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Harney & Moten saying it loudly

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I should be working on Hebrew Lexicography but I'm not

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starting to think I might be nocturnal & having to pretend to be otherwise is the number one cause of all my personal psychological & physical problems

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porcupine in the road stanced up and showed its quills to me and the car in the other lane before waddling off. beast mode literally

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Yeah time for some more reaching across the aisle

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everybody go read Dermot Moran on Eriugena yesterday

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counterpoint: this is policing

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Country girls make do, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

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this has been the DNC’s operative assumption every new election cycle for the last 10 years and it has been wrong every time

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Found the inspiration for the Cybertruck. From Fritz Lang’s “Hangmen Also Die”, 1943.

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to be fair it is true—it is harder for liberals to have a nice brunch while ICE is doing raids in nearby neighborhoods than it would be with Kamala’s expansion of CBP into an independent branch of the US armed forces to permanently occupy the US-Mexico border like a colonial invasion force

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don’t get how Foucault isn’t seen as a critic of the whole premise of sovereignty studies when his so-called “incitement to cut off the head of the king” is a crit of the fact modern political thought can’t stop inciting this, pretending to be the bourgeois revolution overthrowing sovereignty, etc

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lucy makes compelling new case for running at the football again, and charlie brown would do well to learn from it

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hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it. bsky.app/profile/jour...

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My enemies are succeeding

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What twist??

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oh great we also have to deal with entities from the mirror dimension. get in line

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lol as promised 3 months ago: here’s 3 translations (a letter from Marcuse, one from Horkheimer, one reply from Ernst Bloch) & some provisional notes on the method for Marcuse’s planned “Reader” on the history of materialism as heresy / the heretic as materialist link below

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lol as promised 3 months ago: here’s 3 translations (a letter from Marcuse, one from Horkheimer, one reply from Ernst Bloch) & some provisional notes on the method for Marcuse’s planned “Reader” on the history of materialism as heresy / the heretic as materialist link below

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no one believes me when I say Deleuze was a big fan of Negative Dialectics, but it’s right there at the crux of the critique of capitalism in the Geophilosophy chapter of “What is Philosophy?” (pp. 99-100)

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The letter from Benjamin to Max Rychner referenced in his scathing letter to Scholem in response to Scholem's confusion a B's critique of the current crop of French writers' bourgeois politics, nothing that there's nothing new there (B had sent a copy of this letter to S when it was written in 32)

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no one believes me when I say Deleuze was a big fan of Negative Dialectics, but it’s right there at the crux of the critique of capitalism in the Geophilosophy chapter of “What is Philosophy?” (pp. 99-100)

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French theory reads the Frankfurt School Foucault: Yes… the enlightenment *&* sociology—very ambivalent… Deleuze: Sure I’m doing Negative Dialectics. Habermas got lost after debate club & ended up in philosophy. Derrida: *Guy who’s only read Heidegger* Benjamin is giving me major Heidegger vibes

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new bestie just dropped meet Lulu the 1.5 year old rescue pug

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i’m. so. shlimy. i’m. so. grimy. open.spotify.com/track/4qYVsA...

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OH THE JOYS OF ROLLING IN FILTH, IN COATING ONESELF IN RARE ODORS, LIQUIDS OF MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN

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Out now (print and open access!): Jan Baedke’s Element on “The Organism” at @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It discusses philosophical, historical and social dimensions of the organism concept. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci

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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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