James Crane
@jamescrane.bsky.social
editor @ critical theory working group:
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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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huge ty to everyone supporting the Substudies project, & in that spirit i finally finished the translation drafts i started a while back of Adorno-Benjamin’s joint critical (incredibly catty lol) “reports” for Horkheimer on 3 Paris conferences in early August ‘37! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
huge ty to everyone supporting the Substudies project, & in that spirit i finally finished the translation drafts i started a while back of Adorno-Benjamin’s joint critical (incredibly catty lol) “reports” for Horkheimer on 3 Paris conferences in early August ‘37! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
BESIDES, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER WAS NOT A GEOLOGIST OR BOTANIST, HE WAS NOT EVEN A LINGUIST, ETHNOLOGIST, OR PSYCHOANALYST; WHAT HIS SPECIALITY HAD BEEN WAS LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN.
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
BESIDES, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER WAS NOT A GEOLOGIST OR BOTANIST, HE WAS NOT EVEN A LINGUIST, ETHNOLOGIST, OR PSYCHOANALYST; WHAT HIS SPECIALITY HAD BEEN WAS LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN.
one thing you can say about Althusser is that unlike the post-Althusserians who now take his conclusions for granted, he at least had the guts to admit to the guilt of a “philosophical reading” when making claims like “Marx was unequivocal about the category of consciousness…”!
Adorno & Horkheimer proven right again & again: Marx is constantly getting viciously re-philosophized (in this case as naive structuralist-ish social ontologist) by interpreters trying to save him from philosophy
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
one thing you can say about Althusser is that unlike the post-Althusserians who now take his conclusions for granted, he at least had the guts to admit to the guilt of a “philosophical reading” when making claims like “Marx was unequivocal about the category of consciousness…”!
the neighbors got cat a winter coat. she’s a big fan lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the neighbors got cat a winter coat. she’s a big fan lol
sick freak alert this is my desk stack rn
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
sick freak alert this is my desk stack rn
if only there were some sort of consciousness of the determination of consciousness by social being, and of the powerlessness of consciousness to change things on its own; almost like a kind of “self” consciousness… hmmm…
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
if only there were some sort of consciousness of the determination of consciousness by social being, and of the powerlessness of consciousness to change things on its own; almost like a kind of “self” consciousness… hmmm…
people don’t believe me when i say i’m a recluse so: this year i bought one tank of gas lol
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
people don’t believe me when i say i’m a recluse so: this year i bought one tank of gas lol
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This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Laleh Khalili talks to Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadeh about Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine
In the third instalment of The PalFest Podcast we are excited to bring you Laleh Khalili, the esteemed professor and writer in conversation with the authors of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.
Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
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Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
time for a crisp refreshing lemon sharp
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
time for a crisp refreshing lemon sharp
whole team low key stinky high key snoozy
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
whole team low key stinky high key snoozy
“If humanity has yet to reach maturity, this means, in the most literal sense, that it has never truly been able to speak, whereas Kraus was under the illusion that humanity had lost the ability to do so.” —T.W. Adorno, 9/23/1941.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“If humanity has yet to reach maturity, this means, in the most literal sense, that it has never truly been able to speak, whereas Kraus was under the illusion that humanity had lost the ability to do so.” —T.W. Adorno, 9/23/1941.
new fun hobby i’ll be picking up in my 30s: drinking alone
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
new fun hobby i’ll be picking up in my 30s: drinking alone
Barong running club. Would you join
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Barong running club. Would you join
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November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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chicago heads! tomorrow I'm doing a @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social panel with venerated Marxist scholar Doug Spencer about writing about architecture and the weird capitalist juncture we're in now
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...
NYRA Criticism Panel
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future...
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
chicago heads! tomorrow I'm doing a @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social panel with venerated Marxist scholar Doug Spencer about writing about architecture and the weird capitalist juncture we're in now
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...
meet Diablo, who is an ancient black cat, not afraid of humans or dogs, & the other night snuck up on us at night, tapped Cat on the butt, & bolted away into the darkness
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
meet Diablo, who is an ancient black cat, not afraid of humans or dogs, & the other night snuck up on us at night, tapped Cat on the butt, & bolted away into the darkness