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syanmohiuddin.bsky.social
Socialist poet, follower of Charles Olson & the Black Mountain Poets, Louis Zukofsky & Karl Marx. Studying English literature.
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In light of the AHA's unconscionable veto of the members' vote, it's worth reading this excellent & prescient article by Hajir & Qato on how scholasticide operates (precisely via such institutional silences & silencing): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“Everyone is bound to apply his education for the benefit of society. No one has the right to work merely for his own private enjoyment, to shut himself off from his fellow human beings and to make his education useless to them [...]” —J. G. Fichte, Some Lectures Concerning the Scholarʼs Vocation.

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MotL is proud to republish @videotroph.bsky.social's talk about the limits of sovereignty for monetary politics & analysis. "Words & the concepts they express have complex histories & any account of sovereignty must attend to the history of the term itself." Please read & share. 👀 🙌

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Switch to nuclear energy

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“If all elements of a complex are thrown out, then the complex will not exist; all that will remain is the word that signifies it. A word—this is what the ‘thing-in-itself’ is.” —Alexander Bogdanov, Empiriomonism: Essays in Philosophy, Books 1–3 (Brill), p. 9.

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I see that we’re sciencing the Fall of the Roman Empire again… thesphinxblog.com/2025/01/07/s...

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Some people get an inordinate amount of pleasure from “debunking” Darwin 🤦

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Me rn

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A book a day keeps the doctor away...

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Fantastic essay from James Shapiro, “Rebels Without a Cause,” at @nybooks.com on Romeo + Juliet (directed by Sam Gold). I question the interpretation of contemporary adaptations, which often succeed at the expense of the originalʼs tragic themes. Problematic. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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“Just because the form is as essential to the essence as the essence is to itself, the essence is not to be conceived and expressed merely as essence, i.e. as immediate substance or as pure self-intuition of the divine, but just as much as form...” —G.W.F. Hegel, Phenom. of Spirit, §19

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Join me for the new season of my podcast, the Anti-Capitalist Chronicles. The latest episode is: Trumpism vs. Wage Justice. I talk about the challenges of addressing inflation and wage repression in the U.S. youtu.be/gVrmcf2fPOI?...

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How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? Now available for preorder - The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes

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Tariq Ali on the fall of the Assad regime at @newleftreview.bsky.social, newleftreview.org/sidecar/post... The prospects are bleak. But, quoting Ali, “Geostrategically, it is a triumph for Washington and Israel. This must be recognized, but despair is worthless.”

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“The Line Cook,” published in the Ignatian Literary Magazine by yours truly. ignatianlitmag.com/2024/12/05/t...

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Excellent essay from @manvir.bsky.social on the relationship between language and thought: “How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Iʼm reminded of Sellars; all concepts (abstractions) are a “linguistic affair.”—but make room for the nonlinguistic!

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The appearance of the individual as self-subsistent—as indifferent from certain relations, causes, forces etc.—is illusory. Every single individual, in every single case, is mediated

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The farce—albeit a potentially deadly one—in SK continues. President Yoon, whose plot to declare martial law and take control over the govʼt, is resisting detainment. The people of SK are not willing to play ball with dictators anymore... apnews.com/article/sout...

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Blegh. The U.S. sending $8 billion dollars in offensive weapons to Israel. So much for ceasefires! apnews.com/article/isra...

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