@WithoutJudith

Existentialism and critical philosophy of race • PhD student @penn_state • Unionized @cge_psu • Member @centrecodsa • “Nothing human is alien to me.”

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Angelus Novus, 1920
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The most important scene in You Can See Everything is when Nathan Fielder shows Elizabeth Holmes the Abbott and Costello routine where neither one can understand the other. He asks her to explain it and she eventually breaks down. Fielder is being a great psychoanalyst here!
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He is attempting to access her unconscious indirectly by getting her to interpret images that can represent the unconscious material, and he succeeds. We discover a fundamental contradiction that she cannot reconcile: she is lying and will not let herself know that she is lying.
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Deleuze: “…phenomenology has had three moments: the large Hegelian structures, then Husserl’s semiology, the study of sense…but finally something very different started with Sartre. Sartre introduced a full pragmatics into phenomenology, and converted it into this pragmatics.”
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I learned about this passage from a wonderful presenter in the North American Sartre Society panel that I was in. The source text is unknown, but I would love to find out!
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I seem to have found it, but unfortunately it is not published except as an excerpt in a book by Jeannette Colombel. Here is some explanation and another very rich part of the passage:
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“To explain how the strangest metaphysical claims of a philosopher really come about, it is always good (and wise) to begin by asking: what morality is it (is he) getting at? … There is absolutely nothing impersonal about the philosopher.” -Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1.6
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We speak far too much of ‘structures’ and far too little about *systems,* and that is the crux of the problem as it concerns the present state of the ruthless criticism of all that exists
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I am reading Lenin’s account of the fall of the Second International, where we find the most succinct and elegant definition of Marxism:
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Tyrique🍊@tyorriqueOct 22
Despairing over the abstract numbers and student performances at [insert institution that are you’re immediately removed from] is only useful if it prompts an existential question: “What can I do concretely as an instructor at my institution to mediate the problem of higher ed?”
Judith C.@WithoutJudithOct 22
It has become a common place in academia to mourn the literacy of students and no doubt things appear dire, but I just finished grading my students’ in-class essays and I am incredibly proud of the creativity and learning they demonstrated. It is definitely possible to move them.
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It has become a common place in academia to mourn the literacy of students and no doubt things appear dire, but I just finished grading my students’ in-class essays and I am incredibly proud of the creativity and learning they demonstrated. It is definitely possible to move them.
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Everybody’s first responsibility is to all humanity
Mallory@MalloryMoviesOct 18
Replying to @fizzythemachine
I think nithya’s first responsibility is to the people of Los Angeles, including the many DSA-LA members who voted to endorse her and are working their tails off for her because they believe she is aligned with DSA, not to 27 dorks in the NPC who think they know better
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Billons must read
Monte🔻@bruegels_museOct 21
my favorite read of the year. Nunes provides a framework and vocabulary that not only builds a unique descriptive theory of organization, but demonstrates how his theory can be used to dissolve and overcome the most myopic debates on the left. everyone should read this
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reformandrevolution.org/2024…

Toward an Ecology of Organization? | Reform & Revolution

reformandrevolution.org
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I remain quite proud of the organizational perspectives on DSA that I offered using this book’s framework, and sad that it has never really been taken up in this way.
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Fun fact when you visit the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon you can now stand on an observation deck that I built
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[trying to connect with my students, who I am hopelessly out of touch with] so phronesis is kind of like ‘street knowledge’
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Adorno made his fair share of contributions but it would be sad if the best we could do is relive the same problems as him. Marxism does not need to become more Adornian so much as it needs a critical reorientation to praxis, and the latter does not reduce down into the former.
Chris, Karl Marx Enjoyer@WriteToRebelOct 19
Everybody has to get more Adornian really fast
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Merleau-Ponty at the Collège de France circa Jan 1957.
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“When people develop class consciousness, it’s not that they’ve passively registered something that is already true, it’s that they’ve constituted themselves as a group, which has already changed the so-called ‘world.’” – Mark Fisher, Feb. 23 2016
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It must be said that the world-historic evil of Israel denies humanity to everyone. The colonized are deprived of it in the constant repetition of images like this, the colonizers and their enablers forfeit it to maintain the colonial system. Everything is really on the line.
Muhammad Shehada
@muhammadshehad2Oct 14
🚨Israel burned alive a Palestinian mother in front of her daughter in Gaza last night. RIP Reem Awad
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The destruction of the Israeli state is a precondition for humanity, and the refusal to acknowledge this makes one complicit not only in the colonial system as a whole but also in every single death, including Reem Awad’s.
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