the short version of why I think this stuff is worth reading: they rewrite Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals through Marx’s history of (& as) class struggles to develop a socio-psychology of the formation & operation of the psyche analyzed by Freud. Insane. In like grant applications & public lectures

Next up: archival reconstruction of two 1943 Horkheimer talks on the multidisciplinary scientific approach to the ISR’s 1940s “Studies” & the (Nietzschean-Marxian-Freudian) psychology of anti-Semitism as critique of civilization! + some fragments with/by Adorno on the same!

the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!

I'd like to take this opportunity to make a categorical statement. Fuck fossil fuels.

Omer Yaghi finally won his well-deserved chemistry Nobel prize (for being the father of Reticular chemistry.) He’s Palestinian, and the second Arab to win a science Nobel prize after Ahmed Zewail.

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

oh man, it's real! brill.com/display/titl...

I am re-reading the dialectical biologist again for a thing (despite awkward phrasings here and there; it still got it) I also forgot that they cited Hessen in the Lysenko chapter. A materialist history of science was something they were all clamoring for!

A few years ago I was a little surprised to see that Richard Seymour and China Mieville where on a panel at about consciousness at HM. I could not go because my panel was at the same time. Mieville's paper is now available here. salvage.zone/beyond-folk-...

free the journalist Alex Colston, free them all www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Translations of some short-form reviews & dense letter excerpts from Adorno over the 1930s on how he keeps finding himself forced to defend Freud in order to critique him! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

This is an awe-inspiring and fascinating study that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. However, the overall framing in terms of "innate versus learned” is unnecessary. The innate versus acquired dichotomy is outdated and has been for a long time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

Italy coming through

NEW: Global Sumud Flotilla says they've detected 20+ unidentified ships on their radar, just 3 nautical miles ahead. They don't know ID of ships, but concerned of a naval blockade. "We will not be intimidated by threats, harassment, or efforts to protect Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza," they say.

Abstracts of the talks are now online: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

One of my new favorite activities is looking up a German author I like, and inserting the word Zionist at the end of the google search, only to feel immense sadness that it has a 95% positive rate.

God bless the Sumud Flotilla. They are braver than most and God willing the flotillas will continue until the blockade on Gaza which has been in place almost my entire life is finally, permanently lifted.

“how necessary it is for us to transfer our thinking from the starting point of death... For the problem remains the problem of the end, whether it entails annihilation or immortality...”

The fragments, composed in parallel with the final drafts of Dialectic of Enlightenment (possibly outlines for its unwritten sequel), challenged everything I thought I knew about 1940s Critical Theory—been working on getting these ready to share for about a year!

Concepts are also grips since—like the hand—they do work!

HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU: You find yourself wondering: why can’t I find any two hour long podcast episode about Kanafani’s literary works as condition/consequence of his conception of resistance culture? YOUR SEARCH IS OVER

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.

New Recording—Pod EP 3: Ghassan Kanafani: Realism Against Reality, with Sebastian Kokesch & yours truly. On the necessary connection between aesthetic autonomy & revolutionary political commitment in some of Ghassan Kanafani's best-known literary works! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

here it is! link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

fair warning: this is me being extremely annoying about the importance of taking them seriously at what is arguably their most annoying. but all things considered not a bad intro to how insane their 1940s approach to research got lol

spectrejournal.com/lube/ Hey y'all! This Friday we have @alansearslefty.bsky.social reflecting in the intersection between his Eros and Alienation ( @plutopress.bsky.social ) and Adam Hanieh's Crude Capitalism ( @versobooks.bsky.social )

Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation. time.com/7319164/phil...

it’s not too late to sign up for the last meeting of the session (eventbrite.com/e/views-from...), & thanks to everyone who’s already contributed to the PCRF fundraiser—as of today we’re 87% of the way to meeting our goal! Help us to 100% if you can! pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/p...

Still beaming from teaching with this today - it’s incredible to witness the ease with which students make sense of complex theory when it comes to applying it to the most urgent contexts. Thanks for writing it @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam!

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

on the unity of Kanafani the novelist & Kanafani the militant

Alaa Abdel Fattah might be free soon!

It has been dawning on me that I really have just been re-tracing Deleuze and Guattari with my own constellations of key authors, but retaining the same enemies lol A proper natural history is a social history, and vice versa. I couldn’t tell you how we converged, but we did lol

Can't wait for opeds from some libs saying rebel/youth movements using the symbols of piracy/One Piece is bad optics because "pirates were bad acshtually". Pirates as symbol of resistance and anarchy are based, actually!! 🏴🏴

Large anti corruption protests in the Philippines are underway. Triggered by deadly floods which exposed $2billion lost to corruption in flood defence projects some of which didn't exist at all. www.rappler.com/philippines/... And a familiar flag is being flown at the protests.

Thanks to all who showed up! The discussion was very rich, even though it was definitely above my pay-grade! Please consider joining us next week, where Mac Parker will guide through the final two chapters of this excellent book!

We'll be starting up in 20 minutes

This is a travesty. Honestly, McGill should be censured by CAUT for this decision and the changes it is making to the student code of conduct that will compromise student academic freedom and undermine the very conditions of the institution’s accreditation. Solidarity, @marxinhell.bsky.social

Hey friends, I’ll be presenting on Resisting Erasure this Saturday! It’s an exceptional book. Impeccably researched and argued. If you can, please show up! We will be covering a lot of ground from fossil capitalism to finance.

This essay was weird, wonderful, and fun. Really glad the first issue of Heatwave is online.

Sellars’ manifest vs scientific image distinction.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Tfw the work is both politically correct and scientifically correct