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Philosophy sans faction, mainly Lacan, German Idealism, and "post-structuralism" Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinæ
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Sorta people who cope read Locke, wishing he's actually universalist in his use of terms like liberty, despite everything coming down to self-serving reasoning for the owning classes (which he's quite open about). This more or less applies for the entire early liberal tradition if not cherry-picking

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It seems the beatings will continue until morale improves (normalcy being cut out of today's political vernacular)

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And people still diss psychoanalysis, as though reactionary meatheads don't vindicate it with every passing day

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

idk maybe making the cult knowledge-shaping experience available everywhere all the time in your pocket instead of just at the compound of some wildeyed creep who chronically undersalts the food may just be one of those things it takes a couple generations to recover from

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

On the US military shooting protestors: It is entirely plausible that the US military will shoot at protestors if given the order* This is not an indictment of individual personnel, but rather a structural critique of institutions. *To discuss what "the order" is later in thread

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

has anyone seen the executive committee of the bourgeousie lately

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Writing is thinking. We get students to write so that they learn how to think and use their brains. Using LLMs to do your work is like trying to be an athlete by getting someone else to do your training for you.

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

It'll be interesting seeing how political scientists handle the topic of these indexes — the events of late evidently show how worthless or misguided so much of that data is — autocracy doesn't just fall out of the sky and "democracies" don't just get brain aneurysms out of nowhere.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I think a lot of insidious and self-sabotaging bagagge inherited from the '60s and '70s New Left (which came directly from its libertarian assumptions) is finally being rejected.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

If anything, I'd be curious to see ruthless subversion published: Foucaultian power applied to constructive theorizing of democratic centralism, Derrida's critique of Messianism turned in on itself and balanced w/ the non-messianic Chinese Marxism, Lacan's discourses are an obvious choice, etc.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Same, I appreciate Rockhill's emphasis against the imperial core and left-intelligencia sympathies therein, but I think plenty of the authors he throws aside are very useful under subversive readings. Too often disillusionment leads to split thinking that throws the baby out with the bathwater.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Education ministry in Germany (Bavaria…) does not grant climate activist their teacher license because the term profit maximization used by the activist is "related to communist ideology" seen as "irreconcilable with a liberal democratic order." 🤡

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Clearly the people being defeated by the language police just don't have enough aura

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The legacy of the cold war and the financial position of the US in the world made this sort of thing predictable, it's been foreseen for decades, but it would implicate all the liberals here who are incapable of taking systemic accountability. The actual left, which doesn't exist here, is vindicated

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

In America, "God" is a quaint little shorthand for Capital & Power. To the extent that they are American, Americans don't believe in God, simply Mammon.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Consider the remarkable charity many philosophers show in refusing strong claims for or against theism, free will, physicalism, realism, etc. Compare the lack of charity among proponents of moral responsibility: "I *might* be making an error, but I choose to err on the side of unjustified harm."

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Finally more of the hill I'm willing to die on that began as a hunch

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Even if one centers class and considers themselves Marxist, dialectical reasoning is non-foundationalist and thus any actual class-reductionism would be pretty blatantly anathema to Marx's work. It certainly is a false dichotomy, identity as such is always inscribed within techno-material structure

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Academic Bluesky often alternates between professional and recreational style and content, mere labor or mere play, rather than realizing its possibility for playful labor, thus reinforcing an intolerable world that tolerates only insufferable forms of seriousness, only trivial forms of pleasure.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

this idea that when something is hard its always _unnecessarily hard_ is connected to the general anti-intellectual stance that things should be easy for everyone to understand and if something is difficult to understand someone is wrong, lying to you, or bad at communicating

submitted 103 days ago • 6 comments

People often say it's about the context more than the tech itself — though if the economic structure allows for no non-oligarchic deployment of said tech, then optimism strikes me as contrived or willfully ignorant. So long as certain politico-economic structures prevail, tech practically = context

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

submitted 106 days ago • 143 comments

Sardonic post-leninist scholar

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