Silvia Federici just said “nature is magic, we have no scientific idea of how flowers get their colours from brown soil” and I am losing my goddamn mind.
The ideal candidate will: have written the phenomenology of spirit in 1807, The Science of Logic in 1831, is the culmination of the twenty five years of philosophy, and is named Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"[During 1968] Henri Lefebvre...when asked to provide the deans with a list of the more politically disruptive students in his classes, is said to have replied: 'Monsieur le doyen, je ne suis pas un flic.'" - Kristen Ross, May 68 & Its Afterlives
@kleeposting
"The end of history will be a very boring time, well at least for those who don't get a dope ass gaming system" - Francis "Double Kill" Fukuyama
The first English translation of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary was in 1886 by one Eleanor Marx Aveling, daughter of another world renowned bourgeoisie hater: Karl Marx.
Introduce yourself with seven books you haven’t read
1. Ulysses
2.Finnegans Wake
3. Moby Dick
4. Swans Way
5. Middlemarch
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crime and Punishment
US Congresswoman
@IlhanMN
tells
@AnushkaAsthana
why Margaret Thatcher is one of her political role models. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
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#Peston
There are like 100 people at this digital Althusser conference. What the fuck nerds, don't you have anything better to do? (I am at the digital Althusser conference).
He’s read every author you’ve heard of, and every author you haven’t heard of. His commitment to the bit transcends the Sisyphean and becomes Herculean. Award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Posting to
@TheLuisPanini
Re that Badiou post surprised to see so many people who are paid to think decide they need not think about the relation between politics and philosophy. He’s only ‘A terrible thinker’ because you’ve never thought about change or history, you ivory clowns.
I wrote about Elias Canetti's The Book Against Death, the eternal conflict between death and literature and Austrian intellectual history for The Millions
I've launched a blog in order to collate all my writings in one place. Right now everything I've written from 2015-2018 is up. 2019 writings and some new stuff to follow soon. Will also upload presentations and talks.
First substack post of the year is out. It's on Christina Tudor Sideri's 'Under the Sign of the Labyrinth', what it means to do and write philosophy, and the slow decay of public philosophy into private method that the book resists.
Defending this bad boy tomorrow so I can become a master of philosophy. Can I get a “considered readings and generous questions for thee” going in the replies?
For the late night crowd, here's my interview with Asad Haider in the CRB:
"Emancipatory politics, in my view, begins with a decision. Not some kind of decision about who your friends and enemies are, but a decision about people’s capacity."
Defending this bad boy tomorrow so I can become a master of philosophy. Can I get a “considered readings and generous questions for thee” going in the replies?
Everyone at NYU has a GPA of 3.95 and wants to write a dissertation applying schizoanalysis to the work of symbolist crypto poet Gregor VunderSchriften but also walks around the library on skype saying shit like " OMG Becky, I can't believe your mum didn't get you into Harvard."
Protestors in Canberra march on Parliament House, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter in the US and to bring an end to the mistreatment of minorities and the indigenous population at the hands of Australia police.
I’m teaching a five week course on Sylvain Lazarus’ Anthropology of the Name at the Melbourne School
of Continental Philosophy. Details and enrolment below:
If anything happens on the Manhattan Bridge tonight it will be solely the fault of the
#NYPD
and
@NYCMayor
for not deescalating and letting them
#offthebridge
I'm presenting at Australian Society for Continental Philosophy conference next month on Walter Benjamin, Melancholy and Revolution. Here's the abstract, for those interested.
Franz Kafka was born on this day 138 years ago. I wrote about why he still seems relevant to us, beyond the usual refrain regarding alienation and bureaucracy.
My personal criteria for making it as a writer is getting paid a reasonable salary to write, but I’ll take getting sent review copies you didn’t ask for as a crucial milestone.
@scottjshapiro
From a few months ago:
"I am happy to write you a recommendation letter for less competitive programs"
and, from my honours year
"This chapter draft is simply reading notes rendered in prose form"
People are always like Foucault is a neolib but every time I sit through a training at a shitty hospitality job I think “this motherfucker was right about everything”
@DevonHanel
No greater feeling (for me) that coming across a passage or argument that illuminates or clarifies something I've been thinking about. When you see an argument - yours or someone else's - come together, its bliss.
March reading. De Beauvoir reminds one that to live with your freedom is neither easy nor obvious; Freud invents evolutionary psychology (but this time it’s sexy); Sontag ponders the tyranny of the image in lucid prose; Fraser informs us that all evils are economic.