Visions of Pink Police States

Dancing through heads at Bookforum. More on China's authoritarian trip from Reihan and Matt Frost. Meanwhile the New York Times continues its pretty excellent Russia coverage with a reminder that the wave of the future is a land of fascist-Orthodox street beatings and the Pussycat Dolls. Terry Eagleton looks to be the latest stuck in either/or terms. Thinking like this is a big mistake:

Politics today is largely a question of management and administration. Blake, by contrast, viewed the political as inseparable from art, ethics, sexuality and the imagination. It was about the emancipation of desire, not its manipulation. Desire for him was an infinite delight, and his whole project was to rescue it from the repressive regime of priests and kings.