You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...
interesting 👁️ has not popped up as much in my circles but there are the limits of anecdote… they have received my blessing to carry on, in this case
probably
ironically enough I think the book's appeal to online MLs, etc, who have had these views for ages is that it provides academic legitimacy to their view that academic Marxism is illegitimate
the appeal of the book? or the appeal of the flurry of reviews?
it raises the question of what a review is meant to do, I suppose. and certainly if there are fringe indifferent people, critical reviews may persuade them. or may have the opposite effect! who knows
the R*ckhill reviews are well and good, but I do wonder if people understand that for the most part, reviews written for Jacobin or by TT academics or whatever will do nothing to reach the people who've adopted that view of Western Marxism, since by their lights such reviews are always compromised
how will history remember dril
"Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi."
please give what you can if you can!
chuffed.org/project/1771...
oh hell yeah
uh oh there's a world where i spin this into an abstract for danish marxism conference
time for 👁️advances👁️
my thought is that if Marx is just some semi-historicist Aristotelian, MacIntyre is right that you might as well just make him a Thomist too, lol
these are good points but would make for a very short reader!!
need time machine to go see Paul Robeson in CLR James’s limited run 1936 Toussaint play
left-wing student protesters ime are a small if outspoken percentage of most university student bodies. that usual group 1) perhaps doesn’t think no kings style protests will do a lot, and 2) saw the consequences of Palestine protests for students just a couple years ago (under a “friendly” admin!)
1) should i try to make this post-diss and 2) what would you put in it
fascinated by the prospect of a “continental metaethics reader”
Cover of Gore Vidal's Burr: A Novel, featuring detail of a portrait of Aaron Burr
oh and also:
Gore Vidal, Burr, Vintage
lazy update: have mostly been reading articles and chapters and rereading things for teaching, but my rereads of Henry IV, Pt. 1 and of Frederick Douglass's Narrative have especially been sticking in my mind
to add: people working in "continental" phil often write like analytics or like divide-neutral history of philosophy specialists. it's really more canonical conty names who get this criticism, and like, okay, maybe consider why many people capable of writing clearly still find that work valuable
I thought this was great and, once again, highly recommend @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social's book!
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
orbán is done in hungary but now the lingering question is whether tisza will undergo the kind of fideszification that fidesz did in the early 2010s
speaking of vaguely academic pursuits—would it be possible a chat with you about Pentiment for an academic article a colleague and I are putting together on the game's approach to historical time/agency? @katedollarhyde.bsky.social, we would love to speak with you too!
for those who missed it: Vijay Prashad published an article that both soft pedaled China's genocidal treatment of Uighur Muslims and also contained false information because it was partially written by AI in the Monthly Review, which is so grotesquely disqualifying it's almost unbelievable
haven't you heard he's super woke* now?? (don't look at the asterisk haha please don't look at or ask about the asterisk hahahaha 😇)
between the stimulating discussion and all of your dulcet tones, knocking on wood for a coming podcast!
less a book launch and more a stimulating discussion of how to develop a properly marxian critical theory of totality with Rob and Sam IMHO