Horizontal recognition is STILL too often overlooked in philosophical literature. It’s wild!

Daniel and Franz bringing out a rich historical-textual account of Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon on Hegel! Brings me back to memories as a TA for the recently departed Eduardo Mendieta, who assigned Frederic Douglass & Davis’s Lectures on Liberation in his undergrad Existentialism course 🔥

I am feeling like trash today so it’s time to lay in bed & come up with a Mariah curriculum. Or a playlist base to start. Can’t not start here. I didn’t appreciate just how hard she came out swinging when I was eight years old but I owned this album on cassette. youtu.be/tov22NtCMC4?...

The surprises of the archive and the rabbithole into overlooked or never-before identified connections are exactly what disappears in LLM-assisted research.

Whoever said “A job begun is a job half done” was so completely full of shit. Like, really, they should be ashamed of themselves

Infrastructure and logistics are the bleeding edge of critical theory.

This looks intereting!

This is sad news indeed. Eduardo was chair in philosophy when I arrived at Stony Brook & he left quite a mark. He was a very enthusiastic teacher and was so committed to broadening horizons of thought He was also quirky as hell. I hope for a time and place for telling stories & shaking heads

The foreword to The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde is in! I can tell you it is semi-official that the first words of my book will be "There is a longstanding tradition of gatekeepers within philosophy." Courtesy of Myisha Cherry.🙏

Toni Cade Bambara famously asks theorists: “What are we pretending not to know today?” It's in her fabulous miniature short story "The Education of a Storyteller." The answer to that question is the sweetish smell of unseen rotting flesh.

"The sweetish smell of unseen rotting flesh" In her poem "Equal Opportunity" Audre Lorde describes a woman pursuing upward mobility in the US military, against the backdrop of "the sweetish smell of unseen rotting flesh" as the US invades the tiny nation of Grenada. This is a perfect image 1/2

Here's a timeline of 500 years of Native American trans women's history, please learn things (I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.) landbodymind.substack.com/p/500-years-...

Look, I submitted the referee report by the deadline. I'm not like other boys

Rinaldo Walcott on the podcast, talking re: the political meaning of Black Studies as a field of research and modality of struggle, the relation of politics to cultural and national studies, and the place of radical thinking in times of political crisis. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I found this quote in a cassette recording of a Lorde speech/reading at University of Maryland in College Park in 1987. Legendary lesbian photographer JEB recorded it and the Smith College archive digitized it for me. Hug your local archivist next time you see them (or at least buy them a coffee)

Audre Lorde spitting an absolute gem: "Coalitions don't happen between parts of wholes. They happen with wholes coming together. They happen with different people coming together, recognizing each other's differences. We cannot become each other in order to work together. We must become ourselves."

I'm thinking about the phenomenology of asexuality and learning a shitload about color-blindness. I have to say the "alien color view" & the "revised alien view" seem like the most badass. The "common color view" is just boring Rawlsian overlapping consensus stuff What are you doing this morning?

Consider getting your Philosophy from jazz musicians on this lovely Thursday

🫣 Ha, I’m looking for people willing to review my scripts book!

Iceland to boycott 2026 Eurovision in protest of go-ahead for Israel reut.rs/4oJ5woX

Happy A Love Supreme day to all who celebrate, within or without the Church of John Coltrane. Here 's a recording of the 4th movement "Psalm," with the words to his poem that he plays verbatim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOu...

We forgot to water the plantain shoots when our houses were full of borrowed meat and our stomachs with the gifts of strangers who laugh now as they pass us because our land is barren

Look up United Fruit Co. on Wikipedia and all you’ll see is “In addition to many other labor actions, the company faced two major strikes of workers in South and Central America, in Colombia in 1928 and the Great Banana Strike of 1934 in Costa Rica.”

The more I learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the more I rue the anti-radical, individualist ideology of my US education. I was taught to celebrate individual heroes like King or Parks, instead of learning about all the mutual aid and support necessary for any successful boycott or strike

arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... I'll be talking about my book on the 12th. There's a livestream 🙂

This particular form of exploitation needs to be central to our understanding of contemporary transnational capitalism, especially in the care/domestic labor economy

Ethnographic methods in philosophy? Submit an abstract for this exciting looking conference organized by Deborah Mühlebach’s CRITICAL AGENCY project! The deadline for this CFP has been extended to this Friday, Dec. 5 philevents.org/event/show/1...

Yesterday was World AIDS Day, & today I’m talking about my paper “Hot for Revolution”, which is inspired by ACT UP. There’s also insights from Crip Camp & disability justice, adrienne maree brown, & of course Audre Lorde in there. Read & join us! 🧄🌱 emotionandsociety.substack.com/p/tomorrow-1...

Publication alert. Folks have been requesting my new work, alluded to in my talks. This invited essay was quite hard to write. I delayed the entire project! Making a dent in 'abstract universal' eats up time. Free access. Engage it, critique it or trash it. journals.openedition.org/miranda/67304

My 4yo complained this morning that his sleeping grandparents, who just arrived yesterday from the US, were still “jetpacked”

This looks amazing, on Lordean survival and natural disaster response. Open access from Andrea Warmack, and just in time to be cited as my manuscript goes out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks amazing, on Lordean survival and natural disaster response. Open access from Andrea Warmack, and just in time to be cited as my manuscript goes out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Curious who people cite as the origin of this cornerstone of decolonization: Decolonization requires not just that colonial administrators be expelled and replaced by nationalist local leaders, but that the whole infrastructure of hierarchy, servitude, and extraction be dismantled.

Why did the male feminist walk into a bar? Because it was set extremely low.

The Schlurfs in Vienna would hang out at public carousels and listen to swing records that their buddies the carousel operators put on the speakers for them. Nazis didn’t like it.

Perfect example of Sukaina Hirji’s oppressive double binds And of course there’s no individual solution… only the collective political project of changing who has the power

This post is about the Home Alone movies.

Wow, see, this kind of hyper-local historical analysis is fascinating and so useful for deepening theorizing

We've gotta get our best philosophers of slurs explaining this case immediately!

I'm just endlessly annoyed that feminist philosophers in the 90s did so much great work, and it was completely ignored by the mainstream of the discipline for 20+ years. It's especially bad in moral philosophy, where ppl act like Cheshire Calhoun, Margaret Urban Walker, or Claudia Card don't exist

I don’t understand any of the jargon in this article about how you can fool LLMs using poetry, but I’m happy to say that the article begins with a reference to Book X of Plato’s Republic

I mean, rule of law blah blah blah, but this is obviously outrageous given how publicly obvious corruption has been over the past year. But also:

Just spent a couple hours talking about Audre Lorde's erotic with an awesome student-led research group at FU Berlin on love/friendship and political action. We read some of her erotic poetry too, and listened to her read it. I had a little epiphany about the first four lines of this poem 🧄

New article in Hypatia about how social power is conferred by citing, and what to do with creepy ethicists accused of professional sexual misconduct. 👀 The authors propose citing them, but including a note about the allegations. Bibliography as whisper network 💀 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oh look, some good news for holding accountable transnational corporations. Nice when a week starts with humanity beating out profit. From the weekly global newsletter by @shamjaff.bsky.social, which you should probably just subscribe to

Ok, question for people up to date on the literature on Foucault: Has the understanding of Foucault’s account of power changed since the early 90s? I’m reading Sawicki’s feminist Foucault text, but don’t know how much I should trust its reading. I’ve read Amy Allen too @perryzurn.bsky.social maybe?

One of the paradoxes of academia is that a paper’s argument grows stronger and stronger the more it gets cited, even if it‘s always cited as an example of something obviously wrong. Let’s call it the Benatar Paradox.

Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!

Tenure track assistant professorship in Chicago, pay is $65-68k. Thats extremely low, right? Like, what’s rent and groceries cost in Chicago???