jason stephens

philosophy grad student @ loyola chicago

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

"The perfection of slavery issues forth, rather, from *the slave's desire for equality* itself, from the dream-work aimed at participation in slave society. The more strident the demands for reform grow, in fact, the more perfect slavery, and the slave, becomes."
— Sexton

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@pruett_jordan lol

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@justinecheng_ incredible 💰

[drumm colin (NYC) @drumm_colin]

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[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@Rabellogers @drumm_colin 👎

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@DoctorWhotep come up to rogers park!! ✨

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@HannibalLecturn i forgot about the italians 🤦

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@HannibalLecturn @CapenerSean i think you're thinking of ante-
(this course is gonna be very anti-Kant :)

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@amalgam_screams omfg

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@jvdelisle @SpartanVTyranny @drumm_colin anti-anti-Young thought

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@AntiClimaco happens to all the greats

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

@scalawagmag I’m a different Jared Sexton but holy god do I admire the Jared Sexton who wrote this.

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@accursed_cher

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@AntiClimaco alternatively:

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@amalgam_screams okay now i get it ://

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@amalgam_screams @drumm_colin but i'm wondering if you would say that the latter is as psychosexually loaded as the former (even if not as apparent)

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@amalgam_screams @drumm_colin i'm v curious what you think about the different forms of this move — like the avowal of 'daddy trump' (by Mel Gibson, Tucker, etc) is *so* readily psychosexual vs. analogizing the national debt to personal finance seems to be instrumentally useful for advocating austerity

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@drumm_colin courtesy of Mary Nyquist tbf

but yeah, i think that answering the question in one direction soothes some political anxieties while exacerbating others

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@drumm_colin but then what is Aristotle doing at the very beginning of Politics? "Those, then, who think that the positions of statesman, king, household manager, and master of slaves are the same, are not correct."

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@drumm_colin because i think that’s what’s happening when someone likens the national debt to a credit card

[jason stephens @Jas0nStephens]

@drumm_colin i feel like this is a question that should be asked across the history of political discourse: do elites want to analogize the household to the state or deny the possibility of that analogy?