soashworth.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Chicago. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, in proportions tbd. He/Him.
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gonna trick both of you into talking to those people about my claim that mayor pete shares all of the actually electorally relevant attributes of mamdani
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Imagine Fanta doing a deal like this with DC. Toth, Nino, Alcala, Pike, ….
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Imagine Fanta doing a deal like this with DC. Toth, Nino, Alcala, Pike, ….
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lol you think those things matter more than poasting
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if only you had experience with the internet
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One of my principal implicit arguments in everything I write is that Rolling Stone was a terrible thing for both music and the culture at large, and Jann Wenner is one of the great villains of history.
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Adding a profanity
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i’m sure you’ll enjoy being a grandpa
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i think your baby is pregnant
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Mamdani holding a bag with Kieran’s picture on it
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Now that’s a book we need asap
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Was it beg the question?
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We’ve lost our culture.
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This is the best advertisement any book has ever had.
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Good time for congressional dems to be popularist.
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Let me point out that you can pioneer the zoomer-slang/noir hybrid voice.
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I’d say you got him earlier
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Really leaning into that @void.comind.network roast I see
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I literally only know who he is because of your posts
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come on now, we remember you praising a biopic
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No this is wonderful
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I’ll trade you synthetic control for hylomorphism.
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I’ll gladly let you philosophers keep the meaningless units.
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That said, insisting too much on fidelity to the man or the tradition in a reconstruction is a mistake. As is insisting on reconstruction as the only goal, rather than, eg, rejection and replacement.
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So, in the case at hand, historicist readings of Marx himself, understanding the tradition, and fresh reconstructions all strike me as useful for a contemporary political economist.
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That’s right. I’m a let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom guy about topics. That’s partly because I’m constantly surprised by the ways my thinking about my topics is sharpened by reading people doing quite different things.
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Who is “we” here?
My default is to read “we” as scholars, in which case your skeet contains its own answer. But you presumably have something else in mind.
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What are the odds there were two John Roemers in the Bay Area PLP in the late 60s?
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Hell yeah
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Excellent timing. I was looking through Robinson on Marx lat night; I’ll add Lange today.
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Why on earth would I do that
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Yes, that’s my tally on your posts as well
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I go back and forth between don’t read the book and read the book expecting to be annoyed. This was a don’t-read post.
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Wouldn't be the least promising abstract I saw as editor.
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tbf, the anthology follows a debate between Timothy Leary and an MIT professor with excerpts from Plato, Descartes, and Kant.
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