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  1. Villa Eyes Esteem in Europa League Final Amidst "Nearly Men" Shadows

    Aston Villa will play in the Europa League final on May 20th against Freiburg. This follows a 4-0 win against Nottingham Forest.

    #AstonVilla, #EuropaLeague, #FootballFinal, #Istanbul2026, #Watkins

    newsletter.tf/aston-villa-euro

  2. 🎬 Hommage. Peter #Watkins ou le sabotage de la Monoforme

    Une œuvre cinématographique et militante majeure marquée, de la guerre du #Vietnam à la #Commune de Paris, par le refus de la séparation stricte entre « réalisateur » et « sujet filmé ».

    #cinema

    revolutionpermanente.fr/Le-cin

  3. Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian

    Another piece of evidence to add to Fred Vandenberghe’s thesis that Margaret Archer should be interpreted as a heterodox post-Bourdeusian. In Ghassan Hage’s (very interesting) Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being he shares this memory of working with Bourdieu:

    In a private chat Bourdieu once said to me something that stayed with me and that I later scribbled on a piece of paper. He said (not word for word): “I suppose it might be useful to start researching a space by thinking of some binary oppositions that one, as a researcher, thinks are crisscrossing it, as long as one then works to show why they are neither as binary nor as oppositional as they first seem, which, mind you, doesn’t mean they are not there.”

    This was something Archer was already primed to grapple with, as you can see in my interview with her, through her frustration with the limitations of the empiricist demography she was initially trained in. There’s an immediate resemblance between what Hage reports here and Archer’s analytical dualism, formulated in the late 1980s but whose logic pervades her earlier work, particularly as it was developed through engagement with prevailing theoretical approaches in historical sociology in Social Origins of Educational Systems.

    My instinct is to read this as a problem Archer was already unusually sensitive to, which she elaborated upon through engaging with Bourdieu’s work and ultimately critiquing it. But it’s one which Bourdieu himself was also attuned to. The difference being that Archer developed a lose sensibility into a systematic logic and analytical principle, running with it in a way that led her to transcend Bourdieu’s thought. The place for realism came in understanding why the binaries continually reassert themselves and cannot ultimately be dissolved into epistemic perspectivalism.

    I feel a bit conflicted about my enthusiasm for the post-Bourdeusian thesis because I know she hated it. But the prevailing tendency is to read Archer as a sociological critic of Giddens and a sociological elaborator of Bhaskar. Whereas I would argue the main body of her thought was fully formed by the time she met Bhaskar, it was a matter of elaborating its philosophical foundations (and then through the reflexivity trilogy onwards filling in the gaps in the critical realist approach through pursuing the threads left in her earlier work). Instead I think she should be read as deeply shaped by the LSE of the 1960s (positively: Popper, Lakatos, Percy Cohen, Gellner + negatively: Glass, Watkins), an ambivalent engagement with systems theory, the Lockwood paper which she subjectively identified as the biggest influence on her work, a love of historical sociology and a deeply conflicted engagement with Bourdieu. These were the initial formative influences, with Bhaskar sitting alongside thinkers like Taylor and Frankfurt in the subsequent more philosophical phase of her work, before I think C.S. Peirce (whose work she loved in a way I don’t think was always completely apparent in the writing) was the last big systematic influence on her thought.

    #analyticalDualism #archer #bourdieu #DavidGlass #Gellner #GhassanHage #historicalSociology #Lakatos #lse #Watkins

  4. From The War Game de Peter Watkins, un faux docu sur le bombardement du UK par des missiles thermonucléaires (La Bombe en VF)
    En ce moment je pense bien évidemment beaucoup aux bombardements passés et présents. Allez voir ce film, ça dure 45 min et c'est hyper pertinent.
    #film #bomb #watkins

  5. On December 5, right-wing culture warriors instructed lawmakers attending the
    American Legislative Exchange Council’s ( #ALEC )
    "States and Nation Policy Summit"
    in Washington, D.C.,
    on the steps their states can take to upend policies and practices
    designed to help address the unfolding climate emergency and diversify workforces.

    CRC Advisors Senior Vice President 💥#Mike #Thompson 💥led the workshop
    “Battles Won, War Continues:
    The Left, ESG and State Policy,”
    according to materials obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

    In 2020, #Greg #Mueller and #Leonard #Leo, who played an integral role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges,
    founded CRC Advisors
    — the group Thompson represents
    — to “funnel big money and expertise across the conservative movement.”

    Although not as well known as Leo,
    Thompson, a member of ALEC’s private sector advisory board,
    is an important Christian Right operative
    who plays multiple leadership roles in campaigns and communications.

    Thompson’s public relations skills were on full display in his remarks
    demonizing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ),
    “a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy”
    in order to preserve the planet from further destruction.

    Thompson argued that large asset managers and banks that participate in GFANZ
    — including BlackRock, State Street, Wells Fargo, City Bank, Morgan Stanley, Chase, and Bank of America
    — are breaking antitrust law by utilizing sustainable investment strategies.

    Thompson provided an example of a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard
    filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and 10 other Republican attorneys general
    — all active members of the fossil-fuel backed "Republican Attorneys General Association" ( #RAGA )
    — alleging that the three companies violated antitrust law in colluding to raise electricity prices through their investments.

    “The states have filed an antitrust lawsuit and they detail in it all of the evidence where those three companies were colluding to keep coal in the ground and from coming to market,
    thus, driving up the price and violating antitrust law,”
    Thompson told workshop participants.

    The PR professional neglected to mention that CRC Advisors is a paid consultant of RAGA
    or that his boss Leo’s "Concord Fund" has funneled $3.5 million to the pay-to-play group this year
    and $20.3 million since the organization was founded in 2014, according to CMD’s analysis of its tax filings.

    #Sal #Nuzzo, the first workshop presenter, is executive director of
    "Consumers Defense",
    the sister organization of Consumers’ Research,
    which is a vice-chairman sponsor of ALEC’s summit and a driver of the right-wing’s manufactured crisis around “woke” capitalism.

    Nuzzo argued that reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 through renewable energy production would force Americans to cede
    “two-thirds of [the] U.S. electricity generation supply chain to the Communist Party of China.”

    He didn’t cite a source for this claim, nor does the group’s website provide any research substantiating it.

    Nuzzo also attempted to raise the alarm with lawmakers from states that depend on agriculture
    by claiming that the Left has “shifted their attacks and tactics into the agriculture space”
    in response to anti-ESG legislation passed over the last three legislative cycles
    and has moved to prevent farmers from getting access to loans.

    “The [Left’s] coordinated attacks on agriculture are occurring at all levels.
    They’re at the producer level.
    They’re at the distributor level.
    They’re at the consumption and sales level,”
    Nuzzo claimed.

    “If farming interests cannot get financing, [farmers] cannot operate.”

    #Paul #Watkins, founder of "Fusion Law" and both a senior legal fellow at "Consumers’ Research"
    and a special counsel with "Heritage Action", made a number of claims in his presentation
    based on his belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are discriminatory,
    and therefore illegal.

    As a member of ALEC’s "Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force", he is involved in drafting and voting on most of the group’s pro-fossil fuel policies alongside lawmakers and polluting industry lobbyists.
    exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/07/to

  6. 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗿, 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲

    Cole Palmer, Ollie Watkins en Phil Foden missen de komende duels van Engeland met Ierland en Finland in de Nations League. Ze zijn onvoldoende fit om uit te komen voor de finalist van het EK in Duitsland.

    rtl.nl/nieuws/sport/artikel/54

    #Engeland #Palmer #Watkins #Foden #NationsLeague

  7. 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗶𝗷 2-1 𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗲 '𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗼𝗶𝘁'

    DORTMUND (ANP/BELGA) - De Engelse spits Ollie Watkins zegt dat hij de bal nooit beter heeft geraakt dan bij zijn winnende treffer tegen Oranje (2-1). De 'man van de wedstrijd' in de halve finale van het EK gaf ook aan dat veel mensen, inclusief hijzelf, zijn doorslaggevende rol al hadden voorspeld. "Toen we...

    rtlnieuws.nl/sport/voetbal/art

    #Watkins #Oranje #mooierdanooit

  8. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗲

    Nadat Engeland ten koste van Nederland de finale van het Europees kampioenschap voetbal had bereikt, stipten buitenlandse media vooral de heldenrol van invaller Ollie Watkins aan. Hij maakte vlak voor tijd de winnende 2-1 voor de Three Lions, zoals de ploeg van bondscoach Gareth Southgate ook...

    rtlnieuws.nl/sport/voetbal/art

    #BuitenlandseMedia #Heldenrol #Watkins

  9. 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮

    Voetballer Ollie Watkins heeft zijn tot medio 2025 lopende contract bij Aston Villa tussentijds verlengd. De 27-jarige spits werd donderdag voor het eerst sinds vorig jaar maart opgeroepen voor de Engelse nationale ploeg. Aston Villa doet geen mededelingen over de duur van de nieuwe verbintenis.

    rtlnieuws.nl/sport/voetbal/art

    #Engelseinternational #Watkins #AstonVilla

  10. Dear Friends of Invisibility,

    I once read a book from
    #Watkins on #invisibility. A new age book, the main #technique involved being #silent in a cupboard/closet for long periods. That'll do it! Other ways:

    - Hide in plain site (make weird the new norm)
    - Go out as Knight/Night staker
    - Find out what is
    #inappropriate, do, wear, present

    🥷🕴️🏴‍☠️