ari linden
@arilinden.bsky.social
Professor of German in Kansas. Author of a book on Karl Kraus. Into critical theory, Marxism, and German Jewish Studies. Look left
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The radical is the rational
Also like basketball
The radical is the rational
Sovereign are they who determines the needs of others.
September 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sovereign are they who determines the needs of others.
Volume 52 Issue 2 (155) | New German Critique | Duke University Press
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August 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits, Qui Parle (2025)
This essay explores two key concepts in the work of Karl Marx and argues for their essential interconnection: species-being and natural limits. The first section provides a general account of the idea...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
We are being ruled by literal psychopaths. Those who support these people are, too, psychopaths.
July 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We are being ruled by literal psychopaths. Those who support these people are, too, psychopaths.
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The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides
June 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides
If you’ve wasted the last 43 years NOT reading Rattansi’s Marx and the Division of Labour, waste no more time!
June 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you’ve wasted the last 43 years NOT reading Rattansi’s Marx and the Division of Labour, waste no more time!
Are there any good essays out there on Marx, AI, and the law of the falling rate of profit?
May 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are there any good essays out there on Marx, AI, and the law of the falling rate of profit?
Ah to long for the days when at least career politicians ruled the earth instead of bankers, real estate moguls, autocrats, and techbros.
May 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Ah to long for the days when at least career politicians ruled the earth instead of bankers, real estate moguls, autocrats, and techbros.
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Eines der gr Missverständnisse ü Faschismus ist, d geglaubt wird es kann nicht Faschismus sein, solange es noch soetwas wie Alltag gibt. Als würde sich beim dräuenden Faschismus d Himmel auftun u Apokalypse niederbrechen.
Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.
Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.
March 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Eines der gr Missverständnisse ü Faschismus ist, d geglaubt wird es kann nicht Faschismus sein, solange es noch soetwas wie Alltag gibt. Als würde sich beim dräuenden Faschismus d Himmel auftun u Apokalypse niederbrechen.
Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.
Aber so ist das nicht. Es bleibt weiter normal, aber das Normal wird anders.
Only half-joking when I suggest that we repackage environmental humanities as “agricultural humanities,” or AgHum. There might be some funding left for that?
March 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Only half-joking when I suggest that we repackage environmental humanities as “agricultural humanities,” or AgHum. There might be some funding left for that?
Dystopia is a tooth fairy who delivers bitcoin
March 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dystopia is a tooth fairy who delivers bitcoin
The oligarchy is beginning to take on its international form: the US, Russia, Israel, India, …?
March 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The oligarchy is beginning to take on its international form: the US, Russia, Israel, India, …?
Can’t speak highly enough about this interview on modern psychiatry, among many things
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Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr
Podcast Episode · The Dig · 02/17/2025 · 2h 15m
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February 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can’t speak highly enough about this interview on modern psychiatry, among many things
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The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
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February 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Read this now
Order copies for your institutional libraries, folx! It’s finally out, seven years later. I also have a piece in it on Kraus, Adorno, and Heidegger.
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Karl Kraus 1933
The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus's writings during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Walpurgnis Night . The contributions place Kraus’s ...
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January 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Order copies for your institutional libraries, folx! It’s finally out, seven years later. I also have a piece in it on Kraus, Adorno, and Heidegger.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
December 15, 2024 at 3:04 AM
A dear friend is having a baby soon and mentioned they were going to read ‘bringing up Bebe,’ I reminded him that the French are likely to turn fascist so let’s not think too highly of their celebrated childrearing practices
December 12, 2024 at 6:36 PM
A dear friend is having a baby soon and mentioned they were going to read ‘bringing up Bebe,’ I reminded him that the French are likely to turn fascist so let’s not think too highly of their celebrated childrearing practices
The war against Xmas
December 7, 2024 at 2:23 AM
The war against Xmas
Ha, just picked up a box of books for my students—Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline—from my institution’s administration building.
December 5, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Ha, just picked up a box of books for my students—Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline—from my institution’s administration building.
@quinnslobodian.com Really enjoying your and Wendy Brown’s discussion on the Dig. Especially like the reference to ‘motion smoothing’—I could go on for hours about this aesthetic abomination and its social implications.
December 3, 2024 at 4:25 PM
@quinnslobodian.com Really enjoying your and Wendy Brown’s discussion on the Dig. Especially like the reference to ‘motion smoothing’—I could go on for hours about this aesthetic abomination and its social implications.
A (potential) thought: abstracting a bit from Freud himself, we might say that capitalist society is one in which the collective or institutionalized id dominates the ego but which *presents itself* as one in which the ego dominates the id.
December 2, 2024 at 6:59 PM
A (potential) thought: abstracting a bit from Freud himself, we might say that capitalist society is one in which the collective or institutionalized id dominates the ego but which *presents itself* as one in which the ego dominates the id.
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This book looks more interesting than I initially thought it would be, largely because it appears that Sohn-Rethel gets some serious recognish.
This book looks more interesting than I initially thought it would be, largely because it appears that Sohn-Rethel gets some serious recognish.
The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School
When a group of German Marxists arrived in Naples in the nineteen-twenties, they found a way of life that made them rethink modernity.
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December 2, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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This book looks more interesting than I initially thought it would be, largely because it appears that Sohn-Rethel gets some serious recognish.
This book looks more interesting than I initially thought it would be, largely because it appears that Sohn-Rethel gets some serious recognish.
Philosopher/critical theorist colleagues: I am currently reading Kate Soper’s *On Human Needs*. It’s really good. Can you recommend other works of Soper’s I should read?
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Philosopher/critical theorist colleagues: I am currently reading Kate Soper’s *On Human Needs*. It’s really good. Can you recommend other works of Soper’s I should read?
I might have to raise the enrollment cap for my Marxism and Critical Theory in the spring. Put that in your vape and smoke it, Board of Regents
November 13, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I might have to raise the enrollment cap for my Marxism and Critical Theory in the spring. Put that in your vape and smoke it, Board of Regents