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wuglum

Member since Dec 11, 2016 at 8:32 AM

Writing at https://www.imzy.com/wuglums_blog.

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  • wuglum's blog
    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 15 at 2:31 AM

    Kindness

    Mark Fisher's passing has made me think about socialist morality. A disclaimer: the argument here impinges on me as much as anyone else. First, I want to oppose the argument that 'MF did uncountable damage to the mental health of a lot of women, LGBT folk...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 14 at 5:25 PMLocked

    Writing worries

    I'm so stuck at what to write about. Different thoughts seem to be clattering around in my head. What I know is: when I look at the page too much, or when I'm too conscious of the page, I seem unable to do it. That must be a sort of anxiety about writing,...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 13 at 7:33 AM

    Democracy

    If the socialist left wants to make its case and win arguments, it has to present its own vision of democracy. Democracy is a thing which people across the political spectrum claim to support, save for a few voices on the radical right. In most cases thos...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 13 at 7:00 AM

    Physical culture and socialism

    One of Mao's first pieces of writing was A Study of Physical Culture. There he emphasised the importance of physical exercise for China's modernisation. Sport was a great part of the Cultural Revolution, as can be seen in these enchanting photographs: htt...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 08 at 6:15 PM

    Down with reactionary sticklers

    Bill Walsh takes time aside in his (otherwise good) book Lapsing into a Comma to whinge about trans women and the apparent violence their gender identity is doing to language. Liz Truss's shameless use of a racial slur as prop for wordplay in the renowned...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 06 at 3:39 AM

    A review, of sorts

    My review (which is not really a review) of Juliet Jacques' Trans: A Memoir: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1687475070?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 05 at 5:44 PM

    The social imagination

    Just what kind of a radical was Marx? There are in his work no detailed designs for the future. There are a few statements that amount to moral principles. For example, from the Communist Manifesto: 'In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogJan 01 at 6:42 AM

    Walter Benjamin Syndrome

    There's no automatic, linear progress in trans science. It has to be fought for. Joanne Meyerowitz's How Sex Changed documents this struggle; it's filled with fascinating stories of trans individuals and doctors who pushed against orthodoxy to make physic...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogDec 23, 2016 at 6:18 PM

    A left sociobiology?

    Marx's revolutionary vision was founded on a philosophical anthropology of the mode of life proper to the human being. As much as Marx was a 'scientific socialist' concerned to uncover the immanent development of communism within capitalism itself, his po...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogDec 21, 2016 at 6:03 PM

    The Exorcist as science fiction

    I love the moment in The Exorcist when Regan, the girl, says to the astronaut attending a party at her house, 'you're gonna die up there'. If the Apollo missions were intended as a symbol in the struggle for American geopolitical primacy, a mark of econom...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogDec 19, 2016 at 5:47 PM

    How I came out

    I'm a transsexual woman. I accepted this after watching a number of horror films. Having never liked the genre as a child - apart from Buffy, which doesn't really count - I took some time out from reading to watch a whole lot of them over a month or so. S...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogDec 19, 2016 at 8:33 AM

    Dystopia

    I loved dystopian fiction when I was younger. The stories I gravitated towards were often of nonconforming individuals against the machine, not collective struggle: THX 1138, Brazil, The Truman Show, Silent Running, Zamyatin's We. Later, when I became int...
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    wuglum's blogwuglum's blogDec 15, 2016 at 4:38 AM

    Civilisation

    People on the communist left talk about the end of civilisation quite a lot nowadays. It's often because of climate change. The old slogan 'socialism or barbarism' is said to be more relevant than ever. My interpretation of this slogan is Benjaminian: civ...
  • Wordsmith
    WordsmithWordsmithDec 13, 2016 at 5:32 AM

    New word: maundering

    What the title says. I love this word.
  • Introductions
    IntroductionsIntroductionsDec 11, 2016 at 8:35 AM

    Hello It's Me

    Hey there, I love books, I thought I'd check out this site - looks more fun than twitter. I like science fiction and history. I'm on the left.
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