@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social New patron exclusive episode coming n modernity is now live! We’re very excited for you all to see this series unfold as we seek to finally answer that age-“old” question: what’s so great about being modern anyway?
William Paris
@williammparis.bsky.social
Critical theorist and philosopher of utopia. Author of Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation. Co-host of What’s Left of Philosophy.
new episode out now! on Marx's Fragment on Machines and AI as potentially emancipatory technology 💖 abolish drudgery! refuse doomerism! your time can be yours! www.patreon.com/posts/163735...
138 | Machinic Intelligence and Marxism | What's Left of Philosophy
In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about t
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new episode out today! we dive into the debate between relational and distributive egalitarians, asking we actually want when we talk about equality. as usual we're sympathetic with our left-liberal friends, but think they don't quite go far enough! www.patreon.com/posts/135-wh...
135 | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy | What's Left of Philosophy
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Happy I can finally announce that my book won one of the Canadian Philosophical Association’s book prizes!
A short piece I wrote for @statecourtreport.org on the problems "state capture" poses for state and local government, and how state constitutions might be used to prevent them. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana... Based on an article first published with @cardozolaw.bsky.social (link below).
“State Capture” and the Role of State Courts
State constitutions offer powerful tools for combatting control of state and local institutions by private interests.
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we just covered this angle: www.patreon.com/posts/159412...
135 | The Ambiguities of Reconstruction w/ Professor Lucien Ferguson | What's Left of Philosophy
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new episode out today! professor Luke Ferguson joins us to talk about the history of constitutional law, how the Supreme Court gutted the project of reconstruction, and why the left should treat the law as a site of struggle 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/159412...
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for every @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode we put out we get a pile of bad faith misreadings in our inbox, accusing us of all manner of reactionary nonsense. to you, our critics, I say: nothing. you howl uselessly into a yawning void prison of your own mind's construction
new episode out today! we talk about Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work, which we are very sympathetic to even if we are probably trapped within some sort of the productivist modernism she criticizes. we promise we don't *want* to work! full ep is a patron exclusive: www.patreon.com/posts/158090...
134 | The Problem with Work | What's Left of Philosophy
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new episode out today! we discuss Glen Coulthard's book Red Skin, White Masks, talking through land back as the normative basis of radical indigenous struggles and the inadequacy of recognitive politics in settler colonial states. stay vigilant, comrades ❤️ www.patreon.com/posts/156471...
133 | Indigenous Struggles Beyond the Colonial Politics of Recognition: Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks | What's Left of Philosophy
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new episode today! it's an Easter miracle as we continue our Marxism & Religion series with Terry Eagleton's reflections on Christianity, the spirit of love and revolution, and dunking on the small-souled Dawkinses of the world. bless up to our patrons! teaser below www.patreon.com/posts/154872...
132 | Marxism and Religion, Part II: The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton | What's Left of Philosophy
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This episode really rocked! All four of us firing on all cylinders begging for healthier uses of Black political history
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 5mo agonew episode out today! we talk about Brandon Terry's case for a tragic vision of the Black Civil Rights Movement, in search of a realist political orientation that avoids romantic optimism and ironic pessimism. the struggle continues! www.patreon.com/posts/153672...
Found this to be a great discussion about the instrumentalization of The CRM in modern politics, and how under neoliberalism it has been hollowed out into empty idpol and a non-liberatory set of Black politics. Even touches on the disgraceful speeches of Biden/Harris et al at Rev Jackson’s funeral
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 5mo agonew episode out today! we talk about Brandon Terry's case for a tragic vision of the Black Civil Rights Movement, in search of a realist political orientation that avoids romantic optimism and ironic pessimism. the struggle continues! www.patreon.com/posts/153672...
new episode out today! we discuss Horkheimer's essay "Traditional and Critical Theory", asking what actually makes critical theory critical, and whether there's any genuinely critical theory going on right now. the social totality causing all kinds of problems rn fr www.patreon.com/posts/130-ma...
130 | Max Horkheimer: What Makes Critical Theory Critical? | What's Left of Philosophy
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Reject rationalism! Embrace the proletarian élan vital!
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo agonew episode out today! we talk about Georges Sorel's concept of the proletarian general strike in Reflections on Violence. the full episode is only for patrons; teaser available everywhere, link below. don't be waylaid by parliamentary obfuscations! www.patreon.com/posts/129-ge...
This episode is really so beautiful. Especially in light of the past few weeks in Minnesota. We reflect on King’s meaning of love, political praxis and spirituality, and what it means to take seriously King as both a socialist *and* religious actor. Hope y’all enjoy it!
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo agonew episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...
enainstitute.org/en/publicati... A new interview I did on the book! Really appreciate Yiannis and ENA for the invitation
Race, Time & Utopia | A book interview with William M. Paris
William M. Paris, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, associate editor for the journal …
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National Farmers Union Canada presents Dr. William Paris, an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the UofT, speaking about the potential of utopian thinking for helping people develop creative capacities to positively reshape ordinary life. @nfucanada.bsky.social @williammparis.bsky.social
A better world is possible! Utopia in Thought and Action
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I am excited to have this conversation with Meena Krishnamurthy about her new book today at the Centre for Ethics! If you’re around please come through!
Loved doing this episode! I really got a lot out of TMS and you hope you all will too!
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 9mo agonew episode out now! we talk about Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is a sophisticated and nuanced account of approbation, justice, and why you get the ick when someone doesn't appreciate a movie you really like. it's great actually. www.patreon.com/posts/123-ad...
Art is not to be enjoyed! Get in and watch cinema!!
gil, a finite mode@gilmorejon.bsky.social · 10mo agoI watched Southland Tales per @williammparis.bsky.social's recommendation last night and, as promised, it was completely unhinged and I loved everything about its radical commitment to being totally incomprehensible and baffling. art is so cool I love human beings
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/race... Another generous review of my book!
Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation
William M. Paris’s first book makes wide-ranging and consequential interventions into contemporary critical theory, Africana philosophy, and criti...
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“Much about what Ezra Klein argues is objectionable,”—including “the appeal to debate as ’persuasion,’ which confuses the mere appearance of giving and responding to reasons with the substance of good-faith rational inquiry,” writes columnist @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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"Our development as rational agents is never wholly self determined. We come into a world where certain meanings have already been decided before we have had the chance to evaluate them according to our individual powers of judgement."(p.150)
Haha well i am working on a series which is gonna discuss Hayek at length so I disagree! We live in Hayek's world, whether we like it or not. All the interesting parts have nothing to do with his conflict with Keynes tho
alex williams@atwilliams.bsky.social · 11mo agotheres nothing important to learn from hayek
new episode out now! we talk about literature and Marxism through the work of Raymond Williams. this turns out mostly to be an excuse to reveal ourselves as big Jane Austen fans. the full episode is a patron exclusive, teaser below www.patreon.com/posts/139000...
120 | Raymond Williams on Literature and Cultural Materialism | What's Left of Philosophy
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this is one of the best episodes yet. if you aren't listening to this podcast you're playing yourself
What's Left of Philosophy@leftofphilosophy.bsky.social · 11mo agonew episode out now! we talk with Nicholas Vrousalis about why we should understand exploitation as a form of domination and why this is a powerful argument for capitalism being unjust. also we lovingly give G.A. Cohen and John Roemer a little bit of a hard time. www.patreon.com/posts/119-ex...
we are doing our live show in Chicago THIS THURSDAY! we're gonna talk about a little book called THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, ever heard of it?? get your tickets here: epiphanychi.com/events/whats...
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What’s Left of Philosophy Live Show: Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto
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