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QUESTION FOR GERMAN HISTORIANS OF SCIENCE & SOCIAL THEORY: DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE SCHAXEL SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM OF NATURAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, URANIA:
- Urania : Monatshefte für Naturerkenntnis und Gesellschaftslehre, 1924-1933
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The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History by Jonathon Catlin This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...

"This conceit which understands how to belittle every truth, in order to turn back into itself and gloat over its own understanding, which knows how to dissolve every thought and always find the same barren ego instead of any content - this is a satisfaction which we must leave to itself, for it flees from the universal, and seeks only to be for itself. -Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

#philsky #philosophy #C19th

Will it be recorded by any chance?

Five sketches from Horkheimer & Adorno’s earliest work on the first chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment! On Mimesis, the Limits of Demythologization, the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, & a short insert on their method! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

Happy birthday to Max Horkheimer, born on this day in 1895.

LATEST: FATF adds Kuwait and Papua New Guinea to AML Grey List - AML Intelligence THE FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has added Kuwait and Papua New Guinea to its ‘grey list’ of jurisdictions with weak AML regimes.

The Financial Action Task Force adds Kuwait to its anti-money laundering grey list.

Kuwait got off the list in 2015 only to return after a suspended parliament and a hysteric mass denaturalisation drive. Kuwait is also projecting a $32.1b deficit in their 2026-2027 fiscal budget.

YouTube video by Study of Swords ℍ𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕚 History: The Anime Artform

Have you ever been curious about the decision by early anime distributors to bring hentai to the US, and how this decision would reverberate to indelibly alter the course of hentai in Japan itself?

New Video out now!

youtu.be/M2hUsbqSnBM

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

My review of Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gift in The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I want to know what’s true about nature. It’s not that I do the politics and therefore I lay it on Nature. I have to be sure that Nature really allows that. | Lewontin

In all Horkheimer’s drafts (40/41) for the ISR’s “Research Project on Anti-Semitism,” a whole section (II) of the project is dedicated to a crit of Zionism—treated as the middle between (I) past wrong/one-sided theories of AS & (III) openly anti-Semitic theories of AS

Integration without subordination has been my guiding star for a bit. It hasn’t let me down yet

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Imogen, Sebastian, and Sam discuss Situationism as a vindication of Hegelian Marxism and a critique of reified life through its various forms of appearance: artistic production, urban planning, and student life.
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@crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social Detourn the detourneours situate de situationist! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Tbh, I find their complete self-certainty really funny. Also really loved how they embodied their own ethics, yk? (/s)

finally finished the complete rework of Adorno-Horkheimer’s ‘42 schemata promised last spring! will be presenting them @ the UCB Adorno series on the 23rd, arguing they show Marx is key to Dialectic of Enlightenment exactly where commentators claim A&H break with Marx! 🔗 ⬇️

There is already a lot of literature on this very question as you know, but I think two things are missing from it: 1) a concept of natural history 2) a tethering with the history of the sciences; all in service of a critique and theory of society.

This is a great essay that you should read after reading the things it is responding to, but it’s screaming from the top of its lungs for a proper critical theory of technology. It also helps in sketching the contours on what needs to be tackled

I fucking love science

Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Don’t sleep on this battle royale: @abenanav.bsky.social x @leifw.bsky.social x @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on AI and socialism

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www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Ça n'ira pas (on zionism in the ‘critical theory’ scene)

Read more from “Variations”:

ça ira-Verlag publishes apologies empire has never needed for murderers who will never read them and defends genocide in Gaza with the whitewashed words of Marxists who escaped it in Auschwitz. Palestine will be free, long live the resistance. Fuck off forever.

When you frame it that way, I wish it was the reverse; the red should be blue!

The Left Case for Hiring Me to Teach My Woke Great Books Courses in World History of Philosophy at Your University for Academic Year 2026-2027

here’s my gloss on the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system as a whole! originally a handout for students in a course i taught a few years ago after we spent a month+ working out the connection b/w the atomistic metaphysics & the soteriology together!

link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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Wimsatt (an L&L school alum) is one of my favorite philosophers of biology. The paper below summarizes his most important work. I really like the “levels” aspects of his work!

I still don’t know what to make of these new Epistein files, except I am beginning to think we don’t hate passionately enough

I don't think there's ever been a scientific concept so widely misunderstood, and to such damaging effect, as heredity.