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"Critical" "Philosopher" of "Race" Writing book on nostalgia and white supremacy (both bad)

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@AntiClimaco
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They should invent a friend that lives in the same city as you
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Book covers that go hard
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White people have the unique ability of being able to mourn buildings that can readily be cleaned up and restored but not brown babies blown up to pieces
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Me as student doing this: “wow, I can’t believe my professor didn’t see that I bullshit my way through this at the last minute!” Me as the professor grading it: “lmao this is clearly last minute bullshit, but I’ve seen worse, let’s give it an A-”
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there's nothing like the feeling of bullshitting your way through an assignment and getting a good grade
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People (myself included) are like "I used to read so many books when I was a kid, but now I can't :( " and it's like...yes, children's books are very easy to read
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Not trying to generalize but a phenomenon I keep running into in philosophy is that a whole generation of professors became convinced that lecturing is Bad and Hierarchical while their graduate students are like "I'm begging you to please teach me things, I promise you it's okay"
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I have no opinions about Ocean Vuong but I hate these precious and very stupid rhetorical questions that academics and artists love to ask nowadays
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urgent words from ocean vuong's ig today
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Casually thinking about the fact that Fanon was 27 when he wrote BSWM
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I love how continental philosophy decided that wordplay is sufficient proof for a claim
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If my child “fell in love” with an Ivy League at the age of 7, I would tell them to stop it and to go outside
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My brain when anything bad happens to me
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Don't know who needs to hear this but Subjectivity. itself. Is. A. Trauma. Response.
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Obviously I’m glad he’s suffering some kind of consequence but I simply do not believe you that what he did is “antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta” lmao
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The University of Mississippi student who made the monkey noises at a Black woman has been kicked out of his fraternity. Phi Delta Theta announced his removal today. Earlier, the UM NAACP called on UM to expel Phi Delta Theta member JP Staples.
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@dee_of_e I did see one make an 'argument' recently, it's just that the argument involved accusing people of being "psychotheologically Muslim"????
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Thinking back to that time bell hooks was talking at The New School and said with her whole chest that Shonda Rhimes' shows were not feminist (at the height of Scandal/HTGAWM hype!) and you could just feel the room kinda turning on her
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Me, sobbing: please stop, you cannot call everything a method! DUP authors: Sensing as method, dancing as method, dreaming as method, breathing as method, fucking as met—
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Édouard Glissant:
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Let me be CLEAR….. Naw…Let Me Be OPAQUE
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This is legitimately so beautiful
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Béla Tarr posing with the pirated DVDs of his movies & the owner of the shop in Lima, Peru.
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Summer goals
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Has anyone coined/written about “the financial turn in slavery studies” yet?
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Did YOU know that ‘nostalgia’ first emerged in 1688 as a potentially fatal disease?? Well luckily I went long tracing its spread from Switzerland to the battlefields of France and the US and especially to the sugar plantations of 18th-19th century Havana!
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Every fancy postdoc/fellowship is now like "Theme: Sweat. How does thinking through sweat open up otherwise ways of being alongside each other sweatily?" and gets 2,000 applications.
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My Capital Vol. I reading group completed its mission today, and thereby abolished itself. Please clap.
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Me writing
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Anyways, the bad Disney thread is a great illustration of the academic fetishism for meaning/meaning-making/world-making as unalloyed, sacred goods
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@WrittenByHanna Definitely will make an SNL cameo that will be deemed 'iconic'
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My favorite part of flying during a pandemic is when everyone in the plane takes off their mask at the same time to eat pretzels and cookies.
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SOON
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It’s always like “what would it MEAN — what would it LOOK LIKE — to refuse the neoliberal logics of the market and the university??….makes u think”
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Thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Oxford Handbooks (OUP, 2030), after which there will be no new knowledge left to summarize
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@sarah_ogun Crazy that people are calling that email reasonable/generous when that last paragraph is extremely elitist and antiBlack
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This website is such a good advertisement for not going to an Ivy League
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Gatekeeping is when someone knows something and writes about it for the public
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The death of music journalism is kinda odd to me but also makes sense as a byproduct of streaming platforms; wider access to music means people don’t need to rely on critics, gatekeepers as much to pre-vet for them what’s good and what isn’t
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@Nick_Newman So close to being unlikable and yet he pulls it off
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@chrispiercreme Me constantly
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The fact that philosophers are now publishing papers about their twitter drama is the most embarrassing shit I’ve ever seen and for philosophy that’s saying a lot
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Da boys
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It’s ya boy, now in print
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If your critique of Afropessimism does not mention or discuss psychoanalysis, you are attacking a straw man
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Being Latinx at a salsa night in France is not unlike joining a weightlifting competition against children
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And is this "metaphysics of presence" in the room with us?
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What was in the water in 20th century France that led every French philosopher to misunderstand Hegel?
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Shocked, outraged to find out that German Idealism is harder to read than Harry Potter
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Grad students on their 10 minute break from seminar be like
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Du Bois would really sit at his desk and be like "I'm gonna provide some stats to show the increase in the growth of cotton from 1820 to 1859, and then I will write the most heartbreaking paragraph you will ever read in your life"
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Who gives a shittttt
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Students. Pro-tip: Don't **ever** tell your Professor that the reason you're gonna turn their paper in late is because you have "a really important assignment due in another class."
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Okay, this is finally out *on open access* as a proper issue, now with a brief intro from me and @tyrsttle !
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Now online:
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It’s ya boy, now in print
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@Srirachachau Love to be put in a children's mental institution because I keep trying to warn adults about 9/11
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*after giving a bad presentation in an undergrad class* “This is all Jacques Derrida’s fault”
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How fucking hard can it be to write a critique of Afropessimism that is not based on the silliest and most superficial readings of it
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Any time Blackness/Black people popped into her head:
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"To think critically is always to be hostile." — Hannah Arendt
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Lmao
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The first English publication of a Maoist-era text by Alain Badiou on peasant rebellions, communist ideas, revolutionary knowledge, and the role of intellectuals. Translated and introduced by J. E. Morain
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“Wintry mix” is a cute name for the worst weather imaginable
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@OlufemiOTaiwo Yeah, my sense is that people actually do like discussions and non-lectury stuff but they feel (correctly imo) that these go best when the professor is able to provide some basic foundations/context/common ground, guidance, and focus.
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90% of “radicalizing” students is just giving them permission to think what they’re already thinking
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One of the best genres is just “Priest”
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The theme- FAITH
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Like Ziwe, this feels like the last gasps of Obama-era Black liberal irony
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Check out the official trailer for 'The American Society of Magical Negroes.' The film hits theaters on March 22, 2024.
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As always, v grateful for philosophers to tell us that technically rules are rules
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As usual, I both agree and disagree with Michael. If protestors do not abide by the rules, and refuse to move, they are by definition breaking the peace on campus. The bar for peaceful isn't set at refusal to engage in direct violence.
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Sorry for anti-white racism but if my life depended on telling China Miéville and Søren Mau apart on the street, I would die
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Incredibly cursed intersection of author, subject, and venue
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Giorgio Agamben remembers Benedict XVI
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Has anyone written a thing about Lot’s wife, Orpheus, and the Angel of History as figures of ‘the look back’
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I, for one, would consider inviting an afropessimist to my discussion on afropessimism
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Treat your NYE hangover by reading my article for Puncta on how critical phenomenologists like Sara Ahmed and Lisa Guenther approach whiteness and how they could stand to be more critical!
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Truly the least of our problems but the way Disney has positioned itself as some kind of populist, diverse/inclusive force against white, "elitist" film is very fucked up and very much in keeping with the times
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The amount of white people with dreadlocks in France is honestly grounds for international intervention
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Empiricists be like:
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You know it’s cold outside when you go outside and it’s cold.
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@c0mmunicants “If they had a good enough eye” and “if you just had the right actors and control of performance” doing insane amounts of work here
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Kinda incredible how academics manage to combine the worst parts of both being a workaholic and a refusal to do their job.
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Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
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There's a gushy sentimentality that pervades so much "critical"/"theory" work nowadays and I'm over it
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Undergrads pretending they did the reading:
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If you’re in a noir film, there’s a good chance you’re going to encounter moody weather conditions at some point. A climactic scene in THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW features a storm, and it’s safe to say that rain is the official weather of the noir genre.
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Academics should take a mandatory class where they learn that peer-review/editing is not just pointing out stuff they personally disagree with
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@mad_davenport "shitposting for Christ" The brand is strong
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@jourdayen This is why I try my best not to watch black movies with white audiences if I can avoid it. They are literally watching a different movie and it's always uncomfortable as hell.
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@gilbertjasono Flavor Reigns
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@ztsamudzi Working in a university in any capacity really teaches you that "we're forming a task force" means that literally no changes will be made
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Feel like Althusser is catching a lot of strays here
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Felt compelled to get this
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@adamjohnsonCHI “Privately threatened to rethink” is amazing, about as far as you could get from a decision or action
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Tfw your social reproduction processes are going great
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"Anything that limits our desires is a form of domination" is a wild take
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The attentive will immediately spot how this marks out degrowth as a politics of domination, for it states that we must accept a limit to our desires. Beyond a certain point, we must embrace submission to the domination of the rest of nature. /FIN
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oh!
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Anthony P. Farley, "Perfecting Slavery"
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Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”
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Therapist has an issue of Parapraxis in his new office
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Maybe the bleakest thread I have ever read
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I'm a religion studies professor researching Disney and I'm here to tell you why to stop pathologizing Disney adults, trending again because of this post. A thread:
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I wanted to look at your tweet, but I can’t afford to read any non-bangers at the moment
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There is nothing more humiliating than running to and narrowly missing your train
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Bolsonaro seen outside of Skechers HQ
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More people should watch Unrest, in which a young Kropotkin meets a bunch of anarchists and watchmakers in Switzerland
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Rahel Jaeggi signing the anti-BDS statement sucks
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lol
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Not me, I’m reading French philosophy next to my girl watching TV
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"The mere reading of a book requires some degree of isolation, of being protected against the presence of others." — Hannah Arendt
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Would watch a show where Kohei Saito travels around America and talks to strangers about degrowth
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生ビールが3000円でひいた・・・
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2023 thus far
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