran from A to W. The class letter indicated the general subject or the branch that had issued the form. Class A forms were ‘General Forms’, such as ‘A. 6 Wounded in Action – Nominal List of’, or ‘A. 2000 Horse Return’. Class B, ‘Regiments and Corps’ forms, ran through topics such as ‘B. 4 Leave of Absence Officers’ or ‘B. 258 Weekly Church Parade States’, and ended with ‘B. 5103 Medal Entitlement’. “
(may be paywalled)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/jonathan-sawday/fill-in-the-blanks
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This short #LondonReviewOfBooks article on the absurd bureaucracy of the British armed forces during the First World War is absolutely fascinating. Reminds me of Gilliam’s “Brazil”.
"In Good-Bye to All That (1929), Robert Graves complained about the ‘army forms marked “Urgent”’ which ‘constantly arrived from headquarters’ and were ‘all contradictory’. These forms were prefixed ‘AF’ and indexed with a number and a ‘class’ letter, which in 1917 ran from A to W. The class letter indicated the general subject or the branch that had issued the form. Class A forms were ‘General Forms’, such as ‘A. 6 Wounded in Action – Nominal List of’, or ‘A. 2000 Horse Return’. Class B, ‘Regiments and Corps’ forms, ran through topics such as ‘B. 4 Leave of Absence Officers’ or ‘B. 258 Weekly Church Parade States’, and ended with ‘B. 5103 Medal Entitlement’. “
(may be paywalled)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/jonathan-sawday/fill-in-the-blanks
