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@FeyeraBender

1 year

for years i thought the UK speed camera sign depicted a Victorian bellows camera pointing to the right, but it’s just a boring CCTV camera pointing towards the viewer :/

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me when i point at something gross

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not to brag but i’m very much enjoying the way that having a romantic partner can make what would otherwise be mundane activities into fun & potentially memorable ways to spend ur time

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brands marketing to gays vs. my gay friends

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@FeyeraBender

11 months

why is there such an industry of people on the left wilfully misunderstanding & misrepresenting the skilled/unskilled labour distinction?? in the context of labour organising, it’s really important to understand what it actually means!

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Unskilled labor is truly nothing but a capitalist myth to keep workers down

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1 year

one must imagine sisyphus happy

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1 year

Why was Pingu’s dad always ironing when none of his family wore clothes?

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@FeyeraBender

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the UK homelessness charity sector is largely a mess, with bosses on incredibly high salaries; withdrawal symptoms are potentially life-threatening; giving someone food instead of cash won’t help them pay off any debts they may have; people deserve agency

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

super easy for people to develop reactionary views when their communist politics are grounded primarily in an aesthetic fascination

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Jay Sutherland

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1 year

Something about massive headphones that go around your head that signal something very individualistic and neoliberal. A clear sign that you don’t wanna chat on the street or the bus. Small earphones less so. Blocking out the world doesn’t make it go away.

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@FeyeraBender

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it’s so easy to interpret the “bi” in bisexual as referring to “those with genders like mine, and those with genders not like mine”, and i was so sure people who cared enough about that had agreed upon this interpretation like a decade ago

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1 year

like i thought it was one of these:

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5 months

given that the SAT is for general college admission (into a more generalised form of higher eduction) and STEP is specifically for people wanting to study mathematics at one of three notionally elite universities, this seems like a silly and kinda mean-spirited comparison

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Are American teenagers just thick? Are their exams just piss easy? That's daft. That's GCSE at most.

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did many people actually have concrete and specific role models as a child ?? i feel like the sense in which this is a big part of growing up is overblown

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@YorkRoadProject I have seen that it has been removed. Thank you.

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2 years

not a smoker but an ally

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@FeyeraBender

11 months

it’s not an abstract evaluation regarding individuals’ capacities, or how impressive we ought to find them, OR how meritorious their labour is. it reflects a relative measure of the (historically specific) average training-hours required to develop competence in the different

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2 years

you have “imposter syndrome”, i genuinely tricked decision-makers at an elite bourgeois university into thinking i am good at philosophy. we are not the same

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3 years

me realising 2 years into a PhD in philosophy of science that i don’t actually care about philosophy of science

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8 months

unoriginal but: like Gramsci, one reason why academic socialists like Luxemburg so much is because she didn’t win power, and hence had no opportunities to wield force per the necessities of political authority—thus they can appreciate her from a safe moral & theoretical distance

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@MarxistArtist

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Why do non-MLs like Rosa Luxembourg so much?

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@FeyeraBender

4 months

nooo human life is to be both lived *and* contemplated, embrace spiritual freedom!!

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@FeyeraBender

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i think it’s strange that there are these mid-20s pseudo-progressive edgy personas who want to reintroduce r****d as friendly mockery

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

there's a genre of post now where someone will (sincerely or not, idk) ask a truly interesting meta-scientific question that has a complex answer, but lots of obnoxious people *who do not themselves have an answer* will scoff and say the question is silly and its answer trivial

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@FeyeraBender

1 year

people will go to great lengths to avoid thinking about political economy lol

David Perell

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Why do elite colleges pump students into the same five industries: law, medicine, tech, investing, and management consulting? For answers, let’s turn to the philosopher René Girard.

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

when i was a kid i asked my dad what the meaning of life is and he said “son, that is a syntactically malformed question and hence warrants no meaningful answer” and you know what that always stuck with me to this day 😭😫🙏

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1 year

i’m sorry to have disenchanted this for others as well lol

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

me deciding whether to call something “a concept”, “a notion” or “an idea”

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1 year

never seen this show but whenever i see this screenshot i die a little inside

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2 months

this is besides the main point, but i don't think works like the one they're damaging properly function as works of art in the first place; so the people complaining about the action on those terms (as damage to important art or whatever) are making a conceptual mistake imo

Palestine Action

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BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.

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@FeyeraBender

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labour tasks required in production. when competence in a given task requires, on average (and under particular historical & technological conditions) a lot of additional training-hours to develop (beyond general education) the labour used in fulfilling it is called “skilled

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

reactionaries will be like “consider this from an *evolutionary* perspective” and proceed to just make shit up

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i think it kinda degrades the very idea of art if you inform the viewer about stuff like this prior to them seeing it

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Christopher Nolan says the color scenes in #Oppenheimer are ‘subjective’ and the black-and-white scenes are ‘objective’ (via @totalfilm )

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

you want me to kiss a man. The thing that killed Jesus

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@FeyeraBender

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what do these people think "the market" even is

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jesus christ

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@FeyeraBender

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this marketing is so insufferable and pretentious and I feel like even if ur a fan of the songs u should be able to see that

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The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and…

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3 years

remember when people were like "bringing up a relatable story from your own life after I tell you about something from mine is deeply offensive"? that was wild.

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@FeyeraBender

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@sebjenseb trusting mankind quarterly is probably a predictor of something

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not a measure of moral worth or meritoriousness. and “competence” here effectively means – can you do the task in the time for which the capitalist has paid you to do it? whether an individual does the task in a more or less technically impressive way is besides the point, since

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@FeyeraBender

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labour”. when it doesn’t require a lot of additional training-hours (e.g. when the bulk of the training-hours are covered by general education, such that a large section of workers will have developed competence), the labour is called “unskilled”. it’s a difference by degree, and

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@FeyeraBender

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or we could stop treating “boys” as destined to become men 🤷

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people tie themselves in such crazy knots over this but IMO it’s a big problem that our society doesn’t offer a positive vision of masculinity and i think it’s a big thing that drives young men crazy (esp if they lack role models in their life)

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

me when me when philosophers STEM-lords criticise criticise philosophy philosophy

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

kings college (cambridge) has gender neutral toilet signs in the student bar—except they are reversible, so they can be flipped back to male/female outside of term, when they need to appease the sensibilities of their conservative benefactors lol

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@FeyeraBender

10 months

traditional philosophers are made uncomfortable by marxism and perhaps even more so by psychoanalysis because they dislike the idea that someone might be able to explain the real mechanisms behind their beliefs

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3 years

the phrase "the cost of living" is horrifying

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2 years

ok hear me out: teaching, but without any assessment or grading

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

analytic philosophers when they use a ~silly~ illustrative example in their boring ass papers

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

i still write like an undergraduate doing their dissertation: first i “think about” the thing for several months, then i unevenly read around the topic for a few weeks, and finally i write the whole thing in the 4 days immediately before the deadline

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

yeah sex is great but have u ever underlined a multi-line passage from a text without ur hand wobbling off course even once

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

just learned that Richard Rorty planned to teach an “alternative history of modern philosophy” course at Princeton that wouldn’t mention any canonical figures, but eventually gave up because he believed he was unable to do it without mentioning Kant. coward.

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

@honeym0000n when they told you they didn't want any trouble and suggested that they were in emotional distress, what was it that made you decide to keep going?

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

love being a trainee philosopher, my life feels so balanced

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@FeyeraBender

11 months

capitalists just want the task done “on time”. and labour that is, in certain historical conditions, skilled (e.g. transcribing a text, in times/places where literacy requires a lot of additional training-hours beyond general education) is in other conditions unskilled, due to

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@FeyeraBender

11 months

difference in technology and in (access to) general education. this is all necessary for understanding deskilling, a key tactic used by capitalists in their struggle against labour, and how it affects worker fungibility (if a task requires relatively few additional training-hours

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@FeyeraBender

3 years

i crunched the numbers and it turns out that i am the most incompetent person to be studying for a PhD in all of human history. fascinating!

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

every time a philosopher uses the phrase “ways of knowing” they should be required to give at least three examples

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@FeyeraBender

2 months

find it generally sinister but also epistemologically bad when self-identifying Parents™ insist that only people who have raised children can speak on the ethics of parenting, given that almost everyone has a lot of direct experience of parent-child relationships

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@FeyeraBender

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lots of british people are so motivated to call americans stupid and it’s funny because brits are also incapacitated by our school systems and general ideology

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@FeyeraBender

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academics who speak and read multiple languages are so obsessed with saying u can’t engage with ideas properly without speaking and reading multiple languages. funny

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@FeyeraBender

2 years

umm hey hi my first ever peer-reviewed paper, “Paul Feyerabend and the Dialectical Character of Quantum Mechanics: A Lesson in Philosophical Dadaism” is now available with open access in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 🥹

Paul Feyerabend and the Dialectical Character of Quantum Mechanics: A Lesson in Philosophical...

In 1966, Paul Feyerabend published a short essay on the relation between dialectical materialist philosophy and Niels Bohr’s quantum theory, in which he develops several provocative ideas about the...

www.tandfonline.com

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ordinary language philosophers be like

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not 100% sure what the vision is for communists who loudly call for the abolition of sex work but otherwise oppose any efforts to improve sex workers’ capacities to self-organise towards such an end; but it presumably starts with putting on one clown shoe, followed by another

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4 years

Academia is kinda just nerds trying to be celebrities tho...

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3 years

so loud

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1 year

academic philosophy requires a certain level of not changing ur mind about what you think every couple of days, that i just simply don’t possess

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@FeyeraBender

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historians of philosophy be like "I am the first person in all of human history to properly understand the ideas of this dude who has been read and discussed by literally millions of broadly competent people before me"

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childhood “how do i know the colours you see are the same colours i see?” to adulthood hegelianism pipeline

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@FeyeraBender

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then capitalists can buy the labour at a cheaper rate, since a greater number of available workers are to be able to do it—and if they can develop/purchase technologies that reduce the number of training-hours for the task, they can outmanoeuvre the people who were otherwise

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@chippedpale thank you, will look into this

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@FeyeraBender

11 months

the fact that the right use their own corruption of the concept to harm workers should not be a reason to throw out the whole thing; it should be a reason to wrestle it back from their perverse clutches! otherwise our understanding of political economy is left impoverished

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@FeyeraBender

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“are american teenagers just thick” is so rude and nasty but also just a bad way of analysing social intelligence lol; do you know how poorly funded and poorly organised US public education is? like what’s the goal here

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this kind of question confuses me cos surely academics who do this do it in much the same way as anyone else with a job, or anything else that occupies much of their time

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it’s cool that feyerabend was one of the first philosophers to address in writing the phenomenon of ‘epistemicide’, when he pointed out that we don’t know what e.g. a well-developed voodoo or hopi medicine might look like by now if europeans hadn’t committed various genocides

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3 years

philosophy is just saying "such that" a lot

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Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach:

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@FeyeraBender

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in the recent @leftofphil episode, the hosts commented on how many socialists fail to consider that winning power would mean we actually have to learn how to manage real economies, e.g. managing interest/inflation rates. One explanation offered for this was that many...

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saw this on instagram, quoting a US queer pamphlet from 1990 i hate this sentiment; it’s not true and it can dissuade people from actually engaging in real revolutionary activity. boooo 🍅🍅 do not bring this line back pls !

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@FeyeraBender

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[me after taking 6 Benadryl] so is there a Mrs Hat Man

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“skilled” workers (that is, before the new tech was brought in) when faced with their attempts at collective bargaining)

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@FeyeraBender

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when i see academics pour loads of attention into elaborating a special role for ~the intellectual~ within social movements, sometimes i get the feeling that they just want any excuse not to participate in what they take to be an “ordinary” way like anyone else

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it’s happening <3

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@FeyeraBender

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anyone teaching PhilSci 101 I am BEGGING u not to use Popper's exemplars for pseudosciences; we know why he chose Freud and Marx, we know his thinking was poorly motivated by personal history. Teach your students about the gunk that comes out of evo-psych and IQ research instead

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@FeyeraBender

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people who are like “actually, marxism is by now very well-regarded in academia” might consider looking into how many major research grants are awarded to explicitly marxist projects

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i like this silly selfie i took yday

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@joinaunionpls @tomrade_ yeah this is surely a consequence of the mounting reaction against trans people, not the other way around

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me when someone invokes the notion of “feminine modes of thought” as the basis of a feminist ethics

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@FeyeraBender

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what is meant by this hmmm

Challenge

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Why are so many left-wing people losers? Ben Ughetti discusses the factors behind the left's repellent image 🤢

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i don't think academia is for me and that makes me really sad

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@FeyeraBender

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girls i’m not gna lie to you i think finishing a PhD thesis is quite difficult

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@FeyeraBender

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how much further do you think the public proliferation of increasingly precise sexuality & gender categories will go before enough of us get bored & realise we can comfortably use fairly generic ones and then just get down into the specifics with non-categorical descriptions

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@FeyeraBender

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if this is a continental breakfast, what is an analytic breakfast

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@FeyeraBender

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queer people who want queerness to be a perpetual minority culture within an otherwise heterosexist society, rather than a politics directed at abolishing the modern/colonial gender system altogether confuse the hell out of me 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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fondly recalling when the @leftofphil hosts suggested Arendt might be a conservative and loads of political ~theorists~ (😤) got incredibly upset

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@FeyeraBender

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this is slightly polemical and a little impressionistic but: there’s a kind of received wisdom in liberal political theory/adjacent that goes something like “it is hubristic to claim to have a correct view of things; being hubristic is elitist and hence anti-democratic; tf,

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@FeyeraBender

1 year

wow i’m so sorry to have caused so much distress and discomfort ✌🏻😔

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i sincerely think it’s disrespectful to undergrad philosophers to describe Jordan Peterson’s or James Lindsay’s approach to history of philosophy as similar to theirs

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isn’t it exciting that the perennial question of whether academic philosophy has a “real-world impact” has been settled once and for all—by demonstration—since we can point to concrete cases of philosophers impactfully legitimating and abetting real-world cultures of transphobia

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@FeyeraBender

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i thought Goku was cool but mostly because i wanted to be able to fly and shoot ki from my hands

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