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Philosophy PhD, co-host @leftofphil

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Nina Power is trying to post through revealed court documents demonstrating her enthusiasm for Nazism
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It is one of the most peculiar and amazing parts of Hobbes’s work: the acknowledgment that ‘natural’ human differences on all fronts are practically insignificant, so politics must create artificial orders and admittedly contingent hierarchies.
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Matt McManus
10 months
Hobbes' insistence that human beings are mostly entirely equal to one another since our biological differences are so minute when viewed impartially, and that the main reason we don't recognize this is a vain desire to flatteringly elevate ourselves, seems very pertinent today.
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in 1652 Hobbes already established the universal physical equality of all humans (Chapter 13 of Leviathan) because everyone can easily k*ll and be k*lled by everyone else. why we still talkin about this
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Pigeon Feathers (Alpha Male)
1 year
I’m really struck at the moment by the sheer number of women that just have absolutely no concept whatsoever of how much stronger the average man is than the average woman.
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“The stakes are frighteningly high when I read books” is the kind of delirious narcissism I can get behind. A kind of psychodrama fueled hyper-idealism that sounds fun with lots of frisson
@drumm_colin
like water in water
11 months
"loving books" is just plain dereliction of duty for scholars in the humanities, because the stakes of the objects we engage with are so high: when you're fucking around with the Old Magic you're dealing with a lot of genocidal shit, demands ethical seriousness
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1 year
Marx famously loved commodities and dreamed of a world with their ever-expanding production and circulation!
Personally, my favorite part of the current Bananas Discourse™ is how it shows how little many Twitter leftists have ever actually engaged with Marx. Marx was pro-industrialized modernity! He didn't think that increasing productive capacity was bad! He really loved it in fact!
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3 years
Adorno was doing white boy summer before these ppl were born smh
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5 months
lots of legit critiques of continental phil but this is a weird one bc the only ppl that read analytic philosophy are analytic philosophers whereas the work of, say, Foucault is taken up (for better or worse) not just in many fields but in politics, social work, architecture etc
@danwilliamsphil
Dan Williams
5 months
“Continental philosophy” often strikes me as a religious project based on the hermeneutic parsing of sacred texts and a guru-based epistemology in which knowledge is advanced not by distributed, institutionally-scaffolded cognition but by decoding the profundities of sages.
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Owen GW
2 months
This is smart, I agree we should spread the word far and wide that JD Vance was a philosophy major so prospective students understand the grave risks of becoming a shithead
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Jennifer A. Frey
2 months
This should be pointed out every time some yahoo trots out the "ready to be a barista" nonsense about philosophy majors.
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10 months
I’ve seen enough: Adornians have proved Adorno’s detractors (including me) wrong
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2 years
Profile pic source and some nice words from my advisor 🙂👨🏻‍🏫
@DPUPhilosophy
DePaul Philosophy
2 years
Congratulations to Dr. Owen Glyn-Williams, who successfully defended his dissertation on Friday, April 1, 2022.
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2 months
There’s lots of great work obv but, for instance, the preference for hypotheticals over history (of ideas, the world, the present) is just brutally impoverishing, narcissistically individualistic, and kind of unserious toddler-brained in a uniquely Anglo-cultural way
@joelpust
Reichenbach in Istanbul
2 months
Tbh I don’t get the criticism of analytic philosophy - what is the better method by means of which we are to answer the questions of philosophy? What is wrong w clarity and rigor?
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8 months
I’ve thought about this speech a million times since I heard it on the radio in 2004
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4 months
Beauvoir on France during the Algerian War: “I am an intellectual, I take words and the truth to be of value; every day I had to undergo an endlessly repeated onslaught of lies spewed from every mouth.”
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3 years
Ever Given just keeps on giving 🔥
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Forbes
3 years
Shipping Companies Stuck Near Suez Are Reportedly Alerting U.S. Navy Over ‘Piracy Risks’
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2 months
Assessing Kamala’s family background
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1 year
The real English Rev heads know that 1640s-50s philosophy dwarfs any other period of thought on those islands
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
1 year
Our episode on Gerrard Winstanley is live! Let’s overthrow kingly power together!
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2 months
I’m so jealous anyone that’s in Paris tonight
@Rachael_Swindon
Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective
2 months
“No Pasaran” Incredible scenes in France this evening as the left unites to send the fascists packing.
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Watching French evening news following the election and they’re going on about Chantal Mouffe and the philosophy of left populism vs reactionary populism lol
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6 months
I try to go easy on them but this is so brutally accurate
@christapeterso
worms cited
6 months
Analytic philosophy is so funny because it essentially produces nothing but strange and revisionary views on every topic it approaches and no one is like “ok big picture. What is happening here” (it’s a degenerating research program)
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3 years
Log on and see that the website is performing perfectly.
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8 months
@lastpositivist Québécois swearing culture. When we’re angry we should be yelling “tabernacle” and “chalice” instead of “fuck” and “shit”
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4 months
YES
@wawog_now
Writers Against the War on Gaza
4 months
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Students have literally pushed NYPD off the encampment. This is incredible.
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2 years
@rochellehd I remember in undergrad being told by a philosophy bro grad student that continental philosophy was “gay poetry”
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11 months
TORONTO! Join us this Thursday in my hometown 🕕
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
1 year
come see our first ever live show in Toronto on October 12! ❤🤩
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3 years
Fascism but updated for the nihilism of suburban America
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@hotelbarpodcast @Unemployedneg Thr opening of Heidegger’s 1933-34 lectures 👻💀
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2 years
Whatever his faults (many) Weber does help me understand the puritanical ethos that makes Boston such a profoundly bleak metropolis! 🙏
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
2 years
happy Monday! new episode time! no doubt the Protestant work ethic definitely does suit the needs of capital, but you know what's better than Weberian sociology? historical materialism 🥰
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2 months
Don’t know what the rest you academic sloths did yesterday but I read (aloud!) the 20 page opus Dorrie and the Witches’ Camp 15 times *and* completed a 12hr q&a with an actual toddler not the fake ones in your department
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noam chompers
2 months
back when i worked at a preschool i read approximately 100 pages a day. unfortunately, it was the same 15 pages 7 times
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3 years
@WilliamMParis Arendt is a race understander, look!
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10 months
I’ve tended to consider Adorno theoretically illuminating yet practically stifling. But this can’t be right because the Adornians I know consistently have better strategic sensitivity, clarity of principles, and conjunctural apprehension than their haters and everyone else
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Owen GW
6 months
Many are saying this
@JoshuaLWatson
Josh Watson
6 months
I’ve really enjoyed listening to the podcast What’s Left of Philosophy?, worth checking out
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4 months
You just knew UChicago was going to innovate sinister reasoning to meet the situation
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8 months
The ‘left’ doesn’t understand how good the booming, buzzing confusion is, just a raw unsynthesized manifold and an indefinite succession of nows. It’s smarter
@bendreyfuss
Ben Dreyfuss
8 months
The left loves to be like “it’s all connected! Climate change, racism, Palestine, capitalism! It’s all one issue!” And while I fundamentally disagree with that outlook, if you insist on framing it that way, then fine. I guess you’ve lost me on everything.
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@LILCICERCH Hey, as the NYT explained in 1995, she met “the intellectual demands of the post-cold war era”.
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We do, in fact, love to see that
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Oh wow it wasn't even close
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Toronto ❤️❤️❤️
@SMohyeddin
Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا
4 months
Crowd gets larger and larger every 15 minutes. Nearly a thousand people now in front of the encampment @occupyuoft @UofT #Toronto
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@charcuterie1444 It’s been awesome seeing Arendtians over the last few days go on abt the need to get ‘beyond ideologies’ and embrace complexity only to land on the most ahistorical, empty hegemonic platitudes about violence being evil.
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7 months
@nrduford 18th century racism aside we shouldn’t sleep on the very smart and real causal connection between *individualism* and state capacity!
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3 years
@WilliamMParis Check out “The Phantom World of the Dark Continent” and see what you think! It opens with a banger
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4 months
The dedication this guy shows moralistic scolding of leftists is admirable he should be made an official Left Cop or something
@Leigh_Phillips
Leigh Phillips
4 months
@gdmorejon Verso, my own publisher and the largest left publishing house in the world, put out this blog by Jodi Dean expressing her exhilaration at October 7 and explicitly calling on the left to support Islamist theocratic terror. So let’s not be cute here, Gillie.
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@FeyeraBender Soon it’s organs ‘being on their grind’ with multiple ‘side hustles’
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3 months
Any departure from Boston to Chicago elicits almost pain-inducing joy
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
3 months
we are thinking about a live show in Chicago in early August... who'd come?
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2 months
If you don’t see the beauty of this jerk chicken then there’s no hope
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3 years
It was such a joy to discuss Erik Olin Wright, someone I was largely unfamiliar with but who has so much to say that imo we urgently need to hear.
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
3 years
New episode drop! Come toast a real one as we go through the some of the work of the late Erik Olin Wright! We ask whether there can be a relationship between utopia and social scientific categories and theory should conceptualize transformation.
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2 months
There’s a kind of provincial idiocy in UK reactionaries that’s almost endearing
@jtworr
James Orr
2 months
Nina Power is a talented and valuable voice in the postliberal space, so I can understand why progressive authoritarians are so desperate to cancel her; but it’s not going to work.
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@ETVPod @leftofphil Here’s that part of the 3rd critique where Kant faces Spinoza’s extremely based non-reliance on teleological ideas with confused admiration and horror.
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Owen GW
4 years
Extremely psyched about the launch of our podcast, What’s Left of Philosophy? with @WilliamMParis , @LILCICERCH , and @gdmorejon ! We’re a political theory podcast that engages philosophy’s radical histories, broadly defined. First eps drop next Fri, Dec 18
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8 months
Hate to see it but he’s absolutely cooking now
@Acyn
Acyn
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Trump: We have more liquid gold, oil and gas. More liquid gold. Well, I just met non liquid gold. You know where it was? Iowa. It's called corn. They have. It's non liquid.
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4 months
Skill issue
@seanilling
sean illing
5 months
Super jealous of everyone with ideologies that are so correct and flexible that every imaginable event affirms them perfectly
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Just gonna pretend today that I don’t know anything about of this iteration of the Labour party, as a treat
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2 years
@OlufemiOTaiwo @leftofphil @OlufemiOTaiwo i’m going to drag the pod kicking and screaming into a Lacan episode
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1 year
This book is so fucking good. Loved this discussion, which I desperately attempted to see to the end while being responsible for my toddler who was outmaneuvering me at every turn.
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
1 year
now available: our episode on Gramsci's The Modern Prince! come for the reflections on the importance of the party form and strategic leadership for revolutionary socialist politics, stay for the delightful cameos by Owen's baby.
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I’m more excited than is reasonable to talk abt the Metaphysics of Morals on the next @leftofphil
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gil, a finite mode
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back to metaphysics for the next @leftofphil
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@freganmitts
Megan Fritts
8 months
Are there any good manifestos, or is the entire genre cringe by nature?
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9 months
An impressive and deeply illuminating book
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I was so much happier when I thought that MAGA-communism was just a meme
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Owen GW
3 months
RIP to probably the best social and political theory editor of our generation, Éric Hazan. @Ed_Lafabrique published so many of the most important books of the last decades
@alancelin
Aude Lancelin
3 months
Éric Hazan est mort Immense tristesse. Un grand monsieur, bienveillant pour les gens, intraitable pour les idées Le plus éminent connaisseur de Paris et des penseurs révolutionnaires. Un mensch, inoubliable, terriblement attachant Pensées tendres pour Stella et @Ed_Lafabrique
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3 years
Really missing his voice, had a such a strong way of cutting through obfuscation.
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3 years
@jensensuther I am consistently confused/curious about these dullards of the "Left" you imagine yourself to be assiduously correcting. My sense is that they are mostly imagined, or that you are confused by theoretical vs practical discursive registers. The thread is right, but is Marx 101.
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RIP Toni Negri, model of militant intellectual life
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@xgabegottliebx @leftofphil I was msging w/ @gdmorejon this morning abt my regret that we didn't unpack the distinction between actuality and existence. You're right, it has really important bearing on the question of the conservatism of his thought and creates an opening for more radical readings.
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2 months
Perfect night to revisit this gem from 1989. SO-LI-DA-RI-TÉ
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Me putting the table of contents at the end of the book
@marwilliamson
Marianne Williamson
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If France can do it we can do it.
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Deeply embarrassing how many putative leftists were so easily duped into thinking that obviously mendacious, venomous and unprincipled ppl on the right were comrades in the fight against war, repression and censorship
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2 years
Will watch (via @mjlwry 🙏) but 1 fav thing i ever saw in Paris is Badiou speaking 1 eve at a packed cafe in the 20th and the audience staging a spontaneous and loud micro-insurrection bc they wanted the talk to be out on the street, not in the cafe.
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1 year
@gdmorejon It's wild they're like a crazed horde of poisonous losers
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4 months
Me
@hausofdecline
Haus of Decline
4 months
rooting for Kendrick. I think he can humiliate Drake to the point where Toronto real estate has a massive drop off in property value and rent stabilizes
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7 months
the bluecheck system means you have to scroll past 1000 replies saying “Amen brother” and “Rome had things right” before you get to anything remotely human (aka caustic and funny)
@ScottAdamsSays
Scott Adams
7 months
Here's a reframe for understanding basically everything wrong with the country right now. We think we have a racial and political divide. We do not. We have a broken mating system (marriage). When men and women have adequate mating strategies, they put their focus on mating,
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@russokrauss It might stem from the amplification of Kant-the-epistemologist, esp in anglosphere, which (over)emphasizes the transcendental analytic, not the dialectic, while partitioning practical philosophy/ethics. Impossible to center JJ in that narrow vision of Kant's work
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@MarxinHell What an absolute monster, wish I hadn’t continued reading that thread.
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Dunno what everyone’s mad abt. Some people have mastered the art of toddler-esque pontificating abt stuff like slavery and are getting paid for it
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Owen GW
3 years
This Cavaillès line is god-tier. Also love Canguilhem’s description of Cavaillès in the Resistance: “A philosopher-mathematician loaded with explosives, lucid and reckless, resolute without optimism. If that's not a hero, what is a hero?"
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red_dunce1917
3 years
"I’m a Spinozist, I believe we submit to the necessary everywhere. The sequences of the mathematicians are necessary; even the stages of mathematical science are necessary. This struggle that we carry out is necessary as well." - Cavaillès, on his participation in the Resistance
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Owen GW
2 months
Absolutely surreal to read their specializations in this context: ‘decolonization’, ‘Black internationalism’, the ‘marginalized’. What a joke
@thaqafatalhind
Esmat Elhalaby
2 months
Today, nine of our colleagues were awarded the Dan David Prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University. Less than fifty miles south of Tel Aviv, hundreds of our colleagues and thousands of students have been killed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli state.
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@gdmorejon Oh good you grasp the sandwich as the result of a process and a dynamic whole, not the mere aggregate of discrete elements. Love this for you.
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They could have built a truly egalitarian republic but ended up just going with imperialism and misery. Many such cases!
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@gdmorejon Unburdened by everything that has come before
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@gdmorejon @ConceptualJames @gdmorejon you’ve really drawn the chuds out their nest with this one 😂
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Owen GW
3 years
Find out why in 1658, Bishop Bramhall read Hobbes’s work and concluded that it is a “Rebel’s Catechism” 🔥
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
3 years
Here's our new episode on Hobbes! Enough with the factions. Let the sovereign tell you to listen.
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Owen GW
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🔥
@uaw_4811
UAW 4811
4 months
The UAW 4811 Executive Board is calling for a strike authorization vote in response to last night’s attacks at UCLA.
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I wish 😔
@morallawwithin
florence ☧
3 months
When people have a 📕 emoji in their profile it’s actually a reference to the Leviathan
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Owen GW
2 months
Martinique showing the hexagon what to do
@MayaSaxemard
Maya SAXÉMARD
2 months
En Martinique, on a fait le taff. À votre tour en France. Déconnez pas.
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Owen GW
3 months
Apologies for my audio my mic was fuckin up. Give this one a listen it’s good
@leftofphil
What's Left of Philosophy
3 months
Our episode on Fanon’s dialectic of violence is out now!
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Owen GW
2 years
Huge congrats to Dr. @HowToDressWell on the brilliant (and frankly beautiful) defense of his dissertation on nihilism and non-nihilistic metaphysics in Jacobi and Hegel!!
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Owen GW
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I’m listening 🫡
@NatConTalk
National Conservatism
3 years
@JDVance1 at the National Conservatism Conference: "The professors are the enemy." #NatCon
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Badiou was like “chill I need to sit”. France u know
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This moment of the discussion also shook me, I loved it. Thanks @martinhaegglund I’m still digesting our conversation and grappling with This Life
@terranlogics
Gray Maddrey
2 years
When Martin articulates here the (compromised) essences of state, civil society, and family, it shakes me. *This Life* helped me make sense of the pain that occupies me—is bound to occupy us under capitalism—and to own (up to) it with love and faith in the horizon of socialism
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Owen GW
2 months
Hearing from smart people that Peter Thiel is giving 15 million dollars to leftist Republicans???
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Owen GW
8 months
Nice to see it confirmed in writing
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3 years
@josh_philosophy Adorno's non-moralistic demolition of hobbies in the Free Time essay is 10/10
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Owen GW
3 months
Likud MP arguing the importance and justice of being Hitlerian
@Etanetan23
Etan Nechin
3 months
On @N12News Israel's most watched news show, former Likud MP Moshe Feiglin invokes ***Hitler*** to justify Gaza resettlement: "As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one 'Islamo-nazi' remains in Gaza."
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Owen GW
3 months
Can confirm it has reached (and might even surpass) Trump covid hospitalization over there it’s incredible
@Mij_Europe
Mujtaba Rahman
3 months
French Twitter is the best Twitter right now. Wild
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Owen GW
3 months
Recently spotted this gem
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@molochofficial
Christopher
3 months
we’re in the midst of an unacknowledged novelty bumper sticker golden age
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Owen GW
2 years
Some garlic pork, saltfish, and pepper pot for all those who celebrate
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