not really too swayed on Ng's (and others') view that Adorno is a critical naturalist of some kind, but also probably not smart enough on Adorno to properly dispute it

rereading Hegel Contra Sociology

"Anthropic’s Roman moment is a masterclass in soft-power repositioning. By embedding itself in the Vatican’s moral architecture at the precise moment it is under fire from Washington, the company is doing several things simultaneously:" decode39.com/14852/anthro...

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

only birthday songs i will permit today www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoA...

Last March, I published my own translations of 5 previously untranslated polemics by Max Horkheimer written for the ISR’s journal. I’ve continued to work on the translations over the past year & just finished my complete rework—read them for free here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

socialism or barbarism? why not a barbaric socialism?

another day losing 15 minutes of productive time by getting worked up by the miserable state of r/Marxism lol

I must say, it feels great to see so much of the whole wide NFL world taking a few days to shit on the New York Football Giants

I am I must say fascinated by the crits of R*ckhill's shtick that take the "the university is in danger, we can't criticize it now!!" angle, which, imo, is just a horrible attitude to have at any and all times about the university

Fangio said he's got at least two more seasons in him I'm gonna cry with joy I thought this was his last

Same thing applies when they say they are doing critical theory….

contemporary prominent FFS theorists really are like "see, we're doing internal criticism! we said that's what we're doing, so that has to be what we're doing!" as if saying you're doing something conceptually is enough to be actually doing that thing

jesus chris rabb ran away with it lmao

very funny to me that the "crisis" in critical theory you sometimes see as being the impetus for the communicative turn or whatever is just "Adorno said that philosophy couldn't give us a guidebook for radical action ahh!!!" lmao

"Cultural Criticism and Society" is such a tremendous document to consult as a recentering procedure

they say facebook is dead but where else can I find gold like this

why does it feel like he lowkey disappeared Chasten

"mmm yes degrowth terminological debates, interesting, very interesting." i sip my drink and stare out the window at the passing cars, with a distracted air. "yes, yes. plus ça change..."

piercing insights from nyt. "Westerners aren't used to the ancient chinese art of 'making agreements and then expecting they be followed through on'. A fascinating yet inscrutable culture."

what do people in the know think of Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History book? thinking of giving it a read post-diss

On the 78th anniversary of the mass expulsion of Palestinians, experts say US 'political amnesia' continues https://aje.news/1fp6ab

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

CRITIQUE OF THE PODCAST FORM, EP 18: RUPTURE THEORY (FT. CAM WEST) www.patreon.com/posts/157006...

It's clear Boston gets more surplus value here. But when you go to the Franklin Park Zoo, all you see are people wearing Little Joe shirts. And that matters. You're talking about the face of the zoo here. The whole reason you buy a zoo is to have a primate like Little Joe representing your city.

if game 2 is a weaker opponent I feel good about this schedule so far knock on wood

I understand a number of the gripes with Nietzsche, but like. how can you read the Genealogy and not see the significance of the project

France still holds a bunch of African countries' reserves *to this day*

academic bit i love: "wow this current event just so happens to have some kind of remote affinity with this book i wrote. i honestly don't even care ha ha but maybe you should buy it. for your sake"

there is no winning an argument with libs/left-libs, really, but you're certainly not gonna win it if you concede their little "structural change is nice but short-term improvements in governance which can be easily dismantled by future administrations should be our real goal" premise

the rejection of metaphysics is not necessarily problematic as a rejection of any specifically metaphysical claim so much as it is an issue insofar as it excludes metaphysical thinking tout court as legitimate and thus precludes an element of totality from itself. anyways

taking some time off work because i also have the amazing fortune of dealing with an emergent family crisis rn but you can find me at captainslog.substack.com where ill be posting a lot more regularly from here on out, and i'm also open to assignments! [email protected]

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

Communist geographer Phil A. Neel joins Party Girls Pod ( @jamiepeck666.bsky.social ) to discuss his upcoming article on revolutionary organizing in the forthcoming issue of Heatwave and his recently published ‘Theory of the Party’ at @illwill.bsky.social.

knowing where a thinker stands on Lincoln is usually quite helpful for figuring out their deal, imo, at least in a USA context

just realized Losurdo is from the same area in Italy as my Italian ancestors. what if... no. it couldn't be. unless...

a lot of people think that Marx didn't meaningfully confront the fact/value aporia so much as he tried to find a capacious enough value to account for epochal historical changes in interrelated social facts, which may very well be true, but if true, the worse for us

*sitting across the desk from my boss at the Posting Ideas Corporation, sweating profusely, making the case not to replace me with AI* uh uh uh. yu-gi-oh mishima. that's gotta be something, right

respectfully tim heidecker taking over infowars is something that might’ve been funny ten years ago but is completely meaningless now

Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796

misread this as Brian Dawkins for a second and got really worried

underrated part of being a fat dude is patting your belly contemplatively as you walk around

6-9 receiver room 📈📈📈

always impressed by this person's ability to having annoying opinions about just about everything

do you think jake from state farm ever dreams of being like a real actor

having to pull out the old “focused on football” line in April is very, very rough

the beautiful je ne sais quoi of a tastefully aging and balding gay man…