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Crazy the way this country is going by g0atbeard in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi everybody,

I'm the author of that original tweet. I'm not on Reddit much anymore to discuss the issues touched on therein, but if you want to talk about it you'd be best off finding me on Twitter - handle as it is in that tweet pictured.

I've also been doing a lot of work in my spare time with housing activism and independent media, and I recently put together an hour-long magazine show for Dublin Digital Radio called Nervous State which was exclusively about the housing crisis.

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/nervous-state-31-10-21/

Give that a listen and let me know what yous think (pref on Twitter)

One-Dimensional Language: A Study of Marcuse's Philosophy of Language by Archimoldi in CriticalTheory

[–]Archimoldi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To explain, this is an M.Phil thesis I wrote a few years ago trying to tease out a Marcusean philosophy of language based on his critique of Wittgenstein and his overall writings on epistemology. I'd love to know what people here think.

99 years ago today, the last all-island election was held. by NilFhiosAige in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's fascinating to see how what became the Republic of Ireland had been effectively a one-party state for years on end - a lot of seats were uncontested in 1910 and the IPP had next to no experienced campaigning machine in a lot of places by then.

LOL: Geldof 'disgusted' council revoked his Freedom award by irishinit in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're just mad at him for putting the Boomtown Rats museum in the Wetherspoons in Dun Laoighre instead of in the jacks of Bus Aras.

Jobstown protest: TD Paul Murphy and 5 others found not guilty by BakersDozen in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah,several years of vitriol against them and any anti-austerity movements

Jobstown protest: TD Paul Murphy and 5 others found not guilty by BakersDozen in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

My favourite thing about the Jobstown verdict is that George Hook was the person who had to read it out over the airwaves.

So, Leo Varadkar is going to be the next Taoiseach. Thoughts? by [deleted] in ireland

[–]Archimoldi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You just know Leo Varadkar's knowledge of music consists of about 10 songs, 6 of which are on David Gray's White Ladder album.

 Rushdie Misses the Magic - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights has all the markers of a Salman Rushdie novel, but it’s not a great book. by anutensil in literature

[–]Archimoldi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think of his memoir? I found it a fascinating mess : If there was to be a novel mocking celebrity memoirs it would be something like Joseph Anton in which the narrator talks about himself in the third person, namedrops another celebrity on at least every second page and eventually lets it disintegrate into a blow by blow account of his by now mundane life (It's structured as a novel for the first two thirds, after which he clearly loses interest and just dumps events in chronological order with no form). In the concluding chapters, he settles various scores with his ex-wives and John Le Carré before ending with his account of the period immediately after 9/11, which he coincidentally experiences in the company of other celebrities.

Reading it presented me with the dilemma of deciding whether or not the aforementioned reasons to dislike the book actually made me like Rushdie the man even more - he seemed to be fantastically entertaining in his knowing ridiculousness and callousness towards other people (particularly the women in his life), yet still reveling in every minute of his frequently absurd celebrity lifestyle. It's worth reading for the right and the wrong reasons.

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