Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
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Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social
· Dec 25
The Double Shift
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Sp...
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It is more than a little awkward to realize that I had two books come out this year, a fact due more to different schedules and timelines of publishing than some prodigious productivity. The Double Shift from Verso...
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Happy Planet of the Apes day to all who celebrate.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy Planet of the Apes day to all who celebrate.
It has been a Jimmy Cliff day. Love this cover.
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Jimmy Cliff - Wild World (1970)
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November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It has been a Jimmy Cliff day. Love this cover.
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I still remember Chicken Little decades after reading the Space Merchants! Definitely agree fewer books embrace surreal idea like that these days.
I'm reading this book for my long-running book club focusing on sci-fi and fantasy. We read both old books and new and after years of doing it, we're on the verge of quitting new books. Old books are often not as well-written (this one is, though), but new books disappoint us by being boring af.
May 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I still remember Chicken Little decades after reading the Space Merchants! Definitely agree fewer books embrace surreal idea like that these days.
One more repost for Spinoza's birthday.
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The Imaginary Institution of Society: Spinoza's Version
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November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
One more repost for Spinoza's birthday.
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I was obsessed with this book as a kid and made my parents read it to me so many times. I found a copy in an LFL this morning and took this picture. How it started/How it is going.
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I was obsessed with this book as a kid and made my parents read it to me so many times. I found a copy in an LFL this morning and took this picture. How it started/How it is going.
Another repost for Spinoza's birthday
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Losing Strategies: Spinoza and Marx - Notes - e-flux
Jason Read shows how Spinoza and Marx illuminate the passivity of laboring subject.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Another repost for Spinoza's birthday
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Anyone who attacks Mamdani will receive favorable ink in the NYT, including open white supremacists.
Expect relentlessly negative coverage of his administration from this hack paper.
Expect relentlessly negative coverage of his administration from this hack paper.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anyone who attacks Mamdani will receive favorable ink in the NYT, including open white supremacists.
Expect relentlessly negative coverage of his administration from this hack paper.
Expect relentlessly negative coverage of his administration from this hack paper.
Any attempt to reconcile a dystopian premise with an upbeat ending ends up feeling forces and cheesy. That is my review of the latest Running Man, which otherwise tried to do a much better job of capturing the anger and desperation of the novel.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Any attempt to reconcile a dystopian premise with an upbeat ending ends up feeling forces and cheesy. That is my review of the latest Running Man, which otherwise tried to do a much better job of capturing the anger and desperation of the novel.
Harder They Come Jamaican Movie 🎬
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November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Another Spinoza birthday repost, a recording of an attempt to breakdown the Ethics in a little over two hours.
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Spinoza’s Philosophy
With Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert.In this seminar we finally lay out and discuss the core topics from Spinoza’s major philosophical works, and discuss some of the issues involved with trying to re…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Another Spinoza birthday repost, a recording of an attempt to breakdown the Ethics in a little over two hours.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2023/12/23/s...
culturepowerpolitics.org/2023/12/23/s...
Reposted for Spinoza's birthday
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Logic of Alternation: Spinoza’s Prehistory of Ideology (and its Marxist History)
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November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Reposted for Spinoza's birthday
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Haymarket books are having a holiday sale, 40% off until January 2nd. Now is a great time to pick up The Production of Subjectivity or...
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The Production of Subjectivity
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November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Haymarket books are having a holiday sale, 40% off until January 2nd. Now is a great time to pick up The Production of Subjectivity or...
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Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
I watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and thought it was fine, some great sets and performances and some unnecessary back story. I liked his Creature from the Black Lagoon movie better.
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Make Monsters Great Again: Timeliness and Untimeliness in The Shape of Water
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November 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and thought it was fine, some great sets and performances and some unnecessary back story. I liked his Creature from the Black Lagoon movie better.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/01/make...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/01/make...
I do not know if Trump continues the odd tradition of the pardoning of turkeys, but reposting this is a holiday tradition for me.
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The True Meaning of Thanksgiving
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November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I do not know if Trump continues the odd tradition of the pardoning of turkeys, but reposting this is a holiday tradition for me.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Will trade treats for love
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Will trade treats for love
"Trump's sinister achievement is to delegitimize the old intellectual and political establishment while at the same time cementing the racial hierarchies and regimes of repression that this elite exploited during the war on terror." Pankaj Mishra, "Liberal Totalitarianism," Harper's December 2025
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Trump's sinister achievement is to delegitimize the old intellectual and political establishment while at the same time cementing the racial hierarchies and regimes of repression that this elite exploited during the war on terror." Pankaj Mishra, "Liberal Totalitarianism," Harper's December 2025
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This, and isn't him acting as if he liked Zohran just textbook fascist strategy? Like, superficially acknowledging that leftist values (housing, free childcare,...) are important to people without actually addressing these needs in practice?
Trump really has no core beliefs beyond self-interest, self-indulgence, and self-congratulation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This, and isn't him acting as if he liked Zohran just textbook fascist strategy? Like, superficially acknowledging that leftist values (housing, free childcare,...) are important to people without actually addressing these needs in practice?
Reposted now that Good Boy is streaming on Shudder
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Just a Dog: Immediacy and Mediation at the Movies
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November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Reposted now that Good Boy is streaming on Shudder
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The Thing
Blade Runner
The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max 2)
They Live
Blade Runner
The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max 2)
They Live
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Thing
Blade Runner
The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max 2)
They Live
Blade Runner
The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max 2)
They Live
"Gold standard science" just means who ever has the gold, the wealth, gets to say what counts as science.
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Gold standard science" just means who ever has the gold, the wealth, gets to say what counts as science.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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Ironically the humanities are gonna bring down AI 😂
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ironically the humanities are gonna bring down AI 😂