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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 9m

I should have been a Thomist /jk

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 9m

I already mark up my books in print and I'm being induced to create new annotation orthography in an already idiosyncratic style lmfao

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 12m

ok jokes aside I'm unironically having so much fun

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 13m

doth the meme always presage reality

new copy of Aristotle's Metaphysics (translated by C. D. C. Reeve; Hackett, 2016)

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 13m

or doth reality presage the meme

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 13m

doth the meme always presage reality

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 5h

vtubers Mint Fantome and Dokibird playing R34ddle, only to find themselves

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 5h

@paizuri.moe

vtubers Mint Fantome + Dokibird playing R34ddle

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 7h

Stalinism was just the reinvention of Right Hegelianism

intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 13h

the first thing coming to mind here is reading how some Marxists think the vanguard ought to do, which is bitterly ironic

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 16h

4/ Jesuit “reductions” in Paraguay: for Hegel, a paternalist best-case for Indigenous peoples. He saw them as too childlike for freedom, fit only for rule by others. We trace how this vision of tutelage and “education” through labour shapes his idea of self-government.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 11h

i think the (false) paradox of "the cozy game" is that it's far more memorable when there are elements of weirdness / unknowns / uncertainty in the world to it, like how early animal crossing neighbours were kinda mean sometimes and sims 1 is sorta creepy sometimes. the friction of consciousness

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 9h

the wings-dings in themselves

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Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 9h

Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 13h

the first thing coming to mind here is reading how some Marxists think the vanguard ought to do, which is bitterly ironic

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 16h

4/ Jesuit “reductions” in Paraguay: for Hegel, a paternalist best-case for Indigenous peoples. He saw them as too childlike for freedom, fit only for rule by others. We trace how this vision of tutelage and “education” through labour shapes his idea of self-government.

1732 engraved map of the Jesuit province of Paraguay, showing missions and missionary routes along the Paraná, Paraguay and Uruguay rivers, with Latin title cartouches and compass roses — a visual of Hegel’s “paternal” mission regime.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 16h

4/ Jesuit “reductions” in Paraguay: for Hegel, a paternalist best-case for Indigenous peoples. He saw them as too childlike for freedom, fit only for rule by others. We trace how this vision of tutelage and “education” through labour shapes his idea of self-government.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 16h

10/ Why does this still matter? Hegel’s ideas of freedom and progress still reverberate today, both in theory and in practice. Yet they’re entangled with a logic of tutelage – the belief that some peoples must be “guided” toward freedom – risking a repeat of his errors alongside his insights.

A 1921 Literary Digest map titled “Map of Palestine (British Mandate)”, depicting the territory administered by Britain under the League of Nations Mandate. The map outlines the borders of Palestine, neighbouring Syria and Egypt, and major cities such as Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza, and Amman. It marks railroads, principal highways, and regions “below sea level”, with shaded zones indicating definite and tentative mandate boundaries. The image visualises the political geography of a League of Nations Class A mandate: territory carved from the Ottoman Empire and placed under European administration “until such time as [its] peoples are able to stand alone”.

Context: In Hegel and Colonialism, we argue that this form of hierarchical sovereignty echoed Hegel’s philosophy of history, which framed colonial domination as an “educational stage” in the world-spirit’s progress toward freedom. The Mandate system’s logic of tutelage – administering “not-yet-mature” nations until “ready” for self-government – reproduced Hegel’s view that freedom develops unevenly across climates and peoples. British Idealists like Edward Caird and Jan Smuts adapted these ideas, recasting empire as a moral duty to guide “backward” peoples toward civilisation. Article 22 of the League’s Covenant codified this rationale by formalising graded classes of sovereignty, institutionalising a hierarchy of political maturity.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14h

A fantastic and important contribution to Hegel scholarship!

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 1d

fresh off of Capital, and learning what the legal form is is crystal-clear

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Coalitions are a funny thing

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

there is an apt Steve Harvey clip I am currently ideating.

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 2d

as the global hegemon & Israel's chief enabler, America gets more dedicated humiliation treatments, from Netanyahu bragging abt unconstitutional US laws & censorship to some Israeli who harasses US students with impunity mocking the mother of an American reporter who made a Twitter account for this

My son was in the flotilla. He is now in Israeli prison being mistreated. 22 Americans in all. Calls/messages to US Gov't officials are ignored. Many activists from other countries are already released. Needs national media attention.

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

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intellectual caliban (Lev) @levnekov.bsky.social · 2d

this genre is so much better when it has substantive lore

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2d

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston

All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

www.dropsitenews.com

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 2d

Adorno & Horkheimer taught me it was okay to be annoying

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