Heidegger 101

the epigraph for tim brennan's vico book!

"the Ship was of Boston, called the Protestant Caesar"

Ruin the Friendship is kind of a sweet song

"In those days, the communists were, I tell you this in all truth, the only human ones." Patrick Chamoiseau

Neoliberals "are not from Venus or Mars; they are from the Titanic." branko2f7.substack.com/p/defeated-b...

Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo

The "wad" gave it away?

"O wad the power'd been given or sold me
To laugh at jokes the profs have told me."
From the student newspaper in 1921

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

I have had the Womack Zapata book sitting on the shelf for ages, feel very guilty about how little actually I know

Knoxville. Brownsville Road. Caller said that there is public drinking and a dice game. Caller doesn't like this.

“Too political in a country too unstable"

The tradition of all dead generations should really weigh like more of a nightmare on some brains out there

Absolutely

+1

yesssss

Which is a beautiful idea but I don't think bears any relation to what these actual institutions are plausibly capable of doing.

Yeah. I mean I disagree with several specific claims she makes. But I take her to be saying, at bottom, this is an opportunity to present a united front. We are finally being asked, in fact, to do so. We should sit down and figure out what that is.

I still think that! But also that she is perhaps the victim, perhaps the perpetrator, of cruel optimism here.

We conducted this interview before the election, but the insights in this article from @DSchrantz about what it takes to organize a multiracial coalition that can contest for real power feels very more urgent now
hammerandhope.org/article/walz...

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

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The dog has been romping around in the oregano and getting the leaves stuck in his silly fluffy ears. Not the worst smell.

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.