Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/iWYznOQ

Heartbreak! at the socialism conference. Somebody has better guillotine earrings than mine

CPUSA keeps stealing my chairs at the socialism conference and I'm starting to see virtues of capitalism

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Come read Lenin with me this July! @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social

next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Chicago) | June BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/cfbGDoH

Taught Rosa Luxemburg on women's suffrage earlier this week and no punches were pulled:

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A propos of nothing, i will be teaching this class in June for @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social based on a syllabus put together by @materialistjew.bsky.social

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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This feels so inconsequential given current events, but I finally finished my last dissertation chapter, a 38K words monster in which I read History and Class Consciousness against the history of the early Comintern. I've been at it for two years and I honestly didn't think I would ever get it done

This is exactly right. The terrifying power of MAGA as a political slogan is that it offers meaning without burden to one group while imposing burden without meaning on everyone else-- and straight up anhilitation to specific groups it constructs as alien

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Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution (Chicago) | April BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/PMRiZuc

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

Getting ready for my upcoming course on Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, starting next week at the @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Lukács is well known in critical theory circles and virtually unknown everywhere else So, who was he and why read him? 🧵🧵🧵

Resurfacing from my social media break to share some of the exciting stuff we've got coming up at BISR Chicago @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social In April, we'll be offering two classes on Emily Dickinson taught by @zachtavlin.bsky.social and Georg Lukács taught by myself. See link for more info:

Socialism or Barbarism: an Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg | May BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/arY8YSY