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@DukeU Lit | @3ammagazine @monthly_review @truthout @proteanmag & more | Internationalism, Haitian Revolution, Melville | host De Facto, co-host Cold War Cinema
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My latest article (co-authored with Gerald Horne), "What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like: A Response to The New Republic (
@newrepublic
) is now live on
@plbmagazine
.
Check it out here:
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The exact moment the German health minister became legendary on philosophy Twitter
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"There will probably be Hawaiian sovereignty again by the end of this century"
—Gerald Horne
It’s official. Hawai‘i is the first state to call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
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When a tweet goes viral = bad infinity
When a Hegel tweet goes viral = true infinity
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Best long exposure of all time?
Alexey Titarenko (1992)
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Whats the best four film run a director ever had?
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Parents please check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found The Collected Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel inside of a Twix Bar. Stay safe this Halloween.
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Throw Jacobin away, read Gerald Horne instead
Yesterday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump points to a profound sickness in American political life, whose threats don't discriminate by party or ideology.
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Gerald Horne: "Israel is sort of a clone of 19th century U.S. settler colonialism on steroids"
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Happy Birthday to Dr. Gerald Horne, the absolute G.O.A.T. 🐐
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$ ◇ a, S1 → S2 -φ, (SȺ)... IL N'Y A PAS DE RAPPORT SEXUEL... Ǝx -Φx -Ǝx -Φx
... L'ÉTOURDIT... ($ → a), ¬∀x𝚽x ¬∃x¬𝚽x... ITIZWADITIZ...
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Gerald Horne, 2022:
"I fully expect France to be peeled off from the North Atlantic bloc dominated by U.S. imperialism and cut a deal [with] the rising bloc led by Beijing and Moscow"
Jean-Luc Melenchon, founder of the left-wing France Rebellious party, which won the election, has called for a planned and organized withdrawal of the republic from NATO.
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Crazy weekend. 1) Finally met Gerald Horne in person. 2) Got into Duke Literature.
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Anyway, I'll be interviewing Gerald Horne about his new book ARMED STRUGGLE? very soon—possibly next week. Stay tuned ✌️
@IntPubNYC
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I don’t believe in god
as much as I believe
in an interrogation room.
I believe in someone
placing a loaded gun
on a metal table
between me and a door.
who gets to be god then?
would god be the bullet
or the table or the door.
Hanif Abdurraqib's poem (
@NifMuhammad
) "ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS" is now viewable by all readers.
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I challenge you to find me a more miserable philosophy section
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Let's talk about the history of "presidential immunity" in the U.S. ...
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A philosopher of "ethics." And a tenured one at that.
You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?
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This morning, Gerald Horne referred to all this nonsense as "balloonacy"
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This morning, Gerald Horne will be on
@thisishellradio
to discuss his new book, "Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the 60s and 70s" (
@IntPubNYC
).
Live at 10AM (Chicago time), podcast shortly after.
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Alright, I just accepted Duke Lit's offer. It looks like we're moving to Durham 👀
Crazy weekend. 1) Finally met Gerald Horne in person. 2) Got into Duke Literature.
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PhD rejection, news that 3 articles will be published, and news that i’ve been officially hired for the fall—all within an hour.
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It's not actually October 1st until you read Robert Walser's "The Man with the Pumpkin Head"
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Shout-out to the legendary Dr. Gerald Horne. More collaborations and projects forthcoming—stay tuned!
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If I don't get accepted into a PhD program this cycle I may have to call it quits on my academic pursuits. Adjuncting is a joke. I can't keep teaching 38 credit hours a year. It's taking a serious toll. I want to continue researching & writing but I can't do this much longer
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Here's what I'm teaching this semester. I'm especially excited to teach Morrison, Krasznahorkai and Trouillot for the first time. Actually, it'll be my first time teaching literature and poetry.
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I’d say it’s probably about time to reissue Penguin’s “Writers from the Other Europe” series
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Fredric Jameson: “Realism as the incessant destruction of earlier realisms is always a kind of modernism”
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As Gerald Horne once told me: although the US left has an analysis of class struggle it will fail & remain incomplete w/o a thorough understanding & analysis of the history of class collaboration (& therefore whiteness & white supremacy)
Thus, the current Red-Brown confusion
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Since Balfour is in the news check out Gerald Horne's masterful analysis on the history of European imperialism, the Balfour Delcaration, Palestinian labor, South Africa, cultural currents w/ regard to whiteness, Blackness, Arab-American identity & more in a global context🔥🔥🔥
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.
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Asking again: who has written on dead malls? Economics, politics, architecture, aesthetics? Anything really.
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Gerald Horne (forthcoming)
We gotta stop projecting politics onto folks just because they write about a particular subject. Most academics writing about radicals and revolutionaries are doing so as an object of inquiry NOT because they share their commitments. Folks’ politics can be gleaned from how +
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By 30 you should have completed the system of German Idealism
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Best Marxist writing on music? (not adorno not zizek not jameson)
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My Fredric Jameson Archive thread🧵
From least to most rare (I think) and in (mostly) chronological order from most recent to oldest.
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Gerald Horne: lumping together the 1776 counterrevolution, the 1789 French Revolution & the 1791 Haitian Revolution as an "Age of Revolutions" is like saying the 1973 US coup in Chile & the 1974 Carnation Rebellion in Lisbon were somehow part of an "age of revoutions" in the1970s
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Here is my article on philosophy after Covid-19 in which I address the inadequacies of vitalism/new materialism & object oriented ontology for thinking our current economic, ecological & epidemiological conjuncture.
ty:
@KamranBaradaran
&
@PhilosophyWD
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It's that time of year again. Robert Walser's "The Man with the Pumpin Head" time, to be precise.
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Update: Gerald Horne and I will be discussing his new book Armed Struggle? the first week of August. The convo will be made available on De Facto Podcast. Stay tuned!
Anyway, I'll be interviewing Gerald Horne about his new book ARMED STRUGGLE? very soon—possibly next week. Stay tuned ✌️
@IntPubNYC
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On to (much MUCH) better things. And check out that price tag.
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C.L.R. James on Moby Dick: "Almost Every sentence can be the subject of a comic strip."
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I'm teaching Krasznahorkai for the next few weeks, specifically Melancholy of Resistance though we'll be looking at some other work as well. Kindly drop your favorite Béla Tarr and Krasz crit below.
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I hope everyone is enjoying Alberto's discussion of LATE FASCISM, which is an invaluable reappraisal of the critical theory of fascism in our own time.
For those interested, Alberto & I are planning a PART 2 to discuss his other recent book, TERMS OF DISORDER!
STAY TUNED!
📣 De Facto Ep. 12 is now LIVE! 🚨
Alberto Toscano discusses LATE FASCISM: RACE, CAPITALISM & CRISIS (
@VersoBooks
), Black Radicalism, fascism & liberalism, & comments on disturbing parallels in far right culture & anti-woke, left-wing white nationalism.
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Adjunct professors & contingent faculty make up something like 75% of the academic workforce, including full-timers on short-term contracts. Teaching 6 courses a semester for multiple institutions w/o benefits & making a fraction of a living wage is hardly a cake walk...
Being a professor is a cake walk compared to the day-to-day exertion & exhaustion of K12 teaching.
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TJ Clark: "there could and can be no modernism without the practical possibility of an end to capitalism existing"
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Since "cultural christianity" (aka whiteness) is in the news, do yourself a solid and give Gerald Horne's THE DAWNING OF THE APOCALYPSE a read.
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Would anyone be interested in any way in a Journal for Gerald Horne Studies?
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I'm thrilled to announce that I am compiling my interviews with Dr. Gerald Horne into an edited collection for publication, complete with a preface written by the great
@blackleftaf
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Updates to come!
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I met Fredric Jameson today 👀. He asked me about the post office and utopia 📫
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As someone with student debt and covid I could not agree more.
COVID cases are surging and it's still summer
Ending the COVID payment pause is just cruelty
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Students protesting genocide watching tenured faculty write about populism
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Unpacking my library. (I heard you all liked book stacks, and we just moved again so....)
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I have an interview next week for a grad program, wish me luck 🙏 🙏
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Question for academics: I was asked a really good, though difficult question at a conference, and was only able to provide a partial answer. Would it be acceptable to email this person and provide a more detailed answer?
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Also looking for artists interested in designing a new logo, banner and watermark for the De Facto podcast. If you're interested, let's get in touch!
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🚨 📣 De Facto ep. 15 is now live!
Gerald Horne and I discuss his new book, Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California Through the 60s & 70s.
Check it out here! 👇
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"[In the United States] if you want to keep a secret, publish it in a book"
— Gerald Horne
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How am I just now reading this?
"Marxist Literary Critics Are Following Me!: How Philip K. Dick betrayed his academic admirers to the FBI."
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I'm happy to report that Alberto Toscano will join me on De Facto this January to discuss his new book Late Fascism.
Updates to come.
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Reading “Reading Marx” was a highlight of 2021. Going to try and dig into “Reading Hegel” this weekend.
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“In an 1808 letter to his personal friend… Hegel complains about ‘those thistleheads the Spinozists’ who ‘in general view man as a portion of seawater sealed off in a bottle floating adrift in the ocean’” (Johnston)
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Gerald Horne on the political impotence of US liberals
"... liberals effectively 'no allies to our left' while the conservatives say 'no enemies to our right.'
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Žižek’s “dream of a house composed only of secondary spaces…—stairs, corridors, toilets, store-rooms—with no living room or bedroom”
🤝
My dream of an essay composed entirely of secondary forms—epigrams, block quotes, footnotes—no intro or body ¶’s
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
by Erich Auerbach, 1946
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Just pre-ordered
@V21collective
's forthcoming book Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
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Post four books you’re excited to read in 2022 (fiction edition)
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Finally an ethical application for ChatGPT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYU Punishes Arrested Students By Requiring Them to Complete “Reflection Papers” and Completion of “Integrity” Modules. Read our May 13 press release here:
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Job Announcement!
I’m excited to start my new job teaching philosophy and humanities at
@NorthernNNMC
this fall!
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I just wrote piece for
@truthout
about faculty organizing to combat the neoliberal and fascist attacks on public and higher education. You can read it here 👇
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I begin my PhD next week, which means you'll likely see a lot less of me on here. I'll still post episode & publication updates as usual
As always, don't hesitate to reach out via DM/email should anything come up. Feel free to DM if you need my email & don't already have it 🙏✌️
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If you’re at all curious about what I’ve been working on lately, it looks a little something like this
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