Jon Baskin
@BaskinJon
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Founding Editor @the_point_mag
New York, NY
Joined November 2013
Apparently this quote is supposed to represent the *pro* English dept position
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“The overextension of psychological explanations lends itself to an overvaluation of credentialized, technical expertise—analysts’ own.” Ricky Levitt and Christie Offenbacher on the Regression in Psychoanalysis’s “Social Turn” https://t.co/PalU915F5v
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Recent developments in psychoanalysis have sent analysts searching for solutions to issues far upstream of the clinical encounter. This “social turn” in the field has led them no closer to solving...
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"Once it becomes apparent that the individual writer is maneuvering and manipulating out of her own consciousness to instead do the bidding of consensus thinking ... reading is pointless."
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“Flat Earth” is a provocative commentary on an artistic field reduced to its most superficial and craven impulses.
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For the Sincerity Files, a journey from the Grand Inquisitor to the gooners
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Few recent diagnoses of fascism in America are worth reading — at least not compared to the one “American Proust” Harold Brodkey wrote in 1992, soon after publishing his critically savaged magnum opus The Runaway Soul. My latest at @the_point_mag:
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Topical though its title may sound, Harold Brodkey’s 1992 essay “Notes on American Fascism” probably couldn’t be published today.
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New online, @BaskinJon and Michael Lipkin continue our series of conversations on graduate education by asking: What does it mean to say humanistic scholars “produce knowledge” in the first place? And is it important to ask what this knowledge is “for”? https://t.co/KebbFKO2ks
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For @the_point_mag, I dug into the heart of Michael Lentz's deeply personal novel Schattenfroh. With thanks to my editor @jaizuss_.
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In the summer of 2024, Deep Vellum, a Dallas-based press, announced a program to bring out “badass avant-garde masterpieces that would otherwise not be translated or published.”
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fascinating how the core message of ferrante’s neapolitan novels, the thing they repeat again and again, is that being a writer is the worst, most boring, most cowardly thing you could do with your life, and that instead you should be like lila and found a b2b Saas startup
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For @nytopinion I wrote about how A.I. in schools will render our students subcognitive. https://t.co/D9o2vDPnU7
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Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
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New online: Robert Pippin, @AgnesCallard, @jonnythakkar, @BaskinJon, @dadsein, Ben Jeffery, @TBartscherer, Laura Baudot, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear. https://t.co/0EsmSsZV4Q
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Jonathan Lear, who died last month at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, was, in addition to being a distinguished professor in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the author of...
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"For us human beings, using language is not a skill like any other — it is the way we do almost anything at all."
Today in @nytopinion, Point editor @a_n_a_berg on the fundamental threat AI poses to education: disrupting the development of students’ capacity to think. https://t.co/D1Hs24TGVO
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My piece for the Point about the sympathy of right-populists for bad AI art is now up: https://t.co/Xmvzfftdfm
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Prodigies and abominations stalk cyberspace: images of Trump as a professional wrestler; of Trump as Rambo; of alligators wearing ICE hats; of prominent men in ill-fitting suits and prominent women...
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Read just one paragraph to see why so many Democrats are frustrated with their party. It’s the lede of scathing WashPost review of new book by Biden’s press secretary. From Post’s star non-fiction book critic Becca Rothfeld.
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Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.
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Sad to learn that the only reasons academics write for the public are careerism and self-affirmation. Had thought we might sometimes do it out of genuine curiosity or conviction.
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Didn’t finish this essay because I can’t get past this part in which the author levels serious accusations against a writer without showing her thinking at all. Instead she hyperlinks to a Paris Review piece on not reading Ayn Rand and a long tweet, both written by Castro,
"Contemporary manosphere literature certainly paints a landscape of patriarchy in crisis, at war with itself about how it should wield its own power." @Leah_Abrams, "Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts" https://t.co/sa1r5M3E7a
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my poor @crc_nyu students are going to have to read this next semester
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