Taylor R. Genovese
@taylorgenovese.com
assistant professor of philosophy and religion. filmmaker and photographer. radical publisher.
interested in cosmism, science, tech, spaceflight, marxism, (extra)terrestrial borderlands.
taylorgenovese.com / kuznitsa.media / iskrabooks.org
views my own
interested in cosmism, science, tech, spaceflight, marxism, (extra)terrestrial borderlands.
taylorgenovese.com / kuznitsa.media / iskrabooks.org
views my own
Pinned
The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the ...
www.tandfonline.com
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
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Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
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🚨Release Day!🚨
📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen.
📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.
🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...
📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen.
📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.
🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🚨Release Day!🚨
📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen.
📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.
🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...
📕Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future-Torkil Lauesen.
📖A sweeping and authoritative study of Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, tracing its origins, evolution, and contemporary relevance.
🔗FREE PDF, and print editions available: iskrabooks.org/ue-past-pres...
Beautiful sunrise this morning.
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Beautiful sunrise this morning.
Snow day today!
Having grown up in the Sonoran Desert, I've only experienced snow days as faculty. This is my third one since moving to NY and it's still a little exciting.
Having grown up in the Sonoran Desert, I've only experienced snow days as faculty. This is my third one since moving to NY and it's still a little exciting.
🚨 Winter Storm Warning issued December 2 at 4:01AM EST until December 3 at 1:00AM EST by NWS Albany NY 🚨
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Snow day today!
Having grown up in the Sonoran Desert, I've only experienced snow days as faculty. This is my third one since moving to NY and it's still a little exciting.
Having grown up in the Sonoran Desert, I've only experienced snow days as faculty. This is my third one since moving to NY and it's still a little exciting.
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My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
Reposted by Taylor R. Genovese
Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!
Even though I'm teaching at a community college, I am interested in serving on graduate committees.
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
Taylor R. Genovese
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www.taylorgenovese.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!
Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!
Even though I'm teaching at a community college, I am interested in serving on graduate committees.
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
Taylor R. Genovese
Official website of Taylor R. Genovese.
www.taylorgenovese.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just a reminder to grad students out there that are beginning to fill out their committees, or faculty friends who know any students who may need an outside member!
Reposted by Taylor R. Genovese
Even though I'm teaching at a community college, I am interested in serving on graduate committees.
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
Taylor R. Genovese
Official website of Taylor R. Genovese.
www.taylorgenovese.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Even though I'm teaching at a community college, I am interested in serving on graduate committees.
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
If you need (or know of a student who needs) an outside member, I've added a little blurb on my website outlining topics I'm interested in supervising.
www.taylorgenovese.com#teaching
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Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
Back during my archaeology days before I my Dark Turn™️ to sociocultural, I used to knap all the time. I still have my leather, antlers, stones, and a stash of cores somewhere around...
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Back during my archaeology days before I my Dark Turn™️ to sociocultural, I used to knap all the time. I still have my leather, antlers, stones, and a stash of cores somewhere around...
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
Course name poll.
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Course name poll.
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
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For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
My goal in the next few years is to develop 2-4 new courses since my college only has intros to philosophy, ethics, & major religions.
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My goal in the next few years is to develop 2-4 new courses since my college only has intros to philosophy, ethics, & major religions.
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Not even in my most angst-filled, irreverent undergrad phase would I think it's appropriate to send an email to a professor who told me to read the syllabus for an answer to my question with an email that just says "?"
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Not even in my most angst-filled, irreverent undergrad phase would I think it's appropriate to send an email to a professor who told me to read the syllabus for an answer to my question with an email that just says "?"
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Benzodiazepines are the only reason I'm probably still alive being forced to live in this regime, especially for the past 15 years or so.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Benzodiazepines are the only reason I'm probably still alive being forced to live in this regime, especially for the past 15 years or so.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
Filled my @letterboxd.social milestones a few days ago. Pretty interesting spread.
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Filled my @letterboxd.social milestones a few days ago. Pretty interesting spread.
“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.”
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.”
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Our inaugural conference for SPINE was absolutely amazing yesterday. Incredible conversations, multimodal & politically disciplined proposals for moving forward in our current times, and many networking connections being made.
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our inaugural conference for SPINE was absolutely amazing yesterday. Incredible conversations, multimodal & politically disciplined proposals for moving forward in our current times, and many networking connections being made.
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Those of us who lived through 2008 know the kind of suffering that is on the horizon—and this looks like it'll be even worse; not just quantitatively, but also due to the regime's planned incompetence that is purposefully ill prepared to keep capitalism and the state in tact.
U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Those of us who lived through 2008 know the kind of suffering that is on the horizon—and this looks like it'll be even worse; not just quantitatively, but also due to the regime's planned incompetence that is purposefully ill prepared to keep capitalism and the state in tact.
In the online section of my introductory philosophy class of 26 students, all but one (1) student used AI on my Midterm.
We're toast.
We're toast.
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In the online section of my introductory philosophy class of 26 students, all but one (1) student used AI on my Midterm.
We're toast.
We're toast.
Are there journals out there that publish article-length translations?
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are there journals out there that publish article-length translations?
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
Dug a visual essay project out of mothballs to start working on again that's a very different kind of photography than I've done in the past.
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Dug a visual essay project out of mothballs to start working on again that's a very different kind of photography than I've done in the past.
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
I feel like I'm back working in archives!