December 2011
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jessicacoen:
An abridged list, in no particular order.
Edmund Wilson
poststructuralism
the Situationists
“extrainstitutional intellectualism”
bourbon
“proletarian meta-narrative”
the Lost Generation
Cornell
Sacre Coeur
Jonathan Lethem
The Paris Review
paradigm
Jacques Derrida
French…
September 2011
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“The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a...”
– ~ George Orwell
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Recent writing
Contrary to popular expectations, over the past couple months I’ve managed to do more than play FIFA, eat Doritos, and creep on freshmen.
Ten Years Later: The History of Possibility - Dissent
Jodi Dean’s Lost Horizon - Jacobin (blog)
Dances with Anarchists - The New Inquiry
Dancing on Liberalism’s Grave - Jacobin
A Thousand Platitudes - New Politics
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August 2011
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Dance Dance Revolution
thenewinquiry:
Police mug shot of Emma Goldman, 1901 (via)
A review of Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
By Bhaskar Sunkara
“The most dangerous woman in America,” dead for seven decades, lingers on. Emma Goldman’s legacy has not always seemed so secure. There was little use for her after the Bolsheviks won radical hearts in the 1920s, even less during the heady...
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“Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so...”
– ~ Leon Trotsky’s final testament
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July 2011
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“The spirit, the peculiar burden of his existence lay upon him like an accretion,...”
– ~ Saul Bellow, “Seize the Day”
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June 2011
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May 2011
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“In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s...”
– ~ North by Northwest
April 2011
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“Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a...”
– ~ Terry Eagleton
March 2011
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“[David Brooks’ Bobos in Paradise] is simply a booklength rim job on the...”
– ~ John Dolan
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“You know what the fellow said: In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had...”
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Bert: You got talent.
Eddie: So I got talent? So what beat me?
Bert: Character.
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“Twenty-five years in the scales of history, when it is a question of profoundest...”
– ~ Leon Trotsky
February 2011
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“The mainstream account of the trente honteuses of the French intelligentsia from...”
– ~ Gregory Elliott
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“Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness...”
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January 2011
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themonkeysyouordered:
Please get back to cooking.
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the Stalinist-ethos par excellence
In June of 2002 the Beijing Evening News—a state-controlled publication with a circulation of over one million—translated a story entitled “Congress Threatens to Leave D.C. Unless New Capitol Is Built.” The article claimed that Congress would leave Washington for Memphis, Charlotte or Toronto unless a new Capitol building was built with a retractable dome. When it was disclosed that the...
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On Venezuela’s Cooperative “Revolution” →
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December 2010
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“Tell me anyway — maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
– Leon Trotsky
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WatchIt’s not unemployment if you pay tuition.
November 2010
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“To be born, or at any rate, bred in a handbag, whether it had handles or not,...”
– The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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