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Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie

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Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social · 2d

Super excited about this one ✊🏼

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 7d

“Man does not seek pleasure, only the Englishman does” -Nietzsche

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7d

“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7d

“Never again to this vile land where machines behave like humans and humans like machines.”

Heine, on England. Written in 1830.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

It’s amazing. They try to appease them every which way. They gave them Brexit and look at Farage now. They never learn a thing

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, but that's only 50% of the picture:
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

*Macron, ugh

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

There are two kinds of reactionary centrism:

1. "The radical left are lunatics, the far right has legitimate concerns"

2. "Vote for me and uphold zombie neoliberalism or else you are helping the fascists"

They are inconsistent but people like Starmer, Marcon & co switch between them all the time.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Barthes... need I go on? See here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...

The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

Here: thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-read...

The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left - The Philosophical Salon

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over special...

thephilosophicalsalon.com

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

That said I very much agree with the last point he makes in that quote. It's just that he sometimes underestimates how hard it is to do that

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

I do think Cohen was too flippant about ideology. One sees this in KTMH already, and I think that was the seed of his moralistic downfall later

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 8d

My review of Shmuel Nili's intriguing new book (though some of the cases he discusses are, er, dated): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Nili, Shmuel. Philosophizing the Indefensible: Strategic Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. $105.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9d

Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 9d

There is a lib vibe in elite Anglo universities and their epigones. That’s the plausible version of that sort of claim, or rather the plausible premise from which it trivially follows.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 9d

Sure analytic philosophy is small
C conservative but have you tried replacing material analysis with culturalist navel-gazing?

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 9d

What’s most ridiculous about this whole “analytic philosophy is conservative” discourse is that it’s the identitarian continental/pomo stuff that has actually destroyed the Left. In fact the CIA actively promoted it. Go figure.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14d

You’re going to want to read this substack.com/home/post/p-...

A novella in six parts. This Friday: part one.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 15d

Didn't see this coming but I guess they have a point
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

Put another way, yes, if they weren't racist they wouldn't go to that demo. But their being racist may not explain so many turning up to the demo.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

"Racism" or "racist political behaviour"? Some people are racist. What does it take for those people to go to a racist demo, vote for a racist candidate, etc? That is a different question from "why are those people racist?". That's all I was trying to say.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

Agree with Jo basically

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

But again, are you talking about an attitude or about the translation of an attitude into political behaviour? In the latter case, it's not obvious at all that economics doesn't play a key role.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

What does "racism is primarily driven" mean? Historically, we have a sense of where it comes from as an attitude. But if the question is when racism translates to political behaviour--voting, demonstrating--then leaving economics out seems dogmatic and moralistic. We don't do that for other issues.

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25d

The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24d

[email protected] on Platonov, the commune form, and work satisfaction on an interstellar ship: illstarredletter.substack.com/p/read-letter

Plummeted into autumn, which is my favourite season but also has a tendency to crush one with duties. I don't believe in duty. I am trying to become uncrushed.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 25d

The myth that racism is primarily driven by economic conditions must die, especially on the left. It is a misdiagnosis and a kind of excuse

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 28d

Alexandra Road Estate though. Not as good to begin with but not a failure either. And also gorgeous

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 28d

I adore it. But it’s kinda sad that it worked when similar projects failed just because of where it is and because basically it was always mostly for rich people. I mean, it’s a lesson, but one that is prone to ponens/tollens.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28d

The Barbican is a relatively recent building complex but it just feels totally beyond the capacity of our society to make anything this cool now, like the remnant of some fallen civilisation whose ruins we live amidst.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Sep 9

Some academic disciplines are three appeals to authority in a trenchcoat