James Crane
@jamescrane.bsky.social
editor @ critical theory working group:
https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/
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James Crane
@jamescrane.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Just began working on organizing the blog & converting to shareable PDFs, & it’s going to be a big project! For life reasons, it’s going to be harder for me to keep going now, so any support would be crazy appreciated! & thanks for reading & sharing Substudies!
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last movie of the year and wow
January 1, 2026 at 4:18 AM
last movie of the year and wow
how do you get new car keys lol
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 AM
how do you get new car keys lol
logging back on for a sec to say Cat wishes you all a very happy last night woods of 2025
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
logging back on for a sec to say Cat wishes you all a very happy last night woods of 2025
Reposted by James Crane
“No matter how keen the insight in each of its individual steps, … Critical Theory has no authority to arrogate to itself besides the interest in abolition of class domination inherent to it.” —Max Horkheimer, 1937
first of the end of the year posts: a retranslation of the final pages of the original version of Horkheimer’s T&CT, & a shoutout to the comrades @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social for the last two years!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“No matter how keen the insight in each of its individual steps, … Critical Theory has no authority to arrogate to itself besides the interest in abolition of class domination inherent to it.” —Max Horkheimer, 1937
Reposted by James Crane
first of the end of the year posts: a retranslation of the final pages of the original version of Horkheimer’s T&CT, & a shoutout to the comrades @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social for the last two years!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
first of the end of the year posts: a retranslation of the final pages of the original version of Horkheimer’s T&CT, & a shoutout to the comrades @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social for the last two years!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
first of the end of the year posts: a retranslation of the final pages of the original version of Horkheimer’s T&CT, & a shoutout to the comrades @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social for the last two years!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
first of the end of the year posts: a retranslation of the final pages of the original version of Horkheimer’s T&CT, & a shoutout to the comrades @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social for the last two years!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
apologies for the absence please accept this picture of Cat waiting in the parking lot in her coat to try to follow people to their cars for attention
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
apologies for the absence please accept this picture of Cat waiting in the parking lot in her coat to try to follow people to their cars for attention
Reposted by James Crane
In early 1941, William Dieterle asked Horkheimer-Adorno for their reaction to the early script for All That Money Can Buy (The Devil & Daniel Webster). These are their notes on how they imagined it as an anti-fascist retelling of the Faust legend in wartime America
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Horkheimer-Adorno: Remarks on The Devil and Daniel Webster (March 1941).
On William Dieterle’s Script for All that Money Can Buy.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In early 1941, William Dieterle asked Horkheimer-Adorno for their reaction to the early script for All That Money Can Buy (The Devil & Daniel Webster). These are their notes on how they imagined it as an anti-fascist retelling of the Faust legend in wartime America
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
the coat has made Cat too powerful & she does not want to leave the woods even though it is 30 degrees and dropping
December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the coat has made Cat too powerful & she does not want to leave the woods even though it is 30 degrees and dropping
In early 1941, William Dieterle asked Horkheimer-Adorno for their reaction to the early script for All That Money Can Buy (The Devil & Daniel Webster). These are their notes on how they imagined it as an anti-fascist retelling of the Faust legend in wartime America
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Horkheimer-Adorno: Remarks on The Devil and Daniel Webster (March 1941).
On William Dieterle’s Script for All that Money Can Buy.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In early 1941, William Dieterle asked Horkheimer-Adorno for their reaction to the early script for All That Money Can Buy (The Devil & Daniel Webster). These are their notes on how they imagined it as an anti-fascist retelling of the Faust legend in wartime America
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
they are making a damn mess
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
they are making a damn mess
anyone have a PDF of Lukacs’ “Revolution und Gegenrevolution 1920-1921” (Luchterhand, 1976)? thanks!
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
anyone have a PDF of Lukacs’ “Revolution und Gegenrevolution 1920-1921” (Luchterhand, 1976)? thanks!
Reposted by James Crane
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
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Read this, and fuckin subscribe to Jimmy’s substack you animals substack.com/@jamescrane?...
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
T.W. Adorno—Caught in Flight (1954).
Report on the author’s experience of flying for the first time.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Read this, and fuckin subscribe to Jimmy’s substack you animals substack.com/@jamescrane?...
Reposted by James Crane
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
T.W. Adorno—Caught in Flight (1954).
Report on the author’s experience of flying for the first time.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Reposted by James Crane
As one might expect:
"What separates one from the impression they hoped for is less the altitude than the isolating layers of organization. Perhaps this helps explain the indifference of the passengers. The most exciting of experiences is regulated to ensure it is hardly an experience at all."
"What separates one from the impression they hoped for is less the altitude than the isolating layers of organization. Perhaps this helps explain the indifference of the passengers. The most exciting of experiences is regulated to ensure it is hardly an experience at all."
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
T.W. Adorno—Caught in Flight (1954).
Report on the author’s experience of flying for the first time.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
As one might expect:
"What separates one from the impression they hoped for is less the altitude than the isolating layers of organization. Perhaps this helps explain the indifference of the passengers. The most exciting of experiences is regulated to ensure it is hardly an experience at all."
"What separates one from the impression they hoped for is less the altitude than the isolating layers of organization. Perhaps this helps explain the indifference of the passengers. The most exciting of experiences is regulated to ensure it is hardly an experience at all."
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
T.W. Adorno—Caught in Flight (1954).
Report on the author’s experience of flying for the first time.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
short & sweet: translation of Adorno’s recollection of what it was like to fly on an airplane for the first time. ends w a variation on Benjamin’s hope “for the sake of the hopeless,” but specifically about the importance of the possibility of happy alien life lol
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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teaser for the upcoming CTWG collection of translations of Horkheimer’s fragments “towards a dialectical logic,” which is the second half of an insane 1934 letter to Fromm that I doubt very much anyone would consider a sketch for a “dialectical logic” lol open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
teaser for the upcoming CTWG collection of translations of Horkheimer’s fragments “towards a dialectical logic,” which is the second half of an insane 1934 letter to Fromm that I doubt very much anyone would consider a sketch for a “dialectical logic” lol open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
teaser for the upcoming CTWG collection of translations of Horkheimer’s fragments “towards a dialectical logic,” which is the second half of an insane 1934 letter to Fromm that I doubt very much anyone would consider a sketch for a “dialectical logic” lol open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
teaser for the upcoming CTWG collection of translations of Horkheimer’s fragments “towards a dialectical logic,” which is the second half of an insane 1934 letter to Fromm that I doubt very much anyone would consider a sketch for a “dialectical logic” lol open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Reposted by James Crane
ok probably a long shot but does any1 have access to:
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
ok probably a long shot but does any1 have access to:
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
ok probably a long shot but does any1 have access to:
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
ok probably a long shot but does any1 have access to:
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
Zur Kritik der politischen Moral. Kritik des politischen Verhaltens. Ein Beitrag zur Konzeption einer neuen sozialistischen Bewegung, Offenbach 1947
by Sebastian Franck (alias of Heinz/Henry Jacoby)?
any help appreciated!
Reposted by James Crane
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM