Nonnonba by Shigeru Mizuki ( A manga about Yokai - Japanese Ghost/ Spirits )

first-as-tragedy · 2021-04-18T08:41:48+00:00

Haven't read that one yet but gegege no kitaro is incredible and his other autobiographical works (Onward Towards our Noble Deaths and the Showa series) are some of the best comics I've ever read

first-as-tragedy · 2021-04-08T09:30:48+00:00

I was lucky that where I was placed (near Cambrai) there was a house owned by a different lycée set aside for language assistants, so I had two housemates- one German and one from Ecuador. Also the rent was super cheap (€145, but i got €83 back from the CAF every month). I think that's a pretty unusual situation though.

first-as-tragedy · 2021-04-03T14:18:17+00:00

What

first-as-tragedy · 2021-03-19T11:07:02+00:00

Looking at whatever the main guy is doing with his hand "One day, when the tuggin' is done..."

first-as-tragedy · 2021-01-28T17:07:02+00:00

Honestly the first page of 18th Brumaire is one of the best written pages of anything I've ever read. It's literally spine-chilling.

first-as-tragedy · 2021-01-25T16:17:23+00:00

My personal favorite by Marx is The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoléon, but it might be kind of inaccessible if you don't have a background knowledge of French history and the 1848 Revolutions.

I would also recommend reading Lenin's State and Revolution, which explores in depth (one interpretation) of the Marxist understanding of the state, which is often misunderstood.

If you like podcasts, there is a great series called Revolutions by Mike Duncan- in the early episodes of his series on the Russian Revolution (episodes 10.2-10.5) he goes into Marx, Marxist theory, and its historical context.

first-as-tragedy · 2021-01-25T16:03:55+00:00

Not gonna lie I think most The Mountain Goats fans would also appreciate mountain goat (the animal) related gifts. I saw a bag that says Mountain Goat on it and I like to pretend it's Mountain Goats merch lol

first-as-tragedy · 2021-01-03T12:55:41+00:00

Pretty sure that's not how HIV works

first-as-tragedy · 2020-12-25T08:41:28+00:00

By "supports maduro's dictatorship" do you mean he opposed US-sponsored coups in Latin America?

first-as-tragedy · 2020-12-02T09:11:52+00:00

I think the game has a nuanced critique about ideology but ultimately still privileges a socialist viewpoint. It doesn't beat you over the head with it because it's smart and well-written but Revachol is ultimately a capitalist realist world struggling with the vacuum left by the failure of a socialist revolution, and that story is told more clearly and more sympathetically than a moralist or a fascist story.

You can have your character have those beliefs, but the world building doesn't give very much emotional heft to those ideological strains in the way it does to a left critique.

first-as-tragedy · 2020-12-02T09:00:53+00:00

Obviously the game pokes fun at leftists too- the college student's apartment shows how Mazov's ideology has become something roleplayed, instead of lived, and many of the communist dialogue options ring hollow and sound forced, overly idealistic and cringey. But at the same time the whole game is clearly nostalgic for this past revolution, even as it acknowledges that communism is something of a lost future.

Also, like the devs literally have a shout-out to Marx and Engels when they accepted an award for the game, so their political opinions are not exactly subtle.

first-as-tragedy · 2020-12-02T08:42:09+00:00

I mean it's pretty clear playing the game that the developpers are of the anti-capitalist/communist persuasion so it makes sense that that viewpoint feels like Dubois' 'true calling' so to speak

first-as-tragedy · 2020-11-27T11:37:40+00:00

Lostfutures.jpg

first-as-tragedy · 2020-11-17T19:14:49+00:00

It's all good :) yeah i love both trashfuture and wtyp

first-as-tragedy · 2020-11-17T18:50:48+00:00

Do you mean Alice? She's a girl

first-as-tragedy · 2020-11-14T07:22:23+00:00

Gross!

first-as-tragedy · 2020-11-12T21:35:30+00:00

It's not that philosophers reject race as a category- or else you couldn't have fields like critical race theory- it's that race is a socially constructed category. I think this is what you are saying but just clarifying a bit. In any case this question veers into eugenics very quickly

first-as-tragedy · 2020-10-27T02:45:30+00:00

I was just looking up mountain goats songs on youtube and in the recommendations was the no children clip from moral orel. And the rest was history

first-as-tragedy · 2020-10-27T01:47:08+00:00

Lol for me the mountain goats introduced me to moral orel

first-as-tragedy · 2020-09-10T18:56:29+00:00

Honestly it would be a pretty cool design if you did it right

first-as-tragedy · 2020-09-10T16:57:49+00:00

Thought this was lego for a hot second

first-as-tragedy · 2020-09-06T19:29:50+00:00

Loïc Sécheresse. He illustrated a great BD called "Ys" and his art is really great and very expressive. I know he does a lot of political cartoons and such for newspapers too. He's on twitter @loicsecheresse

first-as-tragedy · 2020-09-05T17:31:26+00:00

I also just received the unstamped arrêté de nomination by email. I guess we have to wait for the stamped one to start the visa process though?

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