Ashley Frawley

My weekly podcast is no longer interviews, but a more personal sit down with just me as I explain and explore current issues, theory, literature, and even music. This week, I looked at the politics of "weird".

Why do people revel in people getting fired while they're not at work? The control people give bosses in their lust to be the all seeing eye is quite fascinating . Sure, this dude hella sucked, but I'd hate to lose my job because of my political affiliations.

Ari Aster and Lena Dunham, both 39, are two of the most celebrated millennial directors. But based on their latest productions—“Eddington” and “Too Much”—only one is keeping up with the times. New episode of @againstthepod with @juliadyost patreon.com/posts/134594500

This week's pro-crypto legislation has been justified in the name of stopping Central Bank Digital Currencies. But state-sponsored crypto, far from a defense against surveillance and control, is simply another way to impose it, explains Fabio Vighi: compactmag.com/article/why-cr…

it was months in the making, but I'm back in @compactmag_ with a story I had to tell: the brief rise and even more rapid fall of the Post-Left compactmag.com/article/the-de…

"A path implies an orderly progression of time... Nick transforms the path in his mind into a pier.. A pier suggests arrivals, a pier is all future." @valerie_reads reviews a strange but brilliant novel that sums up our times in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/a-ques…

Lack of political organisation produced the past decade's "cancel culture" as the end goal of politics. Needless to say, it also did not produce any coherent political organisation (but it has backfired spectacularly). So we are condemned to repeat this stupidity forever. It's…

In conversation with @g_shullenberger, @AshleyAFrawley explains how eugenic thinking and practices emerge out of the crisis of liberalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Great new episode of Blame Theory feat. @g_shullenberger and @AshleyAFrawley podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

"To discuss the ending would be to ruin an excellent surprise. Suffice it to say that Clune is offering an original and strikingly contemporary metaphysics." Read Valerie Stivers's @valerie_reads review of Michael Clune's book in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/a-ques…

In the latest Blame Theory, I get @AshleyAFrawley to talk at length about one of her favorite topics: eugenics, why it won’t go away, and how that relates to the crisis of liberalism. substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

The time when governments could just ignore their citizens' concerns about immigration has ended. @darelmass explains how for @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/how-th…

Republicans are moving to ban central bank digital currencies. But the private digital currencies they’re promoting instead raise the same issues of surveillance and censorship, Fabio Vighi argues.

I wrote about Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ and its insights into 2025 as well as 2020: substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

"Maybe if we replaced one centralised currency with another but put 'stable' in the name, all problems will disappear!" --Trump admin, probably Read Fabio Vighi in @Compactmag_ on why crypto is not the saviour people imagine: compactmag.com/article/why-cr…

Bruising on Trump's hands apparently down to "frequent handshaking" and not a medical condition. I believe it, given that he's pioneered the handshake as a full contact sport.

Macron likes to lecture about democracy abroad while using finance laws and police raids to throttle opposition parties at home. Meanwhile, he relies on the far-right to keep his govt afloat. @CDevellennes exposes the hypocrisy: @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/how-fr…

Dystopia Descends on the West. Governments are using immigration policies to bypass the costs of social reproduction, deliberately favoring “ready-made” workers over investing in human development. linkedin.com/posts/andrew-w…