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Marcuse to Horkheimer, 4/4/43, right after starting his gig at the OSS, on how they keep asking him to say Nazism has “Bolshevik tendencies” & he keeps saying nah, but that he is finding Nazi tendencies in the US lol

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Marcuse to Horkheimer, 4/4/43, right after starting his gig at the OSS, on how they keep asking him to say Nazism has “Bolshevik tendencies” & he keeps saying nah, but that he is finding Nazi tendencies in the US lol

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next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

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thomas piketty’s next project: a densely written 1,200 page volume based in long-term historical data that empirically demonstrates once and for all that water is indeed wet

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about to fall sleep before midnight au naturel for the first time in six months

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BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

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"Were treated like dogs. Theyre making us lay on the floor. Were here to help Waymo" Its ok grandpa. The war ended 40 years ago. Go to sleep

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new post up: transcriptions of the ISR’s big “reports on institute activities” from 1938 & 1944, + translation of Adorno’s ad for the ISR in ‘41, & re-translation of the ‘41 “debate on methods in the social sciences”! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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sending 4 emails

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getting a talking to mid walk because she wanted to go lick the dumpster

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new post up: transcriptions of the ISR’s big “reports on institute activities” from 1938 & 1944, + translation of Adorno’s ad for the ISR in ‘41, & re-translation of the ‘41 “debate on methods in the social sciences”! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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the golf “ohhhhhh” is sending me

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The protesters have turned on the Waymos

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If you can call learning a handful of protocols for how to be as illiterate in your field as possible a “language” then yeah sure

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i'm so bad at checking and posting on this site. anyways an update for you all - i had my thesis show! i graduated with my mfa and am now back out in the world.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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It's incredible that tear gas is illegal in international conflict but routinely, legally used in domestic conflict, i.e. by the police on their neighbors (geographically speaking) at home. It really goes to show that the home front is the front

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I couldn't attend, but luckily it was recorded: a seminar by Chris O'Kane on 'A Critical Theory of Social Domination' youtu.be/mR22IB5AyeQ?...

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god bless LA

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Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

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Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

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amazing delivery

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reader: Hey I'm making money off of the fascist state's illegal concentration camps. That seems wrong, is it wrong? 'ethicist': Well actually it's complicated

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kind of incredible how many people seem to have memory holed that "abolish the police" was the dominant slogan of May-June 2020 and that "defund the police" only really picked up steam as a more palatable replacement later in the summer

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“They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the attorneys can’t breathe”

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Pig Summit for Dirt & Bug Eaters

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ok just learned about the existence of Buckfast Tonic Wine how do I get some of that in Atlanta ASAP

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LAPD shot him with a stun grenade made by Defense Technology LLC, a subsidiary of Cadre Holdings aka Safariland. Cadre Holdings munitions are also used by the Israeli military against Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza. Their CEO is multimillionaire Warren Kanders of Greenwich, CT.

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here’s the guide I used to teach the Analects over the last few years, one of the texts from the history of world philosophy I love and expect to wrestle with as an enthusiastic amateur until I die open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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Congrats to all colleagues. Aminah Hasan-Birdwell's article on Ottobah Cugoano was particularly striking to me, as it highlights how our understanding of the history of political thought -including international thought- is limited by the neglect of thinkers who fall outside the traditional canon.

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exactly the kind of thing i hope a nuclear chief will say

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here’s the guide I used to teach the Analects over the last few years, one of the texts from the history of world philosophy I love and expect to wrestle with as an enthusiastic amateur until I die open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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When your multi hundred million dollar investment in the notorious pedophile president doesn’t have quite the return you were expecting

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finished a big translation project he he he

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THROW THAT SHIT OUT (THROW THAT SHIT OUT) THROW THAT SHIT OUT (THROW THAT SHIT OUT) open.spotify.com/track/7oNCvS...

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if they did the severance thing to me I imagine the other version of me would go through similar phases of trying to figure things out, like how for the first eleven or so years of my life I was constantly testing myself to check what kind of animal I was (for now still leaning towards human)

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lol

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how the fuck are people watching this & not seeing he’s arguing server farms contribute to a much bigger problem with water use that’s led to rolling decades-long droughts because US agribusiness would rather make the Pacific SW the surface of Mars than stop growing for infinite hamburgers

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hey. hey. r u gonna eat all that fried chicken. u need some help. i’m here to help.

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might be a real recluse now because the only 4 people I ever see have said they know that when they text about hanging out, they expect I’ll be 30+ minutes late to dinner because I had to run home from the woods & try to “freshen up” but still smell like the woods

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