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I've launched a blog in order to collate all my writings in one place. Right now everything I've written from 2015-2018 is up. 2019 writings and some new stuff to follow soon. Will also upload presentations and talks.
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10th yr PhD student at the dissertation defense:
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Silvia Federici just said “nature is magic, we have no scientific idea of how flowers get their colours from brown soil” and I am losing my goddamn mind.
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Once again asking philosophers to not include diagrams in their books
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Heidegger did the “but some of my best friends are Jewish” move. Incredible.
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Just finished Another classic of philosophy 🤗
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Adorno's The Essay as Form is just twenty pages of nonstop bangers
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POV: you just said Kant was a liberal
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The ideal candidate will: have written the phenomenology of spirit in 1807, The Science of Logic in 1831, is the culmination of the twenty five years of philosophy, and is named Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"[During 1968] Henri Lefebvre...when asked to provide the deans with a list of the more politically disruptive students in his classes, is said to have replied: 'Monsieur le doyen, je ne suis pas un flic.'" - Kristen Ross, May 68 & Its Afterlives
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Since universities are collapsing, should we bring back monasteries as centres of knowledge?
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Here’s the passage if you think I’m part of some CIA backed misinformation campaign. From “Beyond the Periphery of the Skin”
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Look at that mark down. The zeitgeist has spoken.
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@kleeposting
"The end of history will be a very boring time, well at least for those who don't get a dope ass gaming system" - Francis "Double Kill" Fukuyama
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Not entirely sure why I keep buying massive Paul Ricoeur books. Oh well.
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Just finished this, easily one of the best novels I’ve read in well, ever.
I’m ten pages in and this is just so so fantastic
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I wrote an irreverent introduction to the work of french theorist Sylvain Lazarus.
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Some recent acquisitions I plan on never reading
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Introduce yourself with seven books you haven’t read
1. Ulysses
2.Finnegans Wake
3. Moby Dick
4. Swans Way
5. Middlemarch
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crime and Punishment
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Today is Walter Benjamin’s birthday. You can celebrate it by reading him more carefully, you fucking chumps.
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US Congresswoman
@IlhanMN
tells
@AnushkaAsthana
why Margaret Thatcher is one of her political role models. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
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It’s the bible for people who think Kant is a Marxist
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There are like 100 people at this digital Althusser conference. What the fuck nerds, don't you have anything better to do? (I am at the digital Althusser conference).
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Don’t ever talk to me or my sons again
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My six favourite reads of the year, lots of nature and lots of suffering.
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He’s read every author you’ve heard of, and every author you haven’t heard of. His commitment to the bit transcends the Sisyphean and becomes Herculean. Award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Posting to
@TheLuisPanini
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Working on an essay on….Dark Souls?! Why not.
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Finished my 9000 word essay on Schiller and Ranciere. Here’s pretty much everything I cited. Hope my readers don’t hate it.
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For Jacobin Magazine I wrote about Benjamin's Critique of Violence and its enduring relevance a full century after it was first published.
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Re that Badiou post surprised to see so many people who are paid to think decide they need not think about the relation between politics and philosophy. He’s only ‘A terrible thinker’ because you’ve never thought about change or history, you ivory clowns.
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I think this is on the radar of most people I know, but if it’s not it should be. As beautiful as everyone says.
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Finally started reading this. As good as everyone has been saying.
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The plan? Write 9000 words in one week.
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I guess now is as good a time as any to read this
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Gilles Deleuze demonstrates what a body can do (1987)
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First substack post of the year is out. It's on Christina Tudor Sideri's 'Under the Sign of the Labyrinth', what it means to do and write philosophy, and the slow decay of public philosophy into private method that the book resists.
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More obscure than the last book I recommend but I thought this was really incredible. It’s coming out in a few weeks from
@nyrbclassics
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Giorgio Agamben sure does love using pornography as an example. Very suss if you ask me. Let’s see that browsing history, Giorgio.
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This kind of advice should be abolished. As scholarly as it sounds it understands neither reading nor the nature of insight.
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Defending this bad boy tomorrow so I can become a master of philosophy. Can I get a “considered readings and generous questions for thee” going in the replies?
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@bathr0bespierre
This happened at The New School but we got them to reverse the decision. Give em hell.
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Alain Badiou, Logics of Worlds (2006)
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“Your Paper had us perplexed, but your defence was a major flex”. - Jay Bernstein (Pictured: A Master of Philosophy)
Defending this bad boy tomorrow so I can become a master of philosophy. Can I get a “considered readings and generous questions for thee” going in the replies?
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I wrote about Spanish literature and its absence in our modern imaginary, by way of a review of two recent titles by Sublunary Editions.
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For the late night crowd, here's my interview with Asad Haider in the CRB:
"Emancipatory politics, in my view, begins with a decision. Not some kind of decision about who your friends and enemies are, but a decision about people’s capacity."
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Everyone at NYU has a GPA of 3.95 and wants to write a dissertation applying schizoanalysis to the work of symbolist crypto poet Gregor VunderSchriften but also walks around the library on skype saying shit like " OMG Becky, I can't believe your mum didn't get you into Harvard."
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Apparently we're doing Steely Dan Discourse? Here, I hope this flow chart helps.
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Found my old box of theory books in my parents house. What a delight.
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Protestors in Canberra march on Parliament House, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter in the US and to bring an end to the mistreatment of minorities and the indigenous population at the hands of Australia police.
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I’m teaching a five week course on Sylvain Lazarus’ Anthropology of the Name at the Melbourne School
of Continental Philosophy. Details and enrolment below:
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I reckon in 2023 is gonna be the year of Sylvain Lazarus. So you should read my short introduction to his work
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Filled all the bookshelves in my room, now what?
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If anything happens on the Manhattan Bridge tonight it will be solely the fault of the
#NYPD
and
@NYCMayor
for not deescalating and letting them
#offthebridge
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May have gotten carried away at the Verso sale two months ago
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Another fucking useless philosophy diagram
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Trying to draft 5000 words on Benjamin,, Melancholy, Kafka and Revolution by the end of the week. Wish me luck fam.
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I'm presenting at Australian Society for Continental Philosophy conference next month on Walter Benjamin, Melancholy and Revolution. Here's the abstract, for those interested.
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My contributors’ copy of Firmament arrived in the mail today. Very cool to be, somehow, a part of this.
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Feel like this week was insanely good for criticism and writing. Here’s some cool shit I read this week from (mostly) this week:
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I finished reading Jean Giono’s Hill this morning and uh goddamn what a book. The book is just one hundred pages of crisis, 6/5 go read it right now.
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I wrote about Platonov’s novel Chevengur, fools and idiots, Lenin and Don Quixote and State and Revolution. Link in my bio if you want to read it.
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Franz Kafka was born on this day 138 years ago. I wrote about why he still seems relevant to us, beyond the usual refrain regarding alienation and bureaucracy.
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My personal criteria for making it as a writer is getting paid a reasonable salary to write, but I’ll take getting sent review copies you didn’t ask for as a crucial milestone.
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I wrote about Elias Canetti's The Book Against Death, the eternal conflict between death and literature and Austrian intellectual history for The Millions
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People are always like Foucault is a neolib but every time I sit through a training at a shitty hospitality job I think “this motherfucker was right about everything”
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My first essay of 2021 just dropped over at Blue Labyrinths: “On The Political Significance of the Abolishment of Time in the Field of Literature”
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@scottjshapiro
From a few months ago:
"I am happy to write you a recommendation letter for less competitive programs"
and, from my honours year
"This chapter draft is simply reading notes rendered in prose form"
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Apparently Heidegger use to sign off letters to his wife with "Your Mohrchen". I am told Mohrchen means "baby carrot". What a dweebus.
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It is time to be both sad and confused
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@DevonHanel
No greater feeling (for me) that coming across a passage or argument that illuminates or clarifies something I've been thinking about. When you see an argument - yours or someone else's - come together, its bliss.
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I understood like 25% of this but boy oh boy what a cool 25% that was.
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March reading. De Beauvoir reminds one that to live with your freedom is neither easy nor obvious; Freud invents evolutionary psychology (but this time it’s sexy); Sontag ponders the tyranny of the image in lucid prose; Fraser informs us that all evils are economic.
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Working on an essay, but on what?
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My copy of logics of disintegration is falling apart….
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Of course everyone knows how a true Aussie translation of Proust would go: “Fucken ages ago, I would go to bed heaps early”
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In exciting news, my first proper journal article has appeared on Machiavelli, Devotion and Political Theology. It's in a pretty obscure place, so if you would like a pdf let me know.
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Submitting this as my final paper for my Hegel course.
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I found an open bookstore. I regret nothing.
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Here are the six best books I read in 2020. At lot less fiction this year, a lot more philosophy. Will over correct next year. Favourites were probably Theory of the Subject and Elisabeth Costello.
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At the start of the month I put in a big Haymarket books order during their sale. It took a month to arrive and I kept buying books, so uh here’s my “recent acquisitions”.
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