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History of the novel, Marxism psychoanalysis. Novel: “Death Row Restaurant” from ClashBooks.
A friend and former teacher told me last night that his kids use Google NotebookLM to make a podcast of their notes from class, helping the to learn. Why is this considered great while an in person lecture with opportunities for questions and interaction is considered poor teaching?
January 24, 2026 at 3:22 PM
A friend and former teacher told me last night that his kids use Google NotebookLM to make a podcast of their notes from class, helping the to learn. Why is this considered great while an in person lecture with opportunities for questions and interaction is considered poor teaching?
Left takes on Trump refer to on capital as restraint on Trump, not Republicans. Money must make more money as if that is its intrinsic property. No one invests $10k to get $10k back. That’s the restraint. The AI bubble has propped Trump up this far.
January 19, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Left takes on Trump refer to on capital as restraint on Trump, not Republicans. Money must make more money as if that is its intrinsic property. No one invests $10k to get $10k back. That’s the restraint. The AI bubble has propped Trump up this far.
I love this. Use your mind.
campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare.
multigenerational access is net social good.
multigenerational access is net social good.
'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I love this. Use your mind.
I want to blame the College Board. But the system really run on backing by state legislatures. 37 states have passed legislation requiring their Higher Ed schools to accept AP courses for college credit, regardless of what these institutions think of these courses.
October 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I want to blame the College Board. But the system really run on backing by state legislatures. 37 states have passed legislation requiring their Higher Ed schools to accept AP courses for college credit, regardless of what these institutions think of these courses.
Serious question. What is to be done? To what extent do we need to theorize a movement/revolution? Daily posts of an impromptu crowd telling ice fuck off cowards. Is this not just spectacle? Content rather than anything durable? Many people posting this I know have read DeBord, Lenin, etc.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Serious question. What is to be done? To what extent do we need to theorize a movement/revolution? Daily posts of an impromptu crowd telling ice fuck off cowards. Is this not just spectacle? Content rather than anything durable? Many people posting this I know have read DeBord, Lenin, etc.
Pedagogy has to start thinking dialectically. Recognize at the outset that “student led classrooms” will require the opposite of what it seeks also. Start from there. Student led classrooms delegate learning to the structure of the activity. As Zizek points out “that’s the beauty of it.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pedagogy has to start thinking dialectically. Recognize at the outset that “student led classrooms” will require the opposite of what it seeks also. Start from there. Student led classrooms delegate learning to the structure of the activity. As Zizek points out “that’s the beauty of it.”
I would love to do this. A panel analyzing the kinds of popularized pedagogy that take root in high schools would be fascinating. Had PD yesterday aimed squarely at comprehension, with no sense that close reading is not (as Guillory argues) merely a technique or strategy of reading comprehension.
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I would love to do this. A panel analyzing the kinds of popularized pedagogy that take root in high schools would be fascinating. Had PD yesterday aimed squarely at comprehension, with no sense that close reading is not (as Guillory argues) merely a technique or strategy of reading comprehension.
Marxism is often presented as if Marx’s main point is about theft. In this account, capitalists buy labor power and never pay the worker the full value of their labor. This fact is hidden by commodity fetishism. This is only one aspect and Marx is not overall making a moral argument about theft.
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Marxism is often presented as if Marx’s main point is about theft. In this account, capitalists buy labor power and never pay the worker the full value of their labor. This fact is hidden by commodity fetishism. This is only one aspect and Marx is not overall making a moral argument about theft.
What the AI craze in education also reveals is the paucity of meaningful pedagogy and Ed Research which has honestly produced one terrible take after another and forced adoption of such terrible takes as a moral duty. The AI push is using the same playbook.
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What the AI craze in education also reveals is the paucity of meaningful pedagogy and Ed Research which has honestly produced one terrible take after another and forced adoption of such terrible takes as a moral duty. The AI push is using the same playbook.
My point is more how one understands authoritarianism and how one opposes it. I am on your side but I want bio politics to enter this discussion. Trump’s actions during Covid are a good point of reference to think more deeply about what Trump’s authoritarianism entails (and what it doesn’t).
September 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My point is more how one understands authoritarianism and how one opposes it. I am on your side but I want bio politics to enter this discussion. Trump’s actions during Covid are a good point of reference to think more deeply about what Trump’s authoritarianism entails (and what it doesn’t).
The prior claims about Trump you cite emerged because Covid was an opportunity for authoritarians to seize more power.Trump didn’t.Good analyses point out that Trump relies politically on the typical friend/enemy distinction.The approach is shared by Trump opposition and hence the skepticism
September 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The prior claims about Trump you cite emerged because Covid was an opportunity for authoritarians to seize more power.Trump didn’t.Good analyses point out that Trump relies politically on the typical friend/enemy distinction.The approach is shared by Trump opposition and hence the skepticism
The point of the statement is that capital mediates everything. Universities, media and other institutions that claimed to have values of their own have shown the values they care about are bank statements. Claiming you’ll make less money if you cave to Trump misses the core problem.
September 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The point of the statement is that capital mediates everything. Universities, media and other institutions that claimed to have values of their own have shown the values they care about are bank statements. Claiming you’ll make less money if you cave to Trump misses the core problem.
Hypothetically, what happens if Elon reads The Phenomenology? I’m guessing, “TLDR. Replace ‘Spirit’ with ‘startup.’ X is where spirit recognizes itself.”
September 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hypothetically, what happens if Elon reads The Phenomenology? I’m guessing, “TLDR. Replace ‘Spirit’ with ‘startup.’ X is where spirit recognizes itself.”
AI is powered by the fetish of interest bearing capital. Sam Altman sees the large sums OpenAI loses as investments with claims on future profits, just like any other interest bearing capital. But venture capital money is really social money that bankers end up in charge of.
September 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
AI is powered by the fetish of interest bearing capital. Sam Altman sees the large sums OpenAI loses as investments with claims on future profits, just like any other interest bearing capital. But venture capital money is really social money that bankers end up in charge of.
The clearest explanation may be that perversion entails setting oneself up to harm others while hiding behind your duty to do the right thing. But this does not only describe the Right Wing. Liberal belief in purifying the act often entails a similar rejection of psychoanalytic insights.
August 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The clearest explanation may be that perversion entails setting oneself up to harm others while hiding behind your duty to do the right thing. But this does not only describe the Right Wing. Liberal belief in purifying the act often entails a similar rejection of psychoanalytic insights.
Viewing novels as empathy machines undercuts reading novels for what they mean. This is akin to teaching close reading as a technique of reading or as practical means for a student to show the work done while reading. The reader is led away from interpretation and aesthetic judgment.
August 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Viewing novels as empathy machines undercuts reading novels for what they mean. This is akin to teaching close reading as a technique of reading or as practical means for a student to show the work done while reading. The reader is led away from interpretation and aesthetic judgment.
I agree with supporting immigrants and gay people. Your post seemed to present empathy as a solution to those issues. I do understand that you were making a Bluesky comment, not laying out an argument. But the notion that empathy solves material problems is so widespread that I wanted to reply.
August 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I agree with supporting immigrants and gay people. Your post seemed to present empathy as a solution to those issues. I do understand that you were making a Bluesky comment, not laying out an argument. But the notion that empathy solves material problems is so widespread that I wanted to reply.
Oh, the article is complete crap. The post just made me think of the empathy capitalists.
August 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Oh, the article is complete crap. The post just made me think of the empathy capitalists.
The whole “buy one, give one” Warby Parker, Tom’s Shoes, empathy as compatible with profit etc., “empathy capitalism” movement is weird, though. It should undergo critique more often than it does. Capitalism runs on the fetishistic idealism of interest bearing capital.
August 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The whole “buy one, give one” Warby Parker, Tom’s Shoes, empathy as compatible with profit etc., “empathy capitalism” movement is weird, though. It should undergo critique more often than it does. Capitalism runs on the fetishistic idealism of interest bearing capital.
For Marx, it also reduces the general rate of profit in the long term. I feel this is an important point as there are material consequences to this. Discussing Marx also opens the door to thinking about how not everything can be achieved by brute force.
August 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
For Marx, it also reduces the general rate of profit in the long term. I feel this is an important point as there are material consequences to this. Discussing Marx also opens the door to thinking about how not everything can be achieved by brute force.
Yale Scientists apparently have no idea that synthetic judgments and analytic judgments come with significant antinomies. These scientists imagine themselves free from ideology and using a meta language. Yet declaring yourself free from ideology merely signals total ideological capture.
August 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yale Scientists apparently have no idea that synthetic judgments and analytic judgments come with significant antinomies. These scientists imagine themselves free from ideology and using a meta language. Yet declaring yourself free from ideology merely signals total ideological capture.
Sounds like buzz pedagogy words like “engagement” are a new development in college. Really, higher Ed needs to have more of an interest in what goes on in high schools. You end up with whatever simplistic but catchy buzzword high school admin put in a presentation five years ago.
August 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sounds like buzz pedagogy words like “engagement” are a new development in college. Really, higher Ed needs to have more of an interest in what goes on in high schools. You end up with whatever simplistic but catchy buzzword high school admin put in a presentation five years ago.
What is going on with pedagogy? Where is the response from their field? I see plenty of responses that blame administrative decision makers. But these decisions argue from core (unchallenged) pedagogical claims based on “skills” or equity rather than the deeper purposes of fields of study.
July 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What is going on with pedagogy? Where is the response from their field? I see plenty of responses that blame administrative decision makers. But these decisions argue from core (unchallenged) pedagogical claims based on “skills” or equity rather than the deeper purposes of fields of study.
It’s interesting that the Astronomer CEO has to resign over being outed for an affair. It’s indicative of how the philosophical idealism contained in the notion that money can make more money without exploitation is always masking itself as moral idealism.
July 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s interesting that the Astronomer CEO has to resign over being outed for an affair. It’s indicative of how the philosophical idealism contained in the notion that money can make more money without exploitation is always masking itself as moral idealism.
Addiction is bad, unless AI makes learning how to program Python addictive. Then it’s good.
July 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Addiction is bad, unless AI makes learning how to program Python addictive. Then it’s good.