Christoph Türcke, 2002.

"Thank you for choosing Deutsche Bahn" oglm wenn ich könnte, ich wäre diesem marodierenden Austeritätsterrorismus auf nur noch zufällig befahrbaren Gleisen längst ausgewichen.

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"we're in a new era and with that new era we're on a new clock. and that clock means no one is ruhsing. (...) i think the conclusion we can draw from this is that it's far from over."

Epistemological Obelix

"Scientists are not born, they are made" Our latest ep features the fab MIT historian of physics (and physicist) Prof David Kaiser talking about how pedagogy and the training of scientists shapes science. #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪 thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/1375...

"There is no more reason to be disheartened by the fact that the division of labor cannot be overcome than by the fact that the weather cannot be overcome."

Denke gerade oft an einen Dozenten der Judaistik, der uns damals immer an Israel als das einzige Land erinnert hat, das um das Suffix "-kritik" ergänzt Gegenstand einer Form von Misstrauen sui generis ist. Es gibt keinen feststehenden Kanon der "Russland-"/ "USA-Kritik", v.a. nicht über Jahrzehnte.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen. Seems like a good moment to remind folks.

"The interplay between recognition and misrecognition is not limited to the realm of ideas, but involves real inclusion or exclusion from economic and other such goods. Far from being postmodern, identity is among the chief and most explosive modernisms."

via @simongerman600.bsky.social

"But it is impossible to understand the present condition of analytic philosophy without subjecting it to a kind of treatment to which it is constitutionally averse: an examination of the social and political forces that have shaped it."

@cominsitu.bsky.social I suspected you had your fingers in this. Good to see you did!

Buchtipp: Koyrés „Von der geschlossenen Welt zum unendlichen Universum“ gehört zu den Büchern, die mich während des Studiums am meisten beeindruckt und beeinflusst haben.  Koyré liefert einen herausragenden kosmologiegeschichtlichen Abriss der Neuzeit und berücksichtigt dabei das,

"For Smith and Keynes, as for many contemporary theorists of secular stagnation, the reasons for that stagnation are trans-systemic (...). Marxists were trying to find reasons for systemic long-run low profitability." To make sense of why this juncture can't be posed as such we need philosophy.

the teain-caffeine relation was to the still functioning industrial-financial capitalism relation what cocaine has come to be to full-on self referential financialized capitalism from the 70s onwards.

Die Existenz eines Oscar Niemeyers impliziert die eines Oscar Seltenmeyers, Manchmalmeyers, Regelmäßigmeyers und Häufigmeyers

Dath Vader is at it again

jungle (hedged)

Philosophie ohne Geschichte bildet blinde Begriffe

Succinct and clear account of the inconsistencies of neoliberal theory. Worth reading.

Guter, schon etwas älterer Text zu Panajotis Kondylis, dessen Bücher ich insbesondere für ihre Kompromisslosigkeit schätze.

what I'm still missing on here is tenured professors posting "x is true. how do we verify that |x is true| is true?" and hordes of postdocs in the comments going straight up crazy on a weekday

In unserem 4ten Beitrag mit dem Theorieblog schreibt Patrick Samtlebe über die frühe Smith-Rezeption in Frankreich und der Frage, wie eine bürgerliche Gesellschaftsordnung aus Freien und Gleichen stabilisiert werden kann, ohne in Terror auszuarten? politischeoekonomie.com/die-revoluti...

"(...) cosmologists are continually haunted by the ghosts of basic assumptions hiding unseen in the tools we use — such as the assumption that scientific laws don’t change over time."

"This [the recently discovered hidden engravings and picture of Luther underneath the Angelus] implies that Benjamin’s 1940 thesis might be more in dialogue with Klee’s picture than either Benjamin or Klee specialists had previously understood"

"The use of the tragic frame asks the reader to make sense of the Athenian democracy as a sort of collective autocrat, and it demonstrates that it was in the post-Periclean period—that is, when Athens was more truly “democratic”—that the regime behaved most characteristically so."