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Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes o...

A former Rancière scholar, and Losurdo imitator who abandoned doing philosophy for cherry picked essays claiming all “Western Marxism” is a CIA plot to undermine the left www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/c...

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

This is giving me flashbacks of an awful John Bellamy Foster keynote arguing that Marx was a Greek Atomist invariably since his dissertation

Tom Clancy’s Critique of Pure Reason

I just gotta make sure I’m in the clear, and not a right SR or menshevik

Can you share this list?

“Marcuse always plays best when he brings in the fundamentals, ya know Freud, Marx. When he tries to get fancy ontologizing Eros, that’s when he stumbles”

Like in comparison? I’m drawing a blank

*Saint Domaingue

“Toussaint l’Overture Needs to Appeal to Haïtian Planters Too: How To Broaden the Coalition for the Emancipation of all Oppressed Peoples”

They should be renamed “Tailist” Magazine

The project of constructing a Lacanianism, but chill and normal is an uphill battle indeed

Oh no, do you mean the real too?

“You’re Dreamed of Empires” by Enrique Alvaro!

Spring 2025 reading. Hopefully after having the first year of teaching my own class under my belt, I can really get going with the diss

Super excited to be a respondent to this excellent paper by @kmunro-econ.bsky.social! Register here for what should be a lively discussion: www.cpcsymposium.com/event-detail...

Oh shit this looks dope

Fall 2024 reading

Freud provides an interesting case and challenge to the concept of the epistemic break because there was a definite change between 1895-1900/01, but so many of the elements that became psychoanalysis were present in some embryonic form in previous neurology and hypnotherapy

I don’t post that much, but I bring a lot of history and philosophy of medicine, particularly psychoanalysis and neurology into my work!

Does Central NJ count as Queens in this case?

Palestinian doctors, nurses, and medical staff. The death of humanity in Gaza.

Working in Philly for the afternoon, and man I miss living here so much

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It’s absolutely incoherent to be saying “democracy is on the ballot” while at the same time jockeying for the position of the more competent architects of the anti-democratic state on nearly every issue

My dissertation I’m working on is “Politics on the Couch: Normativity and Ideology in Freud’s Case Studies,” which examines psychopathology as a political problem on relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, etc. in 3 of Freud’s case studies

Since we’re doing bio posts now: I’m Brendan, and I mostly work on psychoanalysis, Marxism, critical theory, and historical epistemology. I’m a PhD candidate at Villanova. Outside my work, I love going to shows, cooking, collecting records, road-trips, and watching cult and art house movies

Can’t believe I was talking shit about Bernard-Henri Levy to my wife yesterday morning, and they same day they put up posters about him coming to town

Exhibit #263a of “if only they read Herder” (he’s pretty dry so I understand, but still…)