richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The trend itself might be declining, but the generations-long anticommunist propaganda of the American state is finally decisively broken. Let me know what you think! 010
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We got Chinamaxxing regardless, because it turned out China could offshore its propaganda to the US’s own spectacle machine (the first example of China-to-America reshoreing?) 110
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We also talked about Chinese soft power. It has long been pretty inept, such as Wolf Warrior propaganda films that might work domestically, but are at best laughable overseas. 110
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our conversation went much deeper than commentary on Chinese memes, taking in the history of the Chinese internet, from its early utopian moments to the hemisphere-scale computing stack that exists now. That includes the now post-mining town of Fuxin, now home to thousands of Chinese influencers. 110
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tianyu is not just a writer on culture, he’s a PhD student in information technology and global liberalism in the late 20th century – and therefore the perfect guide to this topic. 120
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I want to know if we can actually see China clearly from the West. Or is the best we can do what @kaiserkuo.bsky.social recommends: that we work out the optical properties of the lens we are looking at China through? 110
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Since I went to China in April, I’ve been puzzling over the perils of what I call the ‘gawp-zone’: Walk around Shanghai, or any major city, and you will be overwhelmed by the skylines, the infrastructure, the sense of a country moving very fast. This series asks what lies beyond that rush. 110
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do Your Own Research is back! For my second series, I’m going deep on China: its history, politics, culture, and technology My first guest of many is Tianyu Fang, one of the writers behind Chaoyang Trap an excellent newsletter about the Chinese internet. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-H1...youtube.comSecrets of the Chinese Internet | Richard Hames meets Tianyu FangYouTube video by Novara Media 131
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026looking forward to the invention of a new form of media that lets people bemoan "no one scrolls anymore" 000
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 30/08/2026it's been longer since the great financial crisis than the GFC was from the fall of the berlin wall 000
Reposted by @richardhames.bsky.socialThe State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Amazing month on The State Between Us. A big thanks to @richardhames.bsky.social and @marcusrediker.bsky.social as well as the antifash rock band Widows of the Night for sharing your work and wisdom with us. Subscribe at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs for much more!youtube.comGreat month on The State Between Us #history #future #latinamerica #podcastclips #podcastYouTube video by The State Between Us 042
Reposted by @richardhames.bsky.socialThe State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Direct link to my interview on collapse and critical collapsology with @richardhames.bsky.social here! Enjoy and share with your comrades and enemies alike! If we're goin' down, we're all goin' down together!patreon.com31. Collapse and the Communist Core w/ Richard Hames of Novara Media | The State Between UsStepping away for a moment from his Novara Media series, Do Your Own Research, Richard Hames joins Fritz to explain the study of "Critical C 001
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 29/01/2025No bus comes for ages and then three buses come at once - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 000
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 26/01/2025With Deepseek it feels like we're out of the AI bubble phase and into the foam phase - LLMs everywhere 020
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 14/01/2025What do you see as the historical forces, if any, pushing against the homogenisation of labour now? 100
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Isn't it the question of the Marxist category of 'abstract labour' to uncover the social process that homogenises it? If it is no longer homogeneous, I think that's an important development 210
richardhames.bsky.social @richardhames.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I think we'll look back on the LA fires as the point at which geoengineering started to be seriously considered by many people with actual power 252
