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@damashummus.bsky.social
Scientist/Engineer. Very much form-determined. Editor @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. he/him. *All typos are my own*.
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short & sweet: ISR’s group entry on the sociology of art for a 1940s American encyclopedia (which turns out to be a barely veiled allusion to Engels on Balzac + an interesting attempt to mediate b/w Adorno & Löwenthal’s divergent approaches to sociology of art!)
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Horkheimer-Löwenthal-Adorno—Encyclopedia Article: On The Sociology of Art (1943/46).
+ Appendix: Horkheimer-Löwenthal’s Letters—On the Sociology of Biographies and Mass Culture (1942).
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
short & sweet: ISR’s group entry on the sociology of art for a 1940s American encyclopedia (which turns out to be a barely veiled allusion to Engels on Balzac + an interesting attempt to mediate b/w Adorno & Löwenthal’s divergent approaches to sociology of art!)
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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you might wonder: what were Horkheimer-Adorno’s politics in 1941? well: the universal self-enlightening of runaway enlightenment, aka communism
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
you might wonder: what were Horkheimer-Adorno’s politics in 1941? well: the universal self-enlightening of runaway enlightenment, aka communism
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📢📢 New Article 📢📢
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Hegel’s Theory of Rational Proof
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📢📢 New Article 📢📢
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
"Hegel's Theory of Rational Proof"
Published in Hegel Bulletin
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big thanks to @schuringa.bsky.social and @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social for all the help along the way - and for putting up with all of my pesky emails!
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now up: full re-translation of Horkheimer’s 1942 essay—co-authored by Adorno!—“Reason & Self-Preservation,” first published in English in ‘42 (w/ ‘tactical’ modifications) as “The End of Reason.” If there’s a Prelude to Dialectic of Enlightenment, this is it. open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Horkheimer-Adorno: Reason and Self-Preservation. Winter 1941/42.
Prelude to Dialectic of Enlightenment.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
now up: full re-translation of Horkheimer’s 1942 essay—co-authored by Adorno!—“Reason & Self-Preservation,” first published in English in ‘42 (w/ ‘tactical’ modifications) as “The End of Reason.” If there’s a Prelude to Dialectic of Enlightenment, this is it. open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
Hello all, this is a new blog post at the CTWG. It is a written adaptation of my Hessen presentation from Spring. There, I give a condensed summary of the Hessen-Grossmann thesis while situating it within a broader genealogy of Marxist science historiography. Hope y’all find this fruitful.
Roots & Branches. Boris Hessen’s Marxist Science Historiography | CTWG
An Introduction to a Marxist Science Historiography
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November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hello all, this is a new blog post at the CTWG. It is a written adaptation of my Hessen presentation from Spring. There, I give a condensed summary of the Hessen-Grossmann thesis while situating it within a broader genealogy of Marxist science historiography. Hope y’all find this fruitful.
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That said and i say this as someone who really hates the saudi regime + enjoys this bit better than anyone in the world
So much of the discourse on saudi is informed by by what alain grosrichard described as a european fantasy of oriental despotism that is at once an object of loathing and desire
So much of the discourse on saudi is informed by by what alain grosrichard described as a european fantasy of oriental despotism that is at once an object of loathing and desire
Saudi Arabia is the only democracy in the Middle East and our relationship with them is based on shared values.
If there did not exist a Saudi Arabia we would have to invent a Saudi Arabia to protect our interests.
If Saudi Arabia didn't exist, not a single Arab on Earth would be safe.
If there did not exist a Saudi Arabia we would have to invent a Saudi Arabia to protect our interests.
If Saudi Arabia didn't exist, not a single Arab on Earth would be safe.
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That said and i say this as someone who really hates the saudi regime + enjoys this bit better than anyone in the world
So much of the discourse on saudi is informed by by what alain grosrichard described as a european fantasy of oriental despotism that is at once an object of loathing and desire
So much of the discourse on saudi is informed by by what alain grosrichard described as a european fantasy of oriental despotism that is at once an object of loathing and desire
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
lpeproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
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Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next Monday, we welcome @cshambaugh.bsky.social from the University of Oregon in our ROTO Lecture Series who will talk about dialectical biology. Just register via the link and join the talk and discussion at 4pm (CET): rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
#HPBio #PhilSci #HistSci
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so interesting for an old like me to see the early marx returned to but now in relation to domination in Capital
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
so interesting for an old like me to see the early marx returned to but now in relation to domination in Capital
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Gaza is drowning
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Gaza is drowning
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
I know I’m not the first to make this observation but is psychoanalysis just the physic analogy for thermodynamics? Reading Bion, and concluding he would love state functions, hysteresis, etc.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I know I’m not the first to make this observation but is psychoanalysis just the physic analogy for thermodynamics? Reading Bion, and concluding he would love state functions, hysteresis, etc.
I’m still getting better at podcasting, so apologies for the awkwardness, but Mac and I made time to blabber about dialectical biology! I definitely think you should read the book, and extend ideology critique to science proper. The book also helps you fight racists, so you should read it for that 2
POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"!
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Episode 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology. | crittheoryworkgroup
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’m still getting better at podcasting, so apologies for the awkwardness, but Mac and I made time to blabber about dialectical biology! I definitely think you should read the book, and extend ideology critique to science proper. The book also helps you fight racists, so you should read it for that 2
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happy 6am to those who celebrate: a set of short (mostly unpublished) & strange theoretical texts on the affinities of intellect & domination from Pollock’s early 40’s reports to Horkheimer about discussions in Paul Tillich’s NY salon!
link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
happy 6am to those who celebrate: a set of short (mostly unpublished) & strange theoretical texts on the affinities of intellect & domination from Pollock’s early 40’s reports to Horkheimer about discussions in Paul Tillich’s NY salon!
link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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40 years after The Dialectical Biologist, Richard Lewontin’s legacy still challenges how we think about life
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
40 years after The Dialectical Biologist, Richard Lewontin’s legacy still challenges how we think about life
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...
A new report revisits his intertwining of philosophy, biology, and Marxism—and how organisms are subjects of their own evolution
www.dialecticalsystems.eu/contribution...
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logging on just to share this podcast thing i did about reading (and teaching) marx's capital
New Class pod with Edward @bostondsa.org and Michaela @north.dsanj.org on "Reading Capital in DSA (Part One)" 📚🌹
Tune in, turn on, nerd out comrades!
www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...
Tune in, turn on, nerd out comrades!
www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...
Reading Capital in DSA - Class
Edward and Michaela share their experiences as long-time readers and guides to Capital Volume One, at a time when socialism is on the rise, and curiosity about this difficult but key work is growing.&...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
logging on just to share this podcast thing i did about reading (and teaching) marx's capital
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You’re telling me SpringerNature doesn’t need to charge $13,000 a paper for Nature Plants? I’m shocked!
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
You’re telling me SpringerNature doesn’t need to charge $13,000 a paper for Nature Plants? I’m shocked!
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I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.
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huge ty to everyone supporting the Substudies project, & in that spirit i finally finished the translation drafts i started a while back of Adorno-Benjamin’s joint critical (incredibly catty lol) “reports” for Horkheimer on 3 Paris conferences in early August ‘37! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
huge ty to everyone supporting the Substudies project, & in that spirit i finally finished the translation drafts i started a while back of Adorno-Benjamin’s joint critical (incredibly catty lol) “reports” for Horkheimer on 3 Paris conferences in early August ‘37! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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Please take some time to read Morain’s great two-part essay on conservative violence. A entirely too sober recounting on the basic unity of right reaction.
NEW: Part I of "Reflections on the Right and its Violence" by J. E. Morain
This essay on reactionary violence seeks to show the basic unity behind conservative acts of social murder, neo-nazi terror attacks, and everything in between.
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Re...
This essay on reactionary violence seeks to show the basic unity behind conservative acts of social murder, neo-nazi terror attacks, and everything in between.
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Re...
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Please take some time to read Morain’s great two-part essay on conservative violence. A entirely too sober recounting on the basic unity of right reaction.
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Two new open-access articles from Andrea Gambarotto and collaborators:
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue - Synthese
Synthese - Enactive perspectives on habit reject mechanistic models and call attention to the neglect of this concept in computational approaches to the mind. Recent work has brought enactive views...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Two new open-access articles from Andrea Gambarotto and collaborators:
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...