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in this society unity appears as accidental, separation as normal | every cook can govern | testy curmudgeon | he/him

[sam @fireineveryshot]

wrote a blog post trying to wed a longstanding interest - badiou's micro portrait of jean cavaillès - and a new one - hegel
https://t.co/g6aZUm8iec

[sam @fireineveryshot]

What the

[zoë @zoeloveshouses]

i’m allowed to say this because it’s also an insult to myself but the one thing i’ve learned from 2 years of having a lot of followers is that only ugly men think i’m hot

[sam @fireineveryshot]

End up reflecting the "right" philosophical views without ever passing through some general change in the philosophical positions of those doing the organizing

[sam @fireineveryshot]

I feel like thinking is undermines suther's brilliant contributions to philosophy ( just limiting this to the issue of organization, there's no simple mediation between philosophical tenets and how organization is conceived and practiced. Organizational practices can obviously...

[Jensen Suther @jensensuther]

How one thinks about organizational questions is shaped by fundamental questions about, say, the “hard problem” of consciousness - whether we think agents are atoms swerving in a void or self-determining. Whether thinking is an ineffable “other” or the form of real life. 2/

[sam @fireineveryshot]

You can pretty much dogmatically ignore people who frame a social problem along working people to working people lines (as opposed to a frame of working people to landlords and bosses)

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

Rent control makes new residents pay their neighbors' rent.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war

[sam @fireineveryshot]

:(

[mel @GERWANIDYKE]

Not surprised it exists but this is the first time I see paris commune LARP

[sam @fireineveryshot]

Sharing your woes with people in your life, and their sympathizing or commiserating in return is also part of the human experience!

[🔎Al🔍 @SweatieAngle]

I’ve had guys trying to date me accuse me of having autism before but it’s not like I’m even unempathetic I’m just impatient with wallowing- oh you feel sad and lonely and you don’t know why or what the point is? Welcome to the human experience whiner, what do you want me to say?

[R. @rimmel_f]

I know I've posted excerpts from this book at least 10 times, but this footnote is massively underrated.

[sam @fireineveryshot]

Aristotle said that "ludicrous things are pleasant," so he'd obviously be a fan of jackass

[sam @fireineveryshot]

I don't recognize the epistemic validity of type 2 fun

[sam @fireineveryshot]

On rare occasions I check out u of t's bookstore and it's like this

[Zack Brown @LuminanceBloom]

welcome to the university bookstore! Inside, you’ll be able to satisfy all of your non-book related needs, such as campus merchandise, sports jerseys, and variously colored pens and notebooks!

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Second wave radicals like Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis knew they had to break off from the anti-war movement and start independent feminist groups when women tried to speak at an anti-Nixon protest, and men in the crowd yelled “Take her off the stage and fuck her.”

[sam @fireineveryshot]

He's just like me fr (except for the last part of course)

[john @johnsemley3000]

reading Isiah Berlin’s biography of Marx. sets our hero up nicely with “he was annoying and mean and didn’t care about people’s feelings, he’d talk on and on and people found him a tedious bore, and he is without question the greatest mind of the last quarter millennium.”

[sam @fireineveryshot]

@Adrn_Pttrsn Any time

[sam @fireineveryshot]

Margaret Qualley let me holler at you

[sam @fireineveryshot]

If I could read properly, I'd read this alongside that book about freedom of choice published recently

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Finished my read of the manuscript. If it's not my best work then it's gotta be pretty close. Publisher tells me it's on the calendar for 11 months from today.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.

[sam @fireineveryshot]

An obnoxious opinion I hold is that it's cool that England refers to zucchini and eggplant by their French names

[sam @fireineveryshot]

What meaning is generated by thinking of bands in terms of where they're from

[Boeckner @d_boeckner]

Deerhunter maybe one of the most under appreciated American cultural products. As American as Broadcast is British

[Tyrique🍊 @tyorrique]

Obligatory July 4th post