Do you mean the way these intellectuals have appeared to cultivate outsider status (when it’s actually been foisted on them) or the way adherents to these intellectuals fetishize their outsider status? Or both?
It’s the worst. An aesthetic abomination and another symptom of decline
Sovereign are they who determines the needs of others.
It’s unsettling that this has to be pointed out
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New piece out on Adorno and actually existing socialism
To be fair, most people don’t know this, though I understand that of all people, the fascists ought to know this
My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
We are being ruled by literal psychopaths. Those who support these people are, too, psychopaths.
I’ve got a piece on Adorno and actually existing socialism coming out with NGC next month
“Stop eating carrot cake” AND “Keep making carrot cake!”
I see. Though I think a (good) movie critic grades a movie only against itself
The Times reviewed it quite positively!
True story.
The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides
If you’ve wasted the last 43 years NOT reading Rattansi’s Marx and the Division of Labour, waste no more time!
Are there any good essays out there on Marx, AI, and the law of the falling rate of profit?
Also, it’s “fewer” LGBTQ graduate majors ffs. We obviously do need more English majors
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Ah to long for the days when at least career politicians ruled the earth instead of bankers, real estate moguls, autocrats, and techbros.
Eines der gr Missverständnisse ü Faschismus ist, d geglaubt wird es kann nicht Faschismus sein, solange es noch soetwas wie Alltag gibt. Als würde sich beim dräuenden Faschismus d Himmel auftun u Apokalypse niederbrechen.
Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.
Only half-joking when I suggest that we repackage environmental humanities as “agricultural humanities,” or AgHum. There might be some funding left for that?
Dystopia is a tooth fairy who delivers bitcoin
The oligarchy is beginning to take on its international form: the US, Russia, Israel, India, …?
Can’t speak highly enough about this interview on modern psychiatry, among many things
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An excellent illustration of how opponents of a way of thinking avoid actual argumentation by calling something an “ideology,” one of the most egregiously abused terms by today’s autocrats/authoritarians
Order copies for your institutional libraries, folx! It’s finally out, seven years later. I also have a piece in it on Kraus, Adorno, and Heidegger.
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@cgelderloos.bsky.social Hi!
A dear friend is having a baby soon and mentioned they were going to read ‘bringing up Bebe,’ I reminded him that the French are likely to turn fascist so let’s not think too highly of their celebrated childrearing practices
The war against Xmas
