This week we return to an always prescient question: What happened to the future?

What Lies Ahead?

https://jacobin.com/2023/01/slavoj-zizek-time-future-history-catastrophe-emancipation

Mark Fisher’s Specters of Scarcity

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism

‘Culture has lost the ability to grasp the present’

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mark-fisher-ghosts-retromania/

How the pandemic messed with our perception of time

https://www.vox.com/science/23823507/pandemic-memory-time-perception-lockdown

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Habemus Papam, Al Qaeda 🤝France, Trump Owned by Xi, Trump Owned by Houthis, Trump Owned by Bibi, Pakistan vs India, China 🤝 Russia, Ukraine's Very Bleak Strategic Assessment...

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Trump/Zelensky Meeting, Minerals Deal, US Arms Sales to Ukraine, Superhornet Down!, North Korean Troops in Kursk, Russian Gains in April

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The boys got together to take a look at the first 100 days of Trump's presidency. We talk about inept bumbling, cruelty, misery, war, and how it's still not fascism.

Jacobin: This Is America by Daniel Bessner

The Nation: The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals by Jeet Heer

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Trump Talks Truce, Iran Nuclear Deal, What's the Point of the EU?, Don't Bluff China, Sumy Missile Strike, Russia Rolls On

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A couple of weeks ago, Jason gave a talk to the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies about the history of American Socialism. Here is the audio of that talk...

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The boys (featuring the return of Mir) return to the slaughter-bench to finish discussing Terry Pinkard's article "The Spirit of History."

The Spirit of History by Terry Pinkard

https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-history-nobody-gave-a-deeper-answer-than-hegel

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Kursk Losses Breakdown, China China China, Israel Executes UN Worker and Paramedics, Ansar Allah Reaps Reaper Drones, Renewed Russian Offensive?

And so on...

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