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Jon

@TheLitCritGuy

2 years

ah yes, famously pro-war author *checks notes* Leo Tolstoy

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okay, screw it, let Zizek host the Oscars

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5 years

I will be thinking about the words "pro-camp protestors" for a very long time.

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6 years

the complete and total inability of these people to conceive of literally any relationship in terms other than an economic exchange is genuinely horrific.

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Bezos to launch network of preschools: "The child will be the customer"

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4 years

Why is every city budget in the USA just the dril tweet about candles but for hyper militarised policing.

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4 years

Budget hearings begin Monday morning. Here’s a quick sampling of how your money is proposed to be spent.

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@TheLitCritGuy

8 years

Shakespeare understood Twitter trolls better than anyone

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New Amazon office in 🇳🇱 is an old prison 😂🤩

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6 years

American capitalism totally not resembling a decaying empire.

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5 years

Look, do I think Theresa May was a good prime Minister? No. But do I think we should respect her as a public servant and extend her some sympathy on what must be a difficult day? Also no.

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@TheLitCritGuy

4 months

rest in peace, king.

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@DannyDrinksWine

4 months

Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky on his 37th death anniversary.

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8 months

Reading Brecht again and found this in the uncollected poems from the war years

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6 years

Existential comics introducing Musk to socialism by owning him publicly:

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4 years

"Capitalism is probably the first instance of a cult that creates guilt, not atonement." - Benjamin, Capitalism As Religion, 1921

𝔸𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕝𝕒𝕖𝕤

@AmityShlaes

4 years

I still believe in markets. Markets do not fail us. We fail markets.

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

Plans for 2017:

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3 years

I don't know why but my local cafe has what appears to be a massive painting of Lenin on the wall

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6 years

"researching the idea of joking" is the most Elon Musk thing I've ever seen.

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6 years

Fascism 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 capitalism 👏🏽 in👏🏽 decay👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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@lopezlinette

6 years

Fascism 👏🏽 and 👏🏽 capitalism 👏🏽 are 👏🏽 inherently 👏🏽 incompatible 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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@TheLitCritGuy

4 years

Huge amounts of undergraduate teaching at university is done by underpaid and exploited PhD students who were recruited on the promise of a secure academic job which absolutely does not exist anymore.

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@mykola

4 years

Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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@TheLitCritGuy

6 years

THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT. I WROTE A WHOLE PHD CHAPTER EXPLAINING THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT. TRY ACTUALLY READING THE BOOK YOU SOULESS HACKS.

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3 years

Marx, reading Hegel.

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3 years

What's interesting about Parasite is how people's responses to it reveal so much about them rather than the work.

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7 years

Claiming that people will become more left-wing if they get access to education is just a outstanding self-own.

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7 years

Goodhart blames rise of left on more young people going to university then adds inexplicably "it's all there in the Captain Underpants film"

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7 years

Nature, you're doing amazing.

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8 months

A poem from 1943 that is almost unbearably sad

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2 months

Googling "philosophy masters degree" in a moment of weakness

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@TheLitCritGuy

5 years

It's #PrimeDayAmazon ! Please don't buy anything from there no matter how good the deals are, as Amazon workers are on strike and you spending your money is hurting their struggle for fair treatment from their employers. #PrimeDayStrike

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5 years

What does left unity look like?

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oh no, how sad.

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6 years

Me, looking at contemporary TV after #Brooklyn99 gets cancelled:

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2 years

@quendergeer "war..." "Go on" "...and peace" "Get the hell out of my office"

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@TheLitCritGuy

8 years

Europe in danger from violent immigrants who do not respect local culture and refuse to integrate:

England fans in fresh clashes with riot police in Marseille

England fans have been involved in a second day of violence in Marseille after throwing bottles at French riot police who retaliated with tear gas

www.theguardian.com

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

If you haven't seen it, my favourite conference story of all time.

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@TheLitCritGuy

4 years

Just a reminder that the Russell Group has nothing to do with educational quality and is a lobbying group designed to create the illusion of prestige at a small handful of UK universities.

Glen O'Hara

@gsoh31

4 years

What on Earth is the @ObserverUK doing publishing this shameful and untrue claim by @williamnhutton that non-Russell Group Unis don't go beyond online lectures? We've been exhausting ourselves offering everything - and I mean everything - for weeks. Retraction please.

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@TheLitCritGuy

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currently reading and thinking about

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@TheLitCritGuy

5 years

French billionaires have donated over 600 million euros in less than a day to help repair Notre Dame. Remember, it isn't that the super-rich can't help fix the problems we all collectively face, it's just that they don't want to.

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@TheLitCritGuy

6 years

Can't wait till we reach the logical end point and just give Amazon direct legislative control over swathes of the country.

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

Finished. #PhDone .

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The Telegraph

@Telegraph

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🏠Landlords are selling up en masse as a toxic cocktail of high mortgage rates and reduced tax relief destroy the buy-to-let business model

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6 years

Genuinely AMAZING take.

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5 years

im sorry, what

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@TheLitCritGuy

5 years

There should be more lotr socialism memes.

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6 years

Eternal mood.

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6 years

'democracy dies in darkness'

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6 years

OK, ACADEMICS, IT IS 2018. REPLY ALL AND REPLY DO TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

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7 years

Just remembered that Derrida's cat was called 'Logos' and I think that's the most Derrida thing I've heard in quite some time.

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Jon

@TheLitCritGuy

4 years

This aged extremely well indeed.

Jeremy Corbyn

@jeremycorbyn

14 years

Lib Dem Tory coalition. Wait for the cuts and the injustice to come, And Clegg claims to lead a progressive force! Trouble ahead!

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5 years

big mood.

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@TheLitCritGuy

6 months

4 books that had a major influence on your thought

Frank, Utopian Gothic Marxist

@FrankGothic

6 months

4 books that had a major influence on your political thought Shout out to @coffeewcomrades @TheLitCritGuy and @TheMagnificast to introducing me to some of these gems which have changed my life forever, and for the better!! ❤️

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@TheLitCritGuy

10 months

NEW BUTLERIAN JIHAD JUST DROPPED

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@daniel_dsj2110

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The cover to Judith Butler’s forthcoming book. Also a summary:

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4 years

i've never wanted to play disco elysium more

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3 years

Happy pride friends 🌈🌈🌈

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@TheLitCritGuy

2 years

I absolutely can't stand this -- modern historical categories being retroactively applied to old texts both dehistoricizes the text and reduces literary particularity to what we already know.

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@chris_loar

2 years

One of my students last week referred to *Paradise Lost* as “biblical fan fiction.” I can’t stop thinking about this.

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Once again, a #FreeSpeech PSA from @xkcdcomics : ( #FreeMilo crowd, this one's for you)

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2 years

Reminder this Christmas Eve, that if you are cold, they are. Let them in.

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@TheLitCritGuy

6 years

Jeff Bezos, observing married partners in complete bafflement, 'but WHO is the service provider here?

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Jon

@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

Wait till he finds out about something called "English literature."

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@TheLitCritGuy

8 years

A quote from Jo Cox's maiden speech to the House:

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@TheLitCritGuy

2 years

If someone wants to understand what Twitter is like, just show them this.

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@TheLitCritGuy

5 years

All the people who criticised the students and leftists for deplatforming Milo on the grounds that it would only make him more popular were massively wrong and we should stop paying attention to them.

Towleroad

@tlrd

5 years

Milo Yiannopoulos More Than $2 Million in Debt

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@TheLitCritGuy

6 years

"Read more, it'll make you right wing" "What should we read?" "How about this book about teaming up with anarchists to shoot fascists?"

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5 years

Love to consume books. Come, let us consume books together.

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6 years

MARY SHELLEY DID NOT SINGLE HANDEDLY CHANGE THE FACE OF BOTH HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION TO BE REFERRED TO IN THIS WAY.

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@TheLitCritGuy

1 year

COVER REVEAL -- coming next year from @RepeaterBooks .

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@TheLitCritGuy

3 months

Yeah, this is how I want a novel to start

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

What makes this pun truly unforgivable is that @GovMikeHuckabee clearly has no idea where Frankenstein is set.

Gov. Mike Huckabee

@GovMikeHuckabee

7 years

Dems select ticket for 2020. A match made in Transylvania

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4 years

two graphs I think about whenever I see people outraged about 'looting.'

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11 months

This thread, aside from being filled with flat out wrong claims, pulls the irritating move of projecting a contemporary discourse back through history thereby erasing the aesthetic, formal and literary developments of the Gothic itself (which is what the author is aiming at)

Jess Nevins

@jessnevins

11 months

Given the amount of fuss made here over “cozy horror” over the past month or so, I thought it might be of interest if I provided a bit of definitional & historical context. The term “cozy horror” has been misused as a pretext for shrill paranoiac screaming. Let’s not do that. 1/

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6 years

Happy labor day to my US comrades ✊✊✊

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SOME NEWS: I've just signed a contract for a book with this as the working title, to be published by the incredible team at Repeater Books.

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Me talking to all my students who are worried about graduating into a recession

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Struck by how much more engaging and interesting Tár is every time I see clips of this.

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@Screenplayed

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Bradley Cooper shared his concerns about filming the scene featuring Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. He mentioned, "That scene I was so worried about because we did it live... I was recorded live. I had to conduct them. And I spent six years learning…

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

Folks, we're going to build a dictatorship of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie are going to pay for it.

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4 years

Uber admitting that the only innovation it could offer was breaking labour laws.

NBC Bay Area

@nbcbayarea

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#BREAKING Uber CEO says the company will likely shut down temporarily if a court decides to classify drivers as employees.

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Started from the bottom, now we here:

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British journalism will absolutely melt your brain.

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@TheLitCritGuy

7 years

If you like 280 character Twitter you're going to love a new thing called "books."

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6 years

PhD: Specialize! Find your niche! Remember that original contributions to knowledge need to be specific! Post-PhD jobs: We need you to be able to teach and have expertise across the curriculum from Beowulf to modernism.

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@TheLitCritGuy

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*stares in Marxist*

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@business

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Economists are starting to suspect that unions were a better deal than textbooks made them out to be via @bopinion

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Look, at least they've started being honest about it.

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We are already dead and this is hell

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Happy birthday to one of the best to ever do it, who wrote a book I stumbled across as a graduate student that absolutely just rewired my brain.

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3 years

What I've read, 2020-21: a thread. (Tried to do this last year but *points wildly at everything* so let's try again..)

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"So how are things now you've handed in the thesis?"

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"Goodbye Lenin!" (2003)

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4 months old, still telling my son the woman being interviewed is President Hillary Clinton. May he never have a memory of a President Trump

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Bloch, encountering Adorno for the first time in years is a fun story

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Unwavering support to this 10 year old comrade already owning journalists without trying. Amazing work.

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I feel so seen

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8 years

When someone asks me what it's like applying for academic funding:

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No words RT @OliverJamesUK : A flower for every person that died within 6 weeks of ATOS finding them fit for work. http://t.co/ixYDtxfKaA

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Genuinely and hands down the funniest thing a person could conceivably say about "the left"

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Tucker: "The Left, to their great credit, are masters of organizing. They are willing to put aside their differences for the sake of achieving a common goal. They don't argue with each other in public. They know there's strength in numbers. Organizing is the path to power."

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Good morning and thank you to @PhilosophyTube for my new favourite reaction image.

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Cool, proportionate responses here:

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good for them.

Forbes

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A study shows people working from home are having sex, dating, taking naps and doing side hustles on company time

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Jordan Peterson's daughter dating a demon possessed tankie is not the twist I was expected for 2020.

Yugopnik

@yugopnik

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A Slav who seems to have pro-Stalin outlooks impregnated Jordan Peterson's daughter. This is simply too good, and explains quite a lot. Also - I've been to the club this photo is from.

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