RJ5000

“In the meantime, brutal disappointment is our fate, as so much writing garlanded with praise upon publication stands revealed as shockingly feeble, even venal, confirming that our time had been darkening for decades before Donald Trump took power.” — Pankaj Mishra harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

Part II of our symposium on Iran and oil is now up. This one featuring a bravura essay by Kate Mackenzie on the effect on petrostates and oil producers of high oil prices, and Kevin Cashman and Patrick Bigger on "The Omnicidal Fossil Empire" break-down.org/oil-war-ii

Richard Seymour (@leninology) on responses to the Iran war: 'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and, more recently, Ukraine.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Wrote about Frederick Wiseman for @NewLeftReview newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

Watching Israeli impunity and selfishness and US fecklessness and corruption begin to destroy the world as we knew it in real time is unimaginable. The ones who started this war are clearly people who lost all faith in the future, in their own and in our humanity. God help us.

beautiful constructivist painting

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

"To achieve needed reductions in demand, oil prices might have to rise far above $200 a barrel, which would suppress demand for oil both directly and also indirectly, via the macroeconomic impacts of higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment."

"Distanced from the lifeworld out of which any serious challenge to capitalism could emerge, it became difficult for Habermas to move beyond liberalism and the barbarism that it, in its day-to-day function, could inflict on the world." (@BaptisteOduor) artreview.com/the-many-separ…

@BurialMagazine fwiw if you look into the first collection you can see he was early on much. ahead of most on ackerman for example

@RJ5000 maybe so. but for a critic i still think it’s pretty important

hamrah writes real real nice but i dunno if his taste is as evolved as many of you say. like kael in that way?

Less concerned with when introspection began than when it ended

Ali Larijani has yet to post about Habermas

My book is out soon. Let me know if you want me to come speak about it or write about it: historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/so…

Straight out of Greek myth — cursed by a hideously enormous skull but not a thought inside it.

immortal clip and the Oscars haven’t even started yet

“Marco Rubio’s encomiums to white Western civilization, and Hegseth’s pornographic fantasies of ‘death and destruction from the sky all day long,’ proclaim today a sadistic urge to re-impose the racial hierarchies of the nineteenth century.” —Pankaj Mishra go.nybooks.com/3PhRA9t

The author of Crude Capitalism, Adam Hanieh, on the economic and geopolitical implications of the war on Iran