I'll be presenting at this at The New School on April 18th. Talking about the role of Lazarus and Badiou in Haider's intellectual development.

"Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d’etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age “proper living” means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination...” - Angela Davis

Bruce Robbins on the vicissitudes of privilege:

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For Asad On the Intellectual Legacy of Asad Haider

Wrote about my friend Asad Haider, who passed away last month.

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2025 in Review I wrote, I read, I wrote about what I read...

Did an end of year round up on what I wrote, and what I read (both books and articles)

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Team JDP, assemble

Manhattan Transfer was my favorite novel for a long time! Ross Barkan, who I pitched this to, is also still reading Dos Passos. You'll also see some of your translation work in this, Jacob. In fact I quote three Sublunary books in a row in this.

The Miraculous and Miserable City John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer' at 100

For The Metropolitan Review, I wrote about John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer, which turns 100 years old this year. In doing so I explore the intertwined legacies of modernism and urbanism.

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Marxism and Emancipation: An Interview with Dr. Asad Haider - Cleveland Review of Books Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; ...

I interviewed Asad back in 2022 for the Cleveland Review of Books (@clereviewbooks.bsky.social) So much of what he said in this interview has become core to how I think about Marxism and radical politics

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RIP Asad Haider. Like so many things about him it is unbelievable. It was unbelievable he taught Lazarus in his graduate classes, it was unbelievable that we became friends, he was unbelievably generous with his time, and he held an unbelievably unshakeable faith in emancipation.

This year I'm thankful for the NYRB sales

inspired by post on Instagram, here are 12 books I think deserve more attention📚✨

My poem, 'The Death of John Ashberry' is out in the latest issue of The Exacting Clam (@exactingclam.bsky.social). Have a squiz if you like nonsense. Hell, it's barely a poem.

Wrote a little essay about inspiration and our dominant metaphors of it. One I prefer over others, is that inspiration is a pit.

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Marxism as Egalitarian Ethos Negation Magazine

Over at @negationmag.com I went long on Everyday Resistance, Revolution, and the Rarity of Politics. Along the way I get some help from Marx, Lefebvre, Scott, Certeau, Ranciere, Badiou and of course the GOAT, Sylvain Lazarus.

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Finished this today, jesus christ what a book

Mediation Without History A Late Review of Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Wrote a late review of Kornbluh’s Immediacy wherein I call Bernard Harcourt “a glorified toastmaster”, Maggie Nelson “an easier intellectual target than a barn door comprised of Jordan Peterson quotes” and worst of all Anna Kornbluh “a North American"

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Magic Circles On Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return

Don’t sleep on this wonderful essay on by Ethan Gibson on Lynch, Madness, Shell Shock and uh the novels of Rebecca West

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“There exists in fascism the mythic desire for an object the true essence of which is death. And the real of fascism is something like a law of death…” - Alain Badiou

The Twice Examined Life On Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste and the Idea of Poetry

It's been awhile since i've put anything on the ole substack, but here's a new piece by me on Paul Valéry, the poem of the idea and the idea of poetry.

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Now this, this is a good fucking poem

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Did Mishima Die Happy? “Did he really think it through?” – Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima

It's the centenary of Mishima's birth. To celebrate, why not read my ramblings on his death?

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"If the logician could never be other than a logician, he would not, and could not be, a logician; and if the poet were never anything but a poet without the slightest hope of being able to reason abstractly, he would leave no poetic traces behind him.” - Paul Valery

Interview with Jacques Rancière How do we understand the political incoherence of our time? Has the master intellectual died? What is the true legacy of May 68?

"Well, my idea has never been that everything is political. My own statement is quite different; it is that politics has no specific object, which means that politics may happen everywhere at any time, but it may not happen as well."

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Fall in Review: A Lightness on the Edge of Town — Cleveland Review of Books When I rise it’s dissociative pins and needles, a somatic static-wash through the limb as I limp around.

Nice to appear in Philip Harris' round up of Cleveland Review of Books' fall pieces, alongside luminaries like Bailey Trela and Mitch Therieau: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/fall...

2024 in Review One must live a year facing forwards, but one can only understand a year looking backwards...

I wrote about all the things I read, wrote and enjoyed this year. Enjoy: exitonly.substack.com/p/2024-in-re...

you have to be ready to take more risks in your one, single life

Lo Mira, Mira — Lion Summerbell إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ وَإِنَّهُم مَيِّتونَ You will indeed die, and they [too] will die indeed. Surat az-Zumar 30 On the first of January in the year 15XX, I, Domingo el Monje, translator and scribe, was…

ICYMI —last week @ minor lits ...

— an experimental essay from @duncanastuart.bsky.social
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— ficción en español by @endiaaz.bsky.social
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— a short story by Lion Summerbell
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"To talk in purely practical terms; for us, individuals emerge from a depiction of the processes of human co-existence and they can be 'big' or 'small'."

—Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukács"