Matthew Mitchem

philosophy.

[Urbanomic @urbanomicdotcom]

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[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

The history of Western philosophy

[Badiou @beingandevent]

“So much then for Plato's philosopher-king and his obsession with the Just and True! Against authority of opinion, there is no possibility of 'good governance' - to use the ethical jargon in vogue. Opinion rules!”

[catherine liu @bureaucatliu]

Parents of graduating seniors and graduating seniors from HS: I encourage you all to take a gap year. Next year in higher ed is going to be pure chaos. Get a job, travel and get a job, follow a reading list, try to be disciplined. Wait this one out.

[Badiou @beingandevent]

“When the Chicago Americans shamelessly used Freud to substitute the re-educational methods of ‘ego-reinforcement’ for the truth from which a subject proceeds, it was quite rightly, and for everyone’s salvation, that Lacan started that merciless war against them”
—Being and Event

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

Slavoj Žižek on Jacques-Alain Miller

“For example, one semester we were reading maybe one of the most difficult of Lacan’s texts, Kant with Sade, you know, like, page by page, sentence by sentence. And this was the miracle of Miller: You read the page, you understand nothink ...

[Badiou @beingandevent]

“We need to abolish nationalist oppressions from above through internationalist activity, and not from below by the regional nationalisms.”

Alain Badiou: “The alleged power of capitalism today is merely a refle | Verso Books https://t.co/SHHdxYGf8d

[Katherine Everitt 💥 @katherineveritt]

I’m totally captivated by Agamben’s “poetics of inoperativity” in this 2014 lecture. In this same vein, my work on space posits that emptiness is the inoperative kernel of being.

[Tayyy @tayjoness]

Are you angry the system is forcing two of the worst candidates in US history down our throats?

Prepare to get even angrier.

We all know the uniparty tries to rig the system in their favor. While the Democrats do most of the dirty work, the Republicans don’t put up much of a fight.

But how exactly do they keep third parties and independent candidates off the ballot and out of the White House?

Let me break down some of the shady things they've done that you may have missed over the last 5 months:

❤️ February
•DNC files FEC complaint against the only PAC supporting Kennedy, AV24, to get the signatures they’d acquired in states like AZ, MI & GA thrown out under the guide the campaign colluded with the PAC.

•DNC launches billboards in Michigan ahead of a Kennedy rally linking him to Trump.

🍀 March
•The DNC hires an entire team to keep 3rd parties off the ballot including operatives like Lis Smith and Matt Corridoni. They’re essentially paid to slander RFK Jr on social media.

•State officials in Nevada basically create a new rule for collecting signatures AFTER Kennedy’s signatures were submitted, stating the VP must be named on the petitions. There wasn’t even a space for a name on the form provided by the state. This required 10k signatures to be recollected which were turned in earlier this month.

RFK Jr is currently suing the NV Secretary of State over the debacle. The DNC is also currently suing the NV SOS, but to block Jill Stein from the ballot.

•DNC operatives organize an attack on the Kennedy website events page, creating numerous obviously fake community events with inflammatory titles.

•Polling aggregators such as RCP begin including pay-to-play polls like YouGov, bringing down Kennedy’s polling average.

☔️ April
•DNC and dem org MoveOn pay several homeless individuals to hold signs outside a Kennedy rally in LA. MoveOn was caught changing the job listing, but the RFK camp secured screenshots.

•The DNC tries to remove Kennedy from the ballot in Hawaii and loses

🌸 May
•Dems claim Kennedy petitioners misled signers in NY as to who they were signing for. Petitions were collected by volunteers (in full RFK Jr swag) and by a paid team, Meridian Strategies, that was recommended by a DNC strategist. Guess which group was accused. Once the allegation was made, the team said fine - all Meridian signatures were thrown out, they were referred to law enforcement, and team Kennedy still had tens of thousands over what was needed.

The DNC has since filed a lawsuit in NY to keep Kennedy off the ballot

☀️ June
•A dem-backed group in NC, Clear Choice Action, launches a text campaign to ask petition signers for both RFK Jr and Cornel West to withdraw their signatures. They then review all signatures and send a letter to the state board to have them tossed for both candidates.

•CNN colludes with Biden and Trump to keep RFK Jr off the debate stage with arbitrary rules they don't even follow.
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In addition to all of those things, add in a bought-and-paid-for mainstream media and you have a lot of power.

When I hear people say that Trump is the enemy of the establishment, I laugh. If they didn’t want Trump on the ballot, he wouldn’t be there.

This is what it looks like to be a real threat to those in power. Every day is a battle just to keep moving forward.

They can pull all the dirty tricks they want, but guess what? We’re going to expose them, and we’re bringing receipts 💅🏻

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Hannah Arendt's final exam for a course she taught on Kant's Political Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1964

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

your printer doesn't work and google can't even give you the right directions to taco bell but here you are worried about ai exterminating humanity

[Andy Tran @andy23tran]

What's going on here?

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

The thing about history is... these times we are living in are very, very precedented.

[Matthew Mitchem @mattmitchem]

@Volsicle Lol, this is why I give significant points for trying; why I go to great lengths to explain how a 0% F is significantly worse than a 50% F.

[Matthew Mitchem @mattmitchem]

Serious question: Why is it that Spinoza’s influence on Deleuze is so often explored, highlighted, even celebrated; while at the same time Deleuze’s homage to Nietzsche is ignored, unspoken, or silenced?

[Matthew Mitchem @mattmitchem]

It’s not just that there is wide spread willful ignorance in the US, there is a cultural antipathy for basic curiosity.

[Matthew Mitchem @mattmitchem]

@LooraKennedy Wait, what? Are Analytics still claiming they are Philosophers?

[Matthew Mitchem @mattmitchem]

@MattFlisfeder Oh for sure. There is a massive gulf between Foucault and Foucaultians.