James Crane
@jamescrane.bsky.social
editor @ critical theory working group:
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https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/
lol Adorno & Benjamin are in rare form here
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
lol Adorno & Benjamin are in rare form here
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...
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
time to wrestle (i did not let her roll in a wad of chewed gum on the ground)
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
time to wrestle (i did not let her roll in a wad of chewed gum on the ground)
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
Barong running club. Would you join
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Barong running club. Would you join
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
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
Tik Tok is a land of wonders
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Tik Tok is a land of wonders
yeah we have ourselves a little Gutenachtgeschichte now & then
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
yeah we have ourselves a little Gutenachtgeschichte now & then
added a note on how Horkheimer (& Adorno) dissolve the problem of “the revolutionary subject”!
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
added a note on how Horkheimer (& Adorno) dissolve the problem of “the revolutionary subject”!
Here’s Horkheimer’s response to Tillich’s demand for some potentially revolutionary subject or group or program that somehow stands outside of the world as the necessary ground for social critique (+ H’s defense of Marx’s “end of prehistory” thesis)!
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here’s Horkheimer’s response to Tillich’s demand for some potentially revolutionary subject or group or program that somehow stands outside of the world as the necessary ground for social critique (+ H’s defense of Marx’s “end of prehistory” thesis)!
more translation work from Horkheimer’s fragments on dialectical logic—this one’s from an earlier draft of the (1944) fragment “Haupt- und Nebensatz” that Horkheimer quotes in a letter (also in the works!) to Tillich as part of a defense of his & Adorno’s new “style” of writing in 1942
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
more translation work from Horkheimer’s fragments on dialectical logic—this one’s from an earlier draft of the (1944) fragment “Haupt- und Nebensatz” that Horkheimer quotes in a letter (also in the works!) to Tillich as part of a defense of his & Adorno’s new “style” of writing in 1942