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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
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Street art in Ulaanbaatar. An outline of Mongolia, and autotranslation says: “Do we have humanity? We are human.”

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The market is just the truth of our inner selves

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Running thread of songs that I believe are perfect First entry

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#annotation

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CISNU propaganda from June 1972. See my translation in the image's alt text.

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Untitled (Think/flag) by William N. Copley (1967) #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

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students asked for summer book club recommendations, examples of things they're interested in include on the road and kafka's metamorphosis, anything you loved at 16 or 17 that you'd recommend?

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Is there a reason headlights don't just come on when the car is turned on and stay on until it's turned off? I ask this as a bicyclist who would love it if cars could just always have their headlights on.

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"Content isn’t some subject matter that is especially interesting or information or but a way of thinking about the world: that everything exists only to be viewed within an algorithmically controlled environment."

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here are 3000 words about MrBeast thought robhorning.substack.com/p/bananas-ar...

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What publishers in the US would be interested in manuscripts about the past and future of left wing political thought aimed *not* at an academic audience? On the basis of my bookshelf we are talking about Haymarket, Verso, maybe Yale among the UPs? Feels like there must be more?

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Jacques Rancière once looked angrily at me specifically because while he was being introduced I had to get up and leave this crowded bookstore basement where he was going to be speaking.

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Picture of Indian Army troops in China alongside German Imperial troops. Never really considered it but makes sense the IA formed a primary contingent of the Eight Nation Alliance.

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And this closing reflection I think also is right -- refusal of race as a category is in fact a refusal of (colonial) history rather than of pseudoscience.

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"The most disturbing example of Buffonian biopolitics was a plan by the Abbé Sieyès to create ‘a species between men and animals, a species capable of serving man for consumption and production’. These ‘new races of anthropomorphic monkeys’ would serve as the ‘slaves’ of modern citizens."

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What a comeback by the Edmonton Oilers holy fuck

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cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment

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