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@MimbresSchool : "We've never called the cops on anyone!" Summer 2024 courses now open for signup! "Dealing with Graeber" - Colin Drumm "Black Reconstruction" - Alirio Karina "Gold, the Barbarous Relic" - Duncan Money

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@drumm_colin

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the most difficult part of pedagogy is simply convincing young people that if they want to know things they will have to read a lot of books and it will take a long time and it will not be fun and there is no other way. after that everything else is trivial

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@bo_austin_ having a ruling class that self identifies as middlebrow is really just the wildest thing

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7 months

suspect that gaza may be a general model for the liquidation of populations in the 21st century, much the same as the nazis looked to california for theirs. wall them up, provoke resistance, then liquidate them in the name of anti terrorism. may happen to a lot of people

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Most academics are embarrassed about their dissertations, because academia doesn't provide the conditions for writing good ones. Success in academia is going to be correlated with dishonesty, because doing the real work isn't a winning strategy. Everyone loses. It must change

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imagine being so lost in the sauce that you don't want to know about the politics of the english grain trade 1314-1815

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Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.

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when the NYT is trying to sell you spinozism, you should seriously reconsider

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2 years

if you’re fighting for respect and dignity as a worker at the university, undergrads are not necessarily your allies. i hope everyone realizes that. it’s okay to piss them off

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“okay, i guess i don’t want to know things that bad” is an acceptable answer. just like i don’t go to the gym because i don’t want to be able to lift heavy rocks

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@drumm_colin

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since i have 300 new followers time to reiterate my Least Popular Opinion: the only alternative to our increasingly unhinged police state is to suspend posse comitatus and send in the military to occupy the country and dismantle the police. they won’t go without a fight

Read Let This Radicalize You

@JoshuaPHilll

1 year

I forget who said it after Uvalde but a wise person said that it’s not enough for cops to have a monopoly on violence, they want a monopoly on agency. They don’t want us to feel able to act and protect one another.

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it's strange to undergo profound, long-term shifts in your intellectual orientation. once I was very enchanted by "theoretical writing." today I am reading a "theory book" and all I can think is that none of these words mean anything and I don't see why they ought to

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2 years

Hello friends and enemies. I'm excited to share with you my dissertation. It's not perfect, but it's done. Those with ears to hear will find herein some much needed clarity on current debates about the nature of money and its relation to the state.

The Difference That Money Makes.pdf

drive.google.com

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in month four of graduate school i was taken aside by my "advisor" and told, and i quote, that i "needed to stop challenging the dogmas of the field or else reconsider what [i'm] doing in the program." the real threat to academia is not coming from outside it, but within

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at some point if the dominant ("new") reading of a guy like Marx is that he actually didn't believe 99 percent of what he wrote and his real views have to be extrapolated from scraps of unpublished notes you have to just get a grip on yourself and step out for some fresh air

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reading one of those books where all the conceptual work is punted off by the phrase "under capitalism" and i dearly wish people would simply stop writing these books

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It's bad for everyone how defensive people are abt the work that goes into reading books. Nobody is defensive about lifting weights like this: people understand that if you want to lift heavy rocks, you must work out. But for some reason they don't apply that same logic to books

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10 months

one of Hobbes' most interesting moves is that he denies the "ruse of analogy." only actual slaves are slaves, actual slaves have an absolute right of rebellion, and slavery can never be applied as a metaphor for political subjection, which is wholly different:

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one way to get stupider is to learn greek and latin. they say: "cybernetics is the study of complex hierarchical systems" you hear: "steersmanship is diligence towards folded-together musical scales ruled by priests" see? incredibly stupid

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marxists have an epic three volume work about the structural tendency of the prices of commodities to fall and then when stuff gets expensive they say "look! it's because of commodificiation!" but i'm the one who's a weird little guy

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god marxists just have absolutely no idea what their books say and they just go around in circles confusing one another about it. what an utterly useless subculture

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anyone who can read at all can develop the discipline to read seriously. if you read one 300 page book a week that's only ~40 pages a day, which you should be able to read in 2 hours. if you're going to take something seriously, 2 hours a day is not much.

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2 years

All books about money can be judged by whether the author begins by praising or criticizing Aristotle. I'm happy to report that this one passes the test.

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absolutely despise it when humanities academics talk about "loving books." you shouldn't love books and you shouldn't demand anyone else to love books, it is wildly inappropriate. just fundamentally not the correct way to do serious work in the archive

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the greatest achievement of the formal education system is that it turns learning stuff -- something that humans naturally want to do -- into a punishment

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2 years

Guy on the bus accidentally unplugged his headphones and he seemed to have been listening to the audio version of the wikpedia page for Zeus

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all cultures have thinkers. not all have philosophers, nor should they want to. the desire to valorize "non-western" thought by calling it "non-western philosophy" is mistaken because it assumes that "philosophy" is what good thinking has to be called. that is not at all clear

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1 year

blocking all commentators who have graduated from the school of life

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Plato is the greatest philosopher because he's the stupidest one. Every stupid question was already asked by Plato. You don't have to read him, b/c it's stupid, but you might find it helps. For example "hey man what's all that money for" or "which suitor should this twink fuck"

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@barbarryber i think it’s dangerous to flatter oneself that listening to podcasts is an activity of some comparable order to study. but if it makes you motivated to study that is of course good

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10 months

if we're going to have anything like a "democratically managed economy," you are going to need to teach everyone accounting starting in middle school and there will have to be regular, nation-wide debates about how we count things.

Quantian1

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10 months

@drumm_colin Apparently I have been confusing domestic product and national income my entire life. For your specific case, you are probably looking for something like “adjusted net national income”, which factors in resource extraction/environmental degradation

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2 years

a lot of undergrads are reactionary karens who don’t do the readings but will then get mad when the strike “deprived them of their education” just because they want you to suffer to serve them

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being told by academic publishers that they only do endnotes and cannot do footnotes makes me want to just publish the thing myself. endnotes are cumbersome to use and only contribute to a culture of shoddy scholarship. it's really a disgrace

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3 years

if i had a theory that explained the fundamental scientific laws of motion of the capitalist economy, i would start a hedge fund instead of writing books about it for humanities phds

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image being a grad student getting paid 19k a year to teach your 75 students a year or whatever and thinking that the reason education is so expensive is because of your "labor productivity." my brother in christ 19k/75 is 253 dollars and 33 cents

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ok look when i say it’s not fun i mean that you can’t go into it expecting to have fun. any fun that occurs is surplus fun. pure profit. personally i think it’s fun to read hundreds of pages about the mint but that’s a rather idiosyncratic idea of fun

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@drumm_colin

1 year

the most difficult part of pedagogy is simply convincing young people that if they want to know things they will have to read a lot of books and it will take a long time and it will not be fun and there is no other way. after that everything else is trivial

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if your book is only available on libgen in epub format, nobody will read it in 200 years. i don't make the rules.

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@drumm_colin

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If you build stuff that doesn't break, you use fewer resources and GDP goes down. But this represents a positive contribution to quality of life. Quality of life and GDP can therefore experience inverse correlation. QED morons

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gotta understand that climate change skepticism will increase rather than decrease in intensity as shit continues to hit the fan, because it's a function of resistance to what must be done rather than anything else. there is no possibility for a democratic consensus

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look, i'm not joking, if you think it's an obvious fact that there exists something called "capitalism" and that history can be neatly periodized into "capitalism" and "before capitalism" this is something you just assumed and didn't think about at all

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alexander hamilton, william f buckley, and aristotle

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

@ISI

10 months

Americans don't know about Alexander Hamilton, William F. Buckley, & Aristotle. The traditions of Western Civilization are being forgotten. Follow ISI! Because now, it's time to join the fight and help educate the next generation.

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1 year

My advice to any young would be philosophers is that you should try to become as stupid as possible. If you're motivated by the desire to sound smart you'll end up lost in a thicket of meaningless twaddle. Be stupid, think stupid, talk stupid - you might have a chance

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Practically speaking, I think we need to work towards building a "union of independent scholars." Horizontalist associations of scholars working outside of academia who can refer students to one another, recognize one anothers course credit, engage one anothers work, etc.

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2 years

The existence of the United States is not deeply rooted in history and should be reconsidered

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1 year

housing and education are NOT COMMODITIES and if they were that would be a GOOD THING. Commodify housing! Commodify education! Make housing and education just some shit you pick up in the checkout aisle at the store!

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3 years

@bo_austin_ shit like this is why studying history made me such a mean person.

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i love it when sociologists explain to me how society is composed of individuals and individuals affect society and society affects individuals. cool shit man. really gets me pondering

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2 years

@VBivar i've been told in so many words by well known feminist scholars that it was important to protect notorious sex pests because the future of tenure was at stake.

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2 years

you can't use economic theory to understand economic history b/c economic theory is normative: the point of it is to posit a "goal" for "the economy" and then evaluate what happens in accordance with that. but when we want to understand phenomena we can't take "the goal" as given

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3 years

me online: graeber? sloppy work. MMT? get serious. me at the coffee shop in town: oh you're reading graeber? want to be friends? did you know that the federal government can't run out of money?

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nobody likes this. i don’t like it. but i’ve yet to receive a real response as to what the other options on the table are other than just waiting for the return of christ or something

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2 years

asking “why can’t economists see the limitations of their method?” is like asking “why can’t theologians see the absurdity of their doctrine?”. there’s only one place that line of question leads - the diminution of their social power. so of course they don’t want to open the box

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As you can see, Im deeply traumatized by my 9 years in academia. It shattered me emotionally and personally. I haven't even begun to heal. My life's work is building an alternative to this abusive irredeemable system so other curious and naive young ppl don't suffer the same

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If youre serious about building power in this world to advance causes you believe in, you have to come to grips with the fact that power flows from control of land and control over flows of resources / funding / people. Wash your hands of this and you wash your hands of power

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Marxists will write the same book three million times just to avoid having to think about pricing power

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1 year

In his new book "Mute Compulsion," Søren Mau argues that to understand and end capitalism, we need to analyze how it not only subordinates the poor to the rich but in fact exerts economic power over everyone — including capitalists themselves.

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@dhegertz No, more like urban populations contained by turning freeways into walls, stuff like that

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2 years

@seungylee14 well i mean the competition was like "what should we name this new city?" "ur..."

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@drumm_colin

4 months

We publish too much, we write bad books, we don't read enough or think enough. We do bad work. When everyone is doing bad work, why not plagiarize? no meaningful difference between plagiarism and blatantly bad work as far as crimes against the republic of letters go

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@drumm_colin

1 year

ok look when i say it’s not fun i mean that you can’t go into it expecting to have fun. any fun that occurs is surplus fun. pure profit. personally i think it’s fun to read hundreds of pages about the mint but that’s a rather idiosyncratic idea of fun

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Finally pulled the trigger and invested in the first set of bookshelves for my house. So glad to have these things up off the floor where I can use them (fuck books btw)

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1 month

Look I know I'm sort of an edgy weirdo in many ways but I have absolutely no sympathy for right wing cultural politics of any sort, especially transphobes. Mind your fucking business. If I look over and see that shit on your timeline it's an instant block so please just unfollow

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2 years

we shouldn't care about growth. it's just irrelevant. we should care about making sure that every person gets access to a basket of basic necessary goods -- healthy food, clean water, shelter, basic healthcare, etc -- and that whatever else is produced isn't too destructive

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1 year

but but but…

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2 years

@GilmoreGlenda so i guess a dissertation doesn't have to be very good to win two prizes from yale

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4 months

Anyone who does philosophy for the sake of philosophy is gonna do a hack job. Philosophy should always be motivated by a concrete problem external to philosophy as such. For me, it is a result of trying to understand money (I'd argue this is what all philosophy is about already)

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1 year

What I find particularly interesting about this is how GDP starts to precipitously accelerate at exactly the time they invent GDP. The obvious conclusion is that national income accountants are by far the most productive members of society

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@Matthuber78

1 year

It also massively raises labor productivity. I just happened to teach the industrial revolution today. Marx & Engels lived through....THIS. For them, the vast increase of prod. capacity created conditions never before seen in history (& an opportunity to abolish poverty/class 3/x

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Ultimately, what is wrong with all modern European thought, of any variety, is the idea of "freedom." What you call "freedom" is impossible, and justifies any amount of genocidal violence. That's why I'm against freedom. It's impossible and you don't deserve it. Stop.

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2 years

turned in my dissertation! "The Difference That Money Makes: Sovereignty, Indecision, and the Politics of Liquidity" i'll be sharing it here after the final version is submitted to the registrar on Dec 10. many of you have asked about this so, stay tuned.

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the big take home lesson from reading some of marx's earliest writings: be nice to pretentious teenagers, they might eventually amount to something

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1 year

@arne__ness just disgusting. basically a right wing rag at this point

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4 months

Scholars should publish less and should have support for a life of scholarship that doesn't have any publication milestones associated with it. There's a reason I haven't published yet and, when I do, it will be better for it. But wouldn't be possible in academia

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10 months

@ahabstanaccount Best Joe Biden propaganda I've ever seen tbh

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2 years

Economists are discovering deep philosophical, historical, even theological problems with their way of thinking, but since they don't respect the people who actually studied these things while they were making up fake geometry, their discussions of the problem are undergrad hour.

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1 year

Just want to express my undying love and admiration to the online nerds with 25 followers who are the cream of our intellectual culture. You are all gentlepeople and scholars and you are better than anyone else. Keep reading

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10 months

Whats dangerous about Graeberism is that it tries to shut down discussion while pretending to open it up. The received ideas are in fact not well grounded, but then Graeber's whimsical speculations step right in to fill the void and become the new received ideas. We can do better

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1 year

problem with studying money and finance w/out contextualizing in long duree political history is that you miss the fact that you're studying Calvinball - there's rules of the game, but the real game lies in how rules of the game are broken. But that unfolds across generations

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One of the reasons academics are powerless is that academia is the only game in town - nobody else wants you. And now academia doesn't want you either. What I want is for scholars to have other games to play, which means that they would relate to academia from a position of power

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7 months

lot of useless discussion of moral righteousness. I think that ultimately politics in the 21st century will come down to this: which are you more afraid of - "terrorism", or a genocidal police state? I don't really care about who's good or evil, I am just afraid of the cops

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there isn't any "abstract logic of capital." there's just a central bank that induces a recession when the labor share of income starts to rise, a legal system that offloads risk from rich people, an educational system that produces indebted subjects, etc

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What I am interested in, in my work, is the way that economic theories are implicitly theories of the philosophy of history. That is why I have no sympathy for apologetic discourses that attempt to extract "economics per se" from the philosophies of history that undergird them.

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"this book is a plea for an inquiry with such and such commitments into such and such a topic" great well why don't you do the inquiring and then report back to us, perhaps by writing a book about it

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"Leviathan" (Mimbres School Summer 2023). really like how this one turned out

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2 years

this is an important symptom of the state of the "two cultures" on campus. you either have to start failing the gen ed students en masse or you have to accept that this is the dominant perception of the humanities and there's no real way to contest it

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2 years

the humanities are so watered down that any sufficiently motivated stem student could wander into a 400 level english class and easily pubstomp the liberal arts noobs and as a society i think we need that for both the good of humanities and stem

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like I get that if you ended up with a humanities PhD, it's probably because you were a kid who loved books, and felt like the books loved you back more than anyone else did. But growing up is realizing that the books aren't your friends

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Another thing is that scholars should be poor. You shouldn't be hob nobbing with billionaires or working at Harvard or whatever. Fundamentally unserious. You should be ugly and smelly and eating beans in your cottage

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There's a real danger in having a desire for profundity. these days I find people who obviously want to be profound quite disgusting. I'm glad I don't have to interact with myself at 22

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when you read marx it's very important to avoid the secondary literature as much as you can. marx is often either boring or pretentious or both at once, but he's not difficult to understand. just read marx and see what the books say and don't let anyone gaslight you about it

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9 months

nothing like the progressive, egalitarian belief that most people are incapable of learning anything seriously and that it's rude and violent to suggest they can. this condescending paternalism is the ideology of our new officially two-tier educational system

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2 years

States are inherently violent social formations. This isnt bad or good, in itself, because violence is an inescapable part of the world. the question is what violence is done to whom. Anyone who denies this is just trying to repress the violence that their desires demand

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2 years

fair warning to new followers from crypto land: I only have one opinion about bitcoins and so on, which is that it should be illegal to run a proof of work protocol on your computer -- on pain of being sentenced to hard labor on habitat restoration projects. just to be clear

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at some point, every book-reading white boy is faced with a choice. you either have to become some kind of cringe/maudlin reactionary, or you have to admit that your daddy is an asshole. i'm here to tell you that you can make the right choice and keep your dignity

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1 year

it’s amazing how people don’t understand that the first step to having power is to articulate what you would do if you had it. this is apparently something magical that only the right can do

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2 years

every book about money published in the last ten years begins exactly the same way. my dissertation included. once upon a time there was the Great Financial Crisis and now i am going to reveal to you that money was always secretly political. gotta find a different angle in

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@drumm_colin

11 months

mainly i just wish the people at the parties in grad school wanted to talk about something other than television

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10 months

It must be nice to believe that most people spontaneously share your beliefs and interests and the only thing in the way of your collective self realization is a small cadre of inexplicably powerful bad actors

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1 year

"Slavery, therefore, is necessary" - GWF Hegel

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1 year

and yes, sorry, but waiting for the End of the World is just christianity.

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@drumm_colin

2 months

Abusive systems perpetuate themselves because they are very good at making people afraid to speak out about them, and very good at coopting even basically good people into perpetuating this, out of loyalty to institutions and networks. That's why sociality is the origin of evil

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What I'm proposing is that the only intellectually responsible way to read canonical texts is to make them objects rather than subjects of thought. They are sinister curiosities rather than models for emulation. You mustn't believe in advance that it says something worthy

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1 year

i think it’s fun to read something that some preachy self important professor writes and follow their footnotes and show how they are pulling everything out of their ass. that to me is fun. it’s fun to play intellectual blood sports because i like WINNING and BEING RIGHT

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8 months

hilarious to me that my position here is literally incomprehensible to so many people. cannot comprehend the possibility of any engagement with texts that isn't an erotic relation.

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4 months

When I say "scholars should publish less" I mean that publishing something should be, in itself, a demerit. What, you're going to make us all read this? Really?

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8 months

"loving books" is just plain dereliction of duty for scholars in the humanities, because the stakes of the objects we engage with are so high: when you're fucking around with the Old Magic you're dealing with a lot of genocidal shit, demands ethical seriousness

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