James Stanescu

A Guy With a Blog

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

Give this a listen. It’s a great conversation between the three of us.

[Emi Leese Ⓥ @emisgoodeating]

"Kill one species, cause an explosion in another." Vasile Stănescu on the violent paradox of "invasive species management." James Stănescu: The militarized language of invasion ecology isn't neutral. Ep 34 of @ThinkLikeAVegan streaming on all platforms and YouTube

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

Can an AI “finish” Hannah Arendt’s Life of the Mind?
Probably not.
But trying to make it do so might tell us something about judgment, editorial power, and our own eagerness to let prediction stand in for thinking.
New essay on Arendt, LLMs, and the missing book on judgment.

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

You can listen to it here, or wherever you get podcasts.
https://t.co/20THwsipI8

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

I was recently invited on Vas and Devs Stanescu podcast, How We Win. Our focus was on “Slaughterhouse Capitalism.” This is Vas’ recent article for @curaffairs. It also grows out of my own research.

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

The podcast is wide ranging, but mostly focuses on the interlocking nature of different modes of capitalist production and our relationship to other animals. This work is the basis of a book Vas and I are writing (editors feel free to reach out).

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

That article claiming that art history has a higher economic outcome than finance is a lie. https://t.co/ffn3jfKv4P

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

@anotherpanacea The history of the ‘Fragment’s’ successive interpretations is a history of crises and of new beginnings. -Virno, “Notes on the General Intellect.”

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

@anotherpanacea We have referred back many times to these pages … in order to make some sense out of the unprecedented quality of workers’ strikes, of the introduction of robots into the assembly lines and computers into the offices, and of certain kinds of youth behaviour.

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

@anotherpanacea has a thoughtful response to my What is Pragmatism? post. https://t.co/YPbpo9unWd

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

New blog post! 3000-ish words (mostly other people’s words) on time and the future and the past and utopia. Plus some stuff about Trump. https://t.co/guQwciAvcR

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

Legislative supremacy ftw. (At fifteen retweets I will explain.)

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

For Deleuze's 100th Birthday, I have a blog post about his transcendental empiricism. We have a thought from the outside, a thought from the inside, and the necessity of Möbius stripped thinking. https://t.co/GN9kx737N4

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

A post in which I explore what James and Peirce meant by pragmatism, and the differences and stakes by which they meant it. I push back against Horkheimer's critique of pragmatism, and in general celebrate my whole multiversal weird empiricism thing.
https://t.co/tKJp5f865G

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

A post about #wicked the novel, and it's exploration of evil and forgiveness.
https://t.co/cuHe5eoBof

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

A student of mine died of fentanyl this year. A couple months later I fought to include demands for better opioid treatments in something and I was told that opioids are a white people problem.

Yes, I’m still mad about it, what gave that away?

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

A blog post where I argue that if, as Deleuze said, the purpose of philosophy is to harm stupidity, than the purpose of rhetoric is to harm idiocy.

https://t.co/OKcxu9HIGs

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

Usually when a quotation has gone this long without confirmation, it turns out to be bunk. This one is real and I hunted it down, because the internet is awesome. https://t.co/3iuQ87eM4w

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

Why the professional distinction between ethics and morality is a problem. https://t.co/452x2PXN1a

[James Stanescu @TheScuTweets]

A blog post about weird empiricism and animal studies.
https://t.co/MfOT8mXXUt