Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost @ghostofchristo1
In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. A third place Joined August 2020-
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I know it's unfashionable to say, but I love Žižek's rhetorical style: "I am discussing matters of vital importance for the survival of humanity as a species. So let me pause here for a moment to quote the legendary video game Metal Gear Solid 4."
A certain kind of intense fandom that eventually manifests as an overwhelming resentment of the fan-object—and a desire to replace it with the fandom itself. The object of fandom and its mere “creator” unable ultimately to measure up to the synchronised emotions of the fans.
Hey man just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed opening your recent article in a new tab
Who’s writing intelligently at the moment about mergers and the concentration of corporate ownership, the rise (and rise) of private equity firms, and the effect this is having on contemporary capitalism?
One of my favourite kinds of account—people who are incredibly acute and politically switched on in the replies, but whose main feeds are dedicated otherwise to extreme displays of normalcy, like DIY and picture-hanging tips. A highly effective form of cultural camouflage.
no doubt, the pendulum will swing back toward an elevation of "free speech" sometime in the future; but right now, a powerful groupthink prevails that there is just one correct way of thinking, without much nuance or history, & that. is. that.
This is clearly true. Equally, Rightists demanding a securitised clampdown on political protest/non-violent dissent will, in turn, soon find their own pet causes repressed following the new precedent.
This is clearly true. Equally, Rightists demanding a securitised clampdown on political protest/non-violent dissent will, in turn, soon find their own pet causes repressed following the new precedent.
In our featured article this week, George Hoare tells us we should be glad for boredom. cafeamericainmag.com/on-boredom/
Been thinking a lot about this lately. Our 20th-century, post-World War II monumental history is on its last legs as memories inevitably fade. But we have invested so much meaning in these monuments that, when they topple, we lose a disproportionate amount.
Been thinking a lot about this lately. Our 20th-century, post-World War II monumental history is on its last legs as memories inevitably fade. But we have invested so much meaning in these monuments that, when they topple, we lose a disproportionate amount.
"I am writing with care and concern" after facilitating your arrest - here, the neoliberal university's logic of affective coercion is laid bare.
"I am writing with care and concern" after facilitating your arrest - here, the neoliberal university's logic of affective coercion is laid bare.
Are we safe yet? Is the safety going well? Y’all having a nice safe?
Are we safe yet? Is the safety going well? Y’all having a nice safe?
I think I need to write something about this very false notion. College administrators have not "lost their minds." It's not that "they don't know what they're doing." They are simply bringing the coercive practices of the neoliberal university to their logical end.
I think I need to write something about this very false notion. College administrators have not "lost their minds." It's not that "they don't know what they're doing." They are simply bringing the coercive practices of the neoliberal university to their logical end.
I understand why people would think this, but it's wrong. US college administration is structurally reactionary. It exists to diminish faculty governance, undermine academic freedom, and direct the institution toward profit-oriented, rather than knowledge-oriented goals.
I understand why people would think this, but it's wrong. US college administration is structurally reactionary. It exists to diminish faculty governance, undermine academic freedom, and direct the institution toward profit-oriented, rather than knowledge-oriented goals.
Wesley Yang @wesyang
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Heghoulian @Heghoulian
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423 Followers 906 Following The universe is under NO obligation to be how YOU want it. Reality is Right Wing. D.E.I must DIE! Meritocracy rocks. Pro White
Cardiff Academic Free.. @CardiffAFA
90 Followers 37 Following Cardiff Academic Freedom Association (CAFA) promotes academic freedom and freedom of speech at Cardiff University. We are strictly non-partisan and independent.
cody @thomas_73_
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14 Followers 91 Following You could say I lost my faith in science and progress.
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902 Followers 2K Following Meester van de fakespeech. Historicus. Won ooit de Publieksprijs van het Leids Cabaret Festival. Houdt van boeken, herfst en oude steden. Feyenoorder.
Wesley Yang @wesyang
137K Followers 9K Following Writing on Substack. Author https://t.co/XpCqfzGhUI. Tips accepted here: https://t.co/yOYgoS3FtN…
Yeerk.P 🦆 @PYeerk
26K Followers 2K Following YOU WILL BE SEEING UNUSUAL ACCOMPLISHMENT Host of the BISTRO CALIFORNIUM podcast
Mary Harrington @moveincircles
52K Followers 861 Following Reactionary feminist. Contributing Editor at @unherd. Author of Feminism Against Progress
stricture @bog_beef
33K Followers 1K Following A washed up private dick, alone in a city of sleaze. "S-Ranked Southern Gamer" -Vanity Fair #PatronagePilled #PatronageTheory
Lomez @L0m3z
56K Followers 2K Following "A good boy. Senile bookcel. Physically fit. And basically normal.”
R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus
42K Followers 327 Following Content I live, this is my stay-- I seek no more than may suffice-- I press to bear no haughty sway-- Look-- what I lack my mind supplies!
Coddled affluent prof.. @feelsdesperate
31K Followers 4K Following Superfluous elite, center-right Foucault curious, anti Med Twitter, expansive liberatory agenda, overbroad definition of fascist
🥂 marquis de posad.. @acczibit
41K Followers 1K Following propagate. accelerate. concentrate. separate. debilitate. annihilate. exhilarate.
Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith
45K Followers 2K Following Anglo writer in Poland. Online Editor and podcast critic for @TheCriticMag. Subscribe to THE ZONE on Substack.
Silenced on Site @77_steeze
8K Followers 4K Following taker of the river down to Stillwater. rider of a pack of dogs
Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi
27K Followers 5K Following Political Beliefs https://t.co/vHjAiR9xI1 @MadisonProgram @Princeton @Philosophy_ND
🇻🇦Gio's Content.. @giantgio
40K Followers 1K Following artist/writer/podcaster/content dealer. Gonzo philosopher, PoMo Right, Jungian futurist. Content Minded pod. https://t.co/UtUUzgHHFB
Heghoulian @Heghoulian
9K Followers 2K Following Welsh (post)modernist writer. Stackcel (link below). Side acc: @QuotesOfJGB Side side acc (private): @Not4Lack
Doctor-Baron 17cShyte.. @17cShyteposter
42K Followers 539 Following The blue check was the modern day Mark of Cain.
4th Class Officer @4thClassOfficer
1K Followers 2K Following Just a guy on Twitter. RTs ain't endorsements. Former Naval Officer, Christian, reading buff, boxing fan, last known owner of a flip phone.
John Tasioulas @JTasioulas
30K Followers 2K Following Director @EthicsInAI. Professor of Ethics + Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford. Senior Research Fellow @BalliolOxford. "Πάντα στον νου σου νάχεις την Ιθάκη"
Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady
3K Followers 3K Following Lecturer. Research focus: epistemic injustice & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Fan of Fred Engels & Danny Dyer. Views mine or my cat's.
Cardiff Academic Free.. @CardiffAFA
90 Followers 37 Following Cardiff Academic Freedom Association (CAFA) promotes academic freedom and freedom of speech at Cardiff University. We are strictly non-partisan and independent.
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2K Followers 953 Following Catholic sensualist. Hostessing fundamentalist. Culture for all. Food column @parisreview; Books column @compactmag_ .
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1K Followers 4K Following White. Possibly stupid. Married parents. @jennysinclair.bsky.social Research/higher ed tweets:@JS_ResearchPro Substack: https://t.co/sGbgwwCu7f
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939 Followers 2K Following “Left” and “Right” are socially defined and non-stationary. Authoritarianism, communism, and “crony-capitalism” all arrive by empowered bureaucracies.
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People thinking Ivy League schools are irreparably losing prestige are kidding themselves.
A thing that we are forgetting - that it is possible to appreciate a beautifully written piece of writing – but to utterly disagree with it. Our libraries should be teeming with texts that may even despise, loathe or fear.
@jessesingal Right, this is the stupidest part of the whole thing. The 1968 comparison is not one they should be so happy to make since it just prolonged the war they hated by electing Nixon, and inaugurated a period of right wing political domination that lasted for 20 years.
One interesting thing I'm seeing a lot from folks who believe these protests are impactful is the idea that after the student militancy of the sixties, the lefties... won? A wave of open-mindedness and tolerance spread across the American political system in the 1970s and 1980s?
Two serious challenges for students in 'humanities' subjects that are easier to meet in other subjects: (1) Knowing when an essay is done; (2) Knowing when you've reached an understanding. Neither have as clear-cut a hard stop as in e.g. computer science assignments.
@ghostofchristo1 I don't generally agree with Žižek, but he's always entertaining and his arguments are usually really well thought out and researched.
@ghostofchristo1 Zizek's irreverence is his most charming quality and what makes him most relatable and human.
@ghostofchristo1 Drinking game : Drink every time he rubs his nose 😎🍻
@ghostofchristo1 He's talking a load of bollocks about Russia.
@ghostofchristo1 His ability to create a coherent argument through a book - let alone chapter - is questionable, but if you're willing to just each section's argument and style on its own it's pretty fun.
*(pun noted, ambivalently) Can guys like this not see that their whole approach to public life is in trouble? I think people have really had enough of million £ astroturf and lectures about the correct moral codes.
@ghostofchristo1 he’s a wild dude, Tyler Cowen interviewed him once, was a study in opposites
Hey man just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed opening your recent article in a new tab
Which political thinkers influenced you the most? For me (not just positively, some shaping my thinking negatively): Karl Marx Christopher Lasch Michel Foucault Carl Schmitt Max Weber Andrea Dworkin David Graeber Hannah Arendt Achille Mbembe Bernard Stiegler
Much of what makes Central European rail good are the slow, local lines that allow for a day hike at some random Alpine village -- not the Berlin-to-Vienna bullet trains premised on a "business meeting culture" which is actually becoming out of place in the 21st c.
I don't care about high-speed rail. Let's take the already-extant rail system and give passenger trains right of way instead. And let's expand the service to include all top-100 American cities. Add in some labor reforms like annual "travel days off" to allow average workers to…
Plato [dying]: This flautist got shit tunes.
Newly discovered papyrus scroll reveals what Plato did in his final hours. theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Today progressive liberal democrats accused me of being a some sort of I presume right-wing culture warrior for pointing out that most jokes aren't about punching but are funny for wholly different reasons. At the same time Marxist-Leninists accused me of being liberal democrats…
@ghostofchristo1 @Tyler_A_Harper You have to admit this is a phenomenal headline. "all politics are libidinal" taken to it's absolute extreme hahahahaha
I don't know if we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the neoliberal university, but we are certainly seeing its true face: pabulum about care, belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion mixed with coercive, violent practices of control and discipline.
We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the neoliberal university, with all its bullying, pathetic lies, aggressive managerialism, and empty rhetoric. It’s some sight.
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