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
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· 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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Over the river and through the woods
January 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Over the river and through the woods
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I think in Trump’s mind and the minds of a lot of his followers (and probably ICE agents) Minneapolis was never properly punished for the George Floyd uprising, and now it’s finally time
January 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I think in Trump’s mind and the minds of a lot of his followers (and probably ICE agents) Minneapolis was never properly punished for the George Floyd uprising, and now it’s finally time
There is a straight line from Fox News getting angry about seeing Taylor Swift during football games to the contemptous way they dismiss Renee Good as a "self proclaimed poet." (a repost)
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Everybody Gets to Be a Fascist, or, What Taylor Swift Taught Me About Fascism - Notes - e-flux
Jason Read on Alberto Toscano and micro-fascism.
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January 10, 2026 at 12:56 PM
There is a straight line from Fox News getting angry about seeing Taylor Swift during football games to the contemptous way they dismiss Renee Good as a "self proclaimed poet." (a repost)
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www.e-flux.com/notes/590427...
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I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
The Vogue in Shaker Heights
January 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
The Vogue in Shaker Heights
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Something that needs to be elevated is that ICE agents have been instructed to threaten and illegally detain legal observers. It's a criminal conspiracy to deprive Americans of their 1st & 4th amendment rights.
Renee Good isn't the only victim ICE has targeted and won't be the last.
Renee Good isn't the only victim ICE has targeted and won't be the last.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Something that needs to be elevated is that ICE agents have been instructed to threaten and illegally detain legal observers. It's a criminal conspiracy to deprive Americans of their 1st & 4th amendment rights.
Renee Good isn't the only victim ICE has targeted and won't be the last.
Renee Good isn't the only victim ICE has targeted and won't be the last.
Night Vision by David Driskell on display at the Portland Museum of Art
January 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Night Vision by David Driskell on display at the Portland Museum of Art
Current reading pile
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Current reading pile
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I am honestly kind of stunned in a hopeful way that they did this
Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"
January 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I am honestly kind of stunned in a hopeful way that they did this
RFK Jr just basically flipping the food pyramid is further proof that we are being led into Bizarro World. Up is down, whole milk is the new vegetables, sickness is the new health.
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
RFK Jr just basically flipping the food pyramid is further proof that we are being led into Bizarro World. Up is down, whole milk is the new vegetables, sickness is the new health.
"ICE is here to protect us" Against what? People who will put up with some of the worst working conditions possible just so we can get avocados, a new roof, and someone to care for the people we do not want to care for?
January 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"ICE is here to protect us" Against what? People who will put up with some of the worst working conditions possible just so we can get avocados, a new roof, and someone to care for the people we do not want to care for?
Is this the first time in history that a nation has deputized an entire paramilitary force to go after people who for the most part are in it to do the jobs that no one else will do and under labor conditions that no one should accept?
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Is this the first time in history that a nation has deputized an entire paramilitary force to go after people who for the most part are in it to do the jobs that no one else will do and under labor conditions that no one should accept?
My review of Nick Nesbitt's Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians has been published online at Cultural Critique. It is really more of a review essay, discussing his book and the recent works of Pierre Macherey.
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We Have One True Idea: Theoretical Practice and the Practice of Theory | We Have One True Idea | Manifold@UMinnPress
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January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
My review of Nick Nesbitt's Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians has been published online at Cultural Critique. It is really more of a review essay, discussing his book and the recent works of Pierre Macherey.
manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
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Being Illegal: Ideology and the Law
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January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Long distance dedication to Texas A&M
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Long distance dedication to Texas A&M
The same people who want the right to run over protestors with their cars think that government agents are justified in shooting anyone in a car because "they were going to run them over."
January 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The same people who want the right to run over protestors with their cars think that government agents are justified in shooting anyone in a car because "they were going to run them over."
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Yes, it is ironic that the very people who are supposedly defending "Western Civilization" have banned a philosophy professor from teaching Plato, but this would not be any less wrong if they said this about Judith Butler, Samuel Delany, or Jules Gil Peterson.
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Yes, it is ironic that the very people who are supposedly defending "Western Civilization" have banned a philosophy professor from teaching Plato, but this would not be any less wrong if they said this about Judith Butler, Samuel Delany, or Jules Gil Peterson.
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One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
January 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
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There is power in just saying things directly. There's no reason every Democrat can't speak this way.
January 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
There is power in just saying things directly. There's no reason every Democrat can't speak this way.
If the term "gender ideology" can refer to Plato's Symposium then it is, as Judith Butler argued, nothing but a phantasmic projection of all of society's fears of sex and gender.
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
If the term "gender ideology" can refer to Plato's Symposium then it is, as Judith Butler argued, nothing but a phantasmic projection of all of society's fears of sex and gender.
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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