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Evan Riley
@evanriley.bsky.social
Philosophy professor. Louisville origin story. Finding these times a bit too interesting.
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… und die deutsche Zweistaatlichkeit ist aus dieser Perspektive eine Spätfolge des nationalistischen Turns der Sozialdemokratie. Historische Tiefendimensionen der DDR aufspüren: dietzberlin.de/freih... /3/
Freiheiten ohne Freiheit - Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin
Die DDR - historische Tiefendimensionen
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October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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My long-ish academic take on Silicon Valley's reactionary futurism is out! Grab one of the 50 free copies using the link below. If you can’t access it and need a copy, just let me know. Here’s a brief thread summarizing the article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley
This interventionist essay examines the affective politics of an ideology I term ‘reactionary futurism’ in Silicon Valley. The focus is on the emergence of this reactionary ideology among figures s...
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March 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Some years ago, I posted a thread on X/Tw*tter about Marc Bloch. I thought it appropriate to update it and post it here. 0/
March 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

This is worth reading in the present moment.
What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
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February 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What’s particularly weird and disturbing is the triple combo of the slightly ironic disengagement you identify, plus Trump’s genuine lunacy, and the new quislings that are simply everywhere obeying in advance! What could go wrong?
like i have been saying, a lot of americans do not treat politics as “real” — they approach it with an ironic distance that allows them to treat clear threats and statements of intent as mere rhetoric. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
December 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Wherof one cannot speak, therof one must be silent.
Good morning to everyone who likes seeing Peter Thiel so so so scared ONLY
December 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway!

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November 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

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November 11, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to @manongarcia.bsky.social, whose work on consent was cited in the closing arguments of the Pelicot trial in France this week as a promise of a better world.

« Nous sommes en réalité à la croisée des chemins » 🥂

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Viols de Mazan : un procès pour le futur - L'Humanité
Au tribunal d’Avignon, les avocats de Gisèle Pelicot et de ses enfants ont plaidé, sobrement mais puissamment, pour les générations à venir, afin d’amorcer le changement des mental...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Speaking as someone who teaches logic and critical thinking, this is an *unbelievably* bad argument (if I'm reading it right). The kindest thing I can say about it is that it's an instance of denying the antecedent – a basic fallacy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
November 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM