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PhD in political theory, co-host of Moral Minority podcast, eternal return cosmology truther. “The stillest words are those that bring the storm.”

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

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I wrote about the perils of being public with mental illness in a new Methods of Madness entry (link in bio). A 🧵in summary: Last week I said something out of line on here that I should not have said and regret. I apologized for my unacceptable behavior and logged off. 1/8

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The utter mediocrity of this man

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“There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.” -Gilles Deleuze

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10/10, no notes, probably going to frame this

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one doesn't need to know anything at all about philosophy to know that anyone who calls himself "Left Nietzschean" can't be taken seriously.

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@megynkelly @jonfavs I call them like I see them, same as you. You’re out of touch if you think that we can have healing in a nation where half the country have supported a white supremacist authoritarian for 4 years. Top Rs aren’t accepting the results of the election. Go fix that.

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To no one’s surprise, Elon can’t spell Nietzsche correctly

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Breaking news: Left Nietzschean outlasts Right Hegelian

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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, Walter Kaufmann popularized Nietzsche for English-speaking audiences in large part by presenting him as an individualist philosopher of self-improvement, which neutralizes what is dangerous and disruptive in his thought. 1/13

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I’m all for “Nietzsche is not a nazi” readings, but turning Nietzsche into some kind of philosopher of self-improvement has been a disaster for the human race.

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“Every New Year’s Eve night makes us feel the mystery of the contradiction between being and becoming.” -Nietzsche, “On the Pathos of Truth”

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I consider myself a Nietzschean Liberal. That means that I believe that some lives are more valuable than others, and also that democratic capitalism has proved to be the best system for achieving greatness. This involves five main beliefs.

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Getting drunk and reading Lacan. What could go wrong?

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In my experience mysticism does have the major drawback of sometimes causing you to go completely insane

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Ryan Ruby

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Everybody likes mysticism. It has the benefits of religion (a sense of cosmic meaning) and none of the drawbacks (subordination to traditional authority); and all the benefits of modernity (individual subjectivity) without any of the drawbacks (a sense of cosmic meaninglessness).

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Ah yes, the famous prefaces from 1900, the year Nietzsche died and 11 years after his collapse. Please, tell me more about how closely you’ve read Nietzsche you fucking Nazi clown.

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Marxism still requires a normative foundation.

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What Marxist take will have you like this?

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Kant says: always treat others as ends in themselves, never merely as means. Zarathustra says: treat *yourself* only as the means (to a higher goal), never as an end in itself (Man is something to be overcome).

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What’s funniest about this list to me is that virtually all of these are guaranteed to be the bestsellers at your local Barnes & Noble, yet he presents them as if they’re dangerous and subversive. It’s just a boring reiteration of mass culture.

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25 books that should be on every school curriculum but aren't: Fiction: 1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2. 1984 - George Orwell 3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 4. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien 5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 6. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn

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my hot take is I don’t think anybody ever actually gets their shit together

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holistic mami✨

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my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.

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One reason I’m skeptical of right-wing readings of Nietzsche that emphasize hierarchy and strength is that they almost always fail to distinguish among the different ways in which hierarchy functions in Nietzsche’s thought. A brief 🧵on Nietzsche’s inegalitarianism. 1/15

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Here’s a sneak peek of my review of chapter 2 of Daniel Tutt’s Nietzsche book. Though I won’t focus on it in the text, I’m attaching a table to the end of the entry picking apart each individual citation from the chapter. I’ll let readers judge this for themselves.

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Kill it with fire

@QuoteNietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosophy & Psychology 🧠

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What do you think of @jordanbpeterson 's interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche? Discuss 👇

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This is what fascism means. What else did y’all think I was talking about?

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Every Left Nietzschean

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“It was doubtless his book The Destruction of Reason which revealed most clearly the destruction of Lukács’s own.” -Adorno

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holy shit there's no way Lukács needed to go this hard

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Marxists just don’t want to admit that the only way to stop a right Nietzschean is with a left Nietzschean.

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gil, a finite mode

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sure, Nietzsche's whole entire thing is affirming the necessity of cruel and violent subjugation of those deemed lesser for the sake of producing a stronger, more vital, finally free being. and that might sound like fascism. but what if he's actually an extremely subtle leftist?

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Harari’s position involves an erroneous form of all-or-nothing that is unfortunately quite common - either there has to be some final objective fact of the matter (usually physical or biological) or we’re left with a mere subjective fiction. 1/

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What a philosophically inept position. Villainously inept.

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In all seriousness, I had a minor life crisis when I discovered that most people do not walk around with their heads full of voices 24/7.

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I think about the fact that 30%-50% of the population doesn’t have an inner monologue at least once a week. It’s actually a fascinating topic.

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Embarrassing confession: the first work of philosophy I read in its entirety was Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and I still kind of think it’s underappreciated.

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I remain convinced that scientists trying to debunk the idea of free will would be much better off studying the history of Christian theological debates throughout the Middle Ages than trying to find scientific evidence for or against a fundamentally incoherent concept.

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@puredemosonly Not yet, I only recently became aware of his existence and made the connection that Costin was *that guy* I went to grad school with who never showed up to any department events and repeatedly trolled the department listserv complaining about anything diversity-related.

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It would not be an exaggeration to say that the right wing revival of Nietzsche, and the left reaction to the same, are together likely to render Nietzsche totally unintelligible to an entire generation of readers.

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I didn’t know it until just now but it turns out I’m a proud member of the Adornio-Deleuzian Pervert Coalition

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To me the best argument for having proficiency in multiple languages isn’t really accuracy of translation but more Wittgenstein’s point that our own grammar is too familiar for us to see it perspicuously. It’s hard to see grammar perspicuously without learning another language.

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Hands off Rafah 🇵🇸

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academics who speak and read multiple languages are so obsessed with saying u can’t engage with ideas properly without speaking and reading multiple languages. funny

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Tell me you haven’t read Oedipus without telling me you haven’t read Oedipus

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“Hegel forgot what Kierkegaard remembered when Kierkegaard said that the tragedy of the speculative philosopher is that he must turn aside from his place as a spectator of time and eternity in order to sneeze.” -MacIntyre, Marxism and Christianity

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The four great political thinkers of the 20th century are Arendt, Foucault, Rawls, and Hayek. Deal with it however you want - I am no fan of Hayek - but that’s the way it is.

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This you?

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Daniel Tutt

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I’m appalled to learn of Nina Power’s direct neo-nazi affiliations and I just want to say I’m happy to have held back from publishing my interview with her and to have kept a distance from Compact. I know that Compact publishes a very wide range of authors but I have been

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OK but will they also hire an assistant professor in Schopenhauer to hold all their lectures at the same time?

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Job: Assistant Professor in Hegel:

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Thanks everyone for getting me to 5,000 followers! As promised, I will now reveal the secret meaning of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence. Seriously though, let’s talk about one of the most bizarre and oft-dismissed parts of N’s thought: his cosmological proofs of the ER. A 🧵 1/24

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Isn’t Nietzsche an elitist who values greatness or genius over the common man? I defend a version of Nietzschean moral perfectionism that I’d argue is not only compatible with political commitments to democracy and equality, but actually required by them. A 🧵 1/17

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Time to go back to a classic

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Right Nietzscheans, particularly the return to the ancients types that clog this site, would benefit from a careful rereading of the first untimely meditation, on David Strauss and the cultural philistine. 1/

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Guess what thread I’d recommend if you want to learn absolutely nothing about Nietzsche

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Finally reading a text of Lacan’s on psychosis that I find marginally comprehensible and I regret to report that he might be onto something.

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The morality of resentment at its finest from Peterson here - good and evil determined entirely by hatred of the perceived enemy, and complete inability to affirm values without first triangulating that enemy.

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I think the reason that this is Nietzsche’s most ignored teaching is probably that this is not what Nietzsche says at all

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Shapiro’s nonsense rarely surprises me but this is just so incredibly nihilistic. Capitalism has destroyed nearly every source of purpose other than selling yourself into exploitation until you die, so forcing the elderly to work is good! Last Man energy is off the charts here.

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“Discover the errors of the ego! Realize egoism as error! Certainly do not construe altruism as the opposite! That would be love of the other reputed individuals! No! Get *beyond* ‘me’ and ‘you’! Perceive cosmically!” -Nietzsche, 1881 fragment

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In the early stages of writing this book on Nietzsche’s madness, I’ve been doing a lot of research into the impossible diagnostic question: did Nietzsche have syphilis, and if not, what caused his breakdown? A 🧵on some interesting tidbits I’ve learned so far. 1/15

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18 started college 18 smoked first joint 22 graduated college 22 started PhD 23 smoked more weed 26 married 28 went insane 31 finished PhD 33 went insane again 35 completed the system of German Idealism Feeling pretty good relative to the rest of you tbh

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I’ll play 19 married 21 started community college 24 first kid, graduated cc, started uni 27 second kid 28 graduated uni, started MA 30 finished MA, started PhD 36 finished PhD, started VAP 42 moved to T-T 44 tenured I’ll be 47 tomorrow

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All right, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room, and the elephant is Domenico Losurdo’s Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Rebel. Hopefully the first in a🧵series picking apart the book’s arguments, I’ll start w/ an overview and Losurdo’s reading of The Birth of Tragedy. 1/

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The last 36 hours have been an object lesson in Arendt’s warning about the dangers of collectively refusing to exercise political judgment in unprecedented circumstances and choosing to deny reality instead.

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The shell game that Peterson plays with theological concepts here is instructive for understanding Zarathustra’s “last men”. He cynically affirms dead theological concepts, not because he believes them, but because there’s nothing else, and he’s too empty to invent anything new.

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Excellent interview with Wendy Brown (one of the best political theorists alive) on Max Weber that includes a brilliant explanation of the problem of nihilism and its political import today. Weber, of course, owed a great deal to Nietzsche.

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Wendy Brown: A Conversation on Our “Nihilistic” Age

The Nation spoke with the political theorist about the multifront crisis of the post-Trump era and the moral and intellectual commitments of scholars and higher education.

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“To turn philosophy into pure science is to throw in the towel.” -Nietzsche, unpublished fragment, 1873

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Nietzsche’s preoccupation with life-affirmation makes more sense when viewed in the context of his lifelong experience with bipolarity. One reason that a number of interpreters (e.g. Cybulska, Young) have suggested bipolar disorder as the most likely diagnosis is the presence 1/

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I really need to start collecting examples of ableist assholes trying to discredit Nietzsche’s philosophy because he was a madman. If anyone has other good examples send them my way, but this one sets a pretty high bar.

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🧵Learn the secrets that academic Nietzsche scholars don’t want you to know! You too can learn to will the eternal return in 11 easy steps! 🧵

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It seems like every day Žižek does something new to validate my decision to never read him.

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The left must embrace law and order

In France and elsewhere, everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich.

www.newstatesman.com

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It’s essential to Nietzsche’s thought that the human urge to deny our all-too-human condition, out of shame and disgust, runs so deep that simply repudiating that urge would alone precipitate a radical transformation in culture. This is the revolutionary potential of amor fati.

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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes

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From:

Elon Musk attacked my article accusing him of gaming Twitter's algorithm for more attention. In...

In Zoe Schiffer's book "Extremely Hardcore," she describes a Super Bowl-related tweet flop with Elon Musk ordering engineers to change the algorithm.

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Wild how much of what is currently called “panpsychism” can be found in early Nietzsche: “The difficult thing is not the awakening of sensation, but that of consciousness in the world. However, it is still explicable if everything has sensation.” (notebooks 1872-1873)

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Was having coffee this morning and my wife was like “babe are you ok? you haven’t even touched the Nietzsche’s micropenis discourse”

@The_Hellenist

The Hellenist ☀️

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@Sami_Historian Nietzsche most certainly had a micropenis.

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What Heidegger reached circuitously and mystically Wittgenstein reached instinctively and intuitively. A lesson in the greatness of 20th century philosophers.

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20th century philosophy would have been much better if analytic philosophers had used a broader range of games in their analyses of rules than just chess and baseball.

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This is openly genocidal and the fact that the Biden administration is sending military aid to support it is reprehensible.

@TheCradleMedia

The Cradle

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Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."

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@JoyceCarolOates What can I say? All I can do is bow down to the GOAT 🙇‍♂️

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4 books that had a major influence on your political thought:

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Megan Fritts

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4 books that had a major influence on your political thought:

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Apparently there’s a rapidly spreading case of brain worms going around that makes you forget that Jan 6 rioters were armed to the teeth with assault rifles, killed police officers, planned to lynch the Vice President, and tried to overturn a legitimate election.

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There’s a lesson to be learned about how to read philosophy in Nietzsche’s comment in Dawn 195 that “the only possible critique of morality” must grow out of “a brave a rigorous attempt to *live* in this or that morality”. Too often students read philosophy in one of two ways: 1/

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Emerson’s influence on Nietzsche still has not been adequately appreciated.

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Summary of the evening: the “Hegelian left” are mad at me for pointing out that using “retard” as a slur means you’re probably a eugenicist piece of shit.

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Obviously this is detestable, but it’s also telling. It seems to me that capitalists being this cynical and open about exploitation is a sign of significant weakness, or at least overconfidence, in the ideological apparatus capital deploys to legitimize itself.

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Financial Review

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Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."

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“We want to heal ourselves of the great fundamental madness of *measuring everything according to ourselves*” -Nietzsche, 1881 fragment

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I am begging people like this to read literally anything on external world skepticism. The simulation argument doesn’t add anything! It’s just Descartes with a different set of metaphors!

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@iCirithPVP @Liv_Agar Lmao I’m not 100% certain but I’m pretty sure there is something in his unpublished fragments about this, yes. Nietzsche bought into all sorts of crackpot science when trying to cure his various ailments (e.g. his diet was not far off of ridiculous “carnivore” diets today lol)

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THIS LIFE AS YOU NOW LIVE IT AND HAVE LIVED IT YOU WILL HAVE TO LIVE ONCE AGAIN AND INNUMERABLE TIMES AGAIN THE ETERNAL HOURGLASS OF EXISTENCE IS TURNED OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND YOU WITH IT SPECK OF DUST

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I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of mentioning Foucault on this platform until we can figure out what the hell is going on

@HPluckrose

Helen Pluckrose is away until the 18th of August

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This is very important to understand. Foucault himself would not have approved of the Critical Social Justice (woke) movement which he would have seen as an example of what he warned of - a reconstitution of oppressive power dynamics. He wanted to deconstruct, not reconstruct.

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The funny thing about Twitter Hegelians is that they never actually answer any objection you raise. They just say “you’ve clearly misread Hegel”. The assumption being: If you have read Hegel well, you must realize he is correct, QED.

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Cicero once said: “I’d rather be wrong with Plato than be right with those men.” Maybe I’m wrong to see potential resources for left politics in Nietzsche. But I’d rather be wrong than keep this kind of company.

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Daniel Tutt

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An observation I have come to understand about the various groups that the left has named the "patriotic socialists". They see themselves as fighting the racist alt-Right (Fuentes, for example). So while the left see them as irredeemably racist and reactionary, they see

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No one tell them about the Der Spiegel interview

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Total Philosophy

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Fulfilling existentialism vs sparkling anxiety

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I’m late in responding to this, but: a few scattered thoughts on the problem of romanticizing madness and whether Anti-Oedipus is guilty of doing so. I don’t think that D&G romanticize schizophrenia. That said, I believe them when they insist it’s not just a metaphor. 1/

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Daniel Tutt

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It was really weird, but one of the effects of Anti-Oedipus was it romanticized schizophrenia. I take this story as a negative proof of that very problem. I can only hope that this is going away now for younger people but I don't know.

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Active and reactive forces - a 🧵 on Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the art of interpretation. Deleuze centers his interpretation of Nietzsche around the distinction between active and reactive forces. What does this distinction mean, and why is the idea force so important? 1/23

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@acidhorizonpod

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To follow up our Deleuze reading group, I hope @DevinGoure can revisit this: Deleuze's view of active/reactive forces shows how deeply enmeshed we are in reactive forces. How can differing interpretations of the same situation elicit or express either active or reactive forces?

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rare pic of the ideal speech situation

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

14 days

Oh you mean it was a bad idea to have a Biden campaign surrogate talk to Isaac Chotiner?

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

1 year

Nietzsche on delusion, or How to Invert Hegel Without Really Trying - a 🧵 Nietzsche’s notebooks from 1870-1871, which work through ideas that would appear in Birth of Tragedy, focus on the concept of “delusion” (Wahnvorstellung). What is a delusion, for Nietzsche? 1/

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There is something very funny about informing a Nietzschean that the opinion of the masses is against him

@edwinxga

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@returntohegel @DevinGoure ratio

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

9 months

Really? My intuition is the exact opposite: it’s hard for me to imagine genuinely emancipatory political praxis that doesn’t also involve an ethical/spiritual transformation on the part of participants.

@BenBurgis

Ben Burgis

9 months

If your political project demands that participants do some sort of moral/quasi-spiritual "work" on themselves, what you've got going is something other than a political project.

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Left Nietzschean

10 months

Probably not. In his final years of lucidity Nietzsche became obsessed with the idea that he had Polish ancestry, a supposition he based on some information about the origins of his last name. But to my knowledge there was no concrete evidence for this. 1/

@dragebein

drageben🏴🐉❤️🌧

10 months

Nietzsche was Polish!?!?!?

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Left Nietzschean

11 months

@iCirithPVP @Liv_Agar Sue Prideaux on Nietzsche’s belief in quackery: “He read medical and physiological texts voraciously and yet, for all the miracle cures he tried…it was the one area in which he suspended his analytical rigor. He was as credulous as a newspaper reader believing in horoscopes.”

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Left Nietzschean

6 months

Whenever I’m asked “but didn’t Nietzsche oppose egalitarianism?” I’m taken aback by the crude and monolithic picture of egalitarianism that’s usually being presupposed. As if political theorists hadn’t spent the better part of the 20th century debating “equality of what?”

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

28 days

Not sure I’ve ever seen someone so completely miss the point of the Genealogy of Morals and holy shit is that saying something.

@meghaverma_art

Megha

@meghaverma_art

29 days

“The basic flaw in Nietzsche’s analysis relating to the “slave morality” of ChristIans is that it bears no resemblance to anything that actually happened in history. Nietzsche simply accepts the lazy prejudices of Enlightenment figures like Gibbon in assuming that Christianity

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

11 months

Is there a critical theorist who compares the fetishism of commodities in Marx with Kant’s point in the 3rd Critique that aesthetic judgments present subjective responses “as if” they’re properties of objects? I feel like this must be in Adorno somewhere but I can’t remember.

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Left Nietzschean

8 months

Stupid comments about motivations and consequences aside, it can’t be overstated how central it is to Jordan Peterson’s worldview that social justice activists are hypocrites who aren’t really motivated by moral considerations and are just virtue-signaling for elite status. 1/

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@DevinGoure

Left Nietzschean

4 months

The price for Nietzsche was his sanity.

@Helenreflects

Helen De Cruz

4 months

I'm thinking of Odin who gave an eye to gain wisdom. It reminds me that great philosophical insights do demand a price of sorts. Sometimes the price is very high. It may not always be apparent in the work, but once you read biographies of philosophers, it becomes clear.

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non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder

8 months

Quote this with your favorite villain

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Left Nietzschean

9 months

I’m sure it’s been said before, but the worst thing about trying to do academic work outside of academia is not having library access and trying to figure out how to get the books you need on a limited budget.

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Left Nietzschean

5 months

My review of the first chapter of @DanielTutt 's How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche is now up on my s*bstack, Methods of Madness. It's somewhat lengthy, but I try to cover the overall argument of the book and intimate my main objections. Link in bio.

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So glad this guy blocked me when I dunked on his bad Nietzsche takes

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