Crispin Sartwell
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'Political Aesthetics'; country music; opinion journalism; beauty; epistemology; anarchism. nyt, wsj, tls. opinions attributable to my demographics.
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I think that when you're having your department chairs arrested, you're liable to really have a long-term problem during your faculty meetings etc.
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@WKCRFM
no doubt the call to divest from weapons manufactures and arms dealers was personally offensive to the whole nypd. i agree, nypd is nothing without guns body armor armored vehicles
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@NateSilver538
No, dude. The original sin is that people mistake the opinion of their "peer group" for the truth.
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humor piece by my dad on being a department store santa, washington star ‘54.
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In 1990 or whatever, Daniel Kahneman discovered that people aren't rational, thus destroying economics, winning the Nobel etc. Dude, you have got to be kidding. It's like discovering up is not down or something.
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Identity-based leftism is just going to devour itself. It is, ironically, unable to deal with intersectionality and specifically unable by its own account to represent white women or black men.
@CathyYoung63
@EminaMelonic
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I have the notion that
@theatlantic
started out to try to defend and explain Kamala Harris. Inadvertently (?) they're devastating. This is the third (usually, in such a piece, the 'nut' graph).
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@Philip_Goff
it’s fine-tuned to *whatever is actual.’ it’s your own *valuing* of life that makes this appear *particularly* improbable. it’s not though, at all.
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A kind of cult is emerging around David Graeber. This piece will prove extremely controversial, I think.
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I don't think philosophical ethics has actually helped anyone figure out what to do or who to be.
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reading things like this both comforts and disturbs me: it’s a whole big and original system of philosophy, an unbelievable amount of work. and it has just been entirely forgotten.
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moved out of my last academic office yesterday. kind of emotionally overwhelmed, actually.
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I've contracted a philosophical crush on Simone de Beauvoir. Her essay "Pyrrhus and Cineas," despite the title, is an amazing summation of existentialism, and drives in many original directions as well. I didn't know it before, though I bet
@Skye_Cleary
did!
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Graeber is dead. Chomsky is funded by Jeffrey Epstein. That leaves me as top anarchist!!!!
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Well, I have retired from Dickinson College, as of yesterday. I might teach again somehow, and I'm definitely writing all the more.
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I think the kind of conversion therapy that
@peggyorenstein
proposes is illegal in a number of states. Still, she's got a good agent, rolling the Atlantic and
@nytopinion
for the next book.
@ElectricAgora
@clairlemon
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The people screaming about Cummings for days on end are...just not my sort of people. Their deepest moral repugnance is directed at rule-breaking, even of a relatively trivial variety. Enrich your moral outlook, k?
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How much good has voting Democrat really done over the last 50 years?
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@Billbrowder
@thomaspublius
same problem in the us senate. but giving power by population will break up the eu real quick.
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last night was a 'normal' speech; he was presidential! that you think that's important shows a very unfortunate set of values.
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@GreggDCaruso
I feel like his hair is an objection to his position. You're making bad choices, buddy.
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@nycgov
Busting pot dealers and repressing protests: NYPD is what it was in '67. Any actual crime going on up there?
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What if psychology - clinical, therapeutic, and theoretical - and psychiatry, were reconceived as humanities? It's just obvious that they have more in common with...literary interpretation or art theory or historiography than with physiology or neuroscience per se, for example.
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Hey if you think Facebook or Twitter is responsible for any misinformation appearing on their sites, do you think the same about Zoom, for example? If someone somewhere is saying something inaccurate in a Zoom meeting (it's not unlikely), shall we hold the platform responsible?
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This week the ruby-throated hummingbirds and morel mushrooms have returned to south-central PA.
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David Graeber sallied forth into any discipline he needed and into every autonomous zone he could find, and by these means created a unique legacy, but also a model for how to be simultaneously an academic and a human being.
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Main headline at the Times now, in huge type: "Harris says US is at inflection point." Post: "Harris accepts historic VP nomination: "We will speak truths."" Couldn't find anything in there with any content or meaning? Headline should have been "Harris intones stock phrases."
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I think it's only reasonable to give Trump & co a bit of time to destroy documents, erase hard drives, etc; it's a traditional element of a presidential transition, of course, but might be more time-consuming this time.
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one of the best things about anarchism is its deep connection to the history of feminism...
@davidgraeber
@kevincarson
@Antiwar2
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Something decent is happening in philosophy, I feel. Agnes Callard, Clancy Martin, John Kaag: these people are actual writers and full-fledged humans. And they do philosophy as though it bears on human questions and matters to them.
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Me, on Robert Brandom's astonishing book A Spirit of Trust.
@ElectricAgora
@timcrane102
@StigAbell
@keithfrankish
@davidpapineau
@JohnKaag
@Skye_Cleary
@americanphil
#rorty
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I think Western aesthetics can be summarized in four books: two ancient, two modern. Plato, Republic X. Aristotle, Poetics. Kant, Critique of Judgment. Dewey, Art as Experience.
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both right and left are sledding straight into fanaticism. i intend to stay out here and sneer at both until the conflagration engulfs me.
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Klobuchar's metaphors are puzzling. "When you see troubled waters, you don't blow up a bridge." "You don't put your money on a number that's not on the wheel." Um, thanks?
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Me and my kids Emma, Sam, and Jane, and the woman I married last week and my 98-year-old mother at her bday party on Saturday in Rappahannock County, VA.
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What is the source of Trump's loyalty to hydroxychloroquine? It's just puzzling.
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This confirms every negative thought I ever had on Kamala. "I just love circles!" Or wallpaper designed to "redefine what power looks like." Art selected by sheer ethnic tokenism. It's too superficial to be superficial. There isn't anything there.
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The Nashville blast is truly puzzling: right-wing, left-wing, Islamic, etc: none of them quite make sense. Are there any plausible speculations rolling around Twitter?
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The administrators and my colleagues
@DickinsonCol
insist that I not be considered for promotion at all and should retire at associate. 10 books with university presses, a hundred scholarly articles, 1500 citations, nyt wsj etc.
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Seems like Marx may have misidentified the true revolutionary class.
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'Cultural Marxism' just isn't the most useful term, but 'woke' will soon be over, 'social justice warrior' has become a term of abuse. I'm taking suggestions for a decently neutral characterization of the newnew left.
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One thing that's utterly obvious: our politicians play unbelievably dirty. The oppo research has no limits, no scruples. Don wants the dirt on Hill from the Russians; Hillary's hiring MI6 spies. These people are gross as shit.
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@JoyceCarolOates
Naw she just didn't like the way he wrote. She was a fastidious crafter, he a wild sprawler.
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If there's one thing we can agree on, it's sending billionaires to space.
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@jasonintrator
No we aren't. We're watching a series of judicial decisions you disagree with. Why the non-stop hyperbole, bro? Has it worked yet?
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Right, it's kind of sad and outrageous that colleges are dropping humanities majors and departments. On the other hand, what has academia done with the humanities in the last, say, 30 years? It used to be wild thinkers and big ideas. Now it's little bitty "professionals."
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BREAKING: Philosophy professor declares that he does not accept Science.
@petercatapano
@jasonintrator
@timcrane102
@americanphil
@JohnKaag
@Skye_Cleary
@keithfrankish
@davidpapineau
@philosophybites
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The basic question of liberalism: How can we make a political hierarchy that rests on violence compatible with our apparent commitment to equality and liberty?
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Like if you were serious about the idea that the obligation to obey the law rested on a social contract: well, contracts are abrogated under massive violation by one of the parties.
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Notable things about me, author or philosopher-wise. I was writing philosophy in self-help and confessional first-person veins in the early '90s. Few academic philosophers were.
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I believe of myself that my academic career was vitiated, over and over, by pc/woke. It's pretty funny because I am no right-winger, in my own opinion. Rather, an eccentric. I feel that's another sort of person who got eliminated, '85-'23.
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@RobertTalisse
I figure the candidate is building an ethics course around the students' performance of specific ethical transgressions. Real hands-on pedagogy.
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Classical liberalism is beset by a more modest (yet still devastating) version of the contradiction at the heart of Marxist communism: its commitment to equality is incompatible, conceptually and practically, with its statism.
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2 styles of post-truth: (a) assert what's false. (2) emit nothing but empty, focus-grouped catchphrases. trump v clinton
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Animals, I tell you!
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@AdrienneLaF
@davidfrum
surely not must-read in that i already know what he's going to say. everyone does.
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My review of
@JohnKaag
's 'Hiking with Nietzsche' in the TLS. I love the way he is writing, and I love the way he is bringing together life and philosophy, lifewriting and philosophical writing.
@Skye_Cleary
@philosophybites
@BrianLeiter
@americanphil
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Women aren't united against Kavanaugh. That's a dangerous myth | Jessa Crispin
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@RobertTalisse
@GreggDCaruso
Philosophy consists of footnotes to Plato, human history of footnotes to Diogenes.
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it embodies real conservatism and a desire to be subordinated.
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"This masterful work provides a theory of truth, perhaps the only theory of truth according to which it is itself true. And its own theory of truth, according to which it is true, is itself true according to itself."
--Alasdair MacIntyre
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These Amazon ads where children are shocked by how cloud technology can do XYZ are ridiculous. It's only oldsters who are surprised.
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It appears to me that Timothy Snyder and...90 other scholars, have been hired by a Ukrainian oligarch to prove that Ukraine is not part of Russia. Now I ask you: is that any way to conduct academic research?
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Explanation of police brutality is pretty simple, really. People who have power are disproportionately who seek power. People who seek power are, on average, morally worse than most people.
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I think of the New York Times, the Atlantic, and NPR as the same publication.
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We ought to ask why we’d want a non-authoritarian society, or what we’d do with it if we had it. I like to think we’d feed each other more and police each other less.
@c4ssdotorg
@davidgraeber
@petercatapano
@anarchomorphist
@narchiststudies
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@mirandalambert
probably never got a more positive review. kitty tammy patsy tammy loretta
@MirandaLambrt
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No subject is more boring than the tragedy or whatever of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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I used to think not being on the right or the left (or for that matter in the middle) was a good place from which to write opinion. Now it's just completely incomprehensible, as everyone has entrusted or surrendered their beliefs into one collective agent or another.
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@GreggDCaruso
“Absent free will, no one should be held responsible for their behavior, good or bad.” The Times takes that as obvious. I do not.
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I feel like it's horrible what we all did to Rachel Dolezal. And you still need to think about why you consider transsexuality de rigueur and and transraciality impossible. There could have been a worthwhile conversation.
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