Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
I keep seeing that some of the people who cited inflation as their argument against Biden are now claiming that Trump’s high cost of living must be endured for “loftier ideals.” It reminds me of Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/11/whe-...
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men...? On Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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The queer bar story and the bad art friend story and any number of other "toxic person in a small community" stories succeed because they're inherently compelling narratives about people who transgress boundaries in ways we can recognize from our own lives. (FOR FUCK'S SAKE CONTINUED KEEP READING.)
"The defining feature of the modern university was the autonomy of knowledge (namely its autonomy from the primacy of theology). The contemporary imposition of the economy's primacy, however, implies the cancellation of the autonomy of knowledge...
"All your favorite books they wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little bit more well read." The Hold Steady, Hot Fries
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 19h agoName a quote from a rock and roll track.
I often find myself wondering about the purpose of headshots. Like what information are they supposed to convey on a flyer for a talk or a webpage for a book. Anyway my university just did a new one for me.
It is dry in Maine that all the little bridges over creeks and swamps on the trails just seem arbitrary.
So the fiendish scheme that he claims to be uncovering is that people are making up people only to pay for insurance they never use? I am not really sure if I see the angle.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoDr Oz: "There are 5 times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes"
I rewatched The Shape of Water last night. I still think that Del Toro's Creature from the Black Lagoon movie is better than his Frankenstein. www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/01/make...
Make Monsters Great Again: Timeliness and Untimeliness in The Shape of Water
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Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality. Materials for an Alternative - Historical Materialism
Vittorio Morfino Author: Vittorio Morfino Translator: Dave Mesing Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality examines several key moments of modern and contemporary philosophical thought, reading them in...
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I do find a provost using AI to write op-eds hilarious, but also, to borrow from Dorothy Parker, how could they tell?
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d agoThe provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
It always seems odd to me when people criticize a book that is an attempt to describe its conjuncture by arguing that "has not held up" after time. Was the book wrong, or has the conjuncture passed.
I finished this book last night. I have been really getting into books told from non-human points of view. In this case a dog returning from war. It is like the Odyssey if the Odysseus was a dog. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Etna/P...
Etna
The best-reviewed book of the summer by The New York Times, Time, NPR, and more, Etna is a “devastating and gorgeous” (The New York Times Book Revi...
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NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
Reposted on the anniversary of Fredric Jameson's passing. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/03/its-...
It's the Economy (of) Stupid: Or, Destroying the Economy to Save its Image
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One more repost for Stephen King's birthday (which should be a holiday in Maine at this point) www.unemployednegativity.com/2021/11/shin...
Shine On: We Are All in Room 237 Now
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Reposted for Stephen King's birthday, 2026 will be remembered as the year that reality caught up with his darkest dystopias. www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/unti...
Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Man
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Too many have forgotten that the civil rights movement was fought over, among other things, bathrooms and locker rooms
Rereading Macherey's Le Sujet des Norms brought me back to this book, which is also on my list of books that should be translated. www.unemployednegativity.com/2012/10/our-...
Our Nature is to Change Our Nature: Bertrand Ogilvie and Political Anthropology
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AI will making reading and writing obsolete the same way that the automobile made walking obsolete, which is to say we will eventually realize that the latter is better for the planet, society, and our health even as the world around us is built to prioritize the former.
