Jason Read

The Primitive Accumulation of Prehistory: On the Jurassic Park films

Reposting because the Jurassic Park/World movies are on Netflix

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NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

put it in a museum

Picture of me presenting my book The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work at Space Gallery.

Something, something Baudrillard

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

"The working classes have always been the caring classes — not just because they do almost all of the caring labor, but also because, perhaps partly as a result, they actually are more empathetic than the rich. Psychological studies show this, by the way. The richer you are, the less competent you are at even understanding other people’s feelings. So trying to reimagine work — not as a value or end in itself, but as the material extension of caring — is a good start." . - David Graeber

"We've made 'do more war crimes' our official policy" should play well for the Nuremberg 2 judges

Master and Commander: Or, Must Love Dogs II

Shield of Americas just sounds like a farm out in the country with a lot of room to play around.
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Jason Read The Double Shift at SPACE Gallery 030524 YouTube video by Jason Read

Two years ago today I got to talk about my book The Double Shift to a packed room of colleagues, students past and present, friends, and whoever decided they wanted to hear about Spinoza, Marx, and work at Space gallery. It was so much fun.
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From Trump's complaint that COVID numbers are so high because we are testing too many people to Hegseth's complaint that the media should not report US casualties the administration has been clear in their opposition to any facts or information that undermines the story they are trying to tell.

Bento (dog) with stuffed gorilla

Have you ever heard of Kong?

Plus any book which uses Jay-Z's line "I am not a business man, I am a business, man" as a subheading of a chapter about marketing and brand references in hip hop is worth reading.

Derivative Media by Andrew deWaard - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

I finished this book on the trip back from Houston. Really important reading for anyone who thinks that the problem with the culture industry is that they are "out of ideas."
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I don't think the centrists are ready for the fact that a lot of major scientific institutions will soon have been strong armed into embracing falsehoods deemed convenient by the global fascist wave.

Which one was Gog and which Magog, again?

Rashomon - Notes - e-flux Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon

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Help Yourself: Work and Recognition in Send Help

I wrote about Send Help as an adaptation of Hegel's dialectic of lordship and bondage
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Evey day, despite a dominant culture of hyperindividualism and alienation, regular people are engaging in incredible acts of community defense, collective care, and mutual aid.

Every day, people are already planting seeds of the new world in the ashes of the old.

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland: The Mad Max Films as an Introduction to Political Philosophy

Reposted for George Miller's 81st Birthday
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Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy with Katja Diefenbach A seminar with German philosopher Katja Diefenbach on the legacy of Spinoza's thought in post-Marxist philosophy.

The recording of our discussion with Katja Diefenbach about her book Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy is now online. It includes an appearance by special guest John Protevi
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a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.

The Political Economy of Hip Hop: Jay-Z, Businessmen, and Businessman

Class Monsters, Or Monsters of Class: Simone Weil's Contribution to a Bestiary of the Present

Sketch of Contemporary Social Life

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I honestly did not check, but I would guess over.

If you are from Maine you are never far from a(n overpriced) reminder of home.

I think that we have to look at AI as less of harbinger of some new technological future than a way of managing the effects of a declining empire.