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lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (last year) and "Fake Work" (next year);cooker of all vegetables; NY-based Marxist humorist.
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If this were at CUNY it would read, "Professor accused of using nearly $60.00 in school funds for vacations."

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I've gotten positive responses from followers for my decision to post only about personal liberties and free markets. Seems like there's a real hunger for this content. Here's a pic of Friedrich Hayek.

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Attention new followers: from today on, I'll only be posting about personal liberties and free markets. If you're interested in cat content, I'm still on the other site @marxforcats. Here's a pic of Milton Friedman.

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Anyone want to have a mocktail in Honolulu tonight? Heading out to give a lecture and a workshop at U Hawaii.

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Grad School memories. Can anyone remember or relate?

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I'm way too old. Someone put me in an exhibit about fin-de-siecle Brooklyn and ship me off to MoMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/r...

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Liberal hot-take: foul language will get us nowhere. Where's the spirit of compromise on which this country was founded?

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follow me for live commentary on White Lotus's opening music and wallpaper montage

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What a great way to remember one of my teachers, Lauren Berlant. Here we are together, the two feline-themed authors, at the @dukepress.bsky.social booth set up at the College Art Association in NYC this weekend.

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Friendly reminder that philosophers who study fascism and authoritarianism aren't always the best analysts of American politics.

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Things are getting fake. Coming soon from @haymarketbooks.org

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Neoliberal snow day in the Hudson Valley. Schools closed, everything else open, including private daycares where working parents take their children when schools are closed. Half inch of snow on the roads, snow tapering off; all public transport working, except school buses.

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"For as long as humans have made towers, some have leaned." No it's not the first sentence of a college comp paper, but a line from this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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And I thought things couldn't get worse.

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I'm wouldn't say I'm really in conversations about literary studies at the moment, but if more lit. scholars would post field predictions, I might be.

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Winter weekends with a four-year old. But make no mistake: that’s my King Tut piece.

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Trump et al have long ago realized that the penalties of illegality apply only to those who lose. (See his court cases). This was once a lesson the left knew well, too. Winners not only write the history books, they enforce laws. That's radical knowledge, be it radically left or radically right.

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Meow.

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I find myself unexpectedly writing about Foucault. This is yesterdays meme, but it made me laugh.

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I'll be adopting this as my new "in office" automated response to departmental emails.

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Rebecca has summarized almost perfectly the possibilities and limits of liberalism as a political project.

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It's happening, folks! Advanced reading copies of "Fake Work" on their way. This is the first book I wrote, way back when, 1999-2001, while at work as a fake management consultant (most are fake). Then it took me 23 years to finish it. Couldn't be happier it's coming out with @haymarketbooks.org

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It's about time the someone sanctioned Columbia!

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My favorite vegan Marxist ever and a former Black Panther; unsurprisingly, she makes several important appearances in my book, "Marx for Cats."

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