Lorianism Sighting

The Bromenthal network is trying to make yet another minor Shitzek protégé from the same litter as Vighi into an influential public intellectual to mislead the kidz.

Bernard Harcourt is a charlatan who claimed there were corpse-laden mobile morgues surrounding Columbia's campus in 2020 and militated aggressively for the 'benevolent biopolitics' of forced vaccination. He’s absolutely preposterous.

He still doesn't admit or take responsibility for the criminality and tort of Columbia's actions.

Now he says Al Aqsa Flood is the one committing genocide, signing the slanderous Zionist faculty letter against the resistance and the students:

"There is no justification for raping and murdering ordinary citizens in front of their families, mutilating babies, decapitating people, using automatic weapons and grenades to hunt down and murder young people at a music festival celebrating peace, burning families alive, kidnapping and taking hostages (including vulnerable populations of elderly, people with disabilities, and young children), parading women hostages in front of chanting crowds, and proudly documenting these nightmarish scenes on social media. We are horrified that anyone would celebrate these monstrous attacks or, as some members of the Columbia faculty have done in a recent letter, try to “recontextualize” them as a “salvo,” as the "exercise of a right to resist" occupation, or as “military action.” We are astonished that anyone at Columbia would try to legitimize an organization that shares none of the University’s core values of democracy, human rights, or the rule of law. Any civilian loss of life during war is awful but, as colleagues on the faculty acknowledged in the letter mentioned above, the law of war clearly distinguishes between tragic but incidental civilian death and suffering, on one hand, and the deliberate targeting of civilians, on the other. We feel sorrow for all civilians who are killed or suffering in this war, including so many in Gaza. Yet whatever one thinks of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or of Israeli policies, Hamas’s genocidal massacre was an act of terror and cannot be justified, or its true purpose obscured with euphemisms and oblique references. We ask the entire University community to condemn the Hamas attack unambiguously."

Forgive me for scalding your eyes and mind with this.

To top it all off, it turned out he signed both faculty letters, in an attempt to implicate the student protestors themselves in this murderous mendacity. This fits his m.o., slippery, hyper-hedged, cagey, sleazy, metashitzekian, as one can discover listening or reading for two or three minutes. Even for the most unscrupulous opportunists, one would think this would cross a line. But in anticipation of ‘we don’t have to agree on every little thing,’ I’ll just add his academic ‘work’ proper is as bogus and white supremacist, albeit more comical. His fascist manifesto, Cooperation (too funny, but that’s the actual title), is a shitzekianly rambling, ancedotal, wet paper towel Heidegger for dummies, (he actually just states, this is going to be a rehash of Proudhon and Heidegger, but I want you to consider me innocent of all the white supremacist master race and misogynist diatribes) but with the extra expropriative white trick of presenting the malicious nonsense through the image of a traduced W. E. B. Dubois -- the communist 'reinterpreted' and 're-envisioned' as a bona fide fascist. It’s all but upfront: I can’t put Heidegger on the book cover, so I’m putting Dubois on and pretending he said the same shit.

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Openly stating his dilemma, he finds the con artist solution: find a black celebrity thinker of the past, voilà: simply pretend W. E. B. Dubois was not a communist and that he spewed this political sewage Harcourt wants to revive. Proleptically I will remark there is no honest engagement here, as many have done in the past, with Dubois’ Nietzschean strains or the elitism of the talented tenth or any of the well -travelled interpretative paths through his enormous influence. It is simply body snatching, like Molly Crabapple selling the face of Eric Garner to Vice as a celeb endoresement from the grave.

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(You will recognize the Cliffite state capitalism law of value trot garbage here as origin, but made so putrid and so covered with fuzzy fungus — illusion of free market, illusion of common, like kindergarten TED —it becomes pure windbag puffery whose virtue is it can’t be held responsible for itself. Unlike Cliff and posse to give them their due. This is Shitzek innovation.)

Pretty shocking shit, I’m sure you’ll agree. Not merely fraudulent and stupid, but profoundly malignly so.

W.E.B. Dubois’ actual text, on the future decline of racism consequent to democratization of production, and the growing demands of black (‘Negro’) workers:

The ultra creepy fascist ‘reinterpretation’ offered by Harcourt (no extensive quotation, all misleading purported paraphrase, gut the Dubois output, stuff it with diluted Nazi blithering) is the guy’s whole dirty little game. But the sheer unscholarliness, the errors of fact, the solecisms, the obvious ignorance of texts cited, is pushing new extremes (with his litterbros of Shitzek, Vighi, and Bewes). Even with his main lodestar, Foucault, he seems never to have read the texts. He comes out suddenly saying: what about a new benevolent biopolitics that actually protects the health of the citizenry!?? Uhm.

For those who haven’t bothered with Foucault, I applaud you, and fyi he of course didn’t question whether what he pretentiously and faux insightfully called ‘biopolitics’ actually protected public health. He assumed absolutely that was its purpose and indeed its effect. Now we have his degenerate spawn who have found a way to ‘reinterpret’ not only the forced jabs but the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza as a benevolent biopolitics, in contrast to ‘Hamas’’ terrorist genocidal racial hygiene.

Shitzekism delendus est.