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The Golden Voice That Tickles the Eardrum like Tito Puente on his Conga | Substack: https://exitonly.substack.com/
Over at @negationmag.com I went long on Everyday Resistance, Revolution, and the Rarity of Politics. Along the way I get some help from Marx, Lefebvre, Scott, Certeau, Ranciere, Badiou and of course the GOAT, Sylvain Lazarus.
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Marxism as Egalitarian Ethos
Negation Magazine
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Over at @negationmag.com I went long on Everyday Resistance, Revolution, and the Rarity of Politics. Along the way I get some help from Marx, Lefebvre, Scott, Certeau, Ranciere, Badiou and of course the GOAT, Sylvain Lazarus.
www.negationmag.com/articles/mar...
www.negationmag.com/articles/mar...
Finished this today, jesus christ what a book
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Finished this today, jesus christ what a book
Wrote a late review of Kornbluh’s Immediacy wherein I call Bernard Harcourt “a glorified toastmaster”, Maggie Nelson “an easier intellectual target than a barn door comprised of Jordan Peterson quotes” and worst of all Anna Kornbluh “a North American"
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Mediation Without History
A Late Review of Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
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August 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Wrote a late review of Kornbluh’s Immediacy wherein I call Bernard Harcourt “a glorified toastmaster”, Maggie Nelson “an easier intellectual target than a barn door comprised of Jordan Peterson quotes” and worst of all Anna Kornbluh “a North American"
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/mediation-...
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/mediation-...
Don’t sleep on this wonderful essay on by Ethan Gibson on Lynch, Madness, Shell Shock and uh the novels of Rebecca West
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Magic Circles
On Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return
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May 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Don’t sleep on this wonderful essay on by Ethan Gibson on Lynch, Madness, Shell Shock and uh the novels of Rebecca West
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/magic-circ...
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/magic-circ...
“There exists in fascism the mythic desire for an object the true essence of which is death. And the real of fascism is something like a law of death…” - Alain Badiou
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“There exists in fascism the mythic desire for an object the true essence of which is death. And the real of fascism is something like a law of death…” - Alain Badiou
It's been awhile since i've put anything on the ole substack, but here's a new piece by me on Paul Valéry, the poem of the idea and the idea of poetry.
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The Twice Examined Life
On Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste and the Idea of Poetry
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April 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's been awhile since i've put anything on the ole substack, but here's a new piece by me on Paul Valéry, the poem of the idea and the idea of poetry.
exitonly.substack.com/p/the-twice-...
exitonly.substack.com/p/the-twice-...
April 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It's the centenary of Mishima's birth. To celebrate, why not read my ramblings on his death?
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Did Mishima Die Happy?
“Did he really think it through?” – Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima
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January 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's the centenary of Mishima's birth. To celebrate, why not read my ramblings on his death?
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/did-mishim...
thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/did-mishim...
"If the logician could never be other than a logician, he would not, and could not be, a logician; and if the poet were never anything but a poet without the slightest hope of being able to reason abstractly, he would leave no poetic traces behind him.” - Paul Valery
January 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"If the logician could never be other than a logician, he would not, and could not be, a logician; and if the poet were never anything but a poet without the slightest hope of being able to reason abstractly, he would leave no poetic traces behind him.” - Paul Valery
"Well, my idea has never been that everything is political. My own statement is quite different; it is that politics has no specific object, which means that politics may happen everywhere at any time, but it may not happen as well."
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Interview with Jacques Rancière
How do we understand the political incoherence of our time? Has the master intellectual died? What is the true legacy of May 68?
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December 27, 2024 at 5:44 AM
"Well, my idea has never been that everything is political. My own statement is quite different; it is that politics has no specific object, which means that politics may happen everywhere at any time, but it may not happen as well."
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Nice to appear in Philip Harris' round up of Cleveland Review of Books' fall pieces, alongside luminaries like Bailey Trela and Mitch Therieau: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/fall...
Fall in Review: A Lightness on the Edge of Town — Cleveland Review of Books
When I rise it’s dissociative pins and needles, a somatic static-wash through the limb as I limp around.
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December 23, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Nice to appear in Philip Harris' round up of Cleveland Review of Books' fall pieces, alongside luminaries like Bailey Trela and Mitch Therieau: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/fall...
I wrote about all the things I read, wrote and enjoyed this year. Enjoy: exitonly.substack.com/p/2024-in-re...
2024 in Review
One must live a year facing forwards, but one can only understand a year looking backwards...
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December 11, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I wrote about all the things I read, wrote and enjoyed this year. Enjoy: exitonly.substack.com/p/2024-in-re...
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ICYMI —last week @ minor lits ...
— an experimental essay from @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
— ficción en español by @endiaaz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/27/l...
— a short story by Lion Summerbell
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/28/l...
— an experimental essay from @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
— ficción en español by @endiaaz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/27/l...
— a short story by Lion Summerbell
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/28/l...
Lo Mira, Mira — Lion Summerbell
إِنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ وَإِنَّهُم مَيِّتونَ You will indeed die, and they [too] will die indeed. Surat az-Zumar 30 On the first of January in the year 15XX, I, Domingo el Monje, translator and scribe, was…
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December 1, 2024 at 8:40 AM
ICYMI —last week @ minor lits ...
— an experimental essay from @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
— ficción en español by @endiaaz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/27/l...
— a short story by Lion Summerbell
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/28/l...
— an experimental essay from @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
— ficción en español by @endiaaz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/27/l...
— a short story by Lion Summerbell
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/28/l...
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"To talk in purely practical terms; for us, individuals emerge from a depiction of the processes of human co-existence and they can be 'big' or 'small'."
—Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukács"
—Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukács"
November 30, 2024 at 10:53 PM
"To talk in purely practical terms; for us, individuals emerge from a depiction of the processes of human co-existence and they can be 'big' or 'small'."
—Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukács"
—Bertolt Brecht, "Against Georg Lukács"
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Was recently reminded of Robert Minto’s wonderful 2019 essay “The Gesture of the Text”, on Kafka, Simenon and the embodiment of writing.
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The Gesture of the Text – 3:AM Magazine
For Simenon, as for Kafka, writing was a gesture. The same imbrication of the physical and the linguistic that drove Kafka to abandon fragment after fragment drove Simenon to produce his improbable nu...
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November 30, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Was recently reminded of Robert Minto’s wonderful 2019 essay “The Gesture of the Text”, on Kafka, Simenon and the embodiment of writing.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-gest...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-gest...
“Epistemological configurations are never replaced by the appearance of new orders; they compose strata that form the bedrock of the present.” - Michel de Certeau
November 30, 2024 at 4:43 PM
“Epistemological configurations are never replaced by the appearance of new orders; they compose strata that form the bedrock of the present.” - Michel de Certeau
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OUT TOMORROW! Monthly Dispatch #18 — ft. @louisarmand.bsky.social @duncanastuart.bsky.social @preetivangani.bsky.social Brian Muraya, Lion Summerbell, Jonathan Larson, Julian George, @saintsoftness.bsky.social Hilary White, Vanessa Saunders, @endiaaz.bsky.social & more ...
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Minor Literature[s] | Substack
minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read Minor Literature[s], a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 28, 2024 at 9:58 AM
OUT TOMORROW! Monthly Dispatch #18 — ft. @louisarmand.bsky.social @duncanastuart.bsky.social @preetivangani.bsky.social Brian Muraya, Lion Summerbell, Jonathan Larson, Julian George, @saintsoftness.bsky.social Hilary White, Vanessa Saunders, @endiaaz.bsky.social & more ...
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Haul from the recent NYRB classics sale.
November 27, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Haul from the recent NYRB classics sale.
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“Elsewhere Althusser theorises ‘overdetermination’. The key: something remains, the previous remerges. The complex whole proves unhistoricisable. The case considered here? Modernity erases the ancient.”
Emerence et Ennemonde — @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
Emerence et Ennemonde — @duncanastuart.bsky.social
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Emerence et Ennemonde: Depicting European Peasant Life — Duncan Stuart
The essay below, the extremely brief one beginning here, explores the peasants European literature presents. Being precise: two peasants, exactly. The novels discussed herein – one remains unnameab…
minorliteratures.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:25 AM
“Elsewhere Althusser theorises ‘overdetermination’. The key: something remains, the previous remerges. The complex whole proves unhistoricisable. The case considered here? Modernity erases the ancient.”
Emerence et Ennemonde — @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
Emerence et Ennemonde — @duncanastuart.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
My latest, now up at Minor Lits. On depictions of peasant life in European literature and written under a certain constraint...
"Fate remains, tragedy remains, the ancient remains, Modernity progresses ..."
Emerence et Ennemonde: Depicting European Peasant Life — Duncan Stuart (@duncanastuart.bsky.social)
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
Emerence et Ennemonde: Depicting European Peasant Life — Duncan Stuart
The essay below, the extremely brief one beginning here, explores the peasants European literature presents. Being precise: two peasants, exactly. The novels discussed herein – one remains unnameab…
minorliteratures.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:16 PM
My latest, now up at Minor Lits. On depictions of peasant life in European literature and written under a certain constraint...
Wrote a little reverse lipogram on Magda Szabo's The Door and Jean Giono's Ennemonde and the depictions of modernity and peasant life in both texts.
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
Emerence et Ennemonde: Depicting European Peasant Life — Duncan Stuart
The essay below, the extremely brief one beginning here, explores the peasants European literature presents. Being precise: two peasants, exactly. The novels discussed herein – one remains unnameab…
minorliteratures.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Wrote a little reverse lipogram on Magda Szabo's The Door and Jean Giono's Ennemonde and the depictions of modernity and peasant life in both texts.
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
minorliteratures.com/2024/11/26/e...
Writing seriously for the first time in a few months, I had forgotten the pleasures of the word document and the footnote and the bon mot and the despair of two ideas you cannot bridge
November 25, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Writing seriously for the first time in a few months, I had forgotten the pleasures of the word document and the footnote and the bon mot and the despair of two ideas you cannot bridge
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This is huge, hugely overdue, and necessary. Big win for the NTEU indeed!
A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
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November 25, 2024 at 9:04 PM
This is huge, hugely overdue, and necessary. Big win for the NTEU indeed!