@jakesoll @zeithistoriker ahhh it is indeed and that would be super-interesting and I promise you that you will find no audience more interested and more able to chip in than right here on this platform, supplemented by a substack or two. Let's do it. Let me know your take …
@lionel_trolling Yeah … really liked that point. And all the way back to Napoleon III it has had this slightly farcical quality. Famously …
@jakesoll @zeithistoriker Well thanks for reading. Seriously. And I mean the call for criticism seriously too. These spaces and these boundaries are what we make of them.
@lionel_trolling "Wrestling" is often invoked in relation to Trump. Does his faschistoid politics, with its invocation of "Democratic party socialism" etc stand in relation to actual fascism as WWF does to actual martial arts?
@lionel_trolling "Does post-fascism sometimes resemble pre-fascism?" Love your play here. But it does involve some temporal acrobatics which means that drawing strong causal inferences from the identification of a movement as pre/post-fascist becomes problematic.
@lionel_trolling Totally agree with your point about the need to historically situate all our terms. Liberal-democracy is a particularly odd duck in this respect. A contradiction in terms viewed from 19th century as Schmitt made a career pointing out.
@lionel_trolling HI John thanks for engaging so thoughtfully. Take your point about modern American para-militarism, but I would, as you suggest, differentiate it in terms of the mode of war-making it references.
RT @postdiscipline: @adam_tooze Adam, your many readers may enjoy this from Montaigne, qtd. by Mercier and Sperber. It speaks to why lively…
@jakesoll @zeithistoriker We disagree there. You must be fortunate in the seminars you attend or unfortunate in your twitter feed.
@jakesoll @zeithistoriker Thanks. I'm not sure I find the discussion at this general level all that fruitful. But if you have specific concerns in relation to particular pieces, sources etc please raise them. I mean it. If you fear we are lowering the bar, let's not do that. Let's raise it.
And the distinction between academic/scholarly v. online life is overdone since in the domains of critical political economy/macrofinance the two intersect and complement each other so effectively. twitter.com/jakesoll/statu…
@zeithistoriker @jakesoll Setting that aside can I add to your exchange that the main draw for me about twitter-based intellectual life is that the speed, quality of the exchanges is high and of greater interest to me than that of most academic seminars. Plus it involves friends from all over the world.
RT @NatalieAmiri: Sie war 14 u besuchte die 8. Klasse. Sicherheitskräfte durchsuchten an ihrer Schule die Taschen der Schüler und sahen, da…
RT @Muzyar: #MarziehAmiri, another Iranian journalist joining her colleagues in the world largest prison. Her work was especially significa…
RT @AsiyaMiya: (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning stri…
Top Links #109 Cyprus war crimes, Saudi petrodollars and England's last war with France. on Chartbook adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-10…
@_ohbeener Neither color nor religion are the issue. It is the conservatism that is.
This isnt so much a flaming as a FIRE STORM … extraordinary eloquence, acuity and passion. twitter.com/QJames/status/…
@davidhuyssen I didnt. But it would have been fine if it had been because I REALLY like the spirit in which you made the comment. "provincialism, rigid periodization, subfield territorialism" = common enemies.
Putin's war on Ukraine has crashed the economic growth outlook for Poland: from 4% growth expected for 2023 in early 2022 to a mere 1% now forecast. We need to talk more about the economic shock to the wider Central and East European region. thedailyshot.com/2022/10/31/con… https://t.co/iFzN4dTAvo
@TroelsSkadhauge Another way in which Hegel was a Keynesian? @GeoffPMann
@zeithistoriker ahhhh now that is a really interesting line … fascinating …. ok. I get where you are headed now.
@zeithistoriker Yeah. I am sure that is true. But I would think of myself in that regard as VERY VERY VERY late to the party. Think of 1st generation bloggers, board posters, vox crew etc.
I could even have put it in therapeutic terms, Quinn. It has made me feel much saner. Less prone to depression, lonely etc. But I prefer the framing in terms of stimulation, production, desire. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
2/3 of the euro’s decline has been driven by the US dollar’s strength. thedailyshot.com/2022/10/31/con… @RobinBrooksIIF doesn't agree, right Robin? https://t.co/so6Haay93w
RT @roblucastaylor: I went with something truly chilling this year. https://t.co/r9yhCmss2p
Hi Quinn, I think I get what you mean, but "vampiric", "norm"? … to me it feels more pleasurable, stimulating, freeing & productive than those terms often imply. Though, of course, there was always an erotic charge in the vampiric thing. Perhaps we converge on "insatiable" 😉 twitter.com/zeithistoriker…
@davidhuyssen I actually agree with you on this David. I used to be an absolutist. But I'm coming round to a difference/repetition kinda framing.
@zeithistoriker Hi Quinn, I think I get what you mean, but "vampiric", "norm"? … to me it feels more pleasurable, stimulating, freeing & productive than those terms seem to imply. Though of course there was always an erotic charge in the vampiric thing. Perhaps we converge on "insatiable" 😉
How (slowly) US inflation expectations came down following the Volcker shock. @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2022/10/31/con… https://t.co/5KEckEjE9N
Smelting activities in Konawe, eastern Indonesia, where some of the country’s largest nickel reserves have been identified. Indonesia generates 38% of global refined supply of the metal © Andry Denisah/AFP via Getty Images ft.com/content/0990f6… https://t.co/k4nGPnDfZW
RT @sdonnan: Daunting drive along a 400-mile stretch of the drought-depleted Mississippi. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
"Biotech begins human trials with drug discovered using AI" – I mean it does make you pause, doesn't it! ft.com/content/0006ae… https://t.co/rfenRlbz8r
@Brad_Setser Thanks again Brad for compiling this excellent graph. I feel a Chartbook coming on!
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