What the students at Columbia are doing right now, in the face of administrative abandonment, political persecution, and police repression, is unbelievably brave. The scenes from the quad have been making me tear up all day—each new image I see shows a larger crowd ❤️

It's real.

As many people are saying...

Horror Vanguard

A reminder that on April 27th I'll be in Newcastle, talking with Mattie Colquhoun about the problem of utopia and the underappreciated work of Ernst Bloch -- friends in the north east, come along!

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me and bobsy are reading through Alan Moore’s Providence and Neonomicon! Listen here!

I'm on holiday so it's time to sit looking at the hills and read Bulgakov with a glass of wine.

Damn. This is the good stuff. You're all such beautiful speakers, Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour & Horror Vanguard.
But did my ears deceive me? An hour of talk about traces, unrealized futures, and communism, but not a single Derrida reference? 😄 (maybe I missed it)

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Went sailing ⛵

Şimdi Zamanı ve Henüz Olmayan-Jon

Geçmişi tarihsel olarak ifade etmek, onu 'gerçekten olduğu gibi' tanımak anlamına gelmez (Ranke).

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Jon Greenaway Jon on the philosophy and politics of Ernst Bloch, the focus of his new Zer0 Books release “A Primer on Utopian Philosophy”: kpfa.org/episode/agains…

ICYMI: The Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) hosts talked to Jon Greenaway about his new book A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch. Listen to the episode here: prospect.org/podcasts/2024-…

🔥🔥😍😍😍😍 Philosophers in my DMs sending me screenshots of their favourite writing about Walter Benjamin 😍😍😍😍

Feeling Bloched-Jon

Hiçbir şeyin mümkün olmadığı bir durumdan, aniden her şey yeniden mümkün hale gelir.
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British libel law consistently functions as a means for rich people to squelch the dissent of those poorer. It's the biggest free speech issue in our country by a mile.