Weekend Linkages: May Day Edition

May 1, 2022

...Billy Bragg sings the Internationale William Morris How I Became a Socialist Vision zero is going well here in LA Riding a bike in American should not be this dangerous Texas Plans to Punish Companies That Move Away From Fossil Fuels Buckets and Hydroponic Baskets for Growing Summer Veggies I’m for more caftans The right kind of worker (a podcast episode for your May Day)...

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A Crisis of the Real: A Levitating Saints and a French Theory Remix

Mr. Homegrown

March 27, 2025

Reviews, Thoughtstylings

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...e. Let’s fly again. If this book floats your boat you’ll enjoy my favorite podcast Weird Studies which turned me on to Eire’s work. I kind of wish this was real and not just a meme. Theory Bound As an example of just how disjointed my morning reading can be, I also just finished Fredric Jameson’s book The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present, a transcription of a lecture series delivered via Zoom during the pandemic. Jameson in l...

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Weekend Linkages: Spring is Here According to the Fig Tree

Mr. Homegrown

March 13, 2022

Saturday Linkages

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...The battle of Bir Tawil Why A Small-Scale Artist Is Rebuilding Tiny Versions Of Iconic LA Buildings, Including This Eastside Burrito Joint Neutra house for sale in Redlands St Mary’s, Mundon, Essex The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky A podcast about the very strange Alexandr Dugin: Russia’s State Philosopher...

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The Fertile Ground of Bewliderment

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2017

Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

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...[Editors note 2022: I’ve come to see Eisenstein’s thinking as deeply flawed listen to this podcast for what I agree are many of the problems with his work]...

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Watch

Mr. Homegrown

February 16, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...e internet. On the one hand I’m thankful for the platform of this blog and podcast as well as instant access to a whole world of useful how-to information and videos. But, the other day while doing an image search for William Blake’s Urizen, I landed on a hateful anti-Semitic website. Grossed out, I retreated to the computer-free early twentieth century technology of my garage workshop where the Butlerian Jihad backstory of Frank Herbert’s novel D...

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