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The Shade of Kenneth

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This blog has some extremely important insights into what needs to change in the world of academia today, especially in its treatment of women. CW: rape and misogyny

What is it like to be a woman in philosophy?

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The Shade of Kenneth

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2 years

I'm at a friend's party and someone found out I do philosophy and cornered me to argue about the existence of free will

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The new Haymarket book on Spinoza and Marx looks sick

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I'm reading Cohen's 'Why Not Socialism?' and, perhaps controversially, I think it is pretty terrible. Analytic Marxism seems to eliminate everything about Marxism that's novel and compelling, making it instead into a variant of liberal, ideal political theory

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This book has been years in the making, and its release has been delayed several times, but it looks like it's finally ready to go out into the world in September!

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Getting into Deleuze has been a greater career mistake for me than getting into Marx has been. I got cautioned by a major academic today that no major philosophy department is likely to hire someone who works on Deleuze (at least *qua* their work on Deleuze). Not so for Marx.

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One hill I will die on: Deleuze is more influenced by Bergson than he is by either Spinoza or Nietzsche.

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2 years

I've decided to write up a beginner's guide to Simone Weil, inspired by @gdmorejon 's blogpost on Spinoza. I'm sure some of my advice here will be controversial, but I hope at least that the central recommendations are not too poorly received.

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God what a disaster this book is going to be

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The Shade of Kenneth

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I've been auditing a course on Spinoza at my uni, and I decided to ask the lecturer what she thinks Spinoza means by the verb 'to express.' Before she could respond, someone in the audience added 'Couldn't 'to express' just mean 'to express? The answer is in the dictionary.'

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The Shade of Kenneth

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I wrote my master's dissertation on Simone Weil and Gilles Deleuze, and I've noticed some differences between the scholarly communities around both thinkers. A big one is that academic Deleuze circles are perilously difficult to get into, but Weil ones are helpful and welcoming.

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The Shade of Kenneth

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Someone once tried to convince me that we are not in capitalism but 'technofeudalism,' so we shouldn't be Marxists anymore. I asked her to explain what that was, and it just sounded like capitalism to me. But it seems like this term is catching on. What's the big appeal of it?

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This is truly an exciting time to be involved in Spinoza scholarship - these are all either recent releases or coming out soon, not to mention @alexxdouglas 's forthcoming book on beatitude in Spinoza

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The Shade of Kenneth

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3 years

'Utopia Today' by Félix Guattari

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3 years

Why do philosophy profs in NA have such interesting and diverse areas of research, while in the UK almost all of them are like 'analytic metaphysics, epistemology and morality🤓'

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@FeyeraBender @leftofphil It really did surprise me how upset some people got about this. Who would've guessed that the lady who blamed colonial violence on Africa would be right-wing? Real shocker that one

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The Shade of Kenneth

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I'm just about done with my first full-draft of my article for the Routledge Companion on Simone Weil

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This looks awesome, can't believe I haven't heard of this book until now!

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One day people will stop treating the Meditations and the Discourse as the be-all-end-all of Descartes' work and will actually read the Principles of Philosophy. I am people.

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I've finally submitted my dissertation. Weird to think it's effectively over now, all that's left to do is wait and hope. In the meantime, I've uploaded the PDF to my profile

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The Shade of Kenneth

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8 months

Today would have been Gilles Deleuze's 99th birthday

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The Shade of Kenneth

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5 months

The programme for the upcoming Oxford University Student Conference on Spinoza is now ready to be shared around - please circulate these as widely as you can, and come along if you're interested!

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The Shade of Kenneth

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Happy birthday Gilles Deleuze! One of the best philosophers of the 20th century. I’m very pleased to have spent so much time studying his works; hopefully it’s something I’m able to continue doing in the future.

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The Shade of Kenneth

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Working on a conference paper on Simone Weil and Operaismo today

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@de_leuzer idk, Simone Weil is heavily influenced by Stoic philosophy, and so is Deleuze, and both manage to do cool lefty things with it

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The Shade of Kenneth

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I have about 5000 words left to write the last chapter with, and it's going to need a lot of editing, but it's practically almost there! I don't have any ideas for a title though

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Happy Hour at Hippel's

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Absolute beast of an article. 40 pages of pure, uncut Spinoza scholarship, straight into the bloodstream

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The Shade of Kenneth

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What do people make of Manuel DeLanda? I've been commissioned to write a review of his latest book. I'm personally dubious about his interpretation of Deleuze, but I am highly sympathetic towards the project of non-reductive materialism

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The Shade of Kenneth

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5 months

While at the conference today, I received news that my article for Social Epistemology was just published! Anyone interested in epistemic injustice, class, Marxism, or operaismo can read it here:

Epistemic Class Injustice: Class Composition and Industrial Action

Writings on epistemic injustice have assessed how people can be harmed in their capacity as knowers when they are a racial minority, a woman, disabled and so on. But what about when they belong to ...

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The Shade of Kenneth

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2 years

My latest review of Antonio Negri's new book 'Marx in Movement: Operaismo in Context' has just been published with the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books:

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1 year

Moved to my new uni today

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Job interview today

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@FeyeraBender Sometimes that aesthetic fascination is itself indicative of a fascist politics - Euronymous, for example

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@DanielTutt I'm gonna be super pretentious and say they were in line with Marx, not Marxism

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It's a shame that continental philosophy is perceived by so many academics as a fundamentally lesser kind of philosophy. Makes the indignity of knowing I'll never get a job that little bit worse

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I think after hearing this I visibly facepalmed

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I had a great chat with Craig about Simone Weil for his new channel which you can watch now! Note, though, that I misspoke when claiming that Camus commissioned Gravity and Grace. He did commission some of her books, just not that one.

LEPHT HAND

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My interview with @saditious on the life and work of Simone Weil is now available to the public. Have a look:

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Really excited to be joining Craig next week to talk about the (manufactured) appropriation of Simone Weil’s ideas by the far-right! It’ll be weird finally appearing on the other side of one of these shows

LEPHT HAND

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Up next on LEPHT HAND is Simone Weil and an interview with @saditious . We review the life and ideas of the philosopher-mystic, while exploring connection to Bataille and other contemporaries.

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The Shade of Kenneth

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I didn't see this until now (email sorted it into spam) but it seems like my article on Weil and Deleuze has been accepted for publication with minor revisions in Deleuze and Guattari Studies! This is especially exciting for me, since publishing with them is on my bucket list.

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Revise and resubmit on my Simone Weil and Spinoza article! I’m genuinely really glad to have finally found a home for this piece, even though the revisions are pretty extensive - although the comments are all fair and are things I should have accounted for originally

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7 months

I taught my first class yesterday! Thanks to @AsiaLeeSak for this picture of me looking frankly exhausted 😅

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@saditious

6 months

Gonna take this as an opportinity to share that I'm now writing a commissioned article on Agamben, Esposito and Virno's use of Simone Weil for the upcoming Routledge Companion on Simone Weil

will or something 🎸

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Let’s all love Agamben

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This is one of the most powerful article titles I've seen for a philosophy paper @lastpositivist

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3 years

@jacobvangeest Yes! The point he's making is primarily a strategic one, that the decline in aura and the violation of aesthetic distance creates new possibilities for politicising art. It bothers me too when people see Benjamin as lamenting deaurification.

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@MikeBenchCapon @MariGO2thepolls The one true metric for success as a philosopher

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We're going to Historical Materialism again!

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"We are not talking about the tired call to get your hands dirty. The point is that an intellectual moved by antagonism, who wants to break with themselves and become a militant, shouldn't be scared of getting their ideas dirty." - Gigi Roggero, Italian Operaismo.

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The project I was accepted to St. Andrews for, 'Spinoza in the French Context', was meant to look at how Spinoza was interpreted in 20th century France, compared to the Anglophone world. I'm considering changing this to 'Spinoza, Marx and Political Economy' for various reasons.

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Whenever someone does something embarrassing, I'm just gonna share this article screenshot with them from now on

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New interview out! Really happy to have had this chance to speak with @gdmorejon about his work on Spinoza as well as his views on ideology critique

Is Ideology Unconscious? with Kenny Novis and Gil Morejon

From Gil's book: Three early modern philosophers - Spinoza, Leibniz and Hume - understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that ...

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I'm going on private until this round of PhD acceptance/rejections are out, lest things I've said on here disadvantage me and my applications

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2 years

I'd love to teach a course on the philosophy of death someday. Maybe history of the concept (Epicurus, Plato, Spinoza, etc.) then contemporary analytic approaches and contemporary continental approaches? Although I dislike some of his stuff, I think Levinas on death is quite good

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Two months until this bad boy gets released

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The Shade of Kenneth

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Only once I started speaking to Heideggerians did I realise that there are some continental philosophers for whom 'French' is a derogatory term

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2 years

1. Marx's Capital 2. Deleuze's Difference and Repetition 3. Balestrini's We Want Everything 4. Althusser's Marxist in Philosophy 5. Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution 6. Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism 7. Spinoza's TTP I guess that sounds about right?

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The Shade of Kenneth

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Enlightenment philosophers were just having a better time than we are. Diderot makes whole arguments where all that links the premises and the conclusion is a literal joke. Bayle discusses Augustine's drinking habits. It's so lighthearted and whimsical.

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I've seen this picture of Kolakowski used many times, but I didn't realise until now that Henri Lefebvre was being cropped out of it!

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2 months

I'll be teaching tutorials for the first time this upcoming term! Since it's Oxford it's just a 1-on-1 tutorial, and the student gets to choose to focus on two of: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.

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The Shade of Kenneth

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1 year

@acidhorizonpod I was thinking about something like this earlier today! I’d recommend The Origins of Capitalism by Meiksins Wood and This Life by Hägglund - they are eminently accessible, and both of them fundamentally changed my way of understanding politics/Marxism

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Simone Weil was always a Marxist send tweet

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The Shade of Kenneth

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2 years

5 PhD applications done, 20 more to go

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The Shade of Kenneth

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2 years

Just imagine the headaches Marxists must give social movement historians

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The Shade of Kenneth

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2 years

I've converted the first chapter of my dissertation into an article and uploaded it to academia - any feedback from people familiar with Weil or Deleuze would be appreciated! You can find the draft paper here:

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The Shade of Kenneth

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1 year

Happy release day for this incredible book! If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out my interview with the author and translator

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1 year

New video out with @Zer0Books with Gigi Roggero and Clara Pope about the book 'Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method'. This was probably my favoruite conversation so far, watch it here:

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1 year

After being out of academia for a year, I'm moving out and starting my PhD next week

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3 years

I'm actually a little worried about the number of Deleuzians who are transphobes. Elizabeth Grosz, and also apparently Keith Ansell-Pearson and Beth Lord. These are all *big* names in Deleuze scholarship. Did they somehow miss the stuff about a thousand tiny sexes?

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6 months

A year ago today I first presented my paper on epistemic injustice, class, and Marxism at the @LondonCritical conference. Now, I'm pleased to say that it has been accepted for publication with @SocEpistemology

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2 years

I just got my hands on a pdf of the 'Deconstructing Postmodern Nietzscheanisms' book (awful title btw), and I gotta say, it seems like a very poor, selective reading of Deleuze.

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2 years

Unsurprisingly I guess, my article on Weil and Spinoza has received another rejection. I didn't expect the reviewer to take such a hostile tone in their feedback, but I guess the stereotypes about reviewer 2 have to be kept alive somehow.

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1 year

@acidhorizonpod This piece by Deleuze as well, which I think is very powerful

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8 months

I'm helping to organise the Oxford Spinoza Conference which will happen on May 7th, and I'm very excited to announce our keynote speakers: Steve Nadler and Chantal Jaquet! 🎉🎉

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1 year

New video out with @Zer0Books with Gigi Roggero and Clara Pope about the book 'Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method'. This was probably my favoruite conversation so far, watch it here:

Anarchism, Anti-Capitalism, and Marxist Heresies in 'Operaismo:...

Gigi Roggero’s latest book Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method promises to be the strongest introduction to its difficult subject matter available ...

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Met with my supervisor today. As a part of the conversation, I felt the need to say that I am a Marxist. The supervisor could evidently see that I was hesitant to admit this, and said "no need to be ashamed, we're all Marxists here!"

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It seems my paper on Simone Weil and operaismo/ the history of workers' inquiry has finally found a home in the @WeilSociety anthology on Simone Weil's philosophy of labour which is being planned now!

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Christmas fit

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Can't believe I hadn't realised that the people I work on are all libertines. In 1748, Diderot published a pornographic novel called The Indiscreet Jewels. The history of French materialism is simultaneously the history of modern pornography.

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2 years

Looking for feedback on this paper on Weil and Spinoza I've written from anyone who's interested

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This is the stack for an article I’m currently writing

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That's it, no more Deleuze. The invisible hand of the market has decided I need to be a Rawlsian to get a job, and the market clearly always knows best 🙃

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2 years

My review of Manuel DeLanda's latest book, Materialist Phenomenology: A Philosophy of Perception, is now out!

Pheno Reviews

@PhenoReviews

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New Review! Manuel DeLanda: Materialist Phenomenology: A Philosophy of Perception @BloomsburyPhilo

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Got my first PhD program rejection today, I'm sure there will be many more to come

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Apparently Open Marxism is the Absolute Spirit of libertarian Marxism?

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3 years

These are my recent(ish) book acquisitions

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@thewastedworld I keep meaning to read it, but I’ve been told that Yiching Wu’s The Cultural Revolution at the Margins is phenomenal

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2 years

@14JUN1995 When I was really into the Philosophy of Horror I enjoyed Eugene Thacker's Horror of Philosophy trilogy. Sort of a meditation on what horror fiction can tell us about the terror of the reality we inhabit.

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Every person I come across denying the atrocities perpetrated under Stalin's regime brings me one step closer to just going 'fuck it, I'm an anarchist now'

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Very pleased to hear that my paper for the @WeilSociety has been accepted! I doubt I'll be able to attend in person, but I look forward to presenting this paper and receive feedback on it nonetheless.

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I am this 🤏 close to throwing everything else to the wind and starting a manuscript titled 'The Politics of the Ethics: Spinoza and his Continental Interpreters'

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"Spinoza's Ethics is a modern Bible in which various theoretical levels describe a course of liberation, starting from the inescapable and absolute existence of the subject to be liberated" -Toni Negri, The Savage Anomaly

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Things haven't been going too well recently, but I'm very excited, thanks to @SanktMaxTCI , to be able to speak with the one and only Bifo Berardi for the podcast this Wednesday

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@DanielTutt As Blanchot says, Simone Weil is difficult to read partly because her writing is characterised by answers without questions. Perhaps this relates to why she is so derisive of desire, but is she then a philosopher of drives (force, necessity, gravity, etc)?

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Last Thursday I presented my paper, 'Spinoza: A Genealogy of Radicalism' at the annual Historical Materialism conference. On the slim chance that anyone here is interested in reading it, I have uploaded the script to my profile:

Spinoza: A Genealogy of Radicalism Presentation Script

The relation of the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza to political radicalism is a troubled one. Among others, Althusser calls Spinoza “Marx’s only direct ancestor, from a philosophical...

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I'm finally done reading Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity. I can now say, it is not a book that should be read cover-to-cover but as a textbook, reading what seems relevant to you. Otherwise, as Steve Nadler put it to me, it is borderline unreadable.

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