5LL #329: Gaza, Spectacle, Biden, Disasters, Historians
They Make a Wasteland and Call It Peace
Saree Makdisi, n+1
If the ceasefire lasts, it is at best a temporary and palliative solution.
A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
T.J. Clark, London Review of Books
If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?
Biden’s Final Humiliation
David Klion, The Baffler
The mass killing in Gaza is the one aspect of Biden’s legacy that can never be erased.
Donald Trump’s Disaster Capitalism
Richard Seymour, The New Statesman
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
The End of Resistance History
Charlotte E. Rosen, Protean
No matter its gloss of moral righteousness and global humanitarianism, Resistance history ultimately polices the boundaries of the American political imagination, propping up rather than interrogating the rotting skeleton of U.S. racial capitalism and imperialism from which U.S. fascism emerges and metastasizes on both sides of the aisle.