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doing philosophy, editor @negationmag.com -- mind in hell, despairing not (?)
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at the request of no one, I am going to restart my old twitter tradition of logging my reads in a big pinned thread. the latest:

Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism, UMN Press
this was right around when I started undergrad and I don’t understand why people are denying there was a big culture shift around that exact time. there was! imo you should defend what was good about it, not deny that it happened
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.

Or she was saying offensive shit.
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
me too! that's the beauty of the group, it pressures you into reading, lol
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would love to start a lefty reading group with a bunch of non-academics, i think
i have no choice but to accept it
blurbs should read like "Soandso's pretty good intervention into the present intellectual moment is interesting enough. read it if you want, you'll probably get something out of it"
we need to stop calling academic writing "urgent" and "important." let's start at "pretty good" and "interesting enough" and take it from there
My sense with things like this is that all of the actors involved remain unpredictable given the amount of variables at play and the limited info fans receive, so it's hard to infer much at all about motives etc. In fairness, I understand this is a very boring way of looking at things on my end, lol
That's fair! I just don't know how much we can justifiably read those kinds of motives into the move at this point
The consensus seems to be that this is a depth move, no?
not quite, but not quite not, either
I need to polish up my article more quickly I think lol
this is such a funny argument from this guy. the infrastructural shifts necessary for the dems to NOT maintain their thin hegemony over lefty-types would be enormous! the whole electoral system is constructed around their continued existence!
this is basically how I'm built tbh
Pack it up, everyone, Ducky McGee has nullified the season
In fairness, Patrick Johnson is not, like, good
yeah, nothing screams “overreliance on the best RB in the league” more than four passing touchdowns, lol
@bowulf.bsky.social "the three Ys men" nickname is becoming inevitable
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