@moveincircles Easy, Camille Paglia. Sex, Art and American Culture. Read it after my first year at university in the early 90s. Saved me from taking post-strukturalist/post-modernist BS seriously.
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Alex Iversen
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Alex Iversen
@AlexIversen
Forhenværende medieviter. Bor i Bergen.
Bergen Katılım Nisan 2008
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If you used to believe all the official progressive ideas, and now don't, what was the first book you read that transformatively challenged your assumptions about how the world works?
Mine was probably Life At The Bottom, by Theodore Dalrymple
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@AlexIversen Takk, men kan ikke sende melding før du følger meg. Jeg følger deg allerede.
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Hei, @AlexIversen! Jeg skulle gjerne snakke om noen saker med deg. Ta kontakt hvis du ser denne meldingen.
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@jessesingal Very strange world. I am sitting in a bar in Bergen, Norway, finding this photo strangely endearing. Like a snapshot of old friends. I have listened to every single BarPid episode.
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Think about how much Gavin Newsom deflates far right narratives about the left.
“They hate white children and want to destroy their futures.”
Yes, good luck making that case in 2028.
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@katrosenfield @PirateWires I was waiting for it! And have been reloading FP and Unheard all day.
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of course I had to write about the Sydney Sweeney ad campaign for @PirateWires, which in addition to the jeans also seems to be selling a brand of unfussed female heterosexuality not seen since the 1990s or so
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Har skrevet om litt om akademisk transaktivisme i Aftenposten i dag.
aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni…
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@IonaItalia no, the woman to the left looks like a human female, the one to the right looks like a plastic doll. I wold prefer the human not the doll.
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In most cases, make up lightly enhances features and men wouldn't even be able to tell the difference if shown side-by-side photos. But some Gen Zers are so skilled that it does amount almost to fraud. Or perhaps you should just see it as two girlfriends for the price of one.
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Men, would you feel bamboozled?! Is makeup FRAUD?!
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Jeg har skrevet en kronikk i Aftenposten i morgen om den digitale utvandringen fra X til Bluesky - tilgjengelig på nett fra i kveld.
aftenposten.no/meninger/kroni…
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@oysteinbogen Americans have colonised my local bar in Bergen. My experience exactly. If your politics is boring - probably a good thing.
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Americans are often dumbstruck when I tell them how interested Europeans are in US politics. More interested than Americans themselves generally are, and much more interested in that than their own, boring political scene.
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@HPluckrose Helen is right - wokism's US roots stem from the Puritan tradition, not just atheism. Puritan moralism, sense of chosenness, & tendencies towards control outlived secularization, shaping America's cultural DNA, enabling wokism's rise regardless of religious identity.
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It does not argue that. It says America has high degrees of both. And atheism does not feature nearly as prominently as Christianity in cultural influence. People refer to this phenomenon as "The Great/Third Awokening" for a reason. The framework was there for woke to latch on to
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
@SwipeWright @HPluckrose The paragraph you’re highlighting here does not pass logical scrutiny. Arguing that right-wing religiosity and left-wing wokeism cannot coexist within a society is just not true. Better to do a genealogy of “wokeism” and its internal dynamics—and yes, atheism figures prominently.
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@christopherrufo @SwipeWright @HPluckrose Pluckrose is right - wokism's US roots stem from the Puritan tradition, not just atheism. Puritan moralism, sense of chosenness, & tendencies towards control outlived secularization, shaping America's cultural DNA, enabling wokism's rise regardless of religious identity.
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@SwipeWright @HPluckrose The paragraph you’re highlighting here does not pass logical scrutiny. Arguing that right-wing religiosity and left-wing wokeism cannot coexist within a society is just not true. Better to do a genealogy of “wokeism” and its internal dynamics—and yes, atheism figures prominently.
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Did the decline of religion cause wokeness?
No, argues @HPluckrose.
"When a country has the highest level of religiosity...and the highest degree of wokeism, we can be pretty confident that the cause of wokeism it is not the decline of religion."
realityslaststand.com/p/atheism-did-…
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@Tyler_A_Harper I think it is nerdy in a endearing way. No harm in this.
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People joke that he doesn’t make these lists and has some interns do it but I actually think it’s more likely that he spends a truly shocking amount of time on these lists. Like he blocks out two weeks of his calendar for this. Takes the annual lists seriously as death itself.
Barack Obama@BarackObama
With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I’ve been listening to lately – and it wouldn’t be my playlist if it didn’t include an eclectic mix. I hope you find something new to listen to!
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Nellie Bowles gave birth on Saturday. Yesterday she wrote 10000000 words for TGIF.
thefp.com/p/tgif-back-wi…
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Bildet av mannen, flagget, blodet og knyttneven er ikke bare et portrett av Donald Trump, det er en visjon av Amerika slik mange ønsker å se nasjonen - sterk, stolt og uredd. Skriver jeg i en lengre tekst i Minerva i dag.
minerva.no/mannen-flagget…
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@daniel_dsj2110 It’s a fantastic read. I think I had a reference to it in all my university papers during the 90s. I recently reread his critique of Foucault at the end of the book. It resonates even more today. I saw him give a lecture in Oslo, Norway in the late 80s.
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@HPluckrose You are the most clear minded defender of the liberal tradition I have come across Hellen. Still alive. You have a a supernatural ability to explain post modern theory. You do great work. It is very much appreciated. But I am curious why you bother with people like this?
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In today's "Determined to be mad even if I don't know why," we have first an accusation that I'd never write a book saying that postmodern ideas & queer theory were bad & then, on learning that I did, that I should not have done so.
Comrade Billy Bragg (Fraser Anderson) An Binary@FraserDAnderson
@HPluckrose @sqibkw @TziporahMalkah It gives credence to Queer Theory by treating them as credible adversaries you & Lindsay thought you were being clever but by arguing you make people believe that QT might have a grain of truth in it otherwise why would you address it? No one writes books attacking flat earthers!
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For the past two months we ran an experiment in @TheFP: searching essays looking back on thinkers who proved uncannily prescient about our current moment.
We called the series: The Prophets.
I loved the idea idea of the series. @EmilyYoffe was the editor, so that was enough for me. But I was bearish on the idea that readers would take to it.
How wrong I was.
thefp.com/p/the-lessons-…
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@IonaItalia Read the «Junk Bonds …» essay in Sex, Art … She saw it all coming. 30 years ago. She was a prophet.
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I'm all for intellectual diversity, but Andrea Dworkin? What in the world...?
thefp.com/p/the-prophets…
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