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cordelia

@cozyunoist

1 year

that’s right man. that’s very good, that *is* a photograph of nathan fielder.

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2 years

the internet archive is not under attack. it's at war for the idea of libraries. (a thread on the stakes of hachette v ia): you probably know the ia for public domain content or the wayback machine. breathless posts aside, this suit isn't about those: it's about books. (1/n)

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it’s okay, honey, you can go back to sleep. there’s no such thing as Theory. english departments aren’t real

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cordelia

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2 years

a world where the ia loses still probably has the wayback machine & a lot of archival data in it. but it is soon to no longer have libraries, just netflix for books. a world where the ia wins, though, is one where every library in the world is the library of alexandria. (10/10)

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cordelia

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4 years

the only time i've ever wanted to operate heavy machinery is when intoxicated

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

2 years

getting the pride month discourse out of the way now

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cordelia

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2 years

so this isn't authors vs piracy. it's about the possibility forging a pathway, in our existing, awful, law, for libraries to function like they're supposed to. every copy of every book a library owned could be checked out as an ebook. at that point, who even needs libgen? (7/n)

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cordelia

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1 year

i don't know how to even think about the prospect of a shared society, let alone a shared politics, with the people who think the poor and the mad aren't people like they are. if you can't see how this could've been you, you lack the empathy it takes to live with other people

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cordelia

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3 years

@forcedmasc access to spaces is a matter of both taking & giving. and, while you've always been welcome to share this space with me, the non-reciprocity i'm feeling right now is really hampering our ability to see one another

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cordelia

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3 months

not to dampen others’ enjoyment of curb, but as far as being secretly anti-zionist goes, this is what the author of that episode said about its genesis

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

intrinsically unable to take seriously anyone who uses the word authoritarian

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

2 years

at the moment, libraries can't buy many ebooks at all. your local library doesn't buy ebooks from overdrive; they pay overdrive like 3x normal-book-price for a certain # of reads. after enough readers, the 'book' vanishes. great business to be in, unless you like books. (5/n)

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cordelia

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2 years

under cdl, libraries can simply... buy, & lend, books. you can either loan your copy either digitally or physically, but not both at once. this is what the ia aims to establish as legal precedent. libraries can own books again! no more books without legal ebooks available! (6/n)

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2 years

the ia has spearheaded the development of a legal argument that says you can, called 'controlled digital lending'. the rationale is, if i can ensure that only one total copy gets lent at a time, i'm still lending *my* copy, just in a different format. libraries agree. (4/n)

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cordelia

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2 years

want a rare book? if any library has a copy, they can loan your library theirs instantly through inter-library loan. the ia has already digitised it, & all the other library has to do is set their copy aside. you're reliant on the feds not seizing russian servers no longer. (8/n)

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cordelia

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2 years

these books are still being bought! unlike most libraries, the ia doesn't even lend books published in the last 5 years--when basically all primary market sales of most books happen. if your book is a hit, libraries buy more copies. this is like, the status quo for authors. (9/n)

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

@forcedmasc i hesitate to say this--but i think the coercive & non-consensual non-reciprocity with which you're currently occupying my space borders on violence, and we need to find a non-conflictual means to remediate the situation where we all feel heard

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cordelia

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2 years

what about books? well, this might come as a mild surprise, but the ia has several million of them. physical ones, sitting principally in containers. you can't physically retrieve them. but is there a way to check them out anyway? that's the question here. (2/n)

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cordelia

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1 year

i can’t imagine actually being a billionaire, something like 20x the real soros’ net worth, and still needing to postulate soros as the political prime mover behind things. it’s like if your parents believed in santa. like if they started believing in santa *after* they had kids

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cordelia

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2 years

if you buy a book, you probably feel entitled to loan it to your friends. despite publishers' wishes, you can, legally, under the first-sale doctrine. but imagine you're covided, like me, rn (hence thread-writing). could you loan your friend a copy without going outside? (3/n)

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cordelia

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4 years

this website makes perfect sense if u consider that everyone on here was the kid whose whole personality was sounding vaguely smart by having read a lot of wikipedia articles

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cordelia

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3 months

possibly the best thing about france is that they’re closer than average to viewing children as people

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Hours spent on hands on parenting up everywhere except… France 🤔

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cordelia

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3 years

every hobby you quit as a kid or adolescent because you 'weren't good at it' is still vastly more interesting than zoning out to netflix

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

my problem with ironic misogyny isn't that it makes you a bad person. it's that its grounding belief, that misogyny is past being a legitimate area of concern among People Like Us, blinds u to how growing up in a misogynistic society poisons the way u relate to others (& urself!)

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cordelia

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2 months

@tenderlettuce philosophers really underestimate how much ppl are already into philosophy

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cordelia

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1 year

this man is not doing well. we gotta get him help. this must be what a decade of ambien abuse does to your brain

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1 month

by far the most inspiring thing about the student movement to me has been the share of basically apolitical students i’ve met who see the position of protestors as the default, beyond obvious. even as we feel hopeless in the present it is hard to feel like something won’t change

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cordelia

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3 years

is ur computer slow because we rewrote every website to save 5 bucks on server costs while making u download a gb of random nosql data and use ur gpu to render an email?? easy. let's just put that browser.... in a server

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cordelia

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1 year

weird hegel fact of the day: he argued expressly against teaching high schoolers history of philosophy (let alone philosophy itself) on the grounds that it would make them think that philosophy was both boring & an historically futile endeavour. his proposed replacement? ap psych

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

8 months

frank luntz (the guy who brought you the phrase ‘death tax’) wrote this report in 2009 explaining how to go about selling americans on zionism (& genocide)

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

2 years

it's understandable to be kind of peeved by marxists just saying things but i promise it's significantly more interesting to start by asking 'why did marx, the anti-empiricist & yet also huge i-love-science-guy, think what he did was science?' rather than rehashing demarcation

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cordelia

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3 years

to clarify, it's not that 'marxism needs an ethics', it's that, sorry, no matter how immanent or negative your critique is, political commitments at base imply ethical commitments, and if u think u can escape from them ur a rube

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cordelia

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10 months

superhero movies were a multi-decade project by film bros to create the conditions under which they could solemnly look you in the eyes & intone 'you know, this is just the kind of movie they used to make all the time before superhero movies' about any new movie no matter how bad

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cordelia

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1 year

when i heard that adam smith wrote the wealth of nations because he found toulouse so boring he had to write a book 'in order to pass away the time' i immediately understood why they put all the universities in boston

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

insanely powerful faculty bio

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

when u let pedantic critiques of the 'idealism' of nationalism or the right to natl self determination or whatever get in the way of defending oppressed people presently being slaughtered by a state engaged in ethnic cleansing ur SO obviously being the 'idealist' here!

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cordelia

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3 years

communist academics in the states need to be aware that the core functions of their job are credentialling (through exclusion) & molding of young ppl into more congenial human capital stock. to the extent you're paid to research it is because research legitimates the former.

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cordelia

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3 years

i don't understand the 'take psychedelics to rethink ur entire existence and radically refigure ur personality' ppl, that's literally what reading fiction is for

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cordelia

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3 months

which does strike me as fairly dull & unreflective. of course artistic intent and the impact work come apart etc etc but it’s sometimes not as deep as all that

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

if we had communism i'd be at brunch right now. and all-day, every day. communism is identical with brunch

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

every time you read a new book you feel momentarily smarter than everyone else & wonder if anyone else has actually even read this book until you realise it's simply that nobody remembers books & neither will you next week

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

why do boys always talk about utopianism as building bigger computers & trains?? boys, we already HAVE big computers & trains. i want cava drinking fountains, free plastic surgery & korean serums, 24/7 public research libraries, no covers, better furniture than mid-cent modern...

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

just saw a man so hot his french gf didn't blink when he repeatedly said baguette like bagetty

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

1 year

sorry, does nobody else believe that the tucker material was a friendly leak? i do not believe for a second the single most cancellable thing in discovery was a message where tucker is soliloquising in serious self-criticism over his unthinking hatred.

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cordelia

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5 months

i know him so well

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cordelia

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4 years

of course i can read german, i just don't know what the words mean

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cordelia

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1 year

i'm sorry but if i had no food or water and nowhere to sleep and someone had chopped up my mom and put her in a suitcase i'd shout at you too. why would you even try to follow social obligations to others when they refuse to recognise any such obligation to you?

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cordelia

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4 years

the oppression of children and the oppression of women is fundamentally interdependent, and a great demonstration of this can be found in the fact i just got called 'melodramatic' and 'hysterical' for comparing the status of children in bourgeois society to that of property, lol

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

so i did finally quit a job to finish the book i drew from & talked about! i'm setting myself a hard deadline of finishing a first draft manuscript over the next 12 months :) if you're interested in reading the book or watching me write it, take a look at

cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

so elated by the response to the talk, + it's an extremely good feeling to have one of the interlocutors you've held in mind for a project find it interesting :) in other news i'm quitting a job today such that i can meet a reasonable book deadline.... stay tuned for more info

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cordelia

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4 years

it's hard to articulate just how disinterested i am in having a 'correct' understanding of marx. i want to construct a theory that does something, not reconstruct a (fictive) internally-consistent marx

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cordelia

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3 years

super misleading! this is not a contribution from goldman sachs. GSPF is a fund that allows folks to open accounts with a specific amount of $$ to be passed onto the charity of their choice, so to keep anonymity while getting tax benefits. congrats, u found a kooky rich ny leftie

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

1 year

in the interest of professionalisation my partner and i have stopped sending each other texts and instead started sending dms via the American Philosophical Association Messaging Center

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

2 years

the belief that small molecule drugs can be literally thought to heal qua re-regulate the body, and that the right small molecule is out there for each sort of dysregulation of the body in the vast search space of weird junk, is like one of the last great cosmogonies

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cordelia

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1 year

i don't know, even the way people approach 'mental health' here makes me sick. it's like you think they represent the virtual potential for personhood lying behind biological affliction. not, i dunno, people, who live together with us, and have quite literally nothing

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

surgery in just a sec, wish me luck!! when i'm out of the operating room like 8 hrs later i am sure twitter will hear about it

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

open twitter, watch marxists do pre-critical metaphysics, close twitter, repeat

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

communist profs give every student an a

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cordelia

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3 years

👍 glad we r wrapping up communists learn what stocks are day. eagerly anticipating next yr where u all find the options pane on robinhood and start reading marx into the greeks

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

2 years

so like not to complain about the Big Wokeness Industry or something but i'm actually laughing out loud at how this book inserted [sic] next to every use of the generic 'he' in excerpted passages... it's a piece of kant scholarship written by a cishet british dude

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cordelia

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1 year

because it seems to be reading group organising season again: sounds silly but the 2 most worthwhile reading groups i've seen read the text out loud & commentated/debated line-by-line. (i've also been in good ones that were brisk but they needed v proscribed conversational norms)

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

i'm taking the word 'reified' away until you know better

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cordelia

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2 years

open question: do you think you can pin down a set of concrete political demands that would necessarily abolish the family? do you think most other folks would agree that these demands abolish the family per their concept of the family, too?

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cordelia

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3 years

the 'populist anti-monopoly' trend that brighter reactionaries are once again flicking to (viz. carlson, hawley, stoller) is motivated half by the classic petit bourgeois fear of proletarianisation and half by the schumpeterian fear of monopoly capital's nearness by socialism

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

not dead. 💖

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cordelia

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11 months

law firm on the radio says they have ‘successfully produced not guilty verdicts and dismissals for armed and violent criminals’ and while i’m very impressed i’m not sure you’re supposed to say that about the innocent

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cordelia

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4 years

hooters is going to actually open up a femb*y hooters, and you all deserve it, too. going to be the textbook example 50 years from now in a book finally realising that there is no gender position which unto itself 'destabilises' gender, let alone capital

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Nothing like getting an email from your boss with the subject line “Femboys”

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cordelia

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3 years

the dsa is student government for ex-gifted kids debating whether to get a terminal masters

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

in contrast, commercial media is fair & balanced because it reflects the law of value on one hand & the class interests of the bourgeois on the other

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

building a westworld style theme park for boys… every robot asks for your most controversial kanye opinion and then is so mind-blown they want you to repeat it to their friend

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

don't let twitter convince you to read boring books. theory books are of comparable utility to graphic novels & you're afflicted by a strange curse if your dream career is casualised adjunct hiding their research interests from the department chair & making less than a hs teacher

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cordelia

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3 years

the task of 'the Communist movement'? no, it's the task of human beings, you psycho. why are you trying to counterpoise the narrowest possible self-interest of an imaginary Communist Movement to your ethical duty as a person??

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cordelia

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1 year

@gdmorejon no yeah it is a clip from the rehearsal, but i’ll cut him some slack given the mistake is the captioner’s

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

wow, you're a communist AND you have a ft sub? AND you read the economist?? AND you nod sagely at the google finance app upon occasion??? AND you shout at the tv to tell your favourite team to to beat the other team, knowing these are all comparably onanistic activities?????

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cordelia

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3 years

communism. look, it's not about rights. it's also not about the oppressed. it's not about people, either. it's actually a type of board game, and i am writing this blog post because i am concerned you have forgotten the rules

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

4 years

fleet has taught me 80% of my mutuals are average looking beardy men

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cordelia

@cozyunoist

3 years

@TSTGTVCD oh

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cordelia

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11 months

now seems like as good a time as any to announce my latest pub, pre-print attached :)

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cordelia

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1 year

between the 'when i was in school i did all my work & that's why you deserve to be punished' takes and the 'it's icky to make your legs longer than god intended & you'll never be tall' takes i feel like rediscovered that like a third of leftists on here are just nasty ppl

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cordelia

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1 year

i want to say 'haven't you ever been homeless before' but i realise statistically my feeling that everyone must've doesn't hold. but i don't see how you can't even imagine it for yourself given how transparently fragile and contingent the wage-earning keeping you over the pit is.

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shut it down

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cordelia

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4 years

candidly if you think elections in bourgeois democracy are class conflict you don't know what class is

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cordelia

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3 years

@BlakkBile he's honestly really cute

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2 years

oh damn science isn’t the same word in german as it is in english? and this means everyone except you has been wrong this whole time?? didn’t see u there heidegger

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cordelia

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4 years

you shouldn't be allowed to read philosophy published after 1800 until you turn 18 at the earliest

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cordelia

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4 years

one of the main lessons i personally got from marx is that there are interlocutors of whom your criticism should be fair, and then there are interlocutors of whom your criticism should be funny

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cordelia

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3 years

maybe everyone else already knew this, but if you aren't wearing an n95 mask or equivalent when you go outside, especially given the new strain, you should start. embarassed to have just learnt there's no longer a shortage & they're cheap (< $1 a mask).

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cordelia

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4 years

so, my new roommate found me on twitter, by chance. and then immediately called me to tell me an althusser joke. and then wanted to argue about shaikh, & split a mr subscription. there's not a punchline, this just happened. feels like i tripped & fell headfirst into the internet.

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cordelia

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4 years

i think you all should stop reading. it doesn't seem to be working

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cordelia

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1 year

every philosopher over 40 was either the child of two oxford dons or has a story that involves getting into the discipline after having mistakenly stumbled into a philosophy seminar at a uni to which they didn't go & asked a question so trenchant they got a phd on the spot

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cordelia

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1 year

undergrad-level econ makes 0 sense because marginalism was a direct response to calculus. with the intuitive grasp of it you get in analysis it’s all intuitively derivable; without it it’s nearly empty of content—trivial axioms & accounting identities you can’t yet manipulate

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1 year

you're above that position by luck alone. i have friends i worry about being killed without consequence. and fuck the new yorker blasé 'mind your own business; leave [them] alone' shit just as hard, growing up there makes you morally blind enough to play bystander to murder

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4 years

getting the sense none of you are ready for how pleasant communism will be

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3 months

it’s also nice that absent the desire to go the grande école route the french can acknowledge that there’s nothing in particular one actually ought to be doing the first eighteen years of life

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cordelia

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4 years

lol, marx had no ltv. & ya obv marx never espoused materialism. not only did marx not say any of the things you thought he said, contemporary scholarship has revealed what we call the writing of 'marx' actually refers to satirical writing by a loose collective of english noblemen

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cordelia

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3 years

it's a *miss* demeanour because it's cute when girls do it (felonies are for boys)

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1 year

every time i see someone tweet about 'the good doctor' i'm like 'wait which of the scholastics was that?'. basically all i know for sure is that they're not talking about aquinas or scotus

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1 year

maybe once a month i realise i don't actually know the difference between social & political philosophy, social theory, political theory, or even really economics and freak out

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cordelia

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2 years

himbo scholarship just dropped

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3 years

'something something palestinian landlords commodity-form rights-bearers' - shut up. you're literally an idiot. why are you saying this? what does this even fucking mean? do you think literally anyone rn is in any sense going to be helped by your fucking critiques of the state?

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critical theorists?? cranky theorists is more like it. take a nap you guys!!!!

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