Quinn Lester

Writing Program Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

The resurgence of liberal/civics education is correlated with the death of the post-war research/multiversity. The Straussians are outliving their greatest nemesis

[Rory Blank @BoneJail]

I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

police?! I'd like to report a murder!

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

twitter vindicating me today as usual

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Frasier: Hello! Hello! Anyone in the relaxation grotto!

Niles: Frasier, I told you the tape door would not be better than the Gold Door.

[Daniel Galleghost 🎃👻 @BeanWalrus]

"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs."

"Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Shocking news: local area man learns that writing the hardest part of a thing is indeed hard

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Has anyone written on fin-de-siecle Marxism as a thing? Marxists show up in a lot of these fin-de-siecle histories but are rarely focused on and are not depicted as a "failing" tradition, though ironically this is the kind of Marxism most ignored now in the Second International

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Final grades are in and his summer has just begun. Now give him three mutually contradictory reviews. The editor says he must respond to all of them. The deadline is in a month.

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

@podsekalnikov You really think so? My sense over the last 5 years is that the Bill/Jane version is really out of fashion

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Is Black Studies the only field where 00’s New Materialism (very broadly construed) remains a central research agenda? How to account for this based on both several key texts of NM not discussing race much and the denial from many that ontology has any place in Black Studies?

[Naomi Simmons-Thorne @_naomisimmons]

🚨📚I am very proud to announce my new article, “Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn,” published with Hypatia. This article accounts for intersectionality’s decline in recent black feminist thought, and the subsequent turn to Wynter, Spillers, Hartman + others.

[Budget Motel Abyss @Permanentkritik]

A more worthwhile approach to try to understand what pied pipers claims to provide?

https://t.co/m1KQ2F6lc9

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Could this still be said to characterize even a predominant grouping in contemporary political theory?

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @BasicBooks! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.

[A. J. A. Woods @adubwoods]

everyone needs to read this excellent wide-ranging piece by @moiragweigel

https://t.co/TA1lzqqUHS

[Anthony Ballas @tonyjballas]

Angela Davis is alive

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

The flagrant irrationality of Trumpism would have required a psychoanalytic turn in political thinking, if one weren't already underway, and @leninology is better at this than just about anyone

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Being on the job market this year

[Quinn Lester @QuinnLester]

Weighing in on the discourse to say that we do not yet know what a diner goth can be: https://t.co/kS4gYB13Pn