Daniel Tutt

Philosopher. Socialist.
Convener @emancipations_
Books:

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism — a new book by me & C. Derick Varn @TheRealVarnVlog.
Available in June, pre-order now: https://t.co/c9URAlSPBM

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

Be patient and endure; this pain will be of use to you one day.

Ovid, The Heroides

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@281Qrs @TheRealVarnVlog @ygzgzot @as_a_worker Great news, M!

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@281Qrs @TheRealVarnVlog @ygzgzot @as_a_worker Saturday July 25

[Serdar Güneş @serdarguenes]

The Concept of the Drive in Psychoanalysis (feat. Andrew Flores)

by @TuttReal

via @emancipations_

https://t.co/f86UNRC4hx

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

For my latest show, I'm joined by Andrew Flores @The_Big_Sig, a Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation to discuss the psychoanalytic concept of the drive. A great discussion - also includes a helpful reading list in the shownotes. Check it out:
https://t.co/NovxgBsk4X

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@podsekalnikov You think that I have a tenure track position? I don't.

[Sivaram @GhostofTaraki]

@TheRealVarnVlog: "When I hear about Deleuze as Marxist talked about, I want to reach for my revolver."

I love when my two fav podcasters get together lol.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

The logic of prestige imposes immense barriers to socialist politics. Most leftwing academics are caught in hyper meritocratic frameworks and they propose unhelpful ideas of liberation. I say this as a scholar with no place in the university system. On the grounds of the prestige system as it currently is I am treated at best as an unwelcome outsider or at worse as a fraud. I have worked too hard and am too serious to take this failing system seriously.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

I know many of my comrades see the tenure system as vital and necessary to preserve. And the finance capitalists know very well that the more austerity they impose the more professors are left to succumb to it out of sheer desperation. This leaves no room for any true critique of its limits. The reality is the tenure system imposes immense constraints on public discourse, it dampens the courage of scholars, it forces scholars to double down on credentializing and classical academic hierarchy, it forces younger scholars into the most inane paternalistic reliance on a system such that they can't see its negative effects. This causes academics to lose all trust from those outside of the academic system.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

I'm not sure what to do with the tenure system. I don't think it should be abolished in some fatalist or destructive way. But nor is that what finance capital really wants. I think it wants to keep it as it is, a prestige system for perpetuating the status quo. The neoliberal pressures make it more conservative and rigid, they narrow our thinking on how to make it more egalitarian. I reject its logic of prestige on its own terms and I find it healthy that it cannot produce compelling intellectuals anymore. I will never work to justify its system and I think we should be very careful in perpetuating its logic of exclusion and prestige.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@xgabegottliebx If tenure is abolished admin would be in a serious crisis in relation to labor. The TT system helps to permit the adjunct abuse to take place. TT academics very often do not care for serious reform to the adjunct system, I've seen it even with Marxist TT academics.

[Christopher Derick Varn @TheRealVarnVlog]

So we (@TuttReal and myself) have at least one, if not two, events in DC, we will have an event in Philly, The Woodbine event in NYC with @as_a_worker and Independent Labor Clubs, and the event in Baltimore looks likely. They will be between July 20th and July 25th.

I am open to doing events in the West Coast, although it may just be me doing them for gas costs in August, depending on work schedule.

There will be a multi-channel stream for releasing the book on June 25th. We will announce all venues and times when they are finalized and we are trying to keep them free and open to the public.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

“The lack of class mobility and severe income inequality makes the sensuous experience of the economy for an ordinary worker with ambition nothing but a series of scams.”

Nicolas D Villarreal
@NicolasDVillar1
The Inexorable Fall

[Mike McCarthy @its_mccarthy]

I’m honored to share that my book, The Master’s Tools on @VersoBooks, is a winner of the 2026 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@its_mccarthy @VersoBooks Huge congratulations Mike!!

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@JutlandGhost Love to see Todd!

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

@dlondonwortel This reminds me of Hart Crane's famous poem The Bridge
https://t.co/l5hodg4OVV

[Comrade Strange @MrDude_o_o]

Highlights from Tutt's article.