williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025One of the best contemporary commentators on war and tech. This looks essential! 142
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025I'm speaking at this event, on infinite labour and the system of psychotic digital managerialism in HE. Based on a hopefully-forthcoming book! 032
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Such, an amazing, spiritual bloke!!! I hope it has a chapter about how he called for the murder of Salman Rushdie... #catstevens www.uncut.co.uk/news/yusuf-c...uncut.co.ukYusuf/Cat Stevens unveils his official autobiographyCat On The Road To Findout to be published in September 000
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Finishing a short book on infinite labour and digital managerialism... some thoughts on treadmills, in our new 'digital workhouses' ... 020
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November: 'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)... 031
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Writing something on 'Infinite Labour and Psychopathic Digital Managerialism'... I quite like this analogy... 010
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025(4) And everyone opposing him must shift again and all those supporting him claim he's a genius and this is what he meant to do ... Because Trump understands better than anyone that, today REALITY IS A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. We subscribe to the reality whose feed we prefer 000
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025(3) What he says is! it exists!!! But it only is until he says the opposite... Tariffs are here and have changed the post-1979 neo-liberal global system ... then tariffs are paused and negotiable and everyone who has banked, guessed, commentated and changed their mind is wrong .. 100
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025(2) Trump is the philosopher-king of 'hyporeality'. Where reality is simply what you can claim to be true. Trump is the positive thinking, postmodern Pere Ubu utilising the power of the divine to call the real into being... 100
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ... 121
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025#adolesence Cathy Come Home. Boys From the Blackstuff. Threads, Singing Detective ... Not much else up there with it 010
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I don't get out of swansea much! (no-one does...) I rely a lot on Andy to invite me to places :) 010
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Wow! That's really kind of you! :) 120
williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Trump's attack on Higher Education speech, DEI, etc. is just doing exactly what Curtis Yarvin suggested he do ... This is an assault on 'the Cathedral'. And it's still not yet April. ... From our 'Sharded Media' book... @andrewhoskins.bsky.social 072
