Chris O'Kane
@chrisokane_nyc
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Personal Account Critical Theory and (the Critique of) Political Economy Mid-Queens
Joined July 2020
As a 43-year-old member of a 4th generation Quaker family this really hits home:.(the guy on the right even looks like my dad did when I was young)
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RT @NeilGray00: This is insidious crap. Means-testing was one of the major destroyers of universal 'general needs' public housing in the UK….
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RT @kayrosso1: Trump II has brought big capital to heel and removed all barriers to the easy deployment of military and federal policing pe….
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sounds awesome.
I’m currently working on a proposal exploring the relationships (hidden and apparent) between autonomia/Italy’s ‘movement of 77’ and the global punk explosion - I’m working this up into a possible manuscript/exhibition. If anyone else is interested in discussing more- contact me.
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RT @catshatecops: Anyone interested in reading 30+ just-published pages of me talking about G.W.F. Hegel in the Philosophical Journal of….
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RT @FtcManning: Almost 20 years ago I thought Sohn-Rethel had an important answer to an important question. I read him closely & decided h….
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RT @yuhline: This is how you can tell Andrew Cuomo doesn’t live in New York City, he doesn’t even know the difference between rent controll….
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grim.
New: FBI counterintelligence and public corruption agents are among those being deployed on overnight shifts to combat DC carjackings/violent crime. There's some frustration within the bureau b/c the agents have minimal traffic stop and patrol training
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RT @tonyjballas: 📣De Facto ep21 is LIVE!🚨. @alanalentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME. Topics include:.-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 16….
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It is the interest of private persons; but its content, as well as the form and means of its realization, is given by social conditions independent of all.".
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"the point is rather that private interest is itself already a socially determined interest, which can be achieved only within the conditions laid down by society and with the means provided by society; hence it is bound to the reproduction of these conditions and means.
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‘a vigorous praxis, which relates to the total structure of society and not to isolated social phenomena, needs a total theory of society.’ #stilltrue.
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could be something to this. .
En «Dialéctica de la Ilustración», Horkheimer y Adorno denuncian la paradoja de la modernidad: la Ilustración, nacida para liberar al ser humano mediante la razón, termina creando nuevos mecanismos de control y dominación, incluso más sutiles y eficaces. 1/3
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Capping off the summer by writing a talk for this conference on why Adorno's notion of totality is relevant for critical theory today.
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RT @karl_fh: The previous record for terrorism arrests across Britain in an entire year was 412. The Metropolitan Police have now arrested….
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If i was writing this book from scratch i would also talk about fetishism as misrecognition, which seems to be a new approach that has emerged since I finished my PhD.
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RT @bradlander: True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: @andrewcuomo presided over the loss of 96,064….
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Increasingly convinced this has repeated itself in the 'Marx revival'.
thinking back about the last chapter of rose's hcs polemical/provocative as usual, but once someone looks at the barebones sociology of the gesturing towards "material interest" a lot of marxism still to this days falls back to.
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: Seems like there's a straightforward solution to this. If Mamdani trades up for luxury housing at Gracie Mansion, that un….
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RT @histmat: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.A Book Talk with author Alyssa Battistoni, Andreas Malm, and Katharina Hunfe….
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Join us for a discussion of 'Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature,' with author Alyssa Battistoni, Andreas Malm & Kat Hunfeld.
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RT @_rob_scott: “It is through the (mis)recognition of oneself as a person (a bearer of property rights) that one comes to (mis)recognise o….
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