Daniel Zamora Vargas
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Assistant professor @ULBruxelles Work on intellectual history, inequality, poverty and economic thought.
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Couldn’t resist to be a bit less enthusiastic about Glazer’s Zone of Interest. A movie formally captivating but displaying a terrible kind of politics undermining the whole movie.
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An incredible debate where Darmanin, Macron's Minister of the Interior tells Marine Le Pen she is to "soft" on Islam. Le Pen, quite stunned, then defends french citizens right to religious freedom. Against the government...
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Best definition of ‘state capacity’ I’ve seen lately.
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Amartya Sen at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1958.
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In 1927, Piero Sraffa left Italy for good out of fear of the fascists and became a lecturer in Cambridge. That same year, he was invited by Keynes to give a lecture on the corporative state.His concluding remarks are devastating on liberal's fantasies about a return to normalcy.
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1/To add some context, the minister mocks her because she seems too "soft" compared with other members of her own party. Which is, to say the least, very silly. But his whole line of argument during the debate was to prove he was stronger on Islamism than her. Which is scary
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In case there is an audience for pictures of philosophers riding a donkey. Here is Foucault.
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Macron calls to vote against Marine Le Pen. But his whole strategy over the last 2 years was to legitimate all the topics of the extreme right and hoping for a second round against her. The result of his strategy is that she is totally normalized and could now win.
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Max Weber was quite straightforward on which was the decisive intellectual dilemma of his time.
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The « AmaZen » mindful room video has been deleted. But I recorded it because it’s awesome.
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The marvel of the price system has allocated half of the GDP of a country like Somalia to create a “sphere”
U2 opened the $2.3 billion Las Vegas Sphere last night and the visuals are incredible 🤯
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We haven’t settle on the title yet but we are almost there. Totally excited to get this one out ! UBI was a great entry point to connect a lot of stuff together. From the decline of development in the Global South to the rise of philanthropy in among tech-barons.
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This Foucault monopoly looks somehow egalitarian
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“Immersion” has truly become the aesthetic of our times. There is nothing to learn anymore, just things to “experience”. It’s a truly horrendous development.
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“It should come as no surprise that the idea of a basic income has thrived in an era when being free denotes essentially to be free in the market rather than from the market”
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Macron taking some liberties with the french motto. Changing “égalité” by “égalité des chances”. Neoliberalism in a nutshell.
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Kafka's diary the day he learned World War I had begun. He looks quite relaxed.
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My piece on Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax is just out. The piece shows how he hollowed out preexisting notions of equality from hierarchies of needs or notions of duty and replaced them with a monetary and market-friendly conception of poverty.
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I've been drafting a reading list for my 'Neoliberalism' class. Any suggestions?
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I’m extremely excited this beauty is coming out next month ! We wrote a long foreword to the volume about Adolph and Walter’s work and intellectual trajectory.
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Unpopular opinion: A People’s History of the United States is a terrible book.
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When a search warrant at the vice-president of the European Parliament’s house looks like an episode of Narcos.
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In 1951, C. Wright Mills published White Collar. And -sadly? - it hasn't aged at all. We seem to be all white collars now: "morally defenseless as individuals and politically impotent as a group".
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3/ So there is a degree of irony in how he tells it that is not fully grasped by the scene. But at the same time it does also illustrates perfectly the message he wanted to pass during the whole debate: Le Pen is not serious about Islamism, but I'am.
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This was very good. A criticism of work without being anti work, a take on modernization without being anti modern, a tribute to Ozu without being a pastiche.
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This is how the 80s felt politically
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Poverty Rate since the 80s when you take China a part. Not a graph you'll find in Pinker's propaganda:
“Neoliberal is happy when line goes up” is an oversimplification of my view. Sometimes I’m happy when line goes down.
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Quite impressive graph about life expectancy in the US by Race and education. While the gap between Whites and Blacks is narrowing, the one between those who have a BA and those who not is dramatically increasing.
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2/ See the account in le Monde for example (not an anti-Macron journal by any standards):
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The last stage of communism
A definitely different type of flood
A river of red wine flows through São Lourenco do Bairro in Portugal when the local distillery's 2.2 million liter tanks burst
Anadia Fire Department blocked the flood diverting it away from the river into a field
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Marc Bloch in 1915 near Verdun. He was shot by the Gestapo 80 years ago.
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Marxism in the second half of the twentieth century in a nutshell.
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I wonder why Twitter doesn’t also make our life easier and put some indications like : « Rupert Murdoch affiliated media » or « Jeff Bezos affiliated media »
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In fact "populism" has replaced "totalitarianism" as the most influential and perhaps useless concept to grasp the present. The former was designed to think the world in the terms of cold war liberalism and the latter to depict social unrest mainly as a threat to democracy.
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The Congolese anti-colonial leader Patrice Lumumba admiring Guernica at the 1956 Picasso show in Brussels at
@BozarBrussels
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Today even insurrections are Hayekian spontaneous orders: decentralised, without any serious plan, and like the price system - without the slightest idea of what happens next.
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When India's most famous planner asked the US for advice, they sent him Milton Friedman.
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I’ve always hated Dali. For purely aesthetic reasons. But his politics were obviously even worse. Which was not an easy task.
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1/ Je ne partage pas toute la ligne argumentative du fameux texte de Beaud et Noiriel dans le dernier Diplo. Cependant, les réponses parfois unilatérales dont il a été l'objet ont tendance a masquer la diversité des travaux qui existent sur la question, y compris outre-atlantique
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Poverty as Ideology is truly an excellent book on the vast industry of poverty studies and its quite narrow understanding of the problem. The triumph of 'poverty alleviation' in development economics was actually the end of development as political program.
@AndrewM_Fischer
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While no human being will be able to buy this book (despite relentless efforts to make it cheaper) it’s still quite nice to see the object itself ! And I’m super happy about the terrific collection of scholars we put together !
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Reading economics a hundred years ago was way more fun than anything we can read today.
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I have to say I'm quite excited about this paragraph in my Catalyst piece on France. Before writing it, I knew I had to put this somewhere.
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Barbara Wootton on the idea of “consumer sovereignty”. You can only buy what’s available to buy.
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Would it be fair to say that liberal democracy only ‘worked’ thanks to things that were totally stranger to its intellectual tradition: mass parties, unions, transactional politics etc. And that there a lack of research about how it actually functioned in the postwar period?
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Reminds me of this famous quote from Galbraith - America is big cars in crumbling cities
Four blocks from my place. Every time there's a major downpour, this happens, sometimes with lethal results. Maybe the fourth time in as many years. Meanwhile they keep building expensive apartments there. But no effort to prevent this kind of flooding.
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Looking at this US pamphlet, it’s quite clear that 1945 was quite different from 1946
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Macron is no centrist. He was the most right wing president of the 5th Republic. He created the conditions for the extreme right to be able to win the presidential election.
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Heidegger letter to Marcuse: « "[In 1933] I expected from National Socialism a spiritual renewal of life in its entirety, a reconciliation of social antagonisms and a deliverance of western Dasein from the dangers of communism.. »
Herbert Marcuse visited his ex-teacher Martin Heidegger in his Black Forest hut in 1947. here's what HM wrote to MH (8/28/47):
"Many of us have long awaited a statement from you, a statement that would clearly and finally free you from...identification [with the Nazi regime]" 1/
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In France 3,5% of the population owns 50% of the apartments to rent
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After months speaking about identity, “cultural insecurity”, “Islamism” in universities Macron now defines himself as a “Marxist” willing to democratise capitalism. 🤯
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1/ A 150 years ago exactly began the Commune de Paris. One of the most significant event in the history of human emancipation. And perhaps the earliest one for which we have so many photographs. Here is a barricade with the red flag Place de la Concorde.
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In 1930, Ernst Jünger gives perhaps the best description of the centrality of the war economy for modernity. WWI was the first event in which society as a whole was organised for the sole purpose of the war. Nothing escapes the 'total mobilization'.
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My take on the politics of the great resignation. Millions are leaving their job. But in contrast to the seventies, we live a generalized “exit” rather than the traditional “voice” of organized labor. Class conflict is back, but without the working class.
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Milton Friedman and Arnold Schwarzenegger truly looks like a reboot of Twins with Danny De Vito.
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Postmodernism: Julio Iglesias in his private jet eating KFC with a Château Lafite Rothschild
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Final words of Foucault’s last lesson at the College de France - a few months before his death.
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The alternative for the french people is simple: vote for Le Pen or vote for what created a favourable environment for Le Pen’s ideas. It’s a choice between an evil and the cause of that evil.
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Just finished a review of Christopher Clark's gripping Revolutionary Spring. Makes a great case for taking 1848 as the most interesting point of comparison for our present. Hopefully soon online !
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In fact, 1848 rather than the 30s would be a useful comparison with our times. An era of uprisings but without any clear direction and before mass politics. Rather than being the culmination of a certain kind of politics, it was the starting point of something radically new.
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The core of socialist politics is not about equal opportunity. It's not about giving each worker's child the same chance as a boss's child of becoming rich. It's about transforming the power relations between the worker and the boss.
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Welfare for Markets is now out !
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"Experiences" are now everywhere. You can be "immersed" in Van Gogh or in someone else's life through the proliferation of memoirs. This is what Anna Kornbluh called a broader "refusal of mediation" in favour of "immediacy"
@jacobin
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Jean Piaget was the GOAT
Guys really live in apartments like this
and don't see any issue
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One more chapter to go for our (Anton and myself) UBI book.
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Foucault when he was teaching in Tunisia in the late sixties.
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Foucault didn't "won the right" or inaugurated "relativism". But he did anticipated the end "of the age of revolution”, opening an era where transforming oneself became the most popular conception of social change
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On both sides of the socialist calculation debate was, generally, the assumption that needs are already given. The question being about the means to satisfy them. What they missed is the debate about the different modalities through which needs are actually constituted.
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Excellent point made by Dylan Riley in the last
@NewLeftReview
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Fukuyama's definition of a 'liberal state' is quite wild. "It doesn't kill people; it doesn't invade neighbours". Where does drone strikes and Irak fit into this theory?
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The piece I wrote for the last issue of Tribune is now without paywall ! I try to argue that through the 20th century, our idea of equality was narrowly reduced to income redistribution, and 'hollowed out' from any political content.
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The Last Man Takes LSD
@VersoBooks
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@MitchellMDean
in Amsterdam 5 years ago and we couldn’t stop discussing and writing since. And I couldn’t be more happy with the result !
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The war economy is back but without the developmental state. The 'end of neoliberalism' means just the expansion of the contracting state.
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It’s official our book is now of « general interest »
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