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Jason Read
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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Dec 25
It is more than a little awkward to realize that I had two books come out this year, a fact due more to different schedules and timelines of publishing than some prodigious productivity. The Double Shift from Verso...
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The Double Shift
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Sp...
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. It reminds me of the weekend I rented all nine hours of The Human Condition from the video store and watched it over three nights.
youtu.be/624BjiOiVt4?...
The Human Condition Trilogy (1959) Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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A heartbreaking detail about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is that something like 20% of the crew on the Fitz was planning to retire after that journey, which was the last run of the season.
histoftech.bsky.social Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Bumper sticker: STOP HONKING! IM CRYING TO THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD BY GORDON LIGHTFOOT (has picture of the ship and also lightfoot’s face)
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
jasonread.bsky.social
Cancelled holiday travel plans for the wealthy are a bigger issue for the Democratic Party than cancelled health insurance plans for the poor.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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it's important to understand that when the NY Times does this - "asks a question" with no evidence behind it - it's because they want to raise the salience of the question.

They want to imply that it's a reasonable thing to ask.

They want to help the allegation stick against Ms Rachel.
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The Motion of Light in Water
Bento (dog) swimming against dark water with rain and leaves
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
jasonread.bsky.social
Two big Spinoza books arrived this week
Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy by Katja Diefenbach and Sovereignty Disrupted by Gilah Kletenik
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Another repost in honor of Paolo Virno, some Virno inspired cultural criticism: www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/11/we-a...
We Are All Servants: On Class and Subjectivity in Parasite and Knives Out
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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On the river
Bento (dog) and me on concrete pier in river
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
jasonread.bsky.social
Another repost in memory of Paolo Virno
www.unemployednegativity.com/2015/06/natu...
Naturally Historical: On Paolo Virno's When the Word Becomes Flesh and Déjà Vu and the End of History
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Review of The Double Shift in the Bulletin de Bibliographie Spinoziste
Review of The Double Shift in French Review of The Double Shift in French Review of The Double Shift in French
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“The romantic individual (but also the “flexible” man extolled by postmodern thought) shows an ironic jadedness while hoping to find a stable support in a non-reified interiority.” Paolo Virno
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Cornell University announced a settlement with the Trump administration on Friday, becoming the fifth university under investigation by the US government to do so. The agreement will see more than $250m in federal research funding restored. In exchange, the university will share admissions data with the government, pay $30m and invest $30m more in research programs benefiting farmers – a reflection of the university’s longstanding record of agricultural research. Cornell also agreed to continue to “evaluate the campus climate”, particularly for Jewish students, and use the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws, which views diversity initiatives as unlawful race-based discrimination, in training materials. The administration’s deal with Cornell – a private, Ivy League university in upstate New York – follows earlier ones with Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia. Those agreements – in particular Columbia’s – drew widespread accusations of government overreach and criticism of universities’ “capitulation” to Trump’s bullying tactics in the service of his campaign to overhaul higher education in his ideological image.
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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annabookwriter.bsky.social
While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.

If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.

apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Bento and his Octo-pal
Bento (dog) on rug with toy octopus
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
jasonread.bsky.social
Reposting in memory of Paolo Virno, the special issue of SAQ on Autonomia in the Anthropocene with my essay "Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man"

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monoskop.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Reposted in Memory of Paolo Virno
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/pa...
Paolo Virno and Jun Fujita Hirose · Paolo Virno: Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, technical activity and reification (2006)
Interview paolo virno Reading Gilbert Simondon Transindividuality, technical activity and reification Jun fujita hirose At the end of the 1980s, the thought of Gilbert Simondon – a French philosopher ...
www.radicalphilosophy.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Paolo Virno 1952-2025
Pile of books by Paolo Virno
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
jasonread.bsky.social
In memory of Paolo Virno who passed last night I have posted some excerpts from The Politics of Transindividuality
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/11/the-...
The Becoming Real of Abstractions: In Memory of Paolo Virno
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Reposted in memory of Paolo Virno who passed away last night.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/inte...
Interpreting a Changing World: Labor Power in Virno and Macherey
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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My reflection
Bento (dog) on rock in river with reflection below and bare trees above
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
jasonread.bsky.social
Making Ozempic cheaper while cutting SNAP benefits makes "let them eat cake" sound like a generous recommendation to throw caution to the wind and let the kids have leftover birthday cake for breakfast.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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goblemark.bsky.social
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM